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Sounds like a team change coming up. Wonder if the wee Hungarian has agreed dates.

If we get through over the 2 legs we will meet the 0131 in the next round. It may be prudent to make our home leg the Sky meeting on Wednesday 29th June which would make it more of an occasion. We are at Armadale on the Friday before this for a PL meeting. If this could also be changed to the KOC meeting then it would be much more of a spectacle for the cameras with the overall winner progressing to the next round.

Laying the groundwork there i think. Perhaps dates cant be agreed with Tabaka yet.

Berwick told Garcia they werent bringing him back for 2016 rather than let him just sign for someone else. He has had a lot of help at GLA which has accelerated his progress which may not have been foreseen at Shielfield.

Track was superb, wish it could be this way every week.

If there is a track he could do with a bit of practice on its Glasgow. Seems Bridger and Newman must have had van loading issues as well.

He's withdrawn from the British semi at GLA.

Was Clegg injured last night?

Absolutely true, no excuse intended or inferred.

The other end of Ayres, Garcia and Lunna are inexperienced riders who are finding their way. The top 4 are experienced riders who have to make the bulk of the points and like you say if one isnt at the races the whole team suffers. Last Sunday I listened to the TM's pre-match interview where he said we were going to these two matches looking for points such was the confidence in the team. Talk like that creates expectation but the cold reality is that we may not be as good as the hype suggests, at this moment in time anyway.

First major challenge on the road and ........ At least we seemed competitive until the last third. Its all very well thumping teams at home on a ploughed furrow but the measure of genuine title contenders is how they perform away from home. Both matches have seen the home side afford their second strings ht15 outings which is telling. Hard matches for Glasgow where we were least likely to get any points but a reality check that they need to do more than just turn up to be competitive.

That's my point

Track was slick according to Stewart Dickson on the Glasgow website.

Not if Etheridge decides he has had enough and moves on of his own accord. He is highly unlikely to get a move to reserve and being in the main body must be soul destroying.

Add in that Etheridge will likely have departed by then and it could be that bit harder.

Track slick by any chance?

A good night for Berge but a pretty poor one for GLA. Only those there will know if Sheffield were that good or Glasgow helped them look good but if your 1 & 5 arent at the races its nigh on impossible to get a result.

Summers criticising it wouldnt suggest that. Im not interested in the mechanics of how it happens but having it the same each week would be good, like it was against Peterborough, plenty of passing from the back. Prior to signing for us had never shown any pedigree for Ashfield other than 1 meeting with EDI which was a good few years ago which I based my opinion on. Im happy to have been proved wrong.

Interesting that Summers made reference to the "track being a bit iffy" at the start in his after match comments. Once again it was excruciatingly deep on the corners for no explicable reason. It was a reasonable week weather wise and not fearing anyone we dont need to adopt a mentality of preparing the track the opposite from what the visiting team are used to. Whilst the opposition were rotten, most couldnt turn the bike properly in their opening rides and a re-grade was requested after a couple of heats. Ht2 was dreadful to watch as Holub had to drive the bike round the corners. The previous week against PB the track had half the amount of dirt but had some decent racing despite the scoreline and thats what i pay to see. Continually preparing the track the way it was on Sunday makes it a poor viewing spectacle when we are trying to grow crowds and wont help us when he head down south to slicker tracks and find our riders particularly the lower order arent getting points because they arent used to it.

Sedgmen or Nick Morris would.

Scunthorpe are woefully understrength at 34 points and thats not the riders fault. Matches like this skew riders averages particularly the middle and lower order guys who wouldnt normally hit these scores.

One of the MC was presiding over it today.

That was as pi55 as poor gets, not helped by an overly deep track that Scunny couldnt turn their bikes on in the opening heats. With their entire team averaging 34 points it was never going to be close but this was dreadful and only memorable for Carl Wilkinson packing up on a TR for the second year in a row.

Scunthorpe are rarely decent visitors to Ashfield and dont see anything other than a resounding home win. Hopefully Carl Wilkinson turns up with a second bike having last year left the venue after his second ride when his engine blew on a TR.

Looks like ht2 cost Glasgow gifting Clegg and Blakelock their only points of the meeting. Humped would be 30 points not 3. That's the way it goes. Onwards to Scunny at the Stade D'Ashfield Peugeot on Sunday.