Paulco

Doesn't have a great deal of luck at Peterborough does young Lewis

My heart bleeds lol

Last year in the second tier , heat fours were protected for the number sevens , not sure if that is the case this year , but it should be in both leagues

Since I stand on the back straight when visiting Shielfield , not having to walk round to the back of the main stand to buy a beer was a welcome surprise . Hope that facility is there for the season as it was doing a roaring trade last night .

He has a point though bruv , charging a fiver to watch them make practice starts is extracting the urine just a tad .

There isn't usually

That's the only negative issue with the track , the inside gate is still a bit of a coffin box gate . Hopefully once the track beds in with better weather that remedies itself .

It's the beginning of the season and the track had taken a bit of rain . The Benfund is never a classic , I was at Scunthorpe when they held it , and although Scunthorpe is a brilliant track , that year's Benfund was very average . The tracks will improve once we get a wee bit of heat in the air .

And your point is ?

That was down to Ian Hoskins who was a Sunderland fan

Would have been better than just having the press and practice on the 25th

That must be it

So after the dust has settled on yesterday's Benfund meeting , which was very enjoyable , it's a shame we have to wait until April fools day to get our season up and running . Thought we were going to have an inter league challenge match before we start our league campaign ?

That's an easy one . Away to Edinburgh in the league in June 2010 . There was rumours we were average fixing to fit in Joe Screen , but I thought " no , we wouldn't do that " . But what followed was the most embarrassing two hours in my speedway supporting life . I lost count at the number of riders having an ( ef ) at the tapes and riders pulling up with bike problems . The culmination was the most farcical heat 15 ever . James Grieves crawled away from the tapes , Matthew Wethers ( Edinburgh were well aware of what we were up to by this point ) followed him and when James pulled onto the grass , Wethers followed suit . That left Travis McGowan for us and Kalle Katajisto for them , couple of laps into the race Katajisto falls leaving McGowan unsure whether to finish , but he did and the resulting Glasgow 3-0 ( although we got well hammered ) mucked up calculations somewhat . But the whole meeting left a sour taste in the mouths of both sets of fans who were in attendance that sorry night and I hope I never see anything like it again .

Is that just Poole meetings or everything ?

Not surprised , don't think Belle Vue were very good at paying for anything . But was Fricke actually a Monarchs asset in the first place ? I'm sure I was told , when he came over to ride after the meetings at a few tracks the season before he rode for Edinburgh , that Wolverhampton had signed him up .

Well said Jenga . They'll ignore our league , so I couldn't care less if it was on telly or not . Anyway speedway is a hundred times better in the flesh .

You're correct , Ashfield and Armadale is about the same 45 minutes apart , so that shouldn't be an issue unless they planned to race on the same night .

Maybe so Iris , it's just that it's a style that has all but died out . Cup shocks at Celtic park on the other hand , maybe not

Carl Wilkinson has that sort of style on the bike . Not sure the modern bikes allow properly a leg trailing style , but Carl's as near as today's rider is to that

Nothing wrong with kebabs , they never done me any harm

Aye you've had enough of those anniversary thingys , best off at the speedway

Away man , I've missed wedding anniversaries for speedway and accepted the flak . Ok i'm not married anymore , but speedway saved me

Very possibly make a wee tour out of it , depends if we're at home on the 5th Just checked and we're not , so I possibly will stay down

We'll be there