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

Enjoyed last night , big crowd and the track held up well after the afternoon heavy rain . Shame we never got to see the intriguing climax to the meeting , but this early in the season it's understandable riders not wanting to risk injury . That's the cobwebs blown off , bring on the real stuff now .

Hope you good people of Berwick didn't get the amount of rain we got in Glasgow today and that the forecast is good for tomorrow

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 .

Hope the weather plays nice , looking forward this

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 ?

I enjoyed that today , especially the races involving Chris Harris . But a decent sized crowd and a home winner , so everyone went home happy . But it's time we got a proper bar at Ashfield , that was a shambles today .

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

If there's not , then so be it . There's enough decent riders in the field to make it an entertaining afternoon for a worthwhile cause

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