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There is little interest in this fixture I know but Ipswich have the opportunity to go top of the league. They are at full strength whilst Sheffieild will be without Musielak (family emergency) and Howarth (illness). Sam Masters guests for Musielak which is a little surprising as I thought he might have called time on this season plus he is not named in the Wolves line up for tomorrow's pairs.

You wont need to now. He has pulled out of tonight's fixture for Sheffield through illness so will miss both play-off matches.

Quite right. The promotion must ensure they schedule their fixtures so they don't coincide with the stadium owners destroying the safety fence, the police closing Penistone Road and the funeral of a Monarch!

Why no Nick Morris for Wolves?

You can add another Thursday lost due to the SON.

Well that knocks that on the head. I wonder if Scunthorpe have been approached.

Could be but I don't know when they could fit it in. Otherwise the only other option I can see is to run it at Sheffield this coming Sunday.

Sheffield went into the Premiership because they couldn't make Sunday work so it was the only way they could move back to their traditional race night. In the same way Thursday didn't work for Poole. I haven't heard this podcast but was it before Leicester made their announcement? On a more general note, Sheffield have no stadium availability this month so Leicester are stepping in at the eleventh hour and good for them.

More to the story here: http://www.leicesterspeedway.com/news.php?extend.32092 Good that all six rounds are to be staged otherwise it would have been pretty much a foregone conclusion that Ipswich would take the title. They probably will anyway but a poor round at Leicester could spice up the final round at Belle Vue.

The six rounds could be completed if round 5 is at Sheffield on Thursday 27th and the final one at Belle Vue on Monday 31st or even the previous day in the afternoon leaving Monday as a back-up day. All subject to stadium availability though.

Edit: Just checked again. No points for coming last.

They would receive 2 points.

If the round at Sheffield does not take place then the title goes to Ipswich as they cannot be caught. Even if they finish last at Belle Vue they will be on 40 points. Their closest challengers are King's Lynn on 26.

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I think Thursdays were introduced when Sweden had 9 teams riding so, now that they are back to 8 Thursday racing might be considered unnecessary.

I have just discovered that the second leg of the Swedish League final is on Wednesday which means Glasgow will need a guest or RR for the visit to Poole.

Yes, but the meeting at Plymouth has little importance in comparison.

Basso will be riding for Lejonen tomorrow in Sweden.

Maybe, but a new set of averages come into play by next Monday.

A guest can only be rider who is currently in a club's 1 - 7.

SGP2 is on Friday

It is amazing. The league campaign started at the beginning of May leaving 21 Thursdays available for Sheffield. The SON took care of one but they were scheduled to ride two of them on a Monday including this week's postponement leaving 12 Thursdays free. On four Thursdays they rode away and a further three were used for the Pairs. There were another three which were postponed due to the weather/stadium unavailability leaving all of two, one of which was used for a league cup match brought forward from April owing to an earlier postponement leaving one Thursday unused.

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You would think so. The league campaign started at the beginning of May leaving 21 weeks to fit in 10 home meetings. Easy isn't it or is it? I have been checking the Sheffield fixture list. Three Thursdays had been set aside to accommodate the Pairs and a similar number when they were riding away. This leaves five, three of which have been postponed and at least one of the remaining there was no opposition available.

This is an extremely awkward situation. It is to shorter notice to cancel I imagine but it is highly unlikely many involved will have any appetite for this match now.