Ace no.5

Hoping someone can help me. I'm buying tickets for someone for this event as a gift but I most likely won't be able to attend. When I go on to the "See Tickets" page to book, it seems that I have to set up an account with them and I will only be able to access my tickets that I buy through their app which will be linked to my account. It states that screenshots will not be accepted. I've tried to contact "See Tickets" but it seems they're only contactable if you have a booking reference, which I don't have yet! Does anyone have any advice/may have experienced this issue themselves? The only way I can see around it is to book and give my email address and password for the "See Tickets" app to the people I give the gift to...?

Can't quite figure why a ballot when Wolves scored 10 vs Peterborough and Sheffield, Peterborough scored 9 vs Wolves and Sheffield, Sheffield scored 8 vs Peterborough and Wolves. Wolves should be through to the semi outright! Format in programme literally says "If more than 2 teams are tied, the team with the highest scoring heat results (presumably against each other otherwise no point!) will qualify".

I'm intrigued. What was your "take" on both incidents? For me, both Holder in first leg and Kurtz in second leg went for a gap that ultimately didn't develop. Both had to be excluded. Correct decisions.

She absolutely was, very consistent! The riders knew the script... She didn't make one decision that went against the concept of excluding for initiating contact from the inside out.

Are you on crack? You go on about the other 2 riders having "passed the chequered flag before Brady who was on the floor"... No they didn't as the incident happened on lap 3 so nobody passed the chequered flag! I also notice that you have chosen to omit commenting on the awarding of the race in heat 5 that Howarth won when Ellis was on his backside? Maybe that should have been re-run with 3 riders too?

Don't know but it wasn't much better last week. Wolves only scored 1 point from their 7 rides out of gate 3. Not particularly ideal almost making it a 3 man race...

Brilliant and honest post from a Tigers fan. A breath of fresh air.

Gate 3 last night... Heat 1 Holder 2' thanks to Brady exc. Heat 2 S Lambert 0 Heat 3 Ellis Exc Heat 4 Musielak 2 Heat 5 Kurtz 1' from the back. Heat 6 Kerr 0 Heat 7 Brennan 0 Heat 8 Blodorn 0 Heat 9 Blodorn 1 Heat 10 Zagar 0 Heat 11 Sedgmen 1 thanks to Musielak exc. Heat 12 Mountain 0 Heat 13 R Lambert 2 (thanks to Brady stopping the run of Holder - was at back) Heat 14 Howarth 0 Heat 15 Kurtz 0

Blimey, there's as many salty comments in here as there was in the Stead interview! Really poor from him but not unexpected. For the people commenting on the referee's gender... Nothing to do with anything and out of order imo! Male refs never make controversial decisions? People will have differing opinions of decisions tonight... FWIW, for me, heat 1 Brady had to go. Heat 3, all 4 back. Heat 11, Musielak had to go. Did the Ellis exclusion gift the Aces the title? Not by any stretch. Kurtz was just sauntering round at the back in heat 15. The title was won. If there was anything to race for that wouldn't have been the case. If someone said to me at the start of tonight's meeting that the Aces top 3 would score 22 points between them I'd be worried we were gonna be hammered. Brennan and Blodorn were excellent tonight with by far their best performances of the season around Sheffield. Last time we won it I was 9. It's been a long wait but it's over! Well done to Sheffield for a brilliant season and only lost by the smallest margin. We've been there many times. Their time will come. But tonight, it's our time!

Let's not forget though that the fixtures weren't even completed, so Ipswich could have still finished top... We will never know. Still can't believe in a 6 team league with a really decent summer fixtures weren't completed.

What are you lot on about now? Brennan is riding at 4!

Nice bit of gamesmanship by Ellis in heat 15 re-run to try and make Lambert jump tapes... Rob did well to ignore in fairness!

And Sheffield have won by 18 and 24 against us at Owlerton! It could and probably will be close. A 20 point Aces first leg lead, the tie wouldn't be close to over. As for the bookies, I wouldn't suggest 4/7 in a 2 team match is "heavy odds on".

In a 2 legged match I always have a figure in my head of what I'd be happy with after the first leg... With this I'm not sure at all! I'd like 20 points. I'm not sure we'll get that. Anything less than 10 I think we're in trouble. 14-16 point Aces win would leave the tie firmly in the balance I think.

Salty much? GP rider for GP rider. We got through the semi first leg using a Championship rider instead of a GP rider! If we win it, we deserve it! And it's been a long time coming!

Not particularly. I expect us to get beat comfortably there. We will attack the track more than Wolves though. Wolves looked beaten from the start tonight. As I expect us to get beat comfortably at Owlerton, I expect us to win comfortably at the NSS. Will be an interesting one as no lead will be safe!

Gate 3 Tigers 1 2 1 2 1 0 1 1 Wolves 0 0 1 0 0 0 0

I felt the "par" score at Monmore would have been a 6-8 point Wolves win, so huge advantage Tigers but as you say, by no means a done deal.

To be fair to Batch, in his first heat he lost his steel shoe going into the first bend...

Pickering is probably on commentary. I hope they're able to get this on. There's some hefty rain heading the stadium's way in appx 20 mins or so.

I expect a comfortable Aces win at the NSS and a narrowish win for the Wolves at Monmore. Last 4 results there have been 49-41 (x2), 48-42 and 50-40, all in favour of Wolves.

Yeah noticed big time by me too. Culminated in them saying before GB's last heat that they "need a minimum of 5 points here" when in reality 3 points would have put us into the top 3...

Gobsmacked that we chose 1&3 in the Final. Not to mention the fact that the Aussies looked very dangerous off 2 and 4, look at GB results through the course of the night... Bewley off gate 3... 0 0 2. Bewley off gate 4... 4 4 4. Surely you have to back Lambert to get over one of Fricke and Holder from gate 2. I really do feel like the team managers have thrown that away big time.

I was, with the angle I was watching it from it seems riders had the drop on other riders at different points during the race. I did count 7 in that race alone on the video though. I wish I could watch it back on tv as I don't have BT Sport. I honestly thought the racing was outstanding. Poles a class above though.

What happened to that outside only line with Fricke getting passed up the inside? How anyone can think this is "Processional racing" is beyond me.