MD

If you re-read i posted hadnt done too well at Glasgow previously, as he admitted today when interviewed. Sometimes you can just tell beforehand its going to be a challenge. Sometimes you also need a good kicking to expose your weaknesses. I'll disagree with Gazc and say 75% of today was self inflicted by Glasgow. Harris blowing his machine into bits in ht1 is misfortune, the rest is questionable. Being allowed ht15 on a failing machine is poor team mgt. Worrall having an EF and exclusion in his first heat is unforgiveable, as is continuing to ride a moped incapable of scoring points. He and Harris between them scored 6 points. Being consistently outgated at home is pathetic. On the rare occasion Glasgow riders came out ahead from bend 2 , Worky settled where they were, Proctor apart. Thank goodness for Lewis Kerr. From a team management point of view, why was Starke allowed to ride when he was physically incapable of finishing 4 laps. Finally, congrats to Bewley on breaking the track record, we've been waiting for a performance like that since March 2017.

Depends which Bewley turns up. With BV racing at home to Swindon tomorrow his focus might be elsewhere. BWD has never gone well at Glasgow previously and Bickley is still pretty raw. With Proctor in good form and the return of Bach, too many variables to call this one. There is also racing on a Sunday afternoon where the track is significantly different to a Friday night.

Learning point for PB, dont prepare a super bare slick track when Worky are the visitors, thats like a home meeting for them. Edit - just seen PB's fixture list. Get the track knee deep for Sunday, a bit of home track advantage can only be good.

Superb talent but has to be careful of developing into a one trick pony. Away from BV he doesnt create many headlines, in either league. His BV form should be easily transferable to Polish tracks of similar size.

Classic Bewley, rides like a GP star at Belle Vue then returns to his Championship club and rides like a novice. Prepare to be frustrated.

I know, he should never have been allowed on track with the wrong colour but surely as a basic Sarjeant knows what gate he is going off when he departs the pits. Might be worth keeping some emergency helmet covers at the tapes in future!

Shambolic. Sarjeant should get a fine for that. It was him who came out in the wrong helmet colour then tried to share the same gate as JT. Not for the first time communication between referee and start marshall was non existent which added to the chaos, something we still havent solved after many years. On a side note Sarjeant looked much more confident in the heat he appeared on a Worrall bike though has a frustrating habit of shaving off his speed coming out of turn four by over straightening rather than let the bike naturally run round.

That was a decent meeting which Glasgow made heavy weather of in the opening 5 or 6 heats. Howarth would definitely have made it interesting! Charles Wright was superb and Bjerre started well but faded. Kurtz and Graversen were as they usually are. Hopefully Starke isnt injured, he got upended by Jack Smith, who frustratingly looked a different rider from last year when he couldnt get a third with half a lap start.

Shanes was up last year guesting for us. Looked a bit raw but definite prospect. Be interesting to see if Jack Smith has become more competent on small tracks. Lokking forward to this one.

Looks like another blinder from Doolan. Maybe Summers is working his ticket away from No1.

Or was it due to having another extensive regrade after ht10 that yet again worked against us. We were in complete control up to that point but in heats 11 - 15 the score was 11-19. That would have finished us off against decent opposition, as it did on several occasions in 2017.

Worrall was pretty slow all afternoon, couldnt make a gate and almost got reeled in by Pickering in one heat. Track was totally different to what it would be on a Friday night but im not excusing him. Wells was actually ok, just a difficult ht13. Couple of decent races, ht14 being the pick as Vissing went from last to first to take it on the line from Riss M. Ht4 was from an 0131 perspective as Pickering passed Harris then Sarjeant on the last turn for a rather embarrassing 1-5. It'll now be a whole 5 weeks until we see Edinburgh again. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Bring on Sheffield a week on Friday.

In the same vein we should be working towards going back to EDI asap for the Scottish Cup rain off whether its r/r for Harris or not. Pointless to drag it out. Similarly Worky home and away, this has been a problematic fixture over recent seasons. Get them agreed and out the way before the proper league business begins.

The weather forecast isnt looking too hot for this one. We need to be on it right from the start and expect EDI to be gunning for an away win. Williamson rides Ashfield very well and Ruml has already had a run out there. Pickering has had his moments previously though Jye Andersson may find the going difficult.

And its Edinburgh home and away again at the end of May in the Knock Out Cup. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Several weeks of rain offs, poor weather and another set of Glasgow Edinburgh meetings not in the league. Yip!

Surely Glasgow will fill one of these blank fixtures with the recent rain off.

Bit of a tick the box exercise on a bitterly cold night. Doolan, Howe and Gappmaier were in amongst the points. Summers was pretty poor for a former rider and Sarjeant sat still at the tapes all night. Time for some warmer weather!

Good point, speedway never ever learns from this. However there are plenty of blank fixtures throughout the season to slot these fixtures in though I bet some clubs will still end up running double headers towards the end of the season!

Thought Proctor now had a British passport. Wasnt that why he sat out coming here 2 or 3 years ago?

Tough looking meeting coming up. Worky will revel in the super slick track that will be prepared due to the incessant rain. The Aussie whiner at reserve will almost certainly get 7 rides. Worrall should have himself sorted out after a woeful first meeting and be good to finally see Bomber.

He has a point. The forecast has been atrocious all week and even predicted snow at one point.

Indeed, thought it was telling no one picked up Perry until an NL rider was unable to take their place.

With SD having gone, we have lost many years of experience and speedway nuance with it, that wont replace itself overnight. The Facennas will have harvested some knowledge during the last few years but not everything. Do we have the ability to see through the chancers e.g. Barker, do we have a good enough knowledge of the rules to crunch the numbers on a team change at the next set of averages, do we have the contacts to seek out new riders if injuries happen, who is going to kick arses when riders dont push themselves? Time will tell. There has clearly been a fall out somewhere along the line though hopefully the door has been left open for SD to return. Its only after someone has left you fully realise the contribution they made.

First impressions of reading a tersely worded statement like that are ousted. Minimal information, succint and to the point. Health issues would perhaps be indicated by stepping down temporarily. SD is a tiger through and through and regardless of the circumstances deserves our absolute thanks.