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It hasn't been, but I've heard it in other places too, so it seems it's been agreed in principle in the background.

Fully agree. 7.93 Home average. Very happy with that.

Very much so, Redcar have a good one there. I hope they can keep him next year (but if he doesn't want to stay with them, I'd love him at Glasgow).

He has, and he would, but he also has the lowest heat 15 average in the team. I don't fancy his chances of improving it in the grand final. He was beaten by Lawson in 1, and wasn't beating Kerr/Cook when he retired in 10. He's awesome, but I think we sometimes forget he's not an established heat leader or experienced, and those are really useful attributes in big heats. I don't think you'd see Poole putting a rider like that in a big race, and I think it's because it's a move you make when you already think you're losing and don't trust your heat leaders. I know he won heat 8 by the distance to the English border, but you sometimes see reserves do that in heat 2, then they come out in heat 4 and you realise you were judging them by the wrong yardstick. That's not to be down on Nagel at all, btw.

The problem the #2 always has with heat 15/16 is it's just so long since they were last out. Their last ride at home is heat 10. Two grading breaks and an interval. The track changes, the bike cools down, the rider cools down a bit too. I think it's the hardest rider position to throw in the last heat, regardless of how good they look. Also, he didn't always gate so good last night either! Looked incredible when he did though. I was happy with trusting Kyle again. 2,2,2,3 on his first four rides. I don't think Dan was obviously a better choice. Leon could've been worth a punt, but I always think unless your big riders have been obviously off the pace, you trust them in the big heats. Someone does have to come last though. Bomber got beaten by both anyway, so it seems daft to point at Kyle. Both were beaten fair and square.

From the gate.

Entertaining meeting. So close. Congrats Poole.

No.

Please, no. He'll just dump SeaWorld on the track. That won't help.

Maybe we just like to moan in Glasgow. I remember when we beat Newcastle 67-23 a few years ago. We moaned our arses off about how boring it was and how we wouldn't pay to see that every week. Maybe we're just the Arsenal of speedway?

I'm not paying someone to bore me. I have ample tins of paint for that.

You're all making me very glad I didn't spend any money on the stream.

He's been fine. Only Jody Scott has done better of the 2 point reserves, he's nearly a four point rider. I'm not sure what people expected but I think he should be really pleased with that.

Depends how interested TV companies are in showing speedway tbh. I wouldn't assume they will want to renew.

Scored 9+1 guesting for Workington in the playoffs last season.

Maybe they don't, but people always seem to know!

It's almost pointless worrying about riders for next year, given how obscenely different views seem to be on league structure and points limits for next year right now. I'm not sure they've even agreed when to have the AGM yet.

Why not just make sure both mascots are present at all matches and get them to have a rammy if you can’t break the deadlock? You win by removing the head off the other mascot.

You know, the rule could be a lot stupider. They could do it based on the fastest heat time. Like they do for some tiebreaker in SGP. That's dumb!

If he did, it would.

You could of course have two home, two away, and drop a competition (or maybe two 😱) and then have less disparity in the number of home meetings for each side. Rather than Berwick having 11 and Glasgow/Poole having something like 18, maybe everyone would have closer to 16. That would make a lot more sense. It's not like we get many shock winners of all the cups, sometimes we can't even be bothered to arrange the finals because it seems teams get bored of winning...

Jack's average is 2.68.

I completely agree. Very hard to predict, but I also feel like both sides are quite capable of winning comfortably if everything clicks. TCTC.

Good luck to Redcar in the final, I hope they win. No complaints about the rules, I personally think it's a very sensible one. I really can't throw my toys out the pram at it.

"In no particular order" should be understood to mean any heat advantage, no matter the value. That's 8-7 in favour of Redcar.