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League meeting finished 51-39 and we only secured the points after a Summers/Lawson 5-1 in heat 13 , so you cant take anything for granted

Don't fret Waco , I've called them much , much worse in the past

If that turns out to be the case , I doubt those will be the KO Cup meetings . Sky , to my knowledge , have never televised a PL KO Cup meeting and only pay the PL lip service despite their assertion that " the PL never lets us down " . Anyway we can't look any further than this tie as Redcar made us work hard in the league meeting in April .

Ah the KO Cup , the Black and White helmet hater's dream tournament . Redcar make a quick return to Ashfield after a more than adequate performance a few weeks back . They'll have the lesser Bjerre back in their side this time , along with the always entertaining Jonas B Anderson and Huge Skidmark . So here's hoping we can take a comfortable lead down to Teeside on Thursday

Agreed about Starke , he was very good at Glasgow yesterday too . He's improved an awful lot . There was a cracking band on in the Crossways when we got back after the meeting , that's twice we've stayed there now and will return there next time .

Oh well , we came , we saw and we disappointed . But credit Sheffield , they were far too good from the gate for our boys . You expect Stead and possibly Garrity to be strong on their own shale , but Bates and Berge ( git lol ) were very good . Disappointing night for us , but at least we had a cracking race to watch in heat 15 as Barker ended Berge's maximum hopes . Maybe we're not as good as we think we are , and wee reminders like we got here is never a bad thing .

Possibly , but Somerset is never the easiest place to go to and once again they are a very strong side . We started really strongly , but Somerset have a knack of getting better as a meeting progresses , and so it again proved . But I wasn't too despondent , the racing was very good , especially Paul Starke in heat 15 . He richly deserved his man of the match award in the bar afterwards . One note of caution though for Mr Starke , when we were down last season , Leigh Lanham won that award haha . Anyway the result was the only downside of my visit , we stayed at the Crossways inn in West Huntspill , and the beer in there is brilliant . Agree about the Bristol Bridge pub , that place is getting very run down and think it's on it's last legs , decent pint of Bombadier in it though . Nice to see the Newport contingent there , Dai Lager and Tanya , and Pirate Nick introduced me to BSF royalty , nice to meet you Mr Shovlar .

We will regardless

No I'm not doing them , usually there is a Sheffield texter

Friday the 13th for the Rebels I hope Anyway see you guys down there after I've been to the Bristol Bridge

Think I've got the right start time . Anyway one day before the meeting and no thread yet ? This should be a belter by two definite play off candidates . New Barrack Tavern for drinks first me thinks

Aye true , paid maximum for Lunna and 6 plus 2 for Ayres is very welcome , but they wont come close to those scores again this season in all likliehood

Think you can forget about Cook now , to an outsider it always looked like basically an abuse of the guest system waiting to happen . What about Davy Watt ? Would he not now be eligible to drop down ?

What went wrong was basically two riders , Auty and Davies , looking shadows of the riders that we know they can be . Two second strings , Wilkinson and Morris , who are basically reserves , trying manfully to cope with home riders much better than they are . A substandard foreigner , riding at reserve , clearly not up to it , and a young lad just setting out in the sport . Only Ryan Douglas gave any resistance to the home team's onslaught .

Was watching the Aberdeen comeback in the Horseshoe bar , till I got bored and went to the speedway

Mr Maximum at Glasgow , Charlie Monk . How he was never a World Finalist is one of speedway's great mysteries

I agree , Scunthorpe did for speedway today what a talentless singer with a leek hanging out his back pocket , did for music

What has happened to Josh Auty ? Three or Four years ago I watched him being the most entertaining rider on show as him and Ricky Ashworth won the PL Pairs at Somerset for Sheffield . Today I watched the same rider ride like a complete novice .

That was pretty lamentable . I don't care how strong the home side are , 19 points in 15 heats of speedway is pathetic . I've seen second halfers attack the track with more determination than some of the Scunthorpe riders today . The worst visiting performance to Glasgow since a Milton Keynes side on a wet Wednesday October night in 1993 . And at least they had Troy Butler scoring double figures . Ryan Douglas apart , the Scorpions were truly dreadful . Big payday for our boys , but meetings like that does the sport no good at all

Apparently it's only opposition riders that transgress the rules

Warned ???????? He should be complimented on his gating prowess . Referees are far too fussy these days , time to bin this riders sitting still nonsense and go back to if a rider doesn't break the tapes , then it's a good start .

We're promised 21 degrees on Sunday , be shorts and t-shirts on the Charlie Monk stand . Thankfully the wee shack sells beer now , saves the exhausting walk to the fourth bend

Nice cordial atmosphere in the bar after the meeting last night , as both sets of fans seemed reasoably happy after 15 heats of entertaining speedway . Edinburgh fans , just happy to get a meeting on , were happy as their team got a morale boosting win in the derby and we were pretty pleased with the solid performance that our team gave , safe in the knowledge we had already qualified . We never really recovered from the disastrous 0-5 in heat 2 which gave the Monarchs an early 9-2 lead . Every time we chipped away at their lead , they responded with a 5-1 to pull a little ahead again . But there was enough exciting speedway to keep the fans entertained , notably heat 13 which was a cracker . I disagree with Pogo about Ben being a bit naughty in staying down , it looked to us that he couldn't free his foot from under the bike in time , irrelevent anyway as the ref awarded the race . For us Lawson and Worral were excellent , Aaron was a wee bit below his usual Armadale form and Ben never looked quick on the track . Lunna and Garcia worked really hard for their points and it's all a learning curve for Danny . Edinburgh just about got away with their long tail , the heat 2 gift gave Clegg his only points . Masters and Riss look worthy successors to the Cook/Sedgmen opening partnership and Wolbert will do a solid job , at home anyway . Fisher doesn't look the rider he once was , but he did well to win the crucial heat 13 . All in all an enjoyable night out at Armadale , hopefully we can find that little bit extra when it really matters in the league .

Is the new stadium at Belle Vue real , or a myth ?

Give Victor time , he had some decent meetings for us last season , notably on the smaller tracks like Rye House and Edinburgh