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Many thanks.

Do you have the gist, please, for non-Facebook users? Thanks in advance.

Need, even!

Well, he saw the race in real time, then the replay and still didn't know who was third. Don't been official confirmation for that.

Still casting doubt on the result after the replay!

Pleased with a home win, but that looks a very good Leicester effort in the circumstances.

No winners then, if that's the case (and we'd have to hear his side of it). Boughen misses a meeting on what appears to be a good track for him (he had a fabulous race there with, IIRC, Pijper in the U21 meeting), his team are weakened and the meeting as a spectacle is devalued.

Agreed. Does this make me the goody-goody of the forum (answer: No.)?

Of course it should, just as a fit Kelly should produce more than his single point from a meeting in which he crashed in his first ride, was third of three finishers in his second and then withdrew injured! But that wasn't your original contention and isn't what we're debating. You said that Workington are "massively stronger" with R/R rather than Kelly riding, not massively stronger than the last meeting when he got hurt. And I, for the reasons outlined earlier, disagree. Good to chat, though.

Thanks for the info, appreciated. If Harry McGurk finds something like his previous form, the issue won't arise. But it's not an easy match. Fingers crossed.

Wouldn't quibble with your Leicester analysis, but would suggest that you may be a good bit out as far as the "massively stronger" home team is concerned. Harry McGurk, for whatever reason, is currently nowhere near his known form. By my reckoning he's had four league meetings, three of them at home, and scored six plus four from 15 rides. Kelly was going well and while I take the point made elsewhere that riding in the top five is harder, results breed confidence and I think he will make the transition successfully. An extra ride for Pijper is potentially good news, certainly. I'd blink a bit at seven rides for Harrison, only lately back from serious injury. Without R/R he could, potentially, have had his four rides, one of McGurk's and perhaps another if anyone is struggling, reserve replacement for tapes/time exclusion and so forth. With R/R, he may need to take three of those rides, McGurk (and I do hope he fixes whatever is not working and returns to his customary standard) his full four. Injury and/or loss of form elsewhere would then be a big, big problem. But it's all opinion, which is why we all love to come on here and chuck in our two-penn'orth!!

To me, coming back from the injury he had, the surprise is how quickly he's rattled in a series of good scores rather than the fact that he's had a poor one away to a very strong Sheffield side.

Good analysis, IMHO. From the Wolves end, personally I would be reasonably content with 40 and positively made up with 42! Pessimistically fearing something nearer 35, but I do tend to look on the dark side rather than the bright.

Happily retired, but thanks for the thought! Excellent all-round showing by Wolves with nine bonus points, six different race winners and only five last places, four of them in the first five races.

Indeed. In broad terms it appears that as goes King, so go Ipswich which must represent a huge amount of pressure on him. Just browsing on Updates and, if I have read this correctly, over the final 10 races King's heat 8 second place seems to be the only time that a home rider other than Doyle/Sayfutdinov beat an opponent. That is an extraordinary stat for a home team.

Indeed. And given that the new Workington track is on the site of the training track, that has presumably simplified planning issues.

Yes.

Excellent choice, but I gather you've not been to Workington yet? It's sublime.

Excellent, thanks so much!

FWIW I actually like certain aspects of what the coverage is trying to achieve, but the overall effect is, sadly, consistently undermined by basic errors. Rounding off with a look at the league table is admirable, but would work rather better if it took into account the result of the match that's just been broadcast...

OK that's put my mind at rest, cheers!

No problem. I would still welcome some heat 16 corroboration...

Yes, don't know if you were at the first meeting? That was also hot, but without the wind which dries everything out so much quicker. Bailey and Sam McGurk both went as high up the first corner as you can get without finishing in Flimby and absolutely flew past riders on the back straight. So it is there.

1 60.2 2 601. 3 60.3 4 60.6 5 Awarded 6 59.5 7 Awarded 8 60.8 9 62.3 10 61.8 11 61.3 12 59.9 13 61.1 14 61.3 15 59.6 16 64.2 (Didn't look particularly slow, but as I recall the time was announced twice. Here, as in all things, I'm very much open to correction!) 17 59.7 18 63.2 19 61.2 20 61.4

Heat 13 between Trigger and Boughen was epic!