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For your first point, a team away from home in the second leg, know how many they have to score to hold onto the lead! Second point agree - but how often do you get ties over 30 heats. Third point, agree the favourites will certainly want the second leg at home in the final, no advantage in semi finals. Today, Redcar & Scunthorpe just got knocked out when they had the second leg at home, did they have an advantage?

Could be close for the aggregate win. Redcar look slightly stronger, heats 13 & 15 look vital. If Mulford can clear up at reserve, as he really should do and get double figures, slightly fancy Redcar.

What makes it worse, is that it was absolutely completely unnecessary.

Kvech would certainly be an obvious choice for next year (for any club). If Ipswich drop King, maybe he'll get a spot at Birmingham, who would probably prefer British based riders.

Can't agree with that logic. Just because some "rising stars" will be better than others is no reason not to include them. Look at the British U21 final, there is a big gulf between the top & bottom riders, but they don't make it a 6 rider individual, to only include riders who can win or cancel the meeting until there's 16 quality riders (extreme example I know). There will always be unbalanced teams, look at the NL some 3.00 riders will become 9+ riders, which means some clubs through no fault of their own will be disadvantaged from the get go. I actually think the RS could be more even next year, replacing Dan T & Rowe by bringing back Bailey & Joe T for example.

I agree for the final, definitely want the second leg at home, to lift the trophy in front of your own fans. If I was a team against Poole if want the home leg first, get a good crowd, will be harder to get a big crowd if you're chasing a big deficit.

What "second leg advantage"? Last year the BSN, KOC & play-offs won by the team with the home leg first.

As long as a rider fits the criteria, there is no maximum amount of seasons. I think they have to be U23 or U24 at the start of the season, so Flint could have 2 or more seasons if his average stayed below 4.00.

I'm positive when the RS system started that riders who dropped below 4.00 could become "rising stars" again, such as Jenkins. I think he has to be U24 at the start of the season to qualify. Maybe the rules have changed, but originally that was the case.

While Birmingham fans will be delighted to finish with 2 wins & bring a little respectability to their league table showing. It's the worst time for the promotion's point of view. If they had a home meeting left, would they have seen a rise in attendance after 2 wins in a row?

100% agree

I think there's every chance if 3 of the 4 clubs agreed to it, they would announce it was a majority decision. But I just can't get over the fact that rules are meaningless, if clubs can just agree to not use them? What of Ipswich agreed to Sheffield using Harris if Sheffield agreed to them using Lambert, if they both agreed would that be allowed?

With most team managers I'd be surprised, but with Schroeck, it's kinda expected now. But yeah that's terrible team managing. Of course I got banned from the fb page for making comments like this, as it seems to the guys running Oxford, plus some of their fans, Schroeck can do no wrong.

Why is Woffy's average "falsely high" he's rode very well in GB & deserves to be between 8.5/9.0. Big advantage Sheffield have is having two great heat leaders alongside Woffy.

That's what I cannot understand about the whole thing. Everyone must want to meet Ipswich in the semi final, why would Sheffield agree not to? Unless they are very confident to beat Belle Vue over 2 legs & want the bigger crowd?

While I understand why they've made the decision, I do have questions 1) why extend the cut-off date if you're going to ignore the last two matches, surely you'd just keep the cut-off date as it is? 2) why would Sheffield agree to be "ranked" 2nd when they are currently top, what happens if Sheffield say yes to organising the semi finals, but no to meeting Belle Vue? 3) could they not have announced when the home legs were taking place but leave the opposition tbc? Mon 9th Ipswich v Leicester or Sheffield Thu 12th Leicester v Ipswich or Belle Vue Mon 16th Belle Vue v Sheffield or Leicester Thu 19th Sheffield v Belle Vue or Ipswich Not ideal, but I feel it's better than just making up who races who? Plus stops the two Leicester vs Lynn matches being pointless. You either have to count the cut-off now or the cut-off when the league is completed, you absolutely cannot choose Leicester top because you think they will be.

Plenty of good ideas, but I'd suggest a few edits. Unattached 3 points guests only, would mean a 3.01 rider possibly never getting a team place while a 3.00 rider could ride 20 times a season. I'd be happy to allow guests from a list of unattached riders, but not limit that to 3.00 riders. Injuries during the match, could be tricky to cover if a reserve got injured or reserve was in heat with missing rider so couldn't take that race, but swapping reserve races round could solve that. I would be happy with IRR though. I'd prefer 6 riders per team, with a couple of local juniors on standby at number 7 if needed. In an ideal scenario, you'd want every club to have spare juniors wanting after match rides.

Poole certainly can "get away with that type of performance in the play offs" as they don't need to win away to become Champions. Having a difficult night & keeping it close works fine in two legged affairs.

Don't forget Anders Rowe, he's been one of the best "rising stars"

Very few fans thought it was a good idea when the double change was made, only the promotion could claim "it seemed like a good idea at the time"

If you were prime minister, you would've raced a heat with one rider only rather than giving Ivacic a 3rd ride? 😑

I don't know if Plymouth can race at home on a Sunday, but Redcar on Friday, Workington on Saturday then Plymouth on the Sunday would have been much more sensible.

I'd totally have Rowe back next year, riding to a 4.9 average, but available on 3.7, complete no brainer for me.

Then I can't understand why he didn't take his 3rd ride? If he was injured they could use a reserve. So must've been fit. So risking losing the league title because you're not willing to borrow a bike! Obviously I don't know what's going on behind the scenes, but I wouldn't want someone at my club with that attitude.

Birmingham are lucky Pawlicki isn't there, but with decent guests expect Ipswich to win this one.