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While it's all supposition A win at West Ham in July instead of a 43-35 defeat; a win at home to Swindon instead of a 38-40 loss; a win at Poole instead of a 36-42 score and a win at home over Wimbledon, another 38-40 look to be enough for the Cheetahs to win the BL. .... and a further point at Newcastle 39-39 . All supposition but not unlikely if How had been riding.

Three league points from our aways at Plymouth and Redcar and Leicester and ourselves will finish 1 and 2 and are unlikely to meet until the final. Can't see Leicester picking us in the semis.

In the final?

May be Oxford if Ron How hadn't been injured?

Gate 4 was a graveyard. Danyon continues his good form as does Ulle but no other positives. Berwick beat Oxford ending the Cheetahs play off hopes and Plymouth fail to take anything from Birmingham. Second place still possible for us. Have we ever won at Poole?

And the make up of the ten meetings is another factor. Some teams race lower table opponents twice in the final ten meetings, so potentially more points and a higher average. While Newcastle' s results have been expunged from the league table, the points riders scored against them remain in the books and in some cases will feature in a teams last ten meetings used for GSA calculation, certainly for Leicester, possibly others too. Ten meetings is too small a sample to be used for 2023 team planning.

Yes and was sent to Newcastle in a swap deal and Newcastle subsequently moved to Ashfield.

If Ken had been spared, would he have sought a move south to a First Division track, just as Jack Young did? Seems likely and it would probably have had the same impact on attendances at Ashfield. Johnnnie Hoskins seems to have pulled off quite a coup selling Willie Wilson to Belle Vue for a reputed £1500, quite a sum in these days.incidentally Johnnie was the manager at Belle Vue at the time. The open licence season in 1953 was a real case of flogging a dead horse. There was never any chance of it succeeding.

Summer Trophy Northern Round meetings are in late July and Birmingham is the last home for the team until the playoffs, quite a big gap.

Glasgow in a similar position, or possibly worse as they are out the KO Cup. Last home league meeting v Brum 5 August and it looks possible they could finish second so it would be a play off semi next, possibly not before the third Friday in September, a gap of six weeks.

It was well hidden in the blurb yesterday. www.tapesup.tv

So who is to blame for the very late advice of the withdrawals? Who is responsible for running this meeting? VRX the company that owns the Team GB franchise or Glasgow? The streaming company knew of the withdrawals at least three hours before the FB post mentioning it.

At a different level perhaps but programnes for the rained off Glasgow Open Championship in September 1967 are pretty scarce.

Not out the question. Mathematically possible but only just. Leicester currently +19 on the Form Guide, Tigers +6 with four meetings left so even with four three point away wins we'd only be on +18. Two four point wins needed.

Fine news but why the 260 metre track . Surely a bigger one of around 300 metres would be better.

If Dishington wasn't on duty then he is just an ordinary punter and surely is subject to the normal rules. Why did he need to go into the pits anyway? Other refs have been in the pits with their dogs, again a flagrant breach of stadium rules, which these guys seem to think they are above.

Glasgow are sometimes reluctant to give an early notice when riders are missing. As both Cook and Basso are doubtful and RR is not an option for both, surely the management must already know the line up.

Team GB press release leaves Olly Allen with the hard task of justifying the GB line up, and something he fails to do in a vain attempt to distract us from test matches being little more than a revenue cash cow for his paymasters, the company that bought the Team GB franchise from the BSPL, a transaction reminiscent of Jack and the Beanstalk. Strange idea that he needs test matches to look at every rider at his disposal. All the GB guys ride in the Premiership, cant he see them there? Certainly his co manager Simon Stead, also the Sheffield manager, must see them most weeks.

The last paragraph of the press release says it is expected to take place on a Wednesday !

MBA ?! You must be joking the guy was useless for Glasgow, probably cost them the play offs.