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Everything crossed that Peterborough are back in 2019.

Terrific fighting performance by Scorpions from Heat 7 onwards, after a poor start to the meeting. Another great team performance, with Jake, Jason and Steve taking the starring roles. Eventually Scorpions won quite comfortably on aggregate. Fair play to Peterborough on coming out all guns blazing in the opening races. Hard luck to Panthers - you need a bit of luck with injuries in speedway. It hit Scunny earlier in the season, and now it's hit Panthers. Although last night, the Panthers guests were excellent, it was actually a Panthers rider who had a stinker. As for the little petulant act of denying Scunny a victory parade for their win (and yes they did win, who cares about the winners on the night in the second leg of a cup tie? ), it didn't really spoil things. As already mentioned, the riders still came around to thank the fans.

In this case, it was. Common sense has prevailed. And that can be seen by everyone with common sense.

Cheers Steve - that's the twitter I added earlier. I'm guessing that, with the postponement of the meeting, there might be a few donations after the next few days, so just wanted to re-assure people that their money is going through to the fund.

I've made a donation this morning and there is an error message, but it seems to occur during the redirect to the SRBF website and AFTER payment is confirmed. I've already received confirmation by email that my payment has gone through. I will let Paul Ackroyd know about the error message, but it doesn't stop people making donations.

Only for 28 days, though. After that, I'm not sure. NL guests? I also agree that I can't believe he's going home, while Peterborough and Somerset both have so much still to race for.

Blimey, haven't you worked out yet that it wasn't a meeting involving Scunthorpe that triggered the whole Friday fixtures thing? Speedy recovery to Josh Auty. He's been fantastic for Scorpions this season.

Workington can still finish top by winning their final two matches. It would be too late to choose your play-off opponents, but will still go down in the league table in the record books.

Well done Berwick. PS Why wasn't Drew Kemp in Heat 14?

I would love to have seen Berwick in the play-offs, but Lakeside are already safe, even if Bandits win the last race tonight.

Read this week's Speedway Star. Danny no longer wants to ride for Scunthorpe - so it's the same as Riss at Ipswich. Despite that, Scunthorpe are still not allowed to use NL guests for him. Either guests are not allowed for Riss, or Scunthorpe are allowed NL guests for Danny. A little consistency is needed here from the SCB.

Interesting situation, given the precedent set by the SCB with Danny Phillips. If Neil Vatcher is consistent, then he will insist that Riss returns or Witches have to go to the tapes in three races with one rider only.

Keep your re-admission ticket for the £17 meeting, take a photocopy (at work, if you haven't got one at home) and then post off the original to Lakeside speedway, with a quick word of explanation. I've done it with other tracks, where I've been a long-distance supporter, with no chance of getting back that year to another meeting. I've always got a refund. If you email them beforehand, I'm sure they will confirm this is OK.

Gavan is in an alternative universe

I just chuckle at most of it. The funniest was the Lakeside Live fan twitter blaming Rob G for two successive blank Fridays at Lakeside, when one was a rain-off and the other was because another event was staged all weekend at the Arena Essex Raceway.

There have been instances of both 14 and 28 day bans. Auty is not the only rider to have received a 14 day ban.

He wasn't back a week later. He had a 14 day ban, in compliance with the rules.

I've purchased the two books by Keith Lawson. They are superb.

So point out one occasion this season when Scunthorpe have not fulfilled a fixture? It should also be pointed out that the washed out home fixture for Scunthorpe against Lakeside on May 25 was re-staged on June 22, before Steve Worrall and Stefan Nielsen were fit, which again blows out of the water the claims of the keyboard warriors. Scunthorpe have simply got on with their meetings, on their designated race-night.

Drew is a huge talent, but give the kid a break - don't heap the pressure on him.

Well, no, look at the averages. How can a 2.32 rider replace a 2.00 rider?

No replacement allowed. It's NL guests not riding in the Premiership or Championship for the rest of the season.

In the case of David Howe, there was a letter from the ACU.

I don't recall the Hall occasion - I think that pre-dated me. But we were allowed a guest for David Howe (in 2014?), because it was a re-arranged Scorpions' match and David had written confirmation from the ACU stating he was riding for his country. Under the old wording of the rule, that covered it. In contrast, we didn't have that for Theo Pijper (in 2015?), and Scunthorpe were forced into placing a 28-day-ban on him, so be able to cover for him. Personally, I don't see anything wrong with Sheffield having a facility for Shanes last night, for a re-arranged fixture, when he's representing his country. Common sense says that should be allowed. Only one sub-heading of 16.5.1 needs to be satisfied - not every single last one. 16.5.1 f) looks most likely.

Seems you've slipped one for once, R&R. You've been banging on about 16.5.1 k) when actually it's not relevant at all I'm guessing, but I think Shanes' absence is covered under: 16.5 FACILITIES 16.5.1 A Team may utilise a "Facility" to cover the absence of a Rider(s) who: f) is recalled in accordance with the FIM ISLB Regulations. From what I recall of the old rule, this has replaced the bit where a valid reason was if a country had recalled him for international duty. I think the ISLB agreement these days would cover a Dane for a couple of days before he was representing Denmark, etc. It seems reasonable that a British rider would also be covered, if he was representing GB. In any case, it's common sense that there should be a facility for Shanes. He's riding for his country.