TheScotsman

Hmmm - Kalle let me down badly. Only 14 tonight but with 2 big fat zeroes as well.

You haven't seen this then......... http://www.edinburghmonarchs.co/emtv/player2.asp?cat=Racing_2013&id=100086 EDINBURGH 'Scotwaste' MONARCHS...49 1. Craig Cook 2,3,1¹,1,3 = 10+1 2. Max Fricke F,1,1,2 = 4 3. Theo Pijper 3,2,1¹,2,0 = 8+1 4. Jozsef Tabaka 2¹,1¹,2,2¹ = 7+3 5. Claus Vissing 2,3,0,0 = 5 6. Josh Bates (G) 0,1,3,3 = 7 7. Derek Sneddon © 3,1¹,3,1¹ = 8+2 SOMERSET 'Cases' REBELS...41 1. Jason Doyle © 3,3,2,3,2 = 13 2. Kyle Newman 1,FX,2,1¹ = 4+1 3. Josh Grajczonek 1,2,3,3 = 9 4. Alex Davies 0,0,F,1 = 1 5. Nick Morris 3,2,3,2¹,1¹ = 11+2 6. Stefan Nielsen 2,0,0,0 = 2 7. Simon Lambert 1¹,0,0,0 = 1+1 Heat 11 Vissing, Bates, Doyle, Newman Result: Bates, Doyle, Newman, Vissing (58.1) 3-3 (37-29) Bates bursts to the front and holds on manfully !! Meanwhile Vissing goes missing and goes 2nd to 4th (perfect tactics) Massive pressure from Doyle late on. What a race from the wee man. Heat 14 Tabaka, Bates, Davies, Lambert Result: Bates, Tabaka, Davies, Lambert (58) 5-1 (46-38) Great 1st turn from the Monarchs and another win for "The Master" take a bow son. Info courtesy of Edinburgh Monarchs and Monarchs Chatzone.

Just found out how to Ignore him!! Bliss!!!

Easy for Plymouth. 15 point max for Kalle!!

Is Lanham an Ippo asset? Only asking!! (He certainly was last night!!)

Mental note - don't ever expect much from Lanham again.

A fiver? Fantastic!! I was going to watch on telly but for a fiver and the best chips in the league I have now booked my ticket. Hope the Fish will have recovered.

Always felt the tractors were dangerous being so close to the back straight. Should they not be more in the middle of the centre green and farther apart?

Life's a bitch.

