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Yes, daft, isn’t it. This year’s two pointers have shown they don’t need protection.

Oh, it’s 50 points for team building?

You mean, someone punches you every time you come to Blunsdon? Surely not?

I wouldn’t want that if I were you, it was one of the bad points of the Elite League draft reserve system. It gave the teams with the best three or four reserves a massive advantage. Newman and Garrity cleaned up. Either they’ll be good enough to move into the top five, like Anders Rowe, or they’ll stay at reserve or drop back down.

Might have been Poole fans. They lost their shirts this year.

Only because we wanted to lull you into picking Ipswich!

I don’t doubt any of that, but I asked Gavan because I wanted to know how much he knew about Lee Kilby and what he does. Is that OK?

They won’t even be able to keep their best four riders from this year’s shower!

How has he promoted it? Just asking. Strewth.

Agreed, but the standard of teams is poor, and how many Poole fans thought they might keep Josh G, Klindt, Holder and Kurtz, or be welcoming back Chris Holder, Freddie Jacobsen, Magic or Madsen when the truth is none of those will be anywhere near a CL team next season. You try and pick an attractive CL team.

As your finger’s on the pulse, could you list three or four things Lee Kirby has done in the community?

Spot on, but some fans must have voted in the Echo thinking they would be getting the likes of Josh G, Klindt, Holder & Kurtz when Wells and Worrall are likely to be the best you can hope for! Disaster.

His CL average would rule him out anyway, 11.89. Poole fans might have been quite happy with the CL in their vote in the Echo but have they realised how rubbish their team will be? ............ nope, thought not.

Let’s see if this hits home. Nicholls Perks Douglas Proctor Worrall Lawlor Mountain That’s the best team in the CL at the moment on an average of 44.88, but if they had to rebuild to 38 you’d have to replace Douglas with Stoneman (probably the best two pointer). So: Nicholls Mountain Perks Proctor Worrall Lawlor Stoneman Fancy that team, Poole fans? Even if you do, Leicester won’t let you, so scrabble around for something else!

Too late. My reputation’s in tatters now!

How about Sue Newman instead?

Bloomin cheek! Apparently I have an “Excellent” reputation on the forum.

You mean 5.58 for each of them, which is about what you would expect: 8.58 for NKI and 2.58 for Sarjeant.

At least Shovlar will save £1 on his admission fee.

OK, OK, how about: R Worrall Castagna Newman Busk Jacobsen Wells Stoneman Hume It’s just over 38 points but might fit with Brit reductions for the reserves? Fact is, you don’t get much quality in the CL, especially with Josh G, Klindt, Kurtz and Holder not having current CL averages and consequently being subject to the ludicrous 1.6 conversion rate. Happy Days!

Josh G Castagna Newman Busk Jacobsen Wells Tom Woolley Nathan Stoneman Pretty good Championship team for Poole? Hang on, Josh G would be 11.66 on a 1.6 conversion, so might have to replace him with Richie Worrall? Does that team fit 38 points?

What have you been watching? A gooseberry cheesecake?

That’s the whole point. A ten week season with weekly home meetings would keep the enthusiasm for fans to attend rather than the current over-long, stop-start season with three or four week breaks between some fixtures and April and October rain offs which causes fans to lose interest.

Any heat advantage now and we are the Champions!

Yeah, but it’s a tax loss now.