Glasgow 2019 Onwards

[ruffdiamond]

23 minutes ago, TotallyHonestJohn said:

I am at work all the time really... I own the company...

Regards
THJ

Ahh, so thats how you get away with playing on the forum all the time,,, ya probly just pretending to be doing important stuff

[TotallyHonestJohn]

3 hours ago, TotallyHonestJohn said:

However just a total guess and apologies in advance as it is on the wrong thread

 

2 hours ago, tyretrax said:

This is a Glasgow thread, go pollute the threads that you want to discuss their team with. Just being totally honest.

 

1 hour ago, singy13 said:

Apologies Ashfield guys for usurping your thread.

Trax

I do appreciate your honesty... honest...  however there was a great deal of self-effacing and respectful forewarning of our irreverent posts on this auspicious and very important thread and once again please accept our fullest apologies with all the servile fawinig I can muster, having shown such a modest or low estimate of one's importance.

I felt very humble when reading your post being so unassuming and self-deprecating,

So again please accept my fullest apologies and I will endeavour to keep off here with such none-sense

Regards
THJ

1 hour ago, ruffdiamond said:

Ah, so that's how you get away with playing on the forum all the time,,, ya probably just pretending to be doing important stuff

Hey I am busy I will have you know.... and is this not important stuff? learning etiquette and politeness, I mean I could have just said to old Trax "up yours Jock" "as its not like you don't post anywhere else on other clubs threads"... But no "Manners maketh man" as me old Gran used to say and she got that from William Horman (c. 1440 – April 1535) who was a headmaster at Eton and Winchester College in the early Tudor period of English history. He is best known for his Latin grammar textbook the Vulgaria, which created controversy at the time due to its unconventional approach in first giving examples of translations of English writings on different topics, and later discussing the rules of grammar. The Vulgaria draws from a variety of sources, for example including the saying "It does no good for all truth to be told nor all wrong imputed" and how relevant is that saying today, from 500 odd years ago and still relevant... even in Speedway and the bike wasn't even invented then. However one of his classics was "it is better a chylde unborne than untaught" and when trying to correspond rationally with some of the Neanderthals on here why should we argue with rational like that... 

It is nice to impart knowledge and what can we derive from this very learned man... Well with spelling like that he must have been a Cumbrian and secondly Jenga must be at least 500 year old and one of his first pupils; int that reet marra just lyke yer sayd lyke  tu otha neet (TiC)

Regards
THJ

Edited November 27, 2018 by TotallyHonestJohn
missed out key word

[jenga]

5 minutes ago, TotallyHonestJohn said:

 

 

Trax

I do appreciate your honesty... honest...  however there was a great deal of self-effacing and respectful forewarning of our irreverent posts on this auspicious and very important thread and once again please accept our fullest apologies with all the servile fawinig I can muster, having shown such a modest or low estimate of one's importance.

I felt very humble when reading your post being so unassuming and self-deprecating,

So again please accept my fullest apologies and I will endeavour to keep off here with such none-sense

Regards
THJ

Hey I am busy I will have you know.... and is this not important stuff? learning etiquette and politeness, I mean I could have just said to old Trax "up yours Jock" "as its not like you don't post anywhere else on other clubs threads"... But no "Manners maketh man" as me old Gran used to say and she got that from William Horman (c. 1440 – April 1535) who was a headmaster at Eton and Winchester College in the early Tudor period of English history. He is best known for his Latin grammar textbook the Vulgaria, which created controversy at the time due to its unconventional approach in first giving examples of translations of English writings on different topics, and later discussing the rules of grammar. The Vulgaria draws from a variety of sources, for example including the saying "It does no good for all truth to be told nor all wrong imputed" and how relevant is that saying today, from 500 odd years ago and still relevant... even in Speedway and the bike wasn't even invented then. However one of his classics was "it is better a chylde unborne than untaught" and when trying to correspond rationally with some of the Neanderthals on here why should we argue with rational like that... 

It nice to impart knowledge and what can we derive from this very learned man... Well with spelling like that he must have been a Cumbrian and secondly Jenga must be at least 500 year old and one of his first pupils; int that reet marra just lyke yer sayd lyke (TiC)

Regards
THJ

just call me yoda .  tic toc .

[singy13]

9 minutes ago, TotallyHonestJohn said:

Well with spelling like that he must have been a Cumbrian and secondly Jenga must be at least 500 year old and one of his first pupils; int that reet marra just lyke yer sayd lyke  tu otha neet (TiC)

You've  missed off the all important eh.............it's not proper west Cumbrian marra  without eh is it eh Jenga.??

[allthegearbutnaeidea]

Mind mr honest John, you post some good stuff about the ins and outs of Speedway but my god do you slaver on.

[nagy1]

What an absolute shambles of a thread. 

 

[jenga]

5 minutes ago, nagy1 said:

What an absolute shambles of a thread. 

 

was doin ok until you posted  . ehh ..... lol  dont like  it , dont light it .  ( lost in translation frae yurkshire )

Edited November 27, 2018 by jenga

[Tigerforever]

Can we get back to who’s signing or what people would like to see regarding team for 2019 as the thread is just a complete mess, time to draw a line over the past two weeks comments and have some grown up discussion, no offence meant.

