Paulco

Hope will do All known form and common sense points to Sheffield coasting into the final , but you just never know . Who'd have thought Rye House would go to Poole and hit 60 , who'd have thought Berwick would have beaten ..........well anybody . So in speedway you just don't know . If we can hit them hard early with a couple of 5-1's , then you just never know .

We have to believe or else what's the point .

Also there's another rumour that the Monarchs will be business as usual at Armadale next year , I know which one has more credibility .

This would be the mother of all comebacks , can we do it ?

Spot on

He's riding against the same riders whatever tier he's competing in over here

Statements like this just illustrate the mess we're in as a sport

Think we'll all have to wait till after the promoter's conference to see where we all stand as regards next season . Workington have been one of the stalwarts of the second tier for many a season , long may they continue to be so . Whatever malaise has infected speedway at Workington , the hope is that it can be eradicated and the club grows stronger again .

Good luck Edinburgh , an all Scottish final would be nice . Unlikely , but nice .

I hope he's right too , and we can keep this close to give us a fighting chance on Tuesday .

With both our normal reserves injured , that scenario is unlikely .

Agreed . Keeps us competitive in heats 12 and 14 , well that's the theory anyway . Good luck to the lads , we're massive underdogs but we live in hope .

We say that every year . The League Cup was always supposed to be done and dusted by June , but it never was . Just as well we binned that or we would be talking about Christmas . Once we start getting rain offs , and surprisingly that does happen in this country , re-arranging fixtures to cope with riders doubling up or riding abroad , and the issues that brings , means we'll always have this end of season carnage . The saddest thing I read on here today was the announcement of the Ipswich v Edinburgh play off semi on Thursday and Friday , and did the fans of both clubs declare that they were looking forward to it ??????? No they were fretting that they were going to go into the matches with 2 or 3 riders missing cause they might be riding somewhere else . That's a sad indictment of where speedway is just now .

Suppose we agreed to go to Workington on Saturday before realising the possible implications . Saturday night the place could have been rocking , be like a morgue on Tuesday especially if we get battered on Thursday night . Hopefully the 30th can be used for the home leg of the KO Cup tie against Newcastle .

What about the ones who got byes then ?

At this moment in time I wouldn't bet too much money in us getting past Newcastle

On his low average , he's well worth a punt at reserve . Mind you maybe he shouldn't have top scored yesterday , silly bugger . We're not paying him to top score

no one stands on the back straight now either apparently

Well he did , 7+1 in a curtailed meeting . Nothing wrong with that from a reserve . Wish we had a reserve who could do that away from home .

So why not just make every draw on aggregate golden heats ? We were ready to race our KO Cup tie in June but had to wait on Workington and Newcastle sorting out replay dates .

That's what we thought , but now he's been on Facebook saying he should be fit in under a month .

And good practice on the track for Harris and Holder ahead of next Sunday . You couldn't rule either of them out .

Stood on the back straight you could see Summers visibly shaking his head in frustration exiting the second bend . It was evident the bike didn't have the speed required . Seems to have been a recurring problem this season , he has the odd meeting where he looks the rider we know he is , but days like today have become the norm .

The Glasgow tie was held up with Workington and Newcastle drawing their first running and having to stage a replay . With the fixture list being the minefield it has become , time to stop the replay scenario and just have golden heats or whatever .

Racing was poor apart from Worrall's ride in heat 13 to protect a slow Summers and keep Harris behind him . Peterborough were very good and looked like winning the meeting from pretty early on . Looked like Holder got a puncture in heat 1 , after that nobody got near him .