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Probably alreadt discussed on the best pairs thread. agree with bspa not releasing riders if there is a clash, but disagree with absence of a british/englsnd pair.

Didnt scb say just a few pages back he could make it work in a few minutes? Think leicester will more than double their lead over remaining heats, but obviously hope not. No decent guests available to cover for zagar?

Where would the riders come from to take teams from sevrn men to a 12 man squad? And where would the money come from to pay a retainer to these riders? And why would a rider sign up to a side knowing he may not be used and hence get no point money? You can understand it in poland given the better potential earnings and opportunity to develop as a rider. Edit: agree with scbs concept of guest pool however.

With the new format even number ones can have the odd shocker, and hans would have scored as many as holder if not for ef. Schlein and newman were really where poole won it, coventry hl actually matched pooles, albeit from a couple more rides. good to see starman has ditched "not dancing to anyones tune" as his catch phrase in favour of sheep comments. Wonder what he will come up with to use in every post next week.

Markyb - so what would you suggest when a side has 4 injured riders? A full second team of squad members willing to commit without any retainer or income guarantee? Put out 4 juniors?

Markyb - so what would you suggest when a side has 4 injured riders? A full second team of squad members willing to commit without any retainer or income guarantee? Put out 4 juniors?

Bees by 6 i reckon

I thought the same as you scb, and could only see his average dropping as a heat leader. Has proved me wrong so far this season, along with nicholls the form brit of early season

I thought the same as you scb, and could only see his average dropping as a heat leader. Has proved me wrong so far this season, along with nicholls the form brit of early season

I thought the same as you scb, and could only see his average dropping as a heat leader. Has proved me wrong so far this season, along with nicholls the form brit of early season

you would expect a good second string to score above his average (note the 6.21 EXCLUDES bp) @ 2nd string, but score below it riding as a heat leader.the aces were four points short, imho you'd want cook and nielson to each score two more than they did. You could also argue that youd want zagar to hit double figures, but thextwenty he and nicholls scored is sbout right. Fricke stead and worral also scored around what you'd hope for away from home imho.

i'm not disagreeing with your argument, and hindsight shows you were right (to be clear, i understand you were saying this before heat 8) - just offerring a reason why it was not illogical to keep him in.As for lindgren - personally i think there is quite a difference between not swapping a reserve, and replacing a heat leader.

tbf, heat 8 would have been the one bates got replaced in. He had 5 from 2 rides at that stage, blackbird 2+1 from 2, so u can understand bates being kept in.

I think norbold has paid him not to release a statement, as he knows a statement will add a hundred pages to this thread and put his hole record under threat.

That is great news re the gps - is that confirmed?

I'd be grumpy too if I had to do Sidney's dishes every night!

General discussions forum surely the place for this?

Just go to his website. He has quite an anti BSF rant on it so I can see why he got banned. Mad as a hatter that one.

what a pr!ck u. are

Wouldn't have been anywhere near as much fun watching Andy Smith if he could have gated though!

the likes of Moore,craven, penhall,Lee,Collins, Rikkardson were all world champs by the time they had 5 years top flight experience...

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I really don't think that is the rule

Stefan Kuntz put more into football than I did but....anyway, you started it

what do you mean by "if they get through"? If you are talking about the pairs these are not qualifying meetinga.