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Qualification now confirmed as follows:

 

- The top team from each group and best runners-up race off in two semi-finals over two legs.
- The best runners-up is determined by taking best average MATCH POINTS from completed meetings.
- Winners of semi-final then race over two legs in the final to decide League Cup winners.

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The final four are

 

Edinburgh Monarchs

Sheffield Tigers

Peterborough Panthers

Berwick Bandits*

 

Workington Comets will replace Berwick Bandits with 4 points at Glasgow due to a superior points difference.

 

For Berwick Bandits read Redcar Bears.....

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This is going to be a tight finish but Somerset and Ipswich are firm outsiders in my opinion.

 

14 points won't be enough to qualify as runner up ahead of Redcar in Group B, The Rebels have to win both of their home matches by 7 point margins or more and then hope that the Panthers lose both of theirs but not just lose, they will need the Panthers to be hammered and the Rebels will also need to hammer Ipswich and Rye House in order to overturn the +51 Panthers have and the -7 the Rebels currently have.

 

So they need a 58 point swing to qualify as 14 points won't be enough to qualify as the runner up, If Ipswich get anything from the Somerset match then the Rebels are out but the Witches have to draw/win at the Oaktree arena as 14 points won't be enough for them as the Panthers have a much superior points difference and It's unlikely that the Witches will be able to overturn a +48 points difference unless the Panthers take two severe beatings at Rye House and Plymouth.

 

And Somerset did indeed hammer Rye and Ippo,but to no avail.

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Sheffield are due to get knocked out by Berwick on Thursday night (weather permitting and following a valiant effort), Berwick will then no doubt set up a meeting in the distant future with Edinburgh with the vague hope that the Monarchs will suffer from a catalogue of (non-serious) injuries, thus forcing them to field a weakened side that will only hammer them in one leg rather than 2...

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Think you are holding the cue the wrong way round CB, Sheff/badnits are sparring in the KO Cup not the league variety.

Though we need others to comment as I`m not an expert on cups.......

 

You're right... Sheffield vs Berwick is in the KO Cup, not the League Cup...

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Think you are holding the cue the wrong way round CB, Sheff/badnits are sparring in the KO Cup not the league variety.

Though we need others to comment as I`m not an expert on cups.......

D'oh!! Just went on the BSPA site and realised my mistake, too many competitions!!

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