Glasgow Tigers V Scunthorpe Scorpions . Championship League Sat 1st April 2017 At 7 P.m.

[Paulco]

Seems an age since we hosted the Benfund meeting , but this Saturday begins our League campaign .

All the early season cobweb blowing events will have taken place , our Benfund , Berwick's anniversary meeting and the Trick Track open at the dump .

We begin with a meeting against last seasons poorest visitors , the Scunny arachnoids . In their attempt to break the 20 point barrier this time they rely on much the same septet that held up the league last year , though they might be a man light with Lewis Kerr's Peterborough jinx surfacing again on Friday .

We approach our new racenight with probably the best heat leader trio in the division . Son of God , Aaron Summers and the senior Worrall twin .

I fully expect Richie to continue last season's progress and establish himself as our number 1 , even though Aaron starts in that legendary position .

Imagine gracing the Tigers number 1 race jacket and following in the footsteps of the likes of Monk , McMillan , Nagy , Stancl , Parker and God himself , Steve Lawson . Is there a greater honour in British speedway ? I think not .

And we have a very young and exciting back up to the three heat leaders . Dan Bewley allowed to serve his apprenticeship in a West Lothian backwater , lives the dream of every young Cumbrian and follow in God's tyre tracks .

Our entertaining young Finn , Nike Lunna , returns to enthral us with his never say die endeavours . He might be named after a pair of trainers , but we love him .

Then it's welcome to our two new reserves . Tom Perry has always shown a liking for our track and he can kick on from last season's impressive campaign and challenge for a top 5 place , while it's welcome to young Jack Smith . He boasts a speedway pedigree nearly as good as Son of God and we look forward to enjoying his progress throughout the season .

So not long to wait now until the Stripes take to the shale , a city expects lads .

Edited March 26, 2017 by Paulco

[Weeyin]

looking forward to this, will be interesting to see how our new boys get on, Wallner looks to be a strong reserve and MPT can be very exciting, always thought he might have ended up at Glasgow, he has been a regular guest for us. I think we will win fairly comfortably though.

[Albert]

Sadly I can only see another big home win here... Hope we can perform better than last years poor showing, I bloody hope so. Can't see many, if at all any teams getting any points at Glasgow this year. As for Scunny holding up the league last year.. that accolade went to Redcar.. closely followed by Lewi's tactically inept Plymouth. Hard to believe we didn't come bottom...thankfully there were poorer teams than us .

[damosuzuki]

I think it will be closer than last year, guaranteed. Home win though, but I've no real idea how Dan, Tom and Jack will do.

 

Hopefully a big crowd and the weather stays well behaved.

[Pogo1]

Well the 1 to 7s have been named and for Glasgow it's

 

1 Summers

2 Bewley

3 Worrall

4 Lunna

5 Lawson

6 Perry

7 Smith

 

Scunny

 

1 Douglas

2 Wilkinson

3 Kerr

4 Palm Toft

5 Auty

6 Wallner

7 Bailey

 

Think this could be closer than what most people think, I believe Smith and Perry might take time to get used to there new surroundings and the Austrian at reserve for Scunthorpe could like the shape of Ashfield.

 

Glasgow will be relying on the big 3 come heats 13/15 and with Scunthorpe not having an out and out number 1 this is where I believe they will win it. I'll go for 51 39 to the home side.

[montie]

fecking massive away win

[lucifer sam]

fecking massive away win

 

19-71 would be nice!

 

All the best

Rob

[Gazc]

Will be more competitive this year but it should still result in a big home win 58 - 32 or thereabouts.

[lucifer sam]

Will be more competitive this year but it should still result in a big home win 58 - 32 or thereabouts.

 

I think it will be much closer than that.

 

All the best

Rob

[Gazc]

 

I think it will be much closer than that.

 

All the best

Rob

My football coupons are way out on a Saturday so your probably right 57 - 33 then. Edited March 28, 2017 by Gazc

[thebaron]

fecking massive away win

I don't think it will be massive; but looking on paper at the two teams; you got to say that we should be able to get about that Glasgow team given the 'experience' advantage over the likes of Bewley; Smith; Perry and Nike Lunna. I would not under estimate those riders but at this stage of the season; we might have a chance to catch them out before they get into their stride ?.

[Gazc]

I don't think it will be massive; but looking on paper at the two teams; you got to say that we should be able to get about that Glasgow team given the 'experience' advantage over the likes of Bewley; Smith; Perry and Nike Lunna. I would not under estimate those riders but at this stage of the season; we might have a chance to catch them out before they get into their stride ?.

Very doubtful but never say never you may prove to be correct but i very much doubt it i would say being realistic a 10 - 15 point home win

[IronScorpion]

I would be hoping for something similar Outsider. I would have imagined Rob wanted to get rid of one of the big teams before they got in their stride & hoping we would be ok having ridden together as a team, but that was 6 months ago. Their big 3 does concern me in they got big scores in the Ben Fund meeting, but I expected that.

 

"Failure to Prepare, Prepare to Fail" was an anecdote that sprang to mind when I read what Peet said about our 1st meeting at P'boro. Also, MPT was on social media asking for where he could practice with the use of tapes. We, also, have the issues with Ryan trying to get the best out of different engines, Josh seems to be not up to speed only getting his points off lower riders or gifted points thro falls/retirements. Lewis having his wrist injury but must be on a high after getting a spot at Poole, only on a 28 day trial due to the unfortunate injury to Newman. As has been said, we will not stop trying & giving 100% is all we can ask(but stay safe).

