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Best wishes to Stuart, who would always regard a 99% effort as a shameful dereliction of duty. Always a pleasure to watch at Monmore.

Correct. You're not!

As I understand it, a win tonight (or at Newcastle, but hopefully it won't come to that) would suffice.

I wasn't there, but I don't see it in the way you're pondering. Sacrificing two points deliberately to prevent an if-but-perhaps three doesn't work for me. In the double-point days, maybe.

Yes, R/R in a double-header will always be a touch gruelling and I gather there had been plenty of rain too. For anyone who was there, how did the track hold up? It looked fabulous in the pic Steve Lawson tweeted earlier in the week after putting down all the new shale.

It's mentioned on the Wolves website match report, so presumably no!

Match off.

Well, Tungate had been beaten only by Lambert whereas Fricke had twice lost to Iversen including the heat 13 5-1. So you pays your money and you takes your choice. Would normally have expected Fricke, but I wasn’t there! Have to say Lemon generally comes across as a very shrewd team manager as far as I’m concerned.

Bach and Proctor declared fit to ride.

The British Statistical Plainspeaking Association? Actually this could be a thing. What should BSPA stand for? *Lights fuse and runs for cover*

Get a coffee inside you, Steve! Can't tackle stats at this time of day otherwise.

More than poor Rene can do at the moment! As you say, dislocation rather than break. Still painful. Get well soon.

No thanks. No offence to Connor, a talented young man and one who hopefully has a good future in the sport, but we've already got one of those who is, IMHO, a better prospect, four years younger and lives round the corner!

On-site parking at Wolves is free and steward-directed on entrance. Hope you enjoy your visit.

Think your irony meter may need a reset!

I'm sure it's a genuine Rollex!

1. No. 2. Therefore not applicable. 3. Next question.

Right, got you. Hopefully Kyle can benefit from this season of Championship experience. Of course he wants to do well, as indeed would any young rider, especially for his local club. Fans appear to be behind him and that's always helpful.

Pressure from whom? Management who say he is there to learn and develop and defeats are down to the other six? Or the skipper who said in last week's Speedway Star that he's not there to score points, but -- yes -- to learn and develop? He's still got NL this year and what amounts to a bonus season of learning other tracks without expectation. Agree with you, he'll get there. There are different routes and he'll crack it. But there's no outside pressure on him at all.

Fair enough, thanks for the info. Over to Berwick management then!

I wasn't at the match but in broad terms usually feel that if you have a reserve who's on it in a struggling team he should get his seven rides before heat 15. With Jye at No.2, he wouldn't have ridden in the later heats and so perhaps wouldn't be fully up to speed on how the track was riding by then. Just conjecture. Usually there are good reasons why the expected riders in heat 15 don't appear, which is not to say team managers don't get it wrong occasionally!

Same arm/shoulder he pinged a few weeks back.

Mason to No.2 then, presumably? Straight swap with Rasser?

Sad, sad day for Rye, their supporters and the sport as a whole. These, to put it mildly, are not good times for the sport.

Hindsight a wonderful thing and so forth, but yes (even with his, ah, brave new haircut).