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While it has saved the BSPL from a big loss from a one off at a neutral venue, the three extra heats and travel costs for seven extra visitors, when compared with a standard league meeting, mean it's not going to be a pot of gold for the three teams staging a home round.

The next time this happens will be the first.

Ben Basso is currently number two in the Glasgow averages with Ulle Ostergaard just ahead of Tom Brennan in third place.

Surely it's the normal seven man team but the number seven, while having no programmed rides, can replace any rider in the 1-6 during the meeting, with the usual guest and RR rules applying. Wasnt this what happened in the National Series, a three team event in 1990? One of Poole, Glasgow and Leicester will be in the play off quarter finals and both Poole and Leicester have KO Cup semifinals so there may be arent that many "spare" weeks to stage the three meetings at the respective tracks.

As the meeting will involve 18 heats and travel costs for 14 visitors as well as the normal 7 home riders it's likely to run at a loss. Can't see any club wanting to hold this. As has been pointed out already the final at Sheffield will be a financial black hole.

Not sure that drop is the correct term. Don't the reserves have to be there and cant they be used to replace riders in the team. Are guests allowed as it woukd be a surprise if at least one isnt required and can RR be used too?

Connor isn't going to see much action in August. Three meetings at home to Brum, away at Redcar and Plymouth and that's it. If Tigers are second then their play off semi is unlikely to be before mid September so it could be just three meetings in six weeks.

Why? Right now Broc is in better form than Connor and Broc was a Sheffield rider before he joined Glasgow.

What meetings would he miss? There are only three meetings in August .

Will their line up be any stronger when they are at Ashfield next Friday?

Pity that our next meeting is a week on Sunday.

Did it mention our next meeting?

Does he just miss the Saturday fixture or is it all three @Edinburgh on Friday @ Berwick on Saturday and @ Leicester on Sunday or is it perm two from three?

And this result has been expunged.

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.

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