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Is that what the bikes are running on?

10 points required then.

65 or more for Somerset.

R/R instead of Rusty for tiggers tonight. Unfortunately Victor can't take one of his rides but anyone else can.

Or Ippo for that matter!!

Oh dear - not good at all.

Nice to see Sam get some recognition.

Only the semi final is on Sunday. He may possibly have been signed as insurance against injury.

Saving him for the play-off final. (He has a higher priority commitment in Glasgow this Sunday anyway!)

Too harsh. Smokin Joe Tabaka averaged 6 last season and would have been a heat leader this year had he not been wiped out by Morris in the play-off final and suffering an horrendously badly broken leg. Toby Busch only had a few meetings and was getting on fine but ran out of matches. Dilger I will give you!! However you are ignoring the difficulty Monarchs and Glasgow have in getting anyone to travel that far north for home matches. There are a few who won't even travel up there for away matches!! So both teams have no choice other than to look abroad and take the chance. Sometimes it pays off. Sometimes it doesn't.

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Rollin rollin rollin.

I've been wondering that too. I assume it's for his sponsors.

Apart from the Palovaara debate, this was a good close match with the result always in doubt. Glasgow started like an express train and 6 up after 4 heats and again after 9 heats was fair reward. Pijper blitzed heat 1 as did Ellis in heat 2. In fact Ellis rode well throughout and was very at home on the bigger track. Might be the first meeting I've seen him in when he hasn't fallen at least once! He rode very well to beat Ostergaard in heat 4 - the only rider to do so in 9 attempts. Pijper also rode well to beat Dryml. Wolbert was never a threat to the home heat leaders and even lost to Dilger in his last ride!! Aarnio looked useful and looks to be getting back on the pace. Harrison was a bit of a handful and had a good win over Dryml before taking a nasty tumble in his last ride trying to move up from the back. He went into turn 2 far too fast and paid the penalty. Seemed to crack his head hard on the track so it was a relief to see him up and walking back after a while. The ref was seriously late late in getting the red lights on after the crash - the riders were past the start line before they came on. Lykke Nielsen was pretty impressive - certainly gated better than when I saw him for Rye. He and Ellis showed what reserves should be doing - 15+3 from 9 versus 4 from 10. For Panthers, Bjerre recovered after a slow first race to be unbeaten by an opponent in his next 4, including 2 big 5-1s with Ostergaard in 13 & 15. Dryml rode well to only drop a couple of points - such a supreme stylist! Roynon was very erratic. 2 self inflicted falls and a good heat win and a second plus a last. Needs to settle down a bit. Ostergaard was majestic. A surprising defeat to Ellis and then vroom for the rest of the night. Probably didn't gate first at all but so spectacular round the boards. Dilger tried hard, gated then lost position, until his last 2 rides - a good finish ahead of Wolbert in heat 12 to reduce the deficit to 4, and then a very good second ahead of Ellis in heat 14 to avoid the deficit opening up to 4, after Roynon had binned it whilst third. Barrett - words fail me!! Glasgow were certainly faster out of the gate most of the evening and may feel hard done by not to have got a draw. R/R for Hall mustered only 4 from the number 2 position so maybe no improvement on what Hall might have scored. It's grim when you are giving r/r rides to Dilger and Barrett!! Lovely fresh batch of chips from the catering van plus programmes available this time plus the lighting seemed better in the stand. Just need the riders to talk more slowly when being interviewed on the mic!! Not sure how Panthers are going to occupy themselves after Sunday given the League Cup final against Monarchs is was down on their priorities.

Good response - much appreciated!!

I know Palovaara gets a huge amount of stick on the BSF as do the Glasgow management for signing him, but.................. ..... he did score 10 in the World U21 Qualifier at Leicester in May - http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/13312/world-qualifying-round-leicester-30pm This included wins over Gino Manzares, the highly rated Eduard Krcmar and against Max Fricke in the run-off. So based on that he should have been a decent signing. To be honest he didn't look that bad last night. Wasn't gating but was keeping up. Maybe it's his equipment that's not up to it over here - is it still borrowed stuff?

60+ for Ippo. I assume there are no joker rides available?

I really don't see your logic here. According to my watch heat 13 was called at pretty much 10 o'clock. Panthers had virtually nothing to gain by running the race, being only 2 points up at the time - a 5-0 was so very improbable. More probable was that they might suffer a heat loss resulting in a draw or home defeat. So why would they have pushed to race it?????? Anyway back to the racing, it was a good close entertaining meeting. The racing wasn't always close but Ostergaard is worth double the admission cost on his own. His rides round the boards are as scary as hell!! Angle the bike at 45 degrees and ride round the bottom of the fence!!! 8 wins in a row including the Glasgow match. Dryml was also outstanding until his tangle with Campton in heat 9. He did move over a little after a good gate from 3 but it was compounded by Roynon moving out a touch from 1, so Campton was the meat in a nasty sandwich. He did extremely well to get off the back before the bike wrecked itself and the bouncy castle. Thought he were going to get some handbags when Dryml went over to check on him but there were only words! It certainly seemed to energise Campton who comfortably won the rerun and beat Bjerre in the following race, having only beaten Dilger in his previous two. Dryml went the other way and after reeling off 3 straight wins by heat 8, he lost out to Compton and then to Jacobs. Bjerre was a bit patchy losing to Wells and Campton before the good 5-1 with Ostergaard in heat 13. Roynon wasn't great to be honest. Part of a good 5-1 over Bach in heat 3 but only finished ahead of Jacobs apart from that. I agree he does seem to be over-riding too much. He might score more points and keep safer if he reined it in a bit. Not much to say about the reserves - outscored 11 to 5. Both tried hard but don't look likely to score enough, though Barrett did manage to keep Bach behind him in heat 12 to keep Panthers 2 point lead. Fow Worky, Grajczonek & Bach disappointed. 9 points between them from 8 rides. Wells was a threat when he gated but that was mainly in heat 1 against Bjerre. Jacobs rode well and obviously had a point to prove. He gated well throughout which was important when it slicked up (unless you were Ostergaard!!). Lambert wasn't really a threat all evening. I agree there was too much time wasted though there would have been time for all 15 had it not been for Campton's off. Oh - r/r for Hall mustered 3 points (Dryml's win in heat 8) and for Howarth mustered 7+1!!

Terrified me all night!!

Potential? I missed that. Didn't Pavlova do well in the U21 qualifier?

Berwick seem to have blown up. Started to believe the hype? Haven't now got the high scoring reserve to bail them out.

Dunno about that, Barrett is double rank rotten.

I'd fancy Sneddon & Fox to clean up against these Panthers reserves even at the showground. Barrett was even worse than last week. Dilger tries and gates not too badly, he just gets outmuscled and his style is against him - hunched over the bars. Not confident they'll score much against Jacobs & Lambert but you never know.

But if Barrett rides like he did against Scunny everyone will wipe the floor with him. He might have had a chance against Pavlova but won't race him!! .

Apart from the reserves brought up from the NL to save costs.