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League predictions for 2025 season

1. Glasgow Tigers

2. Poole Pirates

3. Redcar Bears

4. Workington Comets

5. Scunthorpe Scorpions

6. Berwick Bandits

7. Oxford Cheetahs 

8. Edinburgh Monarchs

9. Plymouth Gladiators 

Semi-final 1 Winner: Glasgow Tigers

Semi-final 2 Winner: Poole Pirates

Grand-final Winner: Glasgow Tigers

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So far Glasgow, Poole & Redcar look like almost certainties for the play-offs, everyone else fighting for 4th spot.

But if one of the other clubs has a strong season, could be a big gap between 4th & 5th.

Too early to place the rest till teams are completed.

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Predictions are all very well…..but let’s not forget this is Speedway…..so much can happen in a season to upset the apple cart. On paper so far for me….looks like it’s between Glasgow, Poole and Redcar but good luck to all teams and may the inevitable injuries be mild. 

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8 hours ago, PTW said:

Can see Heeps and Knudsen leaving Oxford at somepoint in a double change to accommodate Nicholls and Jody Scott,that for me would put Oxford around the play off mark atleast.

While that certainly could happen, if the teams average shoots up, there's a chance that Nicholls & Scott for Heeps & Knudsen would no longer fit 

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7 hours ago, PTW said:

Can see Heeps and Knudsen leaving Oxford at somepoint in a double change to accommodate Nicholls and Jody Scott,that for me would put Oxford around the play off mark atleast.

That's unlikely to fit within the points limit. As poorer scores drop off Masters, Jenkins and Killeen are likely to see their averages rise, and McDiarmid's can't go down. Therefore Oxford will be over 40 and there won't be enough headroom to make your suggested change unless it happens within the first month of the season.

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1. GLASGOW (Weak reserve pairing but the top 5 is brilliant, Expect Boughen to kick on riding at No.2 with Harris at No.1)

2. POOLE (Assuming they sign Cairns when eligible to ride)

3. REDCAR (Brilliant top 5 see's them comfortably finish in the top 4 imo)

4. OXFORD (Based on Nicholls signing once he's recovered from surgery)

5. WORKINGTON (Young team with lots of improvement in them imo)

6. SCUNTHORPE (Strong Home Form will see them finish in mid-table imo)

7. BERWICK (Schlein will be going through the motions and if the replacement is Nick Morris then he might take a while to get going)

8. EDINBURGH (Sedgmen and Castagna at No.1 & No.5 isn't going to cut it in 2025 imo)

9. PLYMOUTH (They won't pose a threat to anyone in 2025 no matter who the final signings are imo)

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11 hours ago, StarBoy said:

League predictions for 2025 season

1. Glasgow Tigers

2. Poole Pirates

3. Redcar Bears

4. Workington Comets

5. Scunthorpe Scorpions

6. Berwick Bandits

7. Oxford Cheetahs 

8. Edinburgh Monarchs

9. Plymouth Gladiators 

Semi-final 1 Winner: Glasgow Tigers

Semi-final 2 Winner: Poole Pirates

Grand-final Winner: Glasgow Tigers

Swap the comets with the scorpions,any thing can happen come finals

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Redcar have the strongest top 3 in the league followed by Glasgow and then Poole 

Redcar though don’t have a heatleader who is going to improve …. Glasgow have Thompson and Poole possibly have Zach Cook

Redcar and Glasgow have strengthened and Poole haven’t and are weaker only because they lost 2 top riders 

Therefore I’m going Glasgow and Redcar final 

 

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1 hour ago, Gavan said:

Redcar have the strongest top 3 in the league followed by Glasgow and then Poole 

Redcar though don’t have a heatleader who is going to improve …. Glasgow have Thompson and Poole possibly have Zach Cook

Redcar and Glasgow have strengthened and Poole haven’t and are weaker only because they lost 2 top riders 

Therefore I’m going Glasgow and Redcar final 

 

It would have been very difficult for Glasgow not to strengthen!

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5 hours ago, arnieg said:

That's unlikely to fit within the points limit. As poorer scores drop off Masters, Jenkins and Killeen are likely to see their averages rise, and McDiarmid's can't go down. Therefore Oxford will be over 40 and there won't be enough headroom to make your suggested change unless it happens within the first month of the season.

Nicholls 8.53

Scott 2.00 total 10.53 


 Heeps 6.37

Knudsen 4.97 total 11.34

 

would need a near 1pt drop in averages for that not to happen.

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1 minute ago, PTW said:

Nicholls 8.53

Scott 2.00 total 10.53 


 Heeps 6.37

Knudsen 4.97 total 11.34

 

would need a near 1pt drop in averages for that not to happen.

To make those 2 changes you'd have redeclare the team at 40 or under, it's more a case of will the other 5 push their averages up enough where it won't fit

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1 hour ago, PTW said:

Nicholls 8.53

Scott 2.00 total 10.53 


 Heeps 6.37

Knudsen 4.97 total 11.34

 

would need a near 1pt drop in averages for that not to happen.

 

1 hour ago, MB723 said:

To make those 2 changes you'd have redeclare the team at 40 or under, it's more a case of will the other 5 push their averages up enough where it won't fit

MB723 is correct, if Killeen, Jenkins, Masters improve their averages as expected, will be tough to fit Nicholls back in.

I'm not saying it won't happen, but it's not a foregone conclusion that it will happen.

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