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They got him from IKEA? Are they having difficulty with the assembly?

Confirmed. Thomas rides tomorrow replacing Macdonald in named 7

We"ve been promised details of a team change for tomorrow. So that suggests the Brum press release may well turn out to be accurate re Jack Thomas.

Are you sure? That implies: 1) Jack Thomas is fit 2) Oxford have redeclared as he is not currently in their named seven

I find it wise to build in an extra hour for my journey so often arrive 90 minutes before the start. At some tracks limited parking can also give an 8ncentive to arrive early.

That is a report of a CHANGE in the rule LAST week. Gmuncie is talking about something that happened before the 'reinterpretation' of the rule

Presumably it will essentially be the same riders that took part in Liberec. Are any Australians or Americans likely to make it over?

I think the issue was the South African sport boycott as Stefani was based in South Africa in the early 90s. (Same applies to David Steen's reputed birth in Maidstone)

Apart from one TBA (Plym. V Gla) the Championship will be over by the end of August Seems unlikely. Apart from the above mentioned TBA Plymouth have their last home fixture on 23rd August (and they fit in a complete set of NDL fixtures too). Plymouth will have little difficulty in fitting in the play-offs. Birmingham, with no such concerns have only two meetings after the end of this month (one league match and the Brit under 21). Week commencing 6 September there are a grand total of six fixtures logged across the entire country. There looks like little likelihood of fixture chaos unless August is one long monsoon.

I think there is a suggestion that some of the blame will fall on Esbjerg, for letting one guy do everything and not supervising his activities, not to mention washing their hands when it all started to fall apart. And I think it unlikely the DMU/FIM will escape without af least some reputational damage. My money is on Discovery suing Esbjerg.

The French must wonder why we moan if a meeting is still going on at 10.15 n'est pas?

My trip to Lamothe-Landerron involved a 9pm start and a midnight finish

Don't expect a last heat decider

Chris Bryant, Ivana Trump and Mark Francois, what company we keep.

Thanks for alerting me to that. PS Just checked e-mail from billetlugen sent 9.42 this morning (in English!)

Dare one ask why?

Other adjectives are available!

How can you say that when it has been won by speedway giants like Italy

In neither case were they riding for their teams, so neither have missed any meetings., hence the 7 day rule does not apply.

How does it help you? Oxford couldn't have overtaken Edinburgh in any circumstances. And it now makes Berwick an outside bet for the play-offs with bottom of the league Birmingham giving them the opportunity of another away win.

So France have joined ranks of countries that are too big to put their best riders in. No Bellego, Berge or Uncle Matt.

A competition with the format of regional mini leagues followed by a final (and usually semi-finals) has been held in the second tier every year since 1997 with the exception of 2003, 2011,2017, 2020, 2021. The first three due to longer league programmes, the last two covid. The competition is on its sixth name: Knock-out Cup (despite most of the fixtures involving no-one being knocked out) National Trophy Premier Trophy League Cup Championship Shield and now Jubilee League

If using a simple conversion factor it should be in the region of 1.25-1.3. However the relationship is not strictly proportionate (witness all the low average rider at the top of the table) so a linear regression would be better modelling. (I have done this before. I think the answer would come out as something like: Prem av = 0.9 Champ av - 2) Edit: just done regression on 2021 stats: formula is: 0.824 Champ Av - 0.32 = Prem Av

2021 - very few heats 13 & 15 (and a ride against reserves in heats 8,12 or 14) 2022 - heats 13 and 15 in every match (and no easy heats 8,12 or 14) Makes a difference

It's a shared event so it may be the BSPL who are [not] selling tickets. It would be nice to know.