TheScotsman

Sam Masters has ridden in Poland a fair amount this season. And Sweden/Denmark and nigh on everywhere else that does speedway. I think he was reckoning on over 140 meetings this season but for his injury. Don't think he missed any Monarchs meetings apart from injury. (Unless there were GP Qualifiers/World Cup meetings which I can't remember clashing with Monarchs fixtures but haven't checked.)

Lot of comments on the Sheffo twitter feed last night about the difficult track etc. What was it actually like?

You expecting a 50 point limit?

I've always felt that the tractor that parks alongside the back straight is in a very dangerous place. If a rider loses it coming out of turn 2 and heads towards the centre green it could have dire consequences. Having said that, unless they change the grading gear I assume the tractor couldn't be parked on the car track with the breakdown trucks.

Big congratulations to sheffo - well deserved after a great season. Hard luck ippo.

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Sounds like it was a racist attack.

Anyone would think ippo haven't used any guests this season.

Deary me.

But you only scraped it by 10 against us when we were missing Mark Riss.

But as pointed out earlier, the Campton was a home guest twice in 5 days. So much for Bluster's drive for total transparency.

I missed that. Deary me that sums our speedway up. You can't use a rider from another play-off team as a guest but a rider outside the play-off teams can guest in every play-off match for a different team.

You would hope there's a rule to stop a rider guesting for more than 1 team in the play-offs. Buy hey this is UK speedway so who knows. Surprisingly few riders eligible to stand in at Mountain's average.

Riders need to believe. I think fans will maybe have to settle for hope.

Lucky for you (and them).

What points limit are you using?

But the gruesome twosome tried to sack him.

Well said. Scott & Graham put on a fantastic show every week before and after the matches. They have a superb chatty style and so get really good relaxed interviews from the riders both home and away ones. We look forward to watching them every week and hopefully the same next season. I met both of them down at Ippo over the past couple of Monarchs visits and they are great guys.

Oh well t'was not meant to be. Well done ippo. Shows what a miss mark was last night.

Reverse psychology? You guys are just beginners at it - we've been doing it for years!!

Mark Riss was a big miss for our guys. The r/r only yielded 2+1 from 4 and that was from the monsoon running of heat 7 when Rooboy didn't fancy it. But big bro Mark is back tinight!! So Game On!!

I assumed it was indeed because of the weather threat and therefore they wanted the stronger riders used before heat 10.

Weegies TM is a tactical genius.

Gawd help anyone that flies Ryanair!! They're on easyjet fortunately.

Scotchopper's flight from Edinburgh keeps on being delayed - still not taken off yet (was due in at Stansted at 3.45). Can you get them to delay the first race by more than the usual 15 minutes in case we're not there yet?