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That’s a fair point, but if I was being flippant, I might say that’s no different to most other weeks in the season!

Correct.

Glasgow and Edinburgh definitely both struggled for attendance today. Glasgow’s match clashed with the Celtic game, which I’m sure didn’t help.

3v6 and 4v5 would work, and would remove 4 fixtures from the playoffs. Starting on time would help a bit too.

Yeah, I thought the exclusion was fair.

Yes, it’s R/R for Claus.

Not warm, not raining.

I believe Phil Lanning might do it these days. I can't imagine it would be his #1 priority. I suspect the website gets next to no visitors. But nothing on social media either.

I haven’t heard otherwise.

Nothing is as ratty as that page.

I'm not sure about that. At Ashfield, I think a sizeable chunk of people (maybe the younger fans more so?) are more excited about Ben, Bomber and Lee particularly. And probably Tarasenko now too. Or maybe we just have an exciting team... I would hope most fans would come regardless, but some riders definitely have a significant pull effect.

Our first league match was June 2nd. Seems like madness, but we had one match arranged for the first week of May [Oxford], which was rained off, and then completed after the original cut-off deadline. We only had four free Fridays from the beginning of April to the end of August (seems hard to believe) - it'd be interesting to know if anything was preventing matches those nights. I suspect SoN accounted for one. Maybe clubs just have to stomach guests more (cue universal outrage).

I’d imagine so. 2pm on a Saturday is hard enough for a crowd already, let alone if Bomber doesn’t turn up!

It’s been rearranged for 2pm this Saturday (23rd).

Exactly that! Redcar are away at Scunthorpe that day, so it makes sense to me.

Swap Redcar to next Tuesday, Oxford to Friday. Can’t see an obvious reason that wouldn’t work, other than I can’t attend, which should be a dealbreaker tbh.

They raced on a Wednesday recently.

I would say most would. I certainly would. Even at the end, I wasn't too disappointed. We also often struggle in 13/15 away from home. I'd have been disappointed if it went out to 12. 8 would have been great. 10 leaves it really nicely balanced for me.

Today, we are united. Let's hope it doesn't last too long.

We won by 12 last week, and there were a couple of decisions that made it look like we didn’t really care about the result past a win on the night. The tie is definitely well-poised, but it’s very winnable.

I think this is the balanced opinion. I would have been more hardline in 2022 but realistically people like Laguta, Emil and Tarasenko have said what they can. I’m sure Poland isn’t in the business of handing out passports Willy-nilly right now either.

No-one wanted shot of Marcin, apart from perhaps rabbitman. Marcin chose to leave, possibly under a some pressure from his Polish club, but most definitely not because we wanted him gone. We were very happy with him. He was the best #2 in the league.

I believe it’s one team per mini-league.

In different mini leagues, yes, I think they can.

Because everyone agreed that would be the rule. Therefore, they agreed that was the correct rule. Fine to change it by agreement, and it makes a lot of sense, but they decided that's how it would be.