Paulco

The one and only Shane Parker

Out of interest , why is Cook copping flak for so called lack of ambition if he doesn't ride abroad , while British riders of equal ability like King and Barker aren't ?

£16 at most Premier tracks , £17 at some Elite League tracks - go figure

We were the only 2nd tier side to win in 1992 , beating Cradley 46-44 . We lost 42-48 to Ipswich in the next round

When they are ready to I would imagine

Maybe not , but the inter league cup ran in the early nineties , where the lower league team had guaranteed home advantage , was great entertainment

You wont hear many of us from our end of the M8 belittling Cook's achievements , we've been on the wrong end of his scoring prowess often enough to realise how good he is . We had one like him in the late 70's and all of the 80's who carved out a decent career in the 2nd tier of British speedway .

He scored about 8 at Bradford if my memory is correct . Robbie never completed 4 laps at his first visit to Powderhall and never shone there much after . At places like Sheffield and Exeter though he was terrific . Csillik never looked quick enough , I don't remember if he was in that 1991 Hungarian touring side that Nagy shone in , in their 51-39 win at Shawfield . There wasn't many tears shed at Csillik's departure though , as he was replaced by .................Shane Bowes

Good post George , but sadly the things you describe is repeated at many tracks up and down the country . I don't have the answers , but speedway needs to give itself a shake . Poorly prepared tracks in ramshackle stadiums , listening to cringing amateur presentation isn't the way to attract new sponsors and fans to the sport . The hardcore supporter is becoming an ageing , dwindling band and unless new blood can be drawn to the sport , I cant see it surviving another decade in it's present form .

Robert Nagy was awesome . Only Glasgow rider to win the riders championship , career cruelly cut short by that idiot Matuesek . Bowes was great entertainment to watch , but Nagy was the better rider

Sign the burgermuncher if you want , we don't care , we're going to be the powerhouse outfit next season anyway :-)

It's fine on here , it's when you venture into the very strange world that is the Glasgow Facebook pages , then it gets embarrassing . You get folk complaining about promoters not saying hello to them and riders not waving to the crowd . It's wonderfully cringeworthy stuff .

Maybe , but surely the lovely Debbie handing the trophy over in a bikini would have been more appropriate

Scotsman has it spot on , a lot of British riders just don't want to have the weekly travel north of the border .

I'm just as good at football coupons oh and hands up all those who predicted the remarkable improvement in Steve Worrall .........................................thought not . His improvement laid the groundwork for the Monarch's success this season .

Arena Essex 1991 , by far the best 2nd tier team I've seen . But winning the three team trophies this season is a fine achievement .

No more Desperate Deek . Like Big bad Brett , Captain Baconheid , The Moped , and Fisher . He was mentioned in the same breath as those Monarchs bogeymen . His retirement makes pre meeting previews against the Smugs more difficult , but I wish him well in his retirement . I think that makes old Jimmy Culbert Scotland's number 1 now .

Cheating , act of desperation , call it what you will , the ref had enough about him to award the race . Like diving in football , this seems to have become an accepted tactic . Seen it too many times where a rider goes down and the current state of the race is the depending factor on whether he clears the track or not . More refs should follow Mr Breckon's example .

Forget all the silly griping about who profited best from the t/r's , the best team over the season won the title . That's not taking anything away from Somerset , three play off finals ( winning one and narrowly losing out in the other two ) in succession is an astonishing record . But , sadly for us in the west , there's no denying that Edinburgh have been the stand out team this season and have deservedly won a clean sweep of team trophies .

a damp squib of a season has petered out in a fitting way . No doubt we'll get fined for not completing our fixtures . Still onwards and upwards , 2015 will be better

I got interviewed by Radio Bristol one year when I was down at the OTA with the Tigers , me Bill and Alan had been on an all day Highbridge pub crawl as well

Yes the Smugs might have won the League Cup already , but with this being the final match of the competition , then surely the victors must be considered League Cup champions . As it is the guest part of the season , both teams are well represented in that sphere . Dimitri , Rusty and Tero have sent their kevlars to the dry cleaners for the winter , so we have drafted in Workington's Ricky Wells , who has guested for us previously with distinction over in Smugville , and it's a return to a Tigers bib for WEE JOE JACOBS . Berwick have strengthened their team with a couple of National Leaguers . Can we end our League Cup campaign in a blaze of glory and avenge previous defeats at the hands of the Banditos , course we can . 3-15 start time tomorrow as me and Willie and Andy sometimes have bother getting a taxi from the Horseshoe .

Another week , another let's bash the Speedway Star thread .There is an old saying that goes " you don't know what you've got till it's gone "

In this country you're just as likely to suffer a rain off in June or July as you are in October .

No idea , just going by what I read in the Speedway Star about a fortnight ago