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The whole situation is clearly ridiculous but I think Phil Morris is pretty untouchable so I would expect we'll simply just carry on with more of the same to come in future. Disappointing though as I like many others thought Phil might make a bit of a difference and avoid the sort of nonsense that we have recently witnessed. Talking of Phil, did anyone ever hear anything further about the mystery new Speedway track that he referred to during the Brandon Stadium planning enquiry? Was there anything in it or was it just a load of guff?

Looks like Pi000tr has called it a day!

1 Sheffield 2 Leicester 3 Belle Vue 4 Ipswich

P0WL0CK0?

We’ll have to wait for the answer on that one Tim.

R/R for Rohan Tungate who is recovering from a crash at the weekend.

I agree - if head to head was to conclude the entire matter it had to be Vaculik out. However, as we all know it was decided that it didn’t provide a proper precedence so it moved to the final rankings step.

I agree that if the Witches were to lose those three home matches it is likely that they will end up in 4th. Also if that did happen and depending on how other results go Leicester could be top although I think Sheffield will keep ahead of them. Maybe somewhat academic though as the play off places seem pretty well sorted apart from the final order so it will be the make up of the Witches during September that will be more important.

Yes indeed the Witches have an excellent top two but I think many would have also expected Freddie to be up around the 9 point mark which would bring him very close JD. At the moment Freddie is averaging nearer to 8 but that might move up a bit in Birmingham’s remaining four matches, two of which are against the Witches! As you say he would be very welcome at Ipswich.

Low enough to guest for the Witches in the play offs?

Sounds like Pawlicki might have something like Laguta’s food poisioning! 😮

Great to hear Emil’s news this morning given the horrific crash.

The clock doesn’t work according to a conversation I heard taking place between the referee and the Leicester team manager! At least they managed to fix the pit gate in time for last night’s meeting!

Difficult to keep up with change after change.

Good news and this has been best and most obvious solution for a while now. The Witches management may need to ensure Emil doesn’t go back to #1 and possibly cause an issue with the eight day rule.

The Lions rode well and I am pretty certain they will make the playoffs ahead of Oxford. Nasty crash for Dan Bewley and hopefully he’ll be back on track soon. Racing wise it was a night to forget though!

Seems to be by far the most obvious solution now assuming Freddie is willing.

If it is to be a guest for the KOC finals and the play offs, the Witches may find they have an additional problem of Emil being back at no.1 so the 8 day guest rule could be an issue. We’ll have to wait and see what the averages are. Maybe the Witches need to manage Emil’s average just as skilfully as Peterborough’s Rob Lyon kept Ulrich Ostergaard at second in the averages in 2021. A few ‘engine failures’ for other riders in key matches worked wonders!

Yes that is of course very true but I wonder how often a Medical Officer has refused to sign out a rider who is claiming they are unfit to ride?

Just checked the BSPL archives to confirm it was 2021 at KL - replaced Ty Proctor (another Aussie!) if my memory is correct.

Cameron Heeps is another recent Aussie at KL.

With the Spires scheduled to have completed 75% of their league fixtures this coming Monday at Belle Vue that means no more changes after that fixture so unless they have made another change or changes yet to be announced (and who will be riding at Belle Vue) Killeen for Kemp is the final one.

The track looks really poor. Grading again after heat 3 but in a typical Bomber ride he breaks the track record in heat 4!

Maybe Ritchie was referring to the low likelihood of finding a replacement for JD rather than the timeframe in which it had to be achieved. As you say 1 August is not far away and had the meeting not been postponed last night it would have been 25 July (9 days time)! Maybe Buster can do the Witches a favour and buy some more time by postponing the meeting next week!

Agreed - I have no idea how Christina Turnbull could have missed Boughen’s roller in heat 8 but bearing in mind her crazy decision to exclude Scott in heat 15 it probably wasn’t that surprising as she clearly wasn’t having a good night!