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3 hours ago, Solidmango said:

It’s also disappointing that a thread was created for the postponed fixture and that now has 2 pages of comments with some people moaning/complaining but nobody set up the thread for tonight’s meeting. 

 

I suspect those same people would have complained about Saturday nights fixture going ahead and the lack of support at the meeting  caused by the football and the resulting financial implications. 

 

I find it frustrating that so many people choose to be negative about the sport instead of embracing the positives. 

I've been embracing the positives since 1964 Solidmango......but I just feel that this year's decisions re fixtures by the BSPA have not done the sport any good whatsoever. That, on top of our inability to sustain regular racing days, has had an impact on attendance and interest. 

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41 minutes ago, ragdoll64 said:

I've been embracing the positives since 1964 Solidmango......but I just feel that this year's decisions re fixtures by the BSPA have not done the sport any good whatsoever. That, on top of our inability to sustain regular racing days, has had an impact on attendance and interest. 

Not having regular racing each weekend is a massive issue. Makes a mockery of starting our league the third week in March when we could have started over a month later. Last year we had A and B fixtures against each team but the problem on top of too many meetings was you could already see long before the A fixtures were completed who were the strugglers and who were top end material. This year its not enough meetings as well as a poorly planned fixture list for some clubs like Workington. Sometimes wish the clubs in our league would form a breakaway and take control of their own management rather than play second fiddle to the alleged Premiership.

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On ‎7‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 3:45 PM, ragdoll64 said:

I've been embracing the positives since 1964 Solidmango......but I just feel that this year's decisions re fixtures by the BSPA have not done the sport any good whatsoever. That, on top of our inability to sustain regular racing days, has had an impact on attendance and interest. 

The lack of regular fixtures is for me the straw that broke the camels back.  I had already become fed up with a few things, the length of time meetings take these days to run, too many delays and no need for an interval, too much dilly dally, and a whole load of things, so when you are encouraged to get out of the habit of attending you don't need that much persuasion.

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On ‎7‎/‎6‎/‎2018 at 4:34 PM, MD said:

Not having regular racing each weekend is a massive issue. Makes a mockery of starting our league the third week in March when we could have started over a month later. Last year we had A and B fixtures against each team but the problem on top of too many meetings was you could already see long before the A fixtures were completed who were the strugglers and who were top end material. This year its not enough meetings as well as a poorly planned fixture list for some clubs like Workington. Sometimes wish the clubs in our league would form a breakaway and take control of their own management rather than play second fiddle to the alleged Premiership.

In total agreement.

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14 hours ago, BigBoaby said:

The lack of regular fixtures is for me the straw that broke the camels back.  I had already become fed up with a few things, the length of time meetings take these days to run, too many delays and no need for an interval, too much dilly dally, and a whole load of things, so when you are encouraged to get out of the habit of attending you don't need that much persuasion.

Interesting to hear from a home fan that time taken to run meetings is an annoyance. 

When I mentioned this as a reason not to go a couple of years back I was roundly criticised by Tiggers fans. 

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No official update on Lewis Kerr and his unfortunate injury - as it sounds pretty serious and a season ender? And as mentioned on another thread, we have up to 7.52 for a replacement - if required?!

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14 minutes ago, Noodles said:

Kerr & Worrall out, Cook & Grieves in.

how are you going to swing the cook move then ? that will be a rule breaker if that happens lol.

plus he will miss an awful lot of Friday and Saturday  fixtures for Glasgow . yea . go ahead with that one !

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23 minutes ago, damosuzuki said:

No rules Broken, 3 meetings max missed. His average means we will have good pick of replacements.

and how many home league meeting have glasgow had so far ?

bearing in mind there are only 10 home league fixtures this year and you have no cup runs left . craig wont be @ the pairs either .

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8 minutes ago, jenga said:

and how many home league meeting have glasgow had so far ?

bearing in mind there are only 10 home league fixtures this year and you have no cup runs left . craig wont be @ the pairs either .

All these won't this and won't that, you sit at the top table with Buster and Rob by any chance. 

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Didnt see that coming, knew we had to replace the injured Lewis , but didnt expect to lose Richie, Richie has struggled somewhat this season but so have a few others. I know that Cookie has also struggled this season but hopefully he can get his confidence back riding for Glasgow

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2 minutes ago, Argos said:

As he is a GP rider though he could only ride for Workington in the Championship, as he was riding for them when he qualified  

Who knows anymore rules seem to change at the drop of a hat these day's.

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5 minutes ago, Gazc said:

All these won't this and won't that, you sit at the top table with Buster and Rob by any chance. 

not really no . i just thought that he was not entitled to ride for a second tier club, only wucky .something must have changed and  no one knew about it .

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