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Glasgow V Berwick Mon 9th June


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Its a guest and R/R fest at Glasgow tonight.


Meeting off.

 

Reluctantly, given the fixture backlog we already have, tonight’s outstanding League Cup tie Vs Berwick has been called off due to the rain-fall already delivered and forecast between now and start time.

No restaging date has yet been agreed. Next meeting at Ashfield will be this coming Sunday (15th June) in the deciding leg of our Knock Out Cup, 1st Round tie, against Rye House.

Taken from Glasgow site on Twitter.

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Makes sense No disrespect to Ryan but what point of a club booking in an expensive guest for meeting that it pointless in terms of the section?

 

I'd put it the other way round and applaud clubs who are giving a local youngster a go when needing an NL guest. i know its academic now. Ryan has come on leaps and bounds though in the last year or so and although he still has a fair bit to go the guest bookings he has got so far this season from clubs traveling north (he's had a couple of outings at Edinburgh) can only help. He's learning all the time which is good to see and keen as mustard

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I'd put it the other way round and applaud clubs who are giving a local youngster a go when needing an NL guest. i know its academic now. Ryan has come on leaps and bounds though in the last year or so and although he still has a fair bit to go the guest bookings he has got so far this season from clubs traveling north (he's had a couple of outings at Edinburgh) can only help. He's learning all the time which is good to see and keen as mustard

I may be the one who has misunderstood but I thought he was hinting that he was pleased that we would have been using a junior rather than giving the booking to someone more experienced!

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No we read it the same way, its probably me in the way I have worded it. I meant I agreed that its good Berwick (and others) have gone down this route and I would emphasise the praise to the clubs rather than the no disrespct bit. Basically Im agreeing but wording it very badly! lol

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With the fixture backlog for Glasgow interesting comments on facebook from George Barclay saying double headers are a no go but riding a Sunday/Monday night will happen. Would have thought double headers would cost less than running on two seperate nights?

 

He also says if only they had floodlights. I thought Glasgow bought floodlights for when then wanted Friday night speedway?

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With the fixture backlog for Glasgow interesting comments on facebook from George Barclay saying double headers are a no go but riding a Sunday/Monday night will happen. Would have thought double headers would cost less than running on two seperate nights?

 

He also says if only they had floodlights. I thought Glasgow bought floodlights for when then wanted Friday night speedway?

Agreed . Surely when Berwick are up on League business it would make sense to run this meaningless meeting alongside it as a double header . I think the Friday night thing was quashed by the BSPA before we actually got round to purchasing the floodlights .

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Agreed . Surely when Berwick are up on League business it would make sense to run this meaningless meeting alongside it as a double header . I think the Friday night thing was quashed by the BSPA before we actually got round to purchasing the floodlights .

 

That's far too sensible,why not just forget about the meaningless fixture and save some money at the same time.
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That's far too sensible,why not just forget about the meaningless fixture and save some money at the same time.

Think the riders might object to the loss of a payday though

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Judging by the the crowds they attract give them a set amount of money each and maybe the clubs losses on the day may not be as much as if they had raced.

Very true

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Last nights fixture would have been a financial disaster for Glasgow if it had went ahead with the situation re-running the GP qualifier.

Yeah between that and the general lack of enthusiasm surrounding a meaningless match , yeah you're probably right .

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With the fixture backlog for Glasgow interesting comments on facebook from George Barclay saying double headers are a no go but riding a Sunday/Monday night will happen. Would have thought double headers would cost less than running on two seperate nights?

 

He also says if only they had floodlights. I thought Glasgow bought floodlights for when then wanted Friday night speedway?

As far as I am led to believe double headers are a financial nightmare another thing that concerns me is lack of home

meetings at ashfield i.e no revenue coming in the last sunday home meeting against Scu**horpe was called off about an hour before

wouldnt have bee very good for Glasgows bank account having to shell out travelling expenses for the riders back in the day when I got to know about these things I reckon it would have cost the promotion about £2000 give or take which they will have to find from somewhere

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I suppose its a balancing act they have to figure out between double headers and back to back meetings Sunday/Monday.

 

For me its a no brainer, Sunday/Monday when you face a 60 mile round trip just to get there means you pick one or the other that week so its 2 less full price admissions for the club in our case. Double headers on the other hand the promotion have to give gate concessions to get people through the gate so you get less overall on average for everyone than if everyone attended Sunday/Monday (which they wont). So there is the balancing act - do you lose more money with double headers or more with back to back?

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