Debbi

He had a knock at the Championship league riders meeting, he had to lay the bike down or ride over Sam Masters whose chain/bike failed and spat him onto the track. Ashton damaged his knee, he pulled out of a few meetings and the ones he took part in were low scores. He then knocked the same knee a couple of weeks ago at Oxford hence withdrew from U19 championship. He is young and has only been racing for a couple of years and this is the first big knock/injury and it’s knocked his confidence a bit. It’s a shame really there was one heat tonight where he was clearly quicker than the Poole duo but was shutting off going into the bends, whether this was a confidence issue or he didn’t trust Vinnie Foord I don’t know.

2+1, 2+1, 2+1 , 0! I don’t think that is a paid maximum maybe after 3 heats but definitely not after a 0 from his fourth ride. Oxford were up against it with the loss of Luke and Jody last week, but with Scott’s crash it was game over! Well done to Poole better team on the night! But for the Oxford supporters of 4 young British lads to raise nearly £8000 for them was something quite incredible!

There is no question he is carrying an injury. During the Championship riders meeting he put his bike down to avoid running into/over Sam Masters and hit the ground hard, then to crash in heat 3 tonight was the last thing he needed. Only time will tell how he feels physically and can make that decision.

To be honest with the bang to his head I am amazed he carried on but then if you won’t let the medics near you …..

He is carrying a knee injury sustained at Redcar and had to pull out of some meetings. I would guess he clouted again when he fell off in ht 3.

I would suggest that everyone needs to use this email address, it won’t change the result but something needs to be done about the ref’s decisions tonight. If you can post your frustration here copy and paste it into an email and just press send. I am not a supporter of either of tonight’s teams and feel the meeting was decided in the worst possible way by an inept referee. They said on tv even the Leicester riders couldn’t believe Rew’s exclusion. SCB chair: jim.lawrence@scbgb.co.uk

Scot won’t be riding as he will be presenting. He has made it clear that he didn’t want to race full time premiership because of other commitments.

Jordan said he’s sure it’s broken (as I put on updates) he was gutted and heading to get his wrist looks at and prob x-rays. Fingers crossed it isn’t but he knows his body. Danny walked (hobbled) away from his crash but don’t know more than his foot was sore and swollen.

In all seriousness, what happens to those who have placed bets on where clubs finish on the league table and not the result of the play-offs?! Because as it stands this is not a true outcome?

Connor had a very heavy fall in heat 2 he came out on another bike whilst he was riding that on track half the Oxford team were jumping on/kicking the bike back into shape. Connor has not performed to his potential at Oxford in previous visits. sure if Luke hadn’t been injured he wouldn’t have had as many rides but he still went out completed 7 races and only failed to score in one race and was the highest scoring reserve. He put up a good fight for most of his points. No disrespect to the likes of Sam and Scott but they are your top heat leaders and rightly or wrongly you expect them to put in maximum performance. Where as Connor we had no such expectations from him. He gave it his all and deserved the reward.

But that’s exactly my point, nobody regardless of what team and what league, knows what happens before a meeting. It would be like me assuming what you did at work today and questioning it. Who knows how many riders were asked but turned it down for one reason or another but as you say you aren’t going to say well actually you were 3rd, 4th, 5th choice.

It was nice to see that Connor Coles was given rider of the night after his fall in heat 2 he must have felt second hand. To do 7 rides and not to score in only one race was something else.

He has not had a head injury/concussion (may have been initial thought). He is hoping to be at Kings Lynn tomorrow riding for the Spires. Depending on Dr’s advice.

How do you know that Peter didn’t ask them? There’a every chance they may have been working or even away.

No!