MATCH DAY UPDATE: GLASGOW TIGERS v POOLE PIRATES | MaxiCab KO Cup Semi Final 2nd Leg

Both sides are forced into changes tonight, with Villads Nagel injured in Poland at the weekend and Richard Lawson ruled out with a back injury.

As the high pressure weather band changes the British weather once again, the Poole 'Wessex Marine' Pirates face a high pressure MaxiCab Knockout Cup semi-final second leg at Glasgow on Tuesday (23rd September 7.30pm).

Holding a fourteen point advantage, built effectively over the last seven heats of the August-staged first leg, when they turned around a two-point deficit. 

Progression to the the final may for Poole is dependent on them scoring 39 race points. The last time they failed to achieve that score in an away KO cup tie was in 2019 when,  as a top flight side they lost 38-52 at Ipswich.  Should that be the case against a full-strength Glasgow side on Tuesdays then it would force a super-heat to determine the outcome!

Poole promoter Dan Ford is not putting any extra pressure on his side, simply stating "there is a high level of confidence in our team and individually the riders know that they have the ability to get out there and take the meeting to Glasgow. The first leg advantage is a cushion but the plan will be to keep the Tigers in check and make it hard for them to eat into their deficit."

Teams
Glasgow (TM Cameron Brown) 1 Chris Harris 2  Michael Palm-Toft (Guest for Villads Nagel) 3 Dan Thompson 4 Leon Flint 5 Kyle Howarth 6 Max Perry 7 Freddy Hodder 
Poole (TM Gary Havelock) 1 Jonas Jeppesen (Guest for Richard Lawson) 2 Tobias Thomsen 3 Lewis Kerr 4 Zach Cook 5 Anders Rowe 6 Paul Starke 7 William Cairns