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Also about who actually honours those cheques, look at Rowe at same club as Pickering owed around £20k so far this season. Vast majority of riders who race over there get nowhere near what they’ve been promised in their contracts

Hearing Charles Wright is ready to make his comeback, can he jump straight back in for Klindt, not sure what rules are with these multi 28 day rules

Teams not officially announced for this meeting yet, however Ekstraliga 2 have announced teams for Rzeszow v Poznan for Thursday evening and it shows Pickering riding for Rzeszow. With 4 Premiership teams riding Thursday that means R/R or guest from either Leicester or Belle Vue. I’d say Sheffield will go down the R/R route as all riders available to cover. Can see a Foxes home win 49-41 with Sheffield’s lack of firepower in middle order and reserves coming to bite them again.

Think they need to look at the line up for this type of meeting going forward, you had too many young lads there who struggled to turn the bike in the dirt and control the bike to stay on for 4 laps, the gaps between 1st and 4th in some races was around half a lap which just isn’t competitive. Even it’s a case of dropping the u21 title and making it u24 where the more experienced u21 riders (those with Championship places maybe as a minimum) will mix it with those who recently moved on from that age group but are in a bit of no man’s land.

He’d need to bin off one of Sweden or Denmark first before he can race in UK. But if the money is right I’m sure he’d drop one, the Poles don’t call him ‘Dollar Doyle’ for nothing 💰

Imagine Masters was in ht15 with Douglas as Morris, Howarth and Kemp had already had a minimum Of 5 rides by then so spreading the load

Did Klindt fall and get injured last night as he’s down as injured for Redcar tonight (King in as his replacement)?

Looking at Sheffields results this week, do the promotion need to be starting to look out to see who is available for Rowe? 4 points from 8 rides in 2 away meetings and 5 from 4 at home v a weakened Belle Vue doesn’t really cut the mustard especially when the side is pretty weak at the reserve positions away from Owlerton. He’s been struggling recently as well for Oxford and know his Polish club have been using Francis Gusts in place of him as well. Is it a blip and he’ll ride into form, or do they change before his average goes south and not enough to play with to find a replacement?

Last thing I was told was that McDiarmid concentrating on Championship only in UK for 2026 and Poland Ekstraliga (Fri/Sun) and U24 (Tues). Suppose things (and money) can change things though

Pretty sure the Redcar change comes to effect Friday so Jenkins still has a team spot as of today

Hopefully it’s not a slick dust fest gate and go meeting for fans attending and using BSN! Can see Leicester’s engine room and reserves comfortably outscoring Sheffield’s with heat leaders nullifying each other. Home win 50-40

Jeppesen and NKI both missing tonight with injuries sustained in Danish semi finals last night. Bomber in as a guest for NKI plus R/R for Jeppesen

Long mid week journey though for any of the Glasgow fans making the away trip, at least the weather is good!

Poole to get low to mid 50’s tonight, Bomber off form in Championship, not a happy hunting ground for Howarth who is the in form rider for Glasgow, can’t see Flint getting much picking from the Poole heatleaders. I’d expect Lawson to go undefeated by a Glasgow rider, Poole reserves to have a field day against the Glasgow reserves and middle order, with Kerr and Cook to have a solid double digit night also

Laguta and Kubera injured in Sweden tonight, can imagine the Polish teams not giving riders any new start permissions other than what they signed at start of season which could put the kybosh on any new signings for Belle Vue especially if looking at any Ekstraliga riders.