Well that was mostly pretty dire fare. Chips were better than against Somerset and risked a sausage - excellent!! I have to say the fish also looked superb so maybe I'll venture there in future. (Rye take note - I wouldn't feed your fish to our cat and she has been dead 3 years!!) Just sat down to eat them and that goddam anthem again - all be upstanding the man said. Sod that I've just sat down. Plenty of glares all round me. Track looked to have maybe a touch more dirt on it this week, not that it was needed much. My biggest moan - why does the commentator have to leave it till the riders are at the tapes to announce a change of riders? He did it every time. And there were 6 such changes. We can't all recognise riders from the front, especially the away ones. Far too easy for Panthers. - the Fish was entertaining as always whether it was banging off the fence on the 4th bend or having a tough dust up with Bjerre for a 2nd place or having a harum scarum battle with Barker in the last race - Blackbird looked excellent in his first 2 rides and then slid off when at the back in heat 8 and was nowhere in his last ride - strange - Dryml won 2 races and looked better than when I have seen him previously - not a strong 2nd heat leader though - Ostergaard surprised me when I totted up his score - paid 11 from 4 and I had hardly noticed him - Bjerre also looked much improved - 3 convincing wins followed by the dust up with the Fish (Barker was well away) and then stayed a bit behind the Fish in heat 15 in case Fish and Barker came to grief - Halsey did ok given that I think of him as a small track rider - Greenwood was the star of the team - such an improvement from when I saw him against Rye and particularly against Somerset. Fast, determined, hard, safe - and he talks the talk well on the mike once you have tuned into his accent!! Plymouth were a huge disappointment. And why oh why did the team manager not play the jokers sooner? To wait till you are 18 points down and use them in heats 11 & 12 seems crazy. Even though Barker had had a poor opening ride, it looked a decent shout to put him in heat 5 against Dryml & Ostergaard when 12 behind - but no. Barker duly won heat 5. It also looked a decent shout to have put Newman in heat 7 against Bjerre & Halsey when 16 behind since Newman had looked decent in his first race - but no. Newman duly finished second. - Barker got filled in badly in his first ride from gate 4 but thereafter looked much like his old self. His battles with the Fish were "interesting"!! - Benko was so bad - I have big doubts about whether Aaron Fox will get close to a 5 point average with Monarchs but I have no doubts that Benko will not get anywhere close. - Newman surprised me. The best I have seen him ride and straight after his outstanding performance for Poole on the telly the night before. 7 from his first 3 including a good win over the Fish. And then looking to get past Dryml at the end of the back straight when both him and his bike catapulted into the air. Maybe he clipped Dryml's back wheel? I don't know. Was down on the track for a long time and then in the ambulance off the track for a very long time, so a delay of at least half an hour. They waited for the county ambulance to arrive but in the end decided to go ahead with the last 4 races while they waited. Jeez it got cold. - Jensen was a big disappointment compared to the guy who shone at Ippo last week.There he scored a good 11 points and was doing wheelies on his way to the tapes. Here he seemed slow and no sign of a wheelie - mind you 4 from 5 would be the reason. - Simota - well he wasn't good a Ippo (4 from 4) but he did have a heat win. Here he managed 2 from 4 and only beat his own Ben Reade. 7.5 average? You're having a laugh!! - Super Kalle - was a mega disappointment. After blasting to 14 at Ippo, here he was down amongst the dead men all night. 6 from 6 - not even his bargain average. He looked very down on speed - made some gates but was left standing coming out of bend 2 and was having to over-ride to catch up. Nearly came a huge purler on bends 3/4 in heat 11 when Barker was on his joker. - Reade - didn't look like he should be riding at this level. Felt really sorry for Newman having to wait in the ambulance for half an hour being checked by the medics. But felt sorry too for us punters gradually freezing to death. Is it always the case that they have to wait for a county ambulance to be called before anything can continue? Is it too costly to have 2 ambulances on site? (I did see a second ambulance there the whole time but assumed it was not fully equipped.)

Nice to see some dirt on the track again! Plenty of grip!

I remember Bert Harkins used to turn up at Old Meadowbank with his speedway bike on the sidecar of his road bike!! Top man too!!

Barker was absolute mince. Rasmus was really good - a great entertainer - enjoyed his wheelies on the way to the tapes each race. Kalle was good but to be honest I expected him to pick up a couple more than the 14 he collected. The other Devils were disappointing, with Benkon & Reade not really at the races. Wells was an excellent, committed guest. Manzares looks a very good signing. Probably should have come in on a 7!! Don't know the Monarchs Yank will get to his standard. Risager & Heeps must be a big disappointment. Tungate looked good and made a good job of wiping out the tapes. Ellis would be fantastic if he stayed on the bike. Hawkins scored well - I wonder if he will make it to armadale this year?!! Just a thought - I am surprised at how much of turns 1 & 3 is not protected by the air fence. It looks a bit short. Are there regulations about how much needs to be protected? I was 2nd bend half way up the stand.

Barker did indeed turn left on Manzares coming out of bend 2 but I believe Manzares had tried to stick Barker into the fence at the same place the previous lap.

We'll need our reserves to hit 15+ to have any chance of a win.

Must be why the British team is so successful with those 2 in it.

Worky for me every time.

Does anyone get on with Barker?

Was that an outside toilet or an inside one Ben?

Panic setting in after what 3 matches?

Tartan Army rules OK!!

Overtaking at Rye House? Surely not!!

I said this on another thread a couple of weeks ago but many people didn't believe it.

You said this. And that was based on one meeting. And then they hammered you home AND away. So by that logic - you must be wooden spoon contenders. Simples.

Looks like Rye are now officially "down the toilet"!! Genuine wooden spoon contenders!!