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As frustrating as it was to have the wrong result, amending results later is a can of worms best avoided. If you think speedway looks amateur now, introduce that and it'll be an order of magnitude worse.

I'm falling off my chair at these wild accusations!

I've no knowledge of what Lee may or may not have taken, or eden what he says, so this isn't any comment on that, but Night Nurse contains Promethazine, which causes drowsiness. It's that kind of thing that can make medicines a minefield, because clearly anything that could have that kind of effect would be a potential concern. We should find out more details tomorrow. RE: timing, it's possible Lee was offered an earlier date, but I don't know. You would think he would have been offered a hearing within the initial 30 day window, but speedway isn't always straightforward!

Well, we'd need to win the Super Heat, which I guess is technically a draw, but it kinda feels like a win/loss scenario!

Starke will only be at reserve of Lee is back (or Ace is dropped, I guess). A lot riding on next Wednesday's hearing. Hard to be sure about anything until we've had that.

That's a bit below the belt.

Fantastic meeting, Comets worthy of the win. Craig looked brilliant, as did Tate and Batch. Bomber was fast, but didn't gate well, and the home riders weren't getting caught. He seemed quite frustrated after his third ride. We've seen some fantastic racing over the last couple of days. We're not retaining the league title, but we're having fun losing it.

Ah, good point. That scenario could still happen though, big each team had one bonus point. The Super Heat would then decide the table, even though one team wasn’t involved (because they won on a night rather than drew!). Three points for a win and the issue goes away though.

I think the issue is that an extra point is awarded that otherwise wouldn't be. My suggestion to fix this for next year would be to give 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw and 1 for a Super Heat, so in all scenarios, three points would be awarded. Effectively, the super heat last night eliminated Berwick, which doesn't seem totally fair.

Yes, their 1-5 were good last night.

He was coming from gate 4, which was never going to work for him. Why we insist on taking 1&3 rather than either 2&4, or better, heat 15 (as the visitors would almost always choose 1&3) is beyond me. It cost us in heat 13 where we needed it, and why Bomber went off the inside in 15 is a mystery. When Worrall went off 2 in the Super Heat, he won it. And don't get me started on the transponders. Fair enough, the ref has to accept what they say, but they're wrong too often. Everyone knew Bomber got third, Gerry even got the drone operator to rewind the footage. Thankfully, it doesn't matter for the BSN Series... We needed to win at Armadale either way, which seems unlikely. Starke has been shocking, this isn't a playoff team. Workington will spank us, I think. Fun meeting though!

I never really understood us signing Starke, but he's been worse than even I imagined. His rolling average has dropped to 3.35.

It's the easy option for the ref though.

Yes, this is a problem. However, our riders' averages aren't going up. Starke's rolling average is actually already below Lee's - 3.43. Didn't imagine Lee possibly getting out of reserve without putting the bike on the track. That said, Starke has two matches before the next averages come out, so maybe he'll find something.

Yeah, for me the biggest rip off is having a result from two thirds of a meeting, and the nonsense of showing any old parade on track to get to the fabled "10 heat result", which is all about saving money and nothing about giving fans a good product. Which is one reason I don't mind early call offs, when they're designed to not waste fans' time for rubbish like that.

They used to be more generous. I’m not sure why they stopped - made me wonder if the league told them to. It’s a bad rule, although it does make season tickets more appealing. I also think heat 10 is too early - I’d say heat 12 minimum. Should be a good meeting. A lot of eyes on Paul Starke, especially now he’s at 2. We aren’t in the habit of dropping riders, but I feel he might become an exception if he doesn’t improve.

I think it's next Wednesday (15th).

Let’s see how the track is through the season. It sounded like they plan to put more dirt on the track, maybe that will make the racing better. For all the bad words about the Edinburgh track, I saw a meeting there with 17 passes last season, so let’s not write the place off on the basis of one meeting after the changes.

A good win for Plymouth - showing we might actually have a more even league across the board this season!

He delayed it with agreement of both teams, which showed both good sportsmanship and consideration for everyone who had paid to see it.

I'd love to know why Jack was so impressive last Friday out of the blue, and then reduced to looking like he'd never raced another rider at times on Wednesday, to looking like a solid reserve tonight. Is it just really inconsistent equipment?

Tate looked fabulous tonight - a natural racer. Great to see James keeping him behind, and Leon did well in heat 15 too. Bomber and Pearson is a great combination and Leon is definitely showing some improvement - hopefully a good amount more to come from him yet.

I think we're jumping on Worrall a bit too quickly. Before tonight, he had 24+3 in three completed meetings - exactly what we're looking for from him. Starke is simply not good enough, and is in danger of being a reserve in June even if Lee isn't back on the bike.

Cook was hard done by in heat 1, as was Tate at the line. Big break for the Tigers there. Starke looked dreadfully slow.

Yeah, I'm not going to be very sad if we lose tomorrow, given Craig and Claus are visiting. Tate's looked fantastic from what I've seen too. I really want Workington to do well and prove the doubters wrong - they can definitely make a statement tomorrow night.