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Remember both these matches, the one at Scunthorpe started on a very wet track which the home team couldn't ride but there were many stoppages which dried the track out and we couldn't take enough advantage early on to build up a lead. By the way Scunthorpe had a stadium that made Craighead Pk look like Hampden!! The home match was a pretty controversial affair with the amount of fallers, with not too many decisions going our way. Steve Lawson also became the all time Tigers top scorer when he won heat 1

Used to love this sort of stuff when Bryan Seery did the stats in the SS

He continued at Shawfield and the early years at Ashfield

Dont forget Hampden, Meadowbank and Cowdenbeath

Not that unusual.Steve Lawson and Andy Reid both did it on 17/10/80 against Workington and Middlesbrough. I think Brian Collins and Mick McKeon did it in 1977 in a double header at Blantyre

Was Bobby Beaton one of the no shows at Wimbledon?

Lakeside's own website has a good history section which may help. http://www.lakesidehammers.com/

What happened to Crayford on a Tuesday then??? Would loved to have been able to do that many meetings in a week. If ever I had a time machine, the 1950s would be my decade to visit, 4 Scottish clubs, 2 in Glasgow alone!!!

Two riders that got away!!! Both Mike Ferreira(1974!!!) and Denny Kent were at Coatbridge/Glasgow and both left for better times elsewhere.

1981 for me.First time I'd ever seen Glasgow top of the league.We ended league champions, Rye House's long unbeaten home record, 6 away wins,unbeaten at home,finished 5th(highest position in something like 28 years) and a few what might have beens.......no2 Andy Reid breaking his thigh in the opening match and also not being able to use R/R for the whole time he was out.Where might we have finished then??? Super Steve winning the Silver Helmet.Great matches against Weymouth and Oxford(with only 3 heat winners!!) and controversy against Newcastle and Mildenhall Also being denied a unique away win, with Berwick withdrawing from the league whilst using Blantyre as their home track(Glasgow were due to "visit" the week after they pulled out) Not forgetting the World Final at Wembley

Would loved to have visited London White City(nearly went to WTC Final in 1982 but Glasgow were at Mildenhall the same day,ironically my first visit there also) Glasgow White City was just before my time and Motherwell would've been another. Of more recent tracks, probably Skegness(remember them?), Milton Keynes(Groveway),Barrow(both tracks),Crayford,West Ham and Castleford

13 ht format, which I bet everyone can still remember, which numbers rode in which heat 4TT qualifying rounds Trying to finish in the top8 in the NL to get into the following years ILKOC The toilets on the third bend at Blantyre on a dark night(there were no lights!!!) Brian Collins and his Smiths Crisps leathers and second half race jacket Silver Helmet Proper Test Matches over 18 heats Tigers scoring 17 at Edinburgh in 1978 and doing the same at Berwick the following night!! Sawdust covered tracks in the wet

Coatbridge were probably excluded from having a match because it was too far North.Certainly the programmes from that time were scathing of the fact we were the only track not to stage an international

I think you may be right

Remember Rob Tilbury involved in a stramash at Ipswich in 1989, can't remember the Ipswich rider he was involved with but he tried to pull him off his bike after the race and then the usual fisticuffs in the pits.Sure a few others got involved as the pits at Ipswich weren't the hardest to get access to in those days!!! Berrington wasn't always the nicest of places to go to.Martin Scarisbrick got threatened by a rake wielding member of the track staff as he lay injured during a Newcastle match in 1983. The Peter Oakes incident at Shawfield was him thinking Grieves had knocked off one of the Panthers(could've been Pedersen), when it had actually been Jesper Olsen!!! Peter didn't know Grieves did boxing training either!!!

Andy Reid broke his thigh in the opening match at Edinburgh in 1981.He had made the breakthrough as a genuine heat leader the year before and had looked good that night until his fall.He came back that year but was not the same rider and he then made the mistake of going into the BL in 1982,was back mid season with Glasgow in 1983 before crashing at Edinburgh again at the end of that season.He had a reasonable 1984, a poor 1985 and made a handful of appearances in 1986. Had he not crashed in '81 he would almost certainly have been a 9 pt man that season (and Glasgow may have been genuine league challengers instead of their 5th place finish) and then who knows???

You've got your seasons mixed up slightly there!!! The Arena match was in the PT(or equivalent competition) and the following week it was Glasgow in the league(I was there!!!),It was either 2000 or 2001. The Rye House one was in 2004 and the score was 75-18(2 TRs and a GD). Glasgow suffered a few thrashings at the County Ground,that 74-16 match(Tigers record defeat), in 1997 they lost 72-18(?)(unfortunately I saw that one also!) and in 1982 it was 73-23.The last two also being record defeats. 1990 also had the 16 heat formula(still one of the best in my opinion)

Csaba Hell actually rode in a match for Sheffield against Hackney in 1991, which was then struck from the records after Hackney closed mid season.Don't know whether he rode again for them. Mike Carter rode in a Gold Cup match for Glasgow at Stoke and was injured in I think his 4th ride. Glasgow have had a few riders who have "signed" but didn't ride:Paul Thorp, Mark Fiora ,Tommy Dunker, Hell and Leon Madsen. Eric Broadbelt's Glasgow career in 1985 lasted longer as R/R than actual riding.He was injured on the first bend of his only home match but I'm sure he rode an away match somewhere(Middlesbrough?)

1965 it was Scotland 51 USSR 57 at Meadowbank 1966: Scotland 57(B SCOTT 7+1) USSR 51 at Glasgow

Always remember him being a difficult opponent, for Milton Keynes(did he not ride in their first season also?)

It's hard to believe that he rode at Coatbridge in 1977 under the name of Gary Williams(one that got away from the Tigers!!)

Presumably without all the mistakes!!!

Indeed I did, as I posted on the Glasgow forum last week,it's a pity Hyde Rd isn't still around as I'm sure they would've used the location

The big controversy in this match was Charlie being excluded for knocking off Ken McKinlay.After a protest, a few weeks later, the decision was over turned but there was allegedly no time to re-run the race as was suggested.So Charlie lost his best chance of qualifying for a world final

I should've typed the year in for when he rode for Edinburgh,might've got it right then!!!