MD

Try Fernando Garcia or Simon Nielsen for Gappmaier.

? I think he also might have been the ref when Sarjeant came down on the inner third of turn one and he allowed the race to continue round him a lap later before then putting the red lights on.

Classic Dishington, hopelessly inconsistent, pulls some starts back but not others. Warns riders for jumping but doesnt follow it through with an exclusion when they do it again later in the meeting. At the beginning of last season he was unaware of the new 2 minute rule after a false start with some heats taking an age to come back to the tales. Astounding he is still taking charge of meetings.

Be fair to Berwick though, Workington were absolutely pathetic. They looked amateur in the opening heats with bikes not running and steel shoes missing.

Why would that be?

Ahem, 2011! 2012 wasnt really a season to remember, may even have been the O'Malley year.

Scathing towards the Edinburgh directors and on a single issue is perhaps more realistic.

The problem is not enough or not good enough UK riders to fill each PL team slot. An alternative is not to employ foreign riders, entirely possible from Friday! Another alternative is to only allow NL guests for absent riders like it was in 2014 which devalues the product for the customer. There is no getting away from the guest system but agree its the sheer volume of them thats unsatisfactory.

Excuses in early two days in a row. Chessell strengthens the 0131 at reserve.

It does seem premature, and with Victor due 7 rides as well. 2+2= rain off!

Too many riders missing to make it meaningful so been put back to later in season.

Max Tully

Thats not the best situation to go into a meeting with the dark side, hopefully we can get a practice in between now and then. I also wonder if it will be Lunna's first meeting back after 3 weeks out which isnt ideal. Nothing less than 100% will do!

The track was actually fine, not sure why the tractors were out so often.

Wethers was dreadful, broke down coming out of the pits for his first ride and never recovered. Jorgensen had plenty speed but was selective when he used it. Doolan and Pijper were decent and Carr started well but faded. A decent debut for Bach in not the best meeting that had too many track grades to have any momentum.

Why? Lawson is a quiet guy who just goes about his business.

Disappointed Glasgow never got a point tonight having been ahead earlier in the meeting. Superb return from Howarth less so some others. Wonder if Danny has picked up an injury having gone well but not appearing after ht9.

We have no idea what the track decision maker thought, hence so much debate on here since. On the other hand the weather predicted for Sunday was known days in advance but not reflected in the track.

It wasnt fit for purpose, the temperature is irrelevant.

So why prepare it like it was, the hot weather was known about having been forecast since the previous Monday.

Fair point Did you honestly get any enjoyment from yesterday? If home track advantage means what we got yesterday whats the point. Im still lost as to what we feared from Plymouth we had to do that to the track, like you said in a previous post Kurtz, Simota and Perks are poor. It must have taken days rather than hours to pack in. Maybe the team manager isnt so confident in his riders or he may be under pressure to win whatever the cost or there may be another reason we are not aware of. Whatever it is I cant go it like that much more. We will have to wait and see what Sunday brings.

Its very clear we are, a tactic we used to resort to during the 2000's when we had weaker teams and there was a sniff of an away win. Too often it backfired catching out our riders more so than the opposition. The season we asked Trent to step up to cover for the injured Parker springs to mind. The home boys should go in to their opening heat in full knowledge and agreement as to how the track has been set up, not as yesterday where they had a team meeting after four heats to discuss how the f**k they were going to ride it. The track is different one week to the next, this negates so called home track advantage and does nothing for the confidence of our lower order who IMO want to race rather than ride.

That obviously justifies the track the way it was as i was bored out of my skull for the next 9 heats. Yesterday flies in the face of Glasgows growing reputation of doing things right. The marketing strategy is superb but yesterday there was more entertainment off track than on, and that is within our control to change.

A well prepared track is within Glasgow's control. If they had half the amount of dirt down it wouldnt exactly have been described as slick. I made it to the track in time to hear the team managers interview that he prepared a heavy track last week to unsettle Newcastles less experienced riders. WTF, thats so defensive, prepare it positively the way the home riders want and you'll get more out of them. An attitude like that doesnt suggest he has a high degree of confidence in his riders. If last week was a heavy track this week was far worse. Lawson and Perks gave up on the third lap of their opening heats, Garcia went sideways along the first third of the home straight in ht2 and Lunna twice came to grief exiting the fourth bend. I dont pay to see riders hobbling around looking like amateurs on a dirt track and question the mentality that has more than once this season made the track this way, when we have had nothing to fear from the visiting team. Summers was out during the meeting directing the tractors during a regrade and Worrall has openly criticised it in the post match interview, so why does it keep being prepped so deep? There was zero entertainment today other than Barker in ht10 and to a lesser extent Nielsen in ht 13. Id be embarrassed if we presented todays track to Sky at the end of the month.

A wiser team manager in the away side would have asked for a track inspection and demanded it be bladed especially the fourth bend where it was dry on the surface but sodden underneath.