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Decent meeting, better than I expected after being a season ticket holder 07-09 & from reading match reports on here. Heats of note. 7. Jensen gated & was gone, Brummies hold 2nd & 3rd but neither ride wider than mid-track. May as well of got a Wile-E-Coyote style sign post with "overtake here" pointing at the outside, which Starke duly did. 10. Jensen touches tapes goes off 15m. With debutant Agertoft having his (obligatory?) third ride & considering how quick Jensen had looked I thought he'd catch his fellow Dane by the end of the first lap. Agertoft had taken a couple of laps to get going in his first two outings but once going seemed on the pace. Not the case this time, gated on front of Starke & it was his fellow Tiger who Jensen reeled in. I do wonder if this was a savvy tactical move so Brummies couldn't use Ellis as a Tac Sub replacing R/R Aarnio in the next heat!.Speedway skullduggery at its finest! 11. Perks makes a good cut back on turn 2 to pass Sarjeant down the back straight on final lap . Sarjeant then fell on his own. Shame Perks bike didn't work in his 2nd & 3rd outings. Had I been Brummies team manager I would not have increased his pay with an Aarnio R/R ride! 12. Probably the best race. Bickley riding mid track can't resist Castagna on the white line (barley ventured far from it all night) or Shanes on the outside and Bickley is passed by both Brummies exiting turn 2 on lap 3. 13. Cook riding wide passes Ellis on the inside with ease after a couple of laps Congratulations to Glasgow, too much firepower for Birmingham & deserved all 4 points. With a full septet maybe Brummies could have won. Added bonus, took a whole 12 minutes to get home, probably less time than I spent sat at the Scott Arms junction on the way. Sour taste. £2.40 for a bottle of water. Had it been blessed by the Pope? Has the centre green always been higher than the track? Very odd. Greyhound start gate ruins the view on the flat exiting turn 4, dudes smoking cigars ruins the air on the elevated section on the same bend. Off to apply the missus after sun!

Well I made it. I'm glad I remembered my cap & shades. The Scott Arms junction is still as horrible as I remember. And no I couldn't remember how to get on the One Stop Car Park, thank god for Sat Nav. Good contingent of traveling fans by the tapes. Not as busy as I recall but 10 mins to go.

BIRMINGHAM: Adam Ellis, Nick Agertoft, Paco Castagna, Ellis Perks, Tero Aarnio R/R, Danyon Hume, James Shanes. GLASGOW: Craig Cook, James Sarjeant, Rasmus Jensen, Paul Starke, Claus Vissing, Connor Bailey, Kyle Bickley.

GB v Germany for Wooden Spoon it is.

Watched one on laptop, the other on phone. Glad Rospiggarna proved me wrong.

Bewley will have to be allot quicker around the NSS than he was for BV last night.

Well I do not know which Danish club Ellis represents. But from what I can gather on Metal League website there is only one fixture on Wednesday. Esbjerg v Fjelsted. Edit. Ellis appears to ride for Grinsted.

It's at Målilla? Even if Doyle scores 13, which I doubt he will. I still can't see Rospiggarna getting 40. Pawlicki, Janowski & Dudek just too strong for the rest of the Hallstavikians. It isn't any surprise Poles would choose this match, though considering the line-ups. Can we hijack the vote next week

Piraterna v Vetlanda hopefully. I'd take Eskilstuna Smederna v Kumla Indianerna Dackarna v Rospiggarna will be a massacre. Masarna are rubbish, so not that either.

Why Grajczonek didn't try to go around Berge I'll never know.

Berge pretty much waved him through Bewley's form doesn't bode well for our chances of giving Poland a run for their money in the U21 World Cup.

Belle Vue rubbish only can't think of a single Ace who should be happy with their performance, Grajczonek riding like a man possessed.

I'll take 14 more heats like first one of the night.

I didn't feel the Owlerton track would suit the Eagles of Arlington. Isn't it a tad big & fast for them?

Lindback £50 more. Fricke £50 more. Zmarzlik £50 more. Kolodzeij £50 less.

Aarnio is not riding for Belle Vue tonight.

You can park at the One Stop shopping complex, it's a short walk to the stadium, won't get full. Not sure about the official stadium parking, it's been a long time since I visited.

OK, next question. Can you pay by card on the gate or cash only?

OK thanks.

Suggestions for my annual visit to Owlerton this year with Tigers remaining fixtures. Can't do 01/09 League Riders Championship as flying out if Heathrow the next day. Sadly couldn't make the Leicester visit. Will hopefully be seeing the other Tigers at PB on Wednesday. So not them.

Do we have lineups?

I like the fact Poznan are Power Ducks Any meetings in Poland (or drivable from Bydgoszcz area)) on 03/08?

Zmarzlik 17 the rest of Gorzow 15. They really are determined to give Lublin a challenge for the relegation playoff.

Rybnik will surely win at Lodz. Lomomotiv should be OK as long as they beat Tarnow in Latvia. Ķjasts Poudžuks & Maksims Bogdanovs been injured all season?

I found it, Gorzow got off to a slow start then!