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Decided to make the trip. Warm evening, clear skies, breeze isn't too fresh yet. Any kind of win for the Tigers would do me fine tonight.

Yeah, hopefully should be good tonight - he was fantastic in the league. Never know what he’ll do at Ashfield - massive win in heat 13 against Poole last time out there!

So, so we have the full lineups? I feel like this is one where I do want to see the teams before I commit to going.

Yeah, that was probably part of it. Derek or Hugh did mention it during the match with the Pirates, but definitely could have made more of it.

I was there. Fantastic racing, although it was a proper dust bowl! Great entertainment. You can't go wrong with 32 heats for a tenner. Not sure why more people weren't interested to be honest.

I don’t think there was anything wrong with the track to be fair. There was a catalogue of disasters but all the issues looked like machinery and riders to me. There was the one crash at turn three that people thought might have been partially an issue with sunlight, but that was it.

Ran out of steam. Ran out of stream.

Not sure if there’s been more crashes on the stream or the track.

That would require coordination, not something Brits are known for. My response was more about the general setup across the different racetracks to be honest. There would be practical considerations to sharing a feed, but not insurmountable if planned and both sides thought it was in their interests.

I don’t know. If they are sensible, they will use a 4G load balancer that can connect to multiple operators. Would be dangerous to rely on host stadium WiFi for a product you charge for. You always want these things in your own control.

15 heats, with one/two commentators who can identify the correct riders is all we need. There's nice stuff on top of it, but the 60 laps is pretty fundamental!

Yeah, I just cancelled my subscription. I didn't pay for the Pairs, but I saw even with that, there's two heats missing from Monday night. I want to support them, but there's a minimum baseline they're just not meeting.

And it's been nearly three weeks since the last one!

For 10 seconds!

I was OK with this the first couple of meetings, but this should be sorted by now. I also wish they just made the subscription via YouTube - no option to Chromecast from iOS, which is very frustrating.

You can pay for your chips with a card, so why can’t you buy a ticket with your card/phone at the turnstiles? I don’t get that. There’s nowhere else I go where I need cash.

The issue isn’t the riding order/combination. It’s the riders they’re paired opposite. 3, 4 and 5 were all one place higher than usual, as Sedgmen at 2 replaced Brennan at 5, so three riders essentially all went up a place, so it was tougher for them. But that’s what was available tonight, and that’s how it goes.

Would be a lot better if the rule was changed so it’s only a problem if you touch the tapes.

And yes, the referee let quite a lot of movement go today. Didn’t pull anything back. Maybe he had somewhere to be?

I’d say a draw was a fair result tonight. Both guests contributed well. Not sure why anyone would be saying no one gave Poole a chance - complete nonsense. Poole may have been marginally helped by having Ruml, but it was a mixed bag, with 9 heat wins from four riders and two riders providing nothing. Sedgemen replaced Brennan’s points well for the Tigers but as others have said, the shuffling of the order did hurt the other riders. That said, I do think it was probably the right decision to do that. Great to see Broc on much better form, particularly his first two rides. Ullrich really pulled it out of the bag in heat 13, very unexpectedly. He might be missing a bit of speed but he delivered under some decent pressure in that heat. All in, good meeting, good points for both teams.

Tactical substitutes are allowed between heats five and fourteen inclusive, with the exception of heat eight.

I may have spotted that elsewhere!

Started raining a bit more now. It’s be a shame if it was called off. Was looking forward to seeing the previous Championship winners tonight.

Not in Possilpark, but Drumchapel hasn’t had much so far. A little damp, but not more. Forecast is compressing the rain to 6-7 at the moment.

Forecast decent from 6pm. Ropey at 4pm!