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Newcastle Diamonds v Isle of Wight Islanders
Premier League, 24 July 2005
Brough Park Stadium, Newcastle
| 1 | Josef Franc | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1* | . | . | 10 | 1 |
| 2 | Lubos Tomicek | 1 | 2* | 2 | 0 | . | . | . | 5 | 1 |
| 3 | Richard Juul | 1 | 1* | 1 | R | . | . | . | 3 | 1 |
| 4 | Phil Morris | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | . | . | . | 8 | 0 |
| 5 | James Grieves | 3 | 2* | 3 | 3 | 2 | . | . | 13 | 1 |
| 6 | Christian Henry | 2* | 3 | 2* | 2* | . | . | . | 9 | 3 |
| 7 | Jamie Robertson | 3 | 2* | 1* | 2 | . | . | . | 8 | 2 |
| 1 | Craig Boyce | 2 | 3 | 2^ | 2 | 3 | . | . | 12 | 0 |
| 2 | Steen Jensen | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | . | . | . | 3 | 0 |
| 3 | Krister Marsh | 2* | 0 | 1 | 3 | . | . | . | 6 | 1 |
| 4 | Ulrich Ostergaard | 3 | 2^ | 3 | 0 | 0 | . | . | 8 | 0 |
| 5 | Tomas Suchanek | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | 1 | 0 |
| 6 | Jason Doyle | R | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2! | . | . | 6 | 0 |
| 7 | Glen Phillips | R | 0 | 0 | . | . | . | . | 0 | 0 |
* = BP. ^ = TR . ! = TS (15m Handicap). # = TR (Points Not Doubled). & = TS (Points Not Doubled, 15m Handicap).
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Both sides went into this match at full strength. It turned out to be a comfortable win for Newcastle as the Isle of Wight moved across country after their match at Workington last night. Josef Franc won the opening heat in a very fast time to get the Diamonds off to a 4-2 winning start. Then they were gifted a 5-0 when Jason Doyle and Glenn Phillips both suffered engine failures in heat 2. The Islanders struck back with a 1-5 from Ulrich Ostergaard and Krister Marsh ahead of Richard Juul in heat 3 but James Grieves and Jaimie Robertson replied in kind with a Newcastle 5-1 in heat 4 which brought the score to 15-8. Craig Boyce won heat 5 to share the points but Newcastle scored a 5-1 in heat 6 from Franc and Tomicek against the weak Suchanek plus reserve pairing (in this case Doyle) to stretch the home side’s lead to 23-12.In heat 7 Ulrich Ostergaard was nominated for a TR but he finished third behind Christian Henry and James Grieves for a 5-2 to put the Diamonds into the comfort zone. In heat 8 Steen Jensen who had run two lasts up till then suddenly burst into life by winning the race for a shared heat which took the score after 8 races to 31-17. In heats 9 and 10 the teams exchanged 4-2s. For Newcastle Morris and Juul were split by Jason Doyle in heat 9 and in heat 10 Ostergaard beat Josef Franc with Marsh third. In heat 11 the Isle of Wight nominated Craig Boyce for a TR but he fared no better than Ostergaard had done in heat 7 finishing behind the same pair of James Grieves and Christian Henry. The 5-2 put Newcastle 17 points ahead but the Islanders pulled two points back in heat 12 when Krister Marsh beat Jaimie Robertson after Richard Juul had retired for a 2-4 to move the heat 12 score to 44-29. Heat 13 produced a Newcastle 4-2 with James Grieves beating Craig Boyce then, in a last throw of the dice and aware of the value of the bonus point, Jason Doyle was given a tactical Substitute ride from 15 metres back. With Morris and Henry (who completed a paid maximum) winning the race this produced an extra point in a 5-2 win for Newcastle with 20 points between the teams going into the last heat. Craig Boyce ruined James Grieves paid maximum hopes by winning heat 15 for a shared heat to leave the Islanders needing to pull back a 20 point deficit on the Island for the bonus point. Match Report by Merlin |