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Is that as an alternative to waiting in an NHS queue and not being fit for March?

Just shy of 30 miles apparently.

How many times will he tell you the new engines are coming!

Wolbert now needs a victim club for 2017 to drop 2 points from his average and confirm his return to the Dale the following season.

Great potential is the key. Last year that came from Worrall and Bach who were arguably our best and most consistent pairing, and offered good value on their starting averages.

Thats an understatement. Whoever we sign as No3 in the averages will determine how long our tail will be.

An absolute trier capable of improving but now seems saddled with a 5 point average representing a waste of a point on his actual average. Needs a period of recuperation to get over his injuries and reinvest in equipment. Be good if he got a team place sorted, particularly Berwick as he generally goes well there.

Will be superb though i wonder why placing it over the old tote board on bend 3 wouldnt be a better option.

Sounds a good move to a Saturday. Im sure the owners will have undertaken a sensitivity analysis and worked out it benefits more people than it inconveniences. It will clash with Braehead Clan but only really in September & October. The Clan dont always play on a Saturday at home anyway, I've already been to a Friday match and they do have periods on the road when arena is being used for something else on a Saturday. Public transport wont be an issue for the train anyway, the service remains every half hour from Queen Street and back on a Saturday with the last train from Ashfield at 23.34. I think we are getting a bit desparate quoting riders travel departure times. By moving to a Saturday we are hopefully increasing the number and scope of riders potentially available to sign. However the biggest hurdle may be getting it voted through the AGM. Wonder how our near neighbours would vote!

Superb meeting once it got going after ht2. Lambert was excellent as he couldnt gate and had to work his way through traffic, made all the more spectacular under floodlights. For once the outperforming guest reserve was on the home side and he didnt disappoint. Thought it was poor of Michael Max asking each rider if they wanted to return. Bach was clearly uncomfortable and may not want to return for a full season but prefer to do as this year and return to the UK in May/June. It is obvious that each of the top four cannot return anyway and putting each rider on the spot like that was unfair IMO.

From the city centre the easiest option might be by train from Glasgow Queen Street to Ashfield which only takes 5 minutes and is a further 5 mins walk from there to the stadium. Looks like the service is half hourly in and back. The buses from the city centre dont run past Ashfield as far as I know, you would have a fair walk from Saracen Street to the stadium on FirstBus No75. If you dont know where you are going its not an area you would really want to get lost in.

Why not, we have become accustomed to outperforming guest reserves in the visiting corner.

But an advantage at Ashfield if r/r.

We were starting to slide but the previous home defeat to Somerset when we tried to manipulate the track has shattered us. Self destruction! We were immense at Sheffield IMO to keep it close in the first leg and should have finished it off at home but the confidence in the lower order isnt there. Best wishes to Sheffield.

Jim Lawrence

On another night we could have made it closer. Lunna snapped a chain on a Glasgow 5-1 to make it a 3-3. Ht8 Auty never made the 2 mins but wasnt excluded and ht11 Sissis did a circuit back to the pits for no reason when the 2 mins had expired when all 4 riders were sitting at the tapes, again no exclusion. Starting to wonder if MacGregor has been spoiling us. Eight points should be good enough, job done for the GLA Tigers to keep it less than 10 and a decent night's entertainment in South Yorks.

And the point of posting at all was .......

Please post the link that confirms this.

Give me an example from 2016 that would back up your comments.

And the BSPA still wont realise the problem and amend next years calendar to address it.

Guests bring a lottery element to fixtures as we have found out with Somerset recently. Difficult to call this one. With a reasonable forecast for Sheffield on Wednesday night I will be travelling down. Hoping for a decent meeting and a loss of no more than 10.

Indeed, the track was awful rather than not great and the primary reason our reserves never got amongst it. Its all gone a bit flat since then. You'd have to go back to 2014 to find a meeting, never mind a play off where a thread was only started on the morning of the meeting. Hopefully common sense brings us a decent track, gives the racers confidence to pass and the fans are treated to an enthralling first leg. It feels like we are owed it after last week and i dont mean from our riders.

Confidence comes from winning at home which you then take into away meetings. Getting soundly beat at home as we were last Sunday isnt going to magically inspire an away win in the reverse fixture but doubts amongst the riders that they are good enough. This is the legacy of manipulating the track to suit nobody last Sunday where a flawed decision can have consequences on not just the result that day IMO. This Sunday the forecast isnt great meaning the track will have to be prepared conservatively to cope with heavy rain in the build up to the event. That should prevent us hitting self destruct for this week anyway.

That he's the last person that should be managing a speedway team and jumped before a push. Attending an English language course to string a coherent sentence together?

Thats it but how do you get the message across to those in charge.