Nickinho

All you need to read is "£400,000"

I wonder if a few Livingston councillors got a large brown envelope from the winning application...

This entire season seems to have become a fiasco, they've now started the quarter finals before the league stage has even finished and the Jubilee Joke Cup seems to have largely been forgotten. I can see this season finishing in November after a 2 month sabbatical (August/September) by which time the weather will be dreadful and nobody will be able to afford their electricity bill let alone a ticket to the speedway. It's almost as if very few people inside the sport (excluding the riders) seems to care because i don't hear much complaint from anyone of any note. Even the Tigers Twitter feed seems to have been taken over by the keepers of the Eilean Mor lighthouse who have decided to leave everything as they found it and flee. The entire situation is bizarre.

Criminal is an understatement. Glasgow's last home fixture (excluding the GP Challenge) was on August 5th and the Tigers may only have two more home fixtures this season if they don't make the Championship final via the semis. That's six out of EIGHT Friday evenings where Ashfield will lie empty over the summer months before we get into October. The planning of this season by the BSPA, especially the half-assed Jubilee Cup, has been nothing short of a disgrace.

Does anyone know when the Glasgow fixture for that ill-concieved Jubilee thingymywatsit cup tie is scheduled?

"a guy from Edinburgh" Says it all

Great result for Edinburgh last night and to get such a victory against a team with a petty decent line-up and without Sam was one of the results of the season.

Maybe the driver gets paid by how many miles he travels?

Birmingham are so short on riders their promotion offered my 87-year-old grandmother a guest spot. She refused as she's guesting for Plymouth instead.

Bit of a hastily-put-together Mickey Mouse tournament in my opinion. Only a small proportion of fans from the Scottish tracks and places like Plymouth were ever going to be able to attend the final in Sheffield if their team got through. I still don't even properly understand the format and i doubt i ever will. Yet again the speedway authorities seem to have got it wrong. Even a four team tournament would have been better, more excitement and drawn bigger away support in the qualifying stages. Anyway, rant over. For now...

I've noticed this since the Polish started coming to Ashfield. I guess they have just brought over some of the tribal traditions seen in that part of the world perhaps.

Euro Pairs at Macon i believe.

I saw Connor Coles riding at Ashfield last month and he did not look a Championship rider at all. He scored a grand total of 1 and was not on the pace at all. Clegg is the better rider, the more experienced and the more likely to score points away. Just because he hasn't been great in the short time he's been at Leicester means nothing at all. Stewart Dickson knows enough to have brought him into the team and he'll be proved right soon enough.

[edit] apologies, i commented on this post by mistake and was sure i'd commented on another instead. This site is so difficult to navigate at times.

Ah! I see now. It was a puzzler for me on Saturday

Does anyone know when Connor became British?

I remember him saying at the start of the season that once he learns the track he will be unbeatable around it. That hasn't been the case.

Josh is the most exciting rider in British speedway. Change my mind.

Speedway is not returning to Coatbridge. Ever. Certainly not to that stadium.

Apparently it was very tense, there was a lot of shouting and name-calling but in the end Boris resigned.

The new stadium plans look great, i'll miss Armadale though. Hope they keep the finishing line pyrotechnics machine, i really like that touch.

They wanted a fiver from you??

I expected Jason to improve. I saw him riding for Edinburgh a few times last season and i recognised his progress towards the end of the season and added to the fact he's so young and was on a 2 point-something average, i knew he would at least double that this season, maybe even triple it by the end of the season. I liked the look of him more a lot more than Jordan Palin and the Thompson twins who everyone raves about but yet i haven't witnessed much from.

Maryhill Tesco car park is like Tombstone. There have been several muggings at the cash points there.

Any updates on the stadium and next year?