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Guest GiveusaB
19 hours ago, Sings4Speedway said:

Never rains for Brum. Id be straight on phone for possible guests Danny Ayres? Then kicking Walker straight in the shin so its RR for him and guest for Leon.

Would you like to become Brum's next manager ?

Hats off to Rogers....best move he's pulled this season !

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14 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

Would you like to become Brum's next manager ?

Hats off to Rogers....best move he's pulled this season !

 

24 minutes ago, Islander15 said:

Called it! Brennan for Flint and R/R for Walker who’s apparently sick. 

First time ive been right all season which puts me 1 up on Rogers.......probably nicked the idea from me anyway. :D  of course its abuse of the rules but if the loopholes are there.....

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3 hours ago, Sings4Speedway said:

Didn't see a Mildenhall match in the fixtures? IF Flint is unable to ride and its RR for him then its a disaster for Brum and can kiss any remote hopes goodbye. IF Walker came down with a last minute sickness bug it could mean RR for him and guest for Flint.......#whatwouldEastbournedo

It's why Kemp and Bickley are unavailable...they are racing each other at BV.

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In theory, if Bacon can score 14 

Shanes 12 

Greenwood 6 

brennan 8 

then 6 from the reserves including rr (2 will be scored in heat 2 & heat 8. So 4 times they will need to beat their opposition I agree could be very hard) but with Hampshire’s machinery it’s possible? I think Birmingham could keep this tight but they will have to be on it. 

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Alot better than I thought it would be, we drew with them with pretty much nothing from reserve. If only Greenwood had managed to hold off Edwards in 1 of his first two rides, it could have been adifferent story. Brennan brilliant choice of guest, rode well, fair play to him for effort he showed. After last weeks horror show, tonight was much different and im proud of the lads. All the best to Cradley in the final.

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Guest GiveusaB
14 minutes ago, Brummie Kev said:

Alot better than I thought it would be, we drew with them with pretty much nothing from reserve. If only Greenwood had managed to hold off Edwards in 1 of his first two rides, it could have been adifferent story. Brennan brilliant choice of guest, rode well, fair play to him for effort he showed. After last weeks horror show, tonight was much different and im proud of the lads. All the best to Cradley in the final.

ALL the best to MILDENHALL in the final ! :t:

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A moral victory for the Brummies against a select team of heat leaders and second strings.

Cradley should be getting 50 points plus in every meeting with kind of side. Looks like you can’t buy success.

A much better meeting with some great racing and a good crowd. Great to see.

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When you have a top two riding like Shanes and Bacon did last night it will usually be pretty close, being a Cradley fan of a certain vintage you got used to being 6 down with a few races left knowing there were at least two heat advantages to be had in the latter heats and it was the same for Birmingham last night.  We needed to have a decent lead going into the last few races and we just about managed it even with only 5 or 6 race winners all night.  With a solid reserve in the Brummies team the result would have been very different, but that's the one thing you could have predicted with confidence before the meeting

I thought the turning point may have been when Richard Andrews came to grief chasing down Shanes when we were on a 4-2 and the re-run was a 4-2 to the Brummies, although the way Shanes was riding you wouldn't bet against him winning the race from that point anyway.  The move he made in Heat 15 to cut through into second place coming off the 2nd bend was a beauty, though I would perhaps not have appreciated it so much if the result was in the balance ;)

Just now, GiveusaB said:

Does anyone know what sort of track times Dan Gilkes was posting in the MDL ?

Heat 1 of the MDL meeting he won in 53. something seconds, beating Jamie Sealey by a decent distance.  He looked good in that race, although I only saw it as we were leaving

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8 minutes ago, MattJ81 said:

 

Heat 1 of the MDL meeting he won in 53. something seconds, beating Jamie Sealey by a decent distance.  He looked good in that race, although I only saw it as we were leaving

Cheers!

I think it would've been 63. ? though :t: I noticed he shut off with about 10 yards to go .....so he's definitely up to 'race' competition !

We just need to persuade him to join us now ?

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Last night just shows what a complete and utter joke our sport has become The Isle-Of-Wight, Kent Plymouth, Eastbourne & Belle Vue Heathens with a starting average of over 50 points 

Now I know why Nigel Pearson loves Poole so much !!!!!!

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6 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

Cheers!

I think it would've been 63. ? though :t: I noticed he shut off with about 10 yards to go .....so he's definitely up to 'race' competition !

We just need to persuade him to join us now ?

63.82 and 64.97 (when he shut off). There was also a very reckless crash with Sealey.

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Oh just one small gripe, and I'm sure it's nothing the Birmingham promotion have much control over but the food outlet being closed at the start of the interval wasn't great.  Whether the (I understand) larger than usual crowd had cleaned them out of supplies I don't know but when there isn't any other option to get food in the stadium it's not ideal.

One thing that the Brummies promotion did have control over was the entertainment on the centre green for the kids during the interval, a great and fantastically simple idea which my 10 year old really enjoyed :t: 

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