Nickinho

No.

Someone pinch me and tell me i'm dreaming! The Tigers are racing again on Sunday! It's been SEVEN WEEKS since the last home meeting and during that time i have become a Shaolin master and had a sex change (okay, i've not really done either but i could have done within that kind of time frame...) To be honest i'd almost given up hope of ever seeing the Tigers taking to the track again but knowing speedway it will probably drizzle a bit and get called off. Anyway, here's hoping all goes well on the day and both the Tigers and the Monarchs (yes, really!) get past the semi-finals and it's an all Scottish final in October (or possibly January depending on the BSPA...)

If Sam and Josh can each get 10 points tonight then the other five Monarchs are only left with the task of trying to rack up 17 points to see the team through. Should be well within the grasp of the riders but the reserves have to turn up and not rely on the top order to see them through. It's looking like a Leicester/Edinburgh - Poole/Glasgow semi-final affair in my opinion and i don't envy Glasgow having to face Poole at all because despite Leicester finishing top of the league they haven't impressed me like Poole have impressed me on their day and the Pirates seem to be building to a really big crescendo at the moment. I still pray it will be a Glasgow/Edinburgh final though, that would be amazing.

Let's cancel all the remaining fixtures this season and go into a 2 year lockdown, wear Queen masks and get 'vaccinated' with gin. It's what the Queen would have wanted.

Corruption never happens in Scottish politics. Nathalie McGarry told me so

...and the folding stuff

Sounds like a fascist state to me. In the meantime you'd better not water the pitches with hosepipes either or you'll probably get locked away for life

Well, i was all set to travel to Armadale today to finally see some speedway and then it's cancelled. Terrific. I didn't realise the Queen was a big speedway fan.

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.