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Pijper should have had a team place close to home. He will serve you well. He is used to riding under pressure having covered for an incompetent team mate and some mind boggling management decisions to change riders last season. The situation with Douglas may not be all that simple. If he comes back mid season and finds it hard to score points he may not achieve the magical 7 points.

Hard to judge from peering through the fence on Finlas Street though it did seem like the retaining wall on the fourth bend had been moved back. The track itself was all ploughed up and there was a mini bucket loader going round on the track with materials.

Hopefully the product is ready for 6 weeks today against the dark side. I took a run up today, there has been a lot of work done at Ashfield, a lot still to do and a lot of clearing up to go with it. Will the track be able to be re-laid and settle in time for racing? Last time we had major track changes in 2011 we ended up delaying the start of the season.

It was the snowy Friday evening against London I was there, great finish right at the end too. At £10 an adult, speedway can't compete with that though hopefully we can bring back families to Ashfield, they are evident at Braehead Clan and the basketball though it may need a change of race day from a Sunday.

Good post, you can't market speedway to a new audience with the way Ashfield was. I went to see Glasgow Rocks last month on a deal from Wowcher, there were no more than 350 spectators there. However the facilities were excellent and the overall experience was good. If we get all the ingredients right, decent facilities, snack bar and racing hopefully the only thing we don't have control over plays its part for this season anyway, the weather.

Fair point though longer term Westminster would take back control of immigration and could offer favourable terms to the nations of our choosing not those imposed on us, just as the Portuguese do for Brazilians, the Italians for Argentinians etc.

Vote to leave the EU in 2 years time. Nothing else can stop it.

Frede Schott got one for considerably fewer seasons. Testimonials are personal choice, support it if you agree otherwise ..... Supposedly there is one, though liberally applied by the sports' largely discredited governing body.

Average too high for a second string. Will Kozza last the season injury free? If there is any doubt about Kozza's work permit we should be looking elsewhere. Pijper would fit the bill IMO and doesn't need a work permit though he would be perfectly entitled to tell us to ram it. Rusty has already gone and seems like there will be a few PL places available for non work permit riders.

Great piece of business by the Tigers, absolute theft for a reserve.

Absolutely mental that we have paid very decent money for a very average rider who IMO is already on an inflated 7.78. We would have been better to take Pijper back on loan. Can see the best part of a point off that by October, if not more.

Pijper would do.

Don't suppose a challenge against Redcar is out of the question ?

Racing at the end of March even at the best tracks is usually pish with the weather and track being too wet/cold to think about making a pass and riders not wanting to risk it in what is essentially a challenge match. Big name opposition from the EL would have been just the ticket for the launch meeting, supposing we got a humping, it would be great to see Holder, Iversen etc rather than trundle out the same old 'bragging rights' bull that gets spouted when Edinburgh are due to visit. Supposing we beat them, I really couldn't care, just don't want to see them any more than we have to.

Friggin Spring Trophy as an opener and the Monarchs twice in 3 weeks at Ashfield. Had hoped this shyt would be canned with the re-launch of the Tigers.

Its time for Summers to consult legal advice should he be squeezed out. Potentially signing for Glasgow has taken his situation to the brink and Glasgow should support him financially in that instance.

To get that it would have to be an opening meeting against the Monarchs. Heaven forbid they might bring a reasonable number over.

Stuart Robson. Bit of justice handed out by Havvy jnr?

More like FC United of Manchester!

It is a change of ownership not change of promoters, who have been around a fair few years and know the score. I very much doubt Glasgow will be held to ransom.

Monarchs fans had stopped showing up in any numbers for 3 seasons prior to June 2010, to suggest it was because of the debacle at Armadale that month is absolute folly. The nonsense that night at Armadale finished off the remaining few, of which they are entirely justified. Trying to entice them back will be nigh on impossible, once you get out of the mode of doing something you no longer miss it, though I suspect for many it is a hardened mentality towards Glasgow than anything else.

Its been like that throughout my time watching speedway, during much of the Powderhall era, the Monarchs were notoriously poor travellers to Shawfield though were a bit better at Craighead Park. They did go through a renaissance during the early years of Armadale, packing out the fourth bend shed but that's going back a few years now. That's why I'm still astounded at the non reciprocal nature of our followers who I understand still travel through to Armadale in decent numbers. And for a gubbing. By heat 6!

Its been like that since around 2007 hence I stopped going to Armadale in 2008 and won't entertain the 'both teams need each other' crap that gets touted on here. It is however part of the general trend in speedway that fans no longer really travel to away matches, just that the Mon's started the trend!

Hopefully both the Spring Trophy and Scottish Cup are in the past now. Its a new start for us and don't want to ruin it with matches the paying fans don't want to see. Twice a season seeing the Monarchs at home is more than enough for me.

[quote name="Gazc" post="2559607" timestamp="1419712288" They might be new owners off the Club but have experienced Promoters on board assisting them in Stewart Dickson & Alan Dick and knowing both these two i would be very surprised that the proposed dealing's with Redcar haven't been done by the book. Different promoters have different books!