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Looks like lady luck has deserted both Scottish clubs it's pretty frustrating when one off your top riders get's injured whilst guesting Nick Morris & now Craig Cook throw in Masters injury Berge leaving and Howe & Branford still out it is safe to say we have both had better weeks.

Now your talking reliable point scorer and we have points to play with but wouldn't be for Nick he will be back sooner rather than later we do however have ample scope with the other two places we need to fill .

The guesting situation hits the riders clubs the hardest as in Nick's case injured whilst guesting and it is Glasgow & Swindon who now suffer, I understand that riders need as many meetings as possible but surely they need to cap the number off guest bookings they take. Richard has probably guested as many times for other teams as he has ridden for us this surely cannot continue in this vein. I would doubt either would end up at Ashfield Barrett is to hot & cold and after seeing Hawkins a couple off weeks ago i am glad he gets a nose bleed when he crosses the border as he was dire.

Have faith Dorothy I am sure Jose will pull a rabbit or 2 out the hat i have no doubt .

Team being decimated at an alarming rate Kozza injured out for season Replaced by it appears a less than fit David Howe who i would be surprised if we see again Nick Injured whilst guesting for Somerset out for a few weeks apparently Dimitri leaves stating loss of confidence I would imagine Stewart's phone will be red hot in sourcing replacements for David & now Dimitri by my reckoning we will have 12.14 to replace both albeit we can use guests for Nick major headache for Jose Whoever he can muster up will need to hit the ground running or the solid start we have made could all go pete tong. Now on official site to be fair the past few weeks if Dimitri didn't gate he really didn't look like he had the confidence to pass when he gated he was very quick virtually impossible to replace him though on the average he is on with a rider that could get even close to the ability he has. Remember that he is very young and had a really serious injury last year seems a very shy young man and homesickness must be a factor he will be a big miss and we are looking weaker & weaker with every passing day.

Have I missed something need to stop going on holiday for midweek meetings good result from the boy's best wishes to the injured riders.

I am sure the doctor that diagnosed his injury made it up what a silly comment to make on an injured rider.

Warming myself in warmer climes at the minute and looked in too see how things were going wished I hadn't bothered what a shambles and a complete waste off money to go and watch a 2 man team any real ambition off play offs is a long way off with this excuse tonight

And tellIing us what our team should be taking the good-will part a bit far there Rob. Stewart kindly offered to pick your team for next week can't say fairer than that.

Really enjoyed today and the witches fully deserved there point really pushed us all the way, Tungate is a real enigma though witches fans must pull there hair out with him and I won't mention Hawkins. For us everyone chipping in Nick starting really slowly but came to the party when it mattered his heat 13 was awesome stalking Tungate for 3 laps before a final bend outside swoop brilliant race. Well done to both teams and thankfully no injuries.

Exactly Rob short memories though did Glasgow not help & co-operate with Scunthorpe when you wanted Nick Morris a couple off seasons back.

probably because you never told him I would imagine

Pretty much nail on the head with that comment the continual sniping against Glasgow from one side is now laughable say's more about us that we have kept a very professional silence on the matter. Rob stabbed in the back in your view but from were we are looking we only followed the rules at our disposal all this talk of gentleman agreements is only coming from one side and to tell another team what they can & can't do is frankly unsporting. A big saying up here the last few years has been sporting integrity this in my view has shown a lack off it.

Not seen it and to be honest not that interested more than enough has been said on this subject all the allegations are coming from one side it appears and our promotion have taken the professional stance of not airing there thoughts in public await the backlash though i am sure they will not want there name tarred I'm bored with this now and have said all i need to say.

And that is how it should be to a certain extent hopefully it doesn't leave a sour taste.

So you have cleared the confusion up i understand what you are saying in the highlighted part but is it not our promotions right to protect Glasgow Speedway just the same i am not disputing what you say but i am sure we will be given an update on our promotion's view on thing's tomorrow as you have so kindly given your view on thing's it may well be the same or it may not. I have never denied it if you read my post's what i have said there is two sides to every story .

No problem Rob had asked and i told him i didn't know what was said and he kindly told me.

I have got tablets you can use for your short term memory loss my fellow bear wouldn't offer these untested black market purple tablets to anyone or you can order them from www.whatsitewasthatagain.com and you don't even need to pay me I'm using you as a guinea pig before i try them only too happy to help a fellow bear. Ah the sarcasm George your sounding more like me with every post .

Exactly us mere mortals are only second guessing Rob is more in the know than most on here i would just like to think that we wouldn't go back on an agreement if that is the case.

I read it that way as well but the point that Nagy 1 has made is it was totally down to Scunthorpe wether we spoke to David or not to then try and tell us on the makeup off our team for the Friday fixture is not there desicion to make if we chose R/R or as it turned out the guest option it is our decision to make and i don't think there is a team out there including Scunthorpe that would bow to that request. The David Howe signing is totally separate to the gripes by many on the guest scenario and should remain as such it was down to them to decide if we could sign him or not which to there credit they allowed but it is not down to them or anyone else to try and dictate what our team makeup should be for a meeting. I would like to think we didn't agree to what has been said because if we did agree then go back on it after the signing and used Covatti anyway then it is pretty poor but as i have said in a previous post i would be surprised if we did agree to that request as our management are not the type to shaft anyone. Can you elaborate on second guess as Rob has kindly told us what was said but what you are saying really is that we can sign David Howe if you don't use a guest which we were entitled to if you use a guest you can't sign him at the moment what difference would it have made in reality as we would have used Covatti for James anyway and R/R for Kozza in all likelihood we would have scored more than the 4 David scored from as Rich would have had another ride. I am not privy to the discussions and don't claim to be i would be very surprised though if we had agreed to that it is the same in all walks off life there will be two sides to every story.

Fair do's Rob but no i didn't hear what Rob Godfrey said i am sure he is saying what he believes be interesting what our take is on those comments and if this agreement was in place i am sure we will have our version off what was said and Rob G has his but as i have now read some posts since i got back in i see nagy1 has referred to there being no agreement which knowing our management team would seem more plausible as they are not in the habit off shafting anyone. But it is not as simple as that Glasgow had provided details off there team line up 3 days prior to the meeting with Covatti included as a guest for James who was riding for Coventry last night but was then injured on Wednesday after the team was declared either way he was going to miss last night as he was due to ride for his parent club and under the rules we had the facility to field a guest which we have done legitimately wether people like it or not.

Dubious in what way we were entitled to a guest facility simple as Sergeant was due to ride for Coventry last night and the guest was named before his injury as you have to 3 day's prior you should be looking at your own team for not performing better rather than blame Glasgow for something that they were entitled to, Hardly a hollow victory we loved it should sit down and read your last sentence it really does smack off bitterness.

BSPA confirmed that a guest still applies I'm guessing it was because it was declared prior to his injury but now that he is out due to the injury picked up on Wednesday I would have thought that the facility would have been changed to R/R but you can never second guess some off there rulings.

Await with baited breath on the onslaught on how this was able to happen from the usual suspects.

Looks like the may part came into consideration in rule 16.2.9 Welcome to the stripes David .