 

Good luck Saturday so it gives us the opportunity for a decent Sunday opening fixture crowd.

[Paulco]

I'm sure we wont get another 71-19 meeting , I don't want to stand through one of those again ( unless it's against Edinburgh ) . So an entertaining narrow home victory will do very nicely .

I know at the start of any season you can get the odd weird result here and there , but i'm sure our boys will be ready and fired up to make a winning start to the campaign .

[GS550]

I don't think it will be massive; but looking on paper at the two teams; you got to say that we should be able to get about that Glasgow team given the 'experience' advantage over the likes of Bewley; Smith; Perry and Nike Lunna. I would not under estimate those riders but at this stage of the season; we might have a chance to catch them out before they get into their stride ?.

 

You say Scorpions have an "experience" advantage. Yeah they had so much "experience" the same Scunthorpe septet were annihilated 71-19 at the same track last season. They were woeful. By contrast, and contrary to your post, Lunna has plenty of experience of Ashfield, in fact far and away more experience of Ashfield. Tom Perry also has had good performances at Ashfield, as has Dan Bewley with heat wins to his name at Ashfield. And then there's the heat leader trio of Lawson/Summers/Worrall which speaks for itself. So your claim that Scunthorpe have "experience advantage" is not so much kicked into touch but right out of the stadium and into the stratosphere. The only one to really have less experience of Ashfield than Scunthorpe is Jack Smith but who boasts a solid pedigree and has plenty of potential.

 

So, I disagree with your premise that Scunthorpe have experience advantage over Glasgow for this Ashfield fixture. At the EWR yes, but not at Ashfield.

 

Hope its a good meeting. At least there's plenty of passing at Ashfield, whereas I've never seen any passing at the EWR its always processional any time I've been.

[scunny1]

No passing at EWR this must be a wind up justere2cgoodspeedway? Even the die hard Glasgow true fans, know the EWR is renowned for being the best passing track in the country for real racers. .

 

Contemplating coming up to Ashfield, but the long range weather forecast looks a bit doubtful, however plenty of time to change yet .

Edited March 29, 2017 by scunny1

[GS550]

No passing at EWR this must be a wind up justere2cgoodspeedway? Even the die hard Glasgow true fans, know the EWR is renowned for being the best passing track in the country for real racers. .

 

Contemplating coming up to Ashfield, but the long range weather forecast looks a bit doubtful, however plenty of time to change yet .

 

No it is NOT a windup. And advisable not to put yourself on a pedestal when - in fact - any time I've been (7 or 8 times the last few years) the "racing" has been pathetic and a complete "yawnfest", processional with no passing - that's the fact of it, it may be unpalatable to you but that's how it's been any time I've visited the EWR and the reason why I've no great wish to return there any time soon.

 

By contrast I've found Ashfield to be a real racers track, and far better than the EWR which I've found to be way, way, WAY over-rated and processional with no passing any time I've been to the EWR. I can only speak from my own experience.

Edited March 29, 2017 by justere2cgoodspeedway

[Paulco]

 

No it is NOT a windup. And advisable not to put yourself on a pedestal when - in fact - any time I've been (7 or 8 times the last few years) the "racing" has been pathetic and a complete "yawnfest", processional with no passing - that's the fact of it, it may be unpalatable to you but that's how it's been any time I've visited the EWR and the reason why I've no great wish to return there any time soon.

 

By contrast I've found Ashfield to be a real racers track, and far better than the EWR which I've found to be way, way, WAY over-rated and processional with no passing any time I've been to the EWR. I can only speak from my own experience.

Have to disagree with you , Scunthorpe is a brilliant track . Last year's meeting the day after Cardiff wasn't great , but I've seen some spectacular racing round there . When Peterborough became unavailable 5 days before we were due there ( 2 seasons ago ) , me and Willie ended up at Scunthorpe v Rye House , and although the home side had a lot of bad luck and lost heavily because of injuries to Auty and Davies , the actual speedway was breathtaking .

[Sidney the robin]

I went to the newer Scunthorpe for the first time last year v Somerset and that was the best racing i saw all year.And by all accounts other forum members have said meetings v Ipswich as an example have been even better a great racetrack.

[GS550]

Have to disagree with you , Scunthorpe is a brilliant track . Last year's meeting the day after Cardiff wasn't great , but I've seen some spectacular racing round there . When Peterborough became unavailable 5 days before we were due there ( 2 seasons ago ) , me and Willie ended up at Scunthorpe v Rye House , and although the home side had a lot of bad luck and lost heavily because of injuries to Auty and Davies , the actual speedway was breathtaking .

I don't doubt it has its good days - so do most tracks. But any time I've been to the EWR its been very processional with no passing - I can only speak from my own experience.

I went to the newer Scunthorpe for the first time last year v Somerset and that was the best racing i saw all year.And by all accounts other forum members have said meetings v Ipswich as an example have been even better a great racetrack.

I didn't go last year, as I was put off from previous visits when the "racing" has been processional. Sounds like they've corrected whatever was causing it to be that way, so worth another visit to see what the fuss is about but really I was put off by how it was before.