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An away defeat won't cost Workington, nor even the loss of a bonus point. But they can't afford to drop points at home.

Why Dayle Wood? Even with "no facility" Kye Thomson fits!

Years ago, British Speedway didn't have to plan fixtures around foreign meetings for a start. Before doubling up was rife, clubs could race any night of the week. Not saying I can't work now, but more fixtures isn't as simple as it was.

Let's say for example Edinburgh can't afford to race NDL racing unless it's on a Friday. Force them to change, with them pulling out, then all of a sudden there is no NDL. Perhaps it would be better to say, you can't refuse a Championship match, just because you are racing in the NDL. So if Edinburgh had a home NDL match on a Friday, they could still race a re-arranged Champ match away at Glasgow, Redcar or Scunthorpe?

Think Belle Vue could win all thier remaining matches this year.

Totally agree @Sir Sidney, Sheffield can't blame the reserves or be surprised when they get outscored, it had to be expected. Their team was built around the top 5 winning matches by scoring 40+ points leaving the reserves to only need to ride to their 3.00 averages.

Well firstly Boughen isn't a Championship reserve anymore. Secondly Oxford chose this team, they could've had stronger reserves, but decided to weaken their team 4 times! I don't see Schroeck saying "I got it wrong" & dropping a reserve now.

If clubs are happy to race on their off night & support each other when re-arranging fixtures, then 2 home & away could easily work. But clubs haven't always shown they are so helpful to others, so that's why I'm thinking it'll be a struggle to fix all the fixtures in. Get rid of the play-offs & you'll have no trouble.

I know multiple people have called for the Championship to be 2 home & 2 away, due to long gaps in the fixture list, but after tonight's postponement, tje next Friday Glasgow & Edinburgh are both available is 13th September (Edinburgh have a home NDL match that day). Does anyone know when the cut-off for fixtures to count ahead of the play-offs is? May mean Glasgow having to race on an off night or a double header etc. If this situation happens when there's far less fixtures, how will clubs manage racing 16 home matches instead of (the minimum) 11?

Glad to see Jody Scott & Ashton Vale have recovered from injury

But his scores had fallen (for Birmingham), so that was my suggestion to remedy the situation. Perhaps not needed after a good performance tonight. There's still a part of me that thinks Pawlicki should be at 5 as a former GP rider. Plus I think Brennan & Cook would work well together.

I mentioned it sounded like Birmingham were unlucky (haven't seen the heat, but the consensus is Riss should've been excluded) my point is, they still could have won even with the heat 15 decision.

I said give Brennan a chance to rediscover his early season form

Great guests for Glasgow, should be a big home win.

While it sounds Brummies were unlucky, they still had it on them to win. Lindgren obviously was good but couldn't do it in the heat 15 re-run. Pawlicki didn't score enough & Flint was VERY disappointing, against probably the weakest reserve pairing in the league he could only score one point.

Nope, but surely riders build an affinity with the fans of whoever they ride for & want to win for them as well as earning a living?

I've never had that attitude when it comes to Cycle speedway lol!

We'll agree to disagree then, but personally I'd never want to use my top rider in heat 8. For Leicester as soon as I saw Sheffield had r/r at 2, think I would've moved Lawson to 3 or 4 (put Becker at 2).

Prediction: Oxford 46 Birmingham 44 Brummies should score a lot more at reserve, but I can't see them winning any more matches this season. They have the ability to keep on losing even when racing understrength teams.

Ipswich to win by 20+ points, but Stars to top 30.

Once again, don't understand why Sheffield are using r/r at 2. Means superstar number one & GP rider Holder takes his extra ride against a rising star. Feel it's a waste of a rider if his ability, would've used r/r at 3 or 4 personally.

Both to blame imo, surely when a rider goes out he'll ask what the score is, BUT he shouldn't have to, the team manager should be making doubly sure the riders know what's needed, especially when it's a last heat decider, just when I thought Ermolenko couldn't get any worse lol!

For Poole he's flying, for Birmingham he's a "third heat leader" riding in a tougher number 5 position.

Especially when you consider Poole have a Dane in their side and they ride on Wednesdays

I noticed, especially on FB, many fans saying Pijper shouldn't have been dropped (especially when Garrad didn't score well) but hardly any of them said "we should have kept Starke too" now anyone with knowledge of the rules knows they couldn't have signed Ivacic & kept Pijper. I see Plymouth's new signings Patrik Baek is a 5.00 rider, meaning if Glasgow had signed him instead of Ivacic, they wouldn't have had to drop Pijper. I wonder if he was on Glasgow's list of potential signings?