[ruffdiamond]

12 minutes ago, Tigerforever said:

Can we get back to who’s signing or what people would like to see regarding team for 2019 as the thread is just a complete mess, time to draw a line over the past two weeks comments and have some grown up discussion, no offence meant.

Good luck with that one.

[TotallyHonestJohn]

54 minutes ago, allthegearbutnaeidea said:

Mind mr honest John, you post some good stuff about the ins and outs of Speedway but my god do you slaver on.

You're not wrong... however it's the boredom of waiting for these announcements... and you know what they say...

Nothing good comes from boredom. It's said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, an old saying dating at least as far back as Chaucer in the twelfth century who called idle hands the devil's tools.

So the idle fingers on the idle hands start typing to try and relieve the boredom and if you can inject some inane fact into the proceedings that some may find interesting that makes me smile... and if it annoys the "crepe" out of some folk.... well.... 

Well I PMSL to be honest...

Regards 

THJ 

[jenga]

i have a feeling danny phillips and smudge jr could be up north , eh .

[mac101]

24 minutes ago, jenga said:

i have a feeling danny phillips and smudge jr could be up north , eh .

Yes £250 a point 3 points guaranteed new van and some sponsors chucked together to buy them each a PJR engine life’s great for riders up in the cashfield 

[jenga]

2 minutes ago, mac101 said:

Yes £250 a point 3 points guaranteed new van and some sponsors chucked together to buy them each a PJR engine life’s great for riders up in the cashfield 

Glasgow money will be safe then . make a killing on start money tho . eh .

[Paulco]

Away from the nonsense for a minute or two . Other clubs are announcing signings , but nothing other than silence from the hallowed halls of Ashfield . 

I must confess that the ridiculous points limit doesnt fill me with enthusiasm for the new season and i worry about what will be served up in front of us because of that . 

The " i know something you dont know " mob will no doubt smugly post some cryptic bollocks about who we've got , happens every winter , but team building to 38 points must be a nightmare . 

If we have Cook it takes over 10 out of the 38 points . 6 riders for less than 28 points - seriously . We had that in the 80's with Steve Lawson and 6 of his mates keeping him company in the pits , it didnt work then and Cook cant win meetings on his own . 

Rumours on here from Workington alleging underhand tactics to get one of their riders with Rasmus Jensen seemingly fitting the bill ........really ? Ok he done well during Worky's glory charge in October , but he's never impressed me round Ashfield in the past - Kid Jensen would have been more competative . 

I'd have the engine room of last season , namely Vissing , Starke and Kerr back again , and play the numbers game from there , such as it is . 

[balderdash&piffle]

7 minutes ago, Paulco said:

Away from the nonsense for a minute or two . Other clubs are announcing signings , but nothing other than silence from the hallowed halls of Ashfield . 

I must confess that the ridiculous points limit doesnt fill me with enthusiasm for the new season and i worry about what will be served up in front of us because of that . 

The " i know something you dont know " mob will no doubt smugly post some cryptic bollocks about who we've got , happens every winter , but team building to 38 points must be a nightmare . 

If we have Cook it takes over 10 out of the 38 points . 6 riders for less than 28 points - seriously . We had that in the 80's with Steve Lawson and 6 of his mates keeping him company in the pits , it didnt work then and Cook cant win meetings on his own . 

Rumours on here from Workington alleging underhand tactics to get one of their riders with Rasmus Jensen seemingly fitting the bill ........really ? Ok he done well during Worky's glory charge in October , but he's never impressed me round Ashfield in the past - Kid Jensen would have been more competative . 

I'd have the engine room of last season , namely Vissing , Starke and Kerr back again , and play the numbers game from there , such as it is . 

Surely by setting that point limit, it is the intention of stopping the likes of Cook ,Harris etc riding in the Championship league.  It should also help to stop the dreaded doubling up/down situation.  It would be far simpler to have a new rule that a rider can only ride for one club.

[Paulco]

Just now, balderdash&piffle said:

Surely by setting that point limit, it is the intention of stopping the likes of Cook ,Harris etc riding in the Championship league.  It should also help to stop the dreaded doubling up/down situation.  It would be far simpler to have a new rule that a rider can only ride for one club.

Well Harris is fixed up near Burnham on Sea and it wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if we went down the Cook and the dancing 4 pointers road . So if that was the intention it hasnt really worked . 

[Fromafar]

25 minutes ago, balderdash&piffle said:

Surely by setting that point limit, it is the intention of stopping the likes of Cook ,Harris etc riding in the Championship league.  It should also help to stop the dreaded doubling up/down situation.  It would be far simpler to have a new rule that a rider can only ride for one club.

Harris has only a 7.71 average though.

[Fromafar]

23 minutes ago, Paulco said:

Well Harris is fixed up near Burnham on Sea and it wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if we went down the Cook and the dancing 4 pointers road . So if that was the intention it hasnt really worked . 

 

24 minutes ago, Paulco said:

Well Harris is fixed up near Burnham on Sea and it wouldnt surprise me in the slightest if we went down the Cook and the dancing 4 pointers road . So if that was the intention it hasnt really worked . 

While there is no doubting Cook would be a great high profile signing,watching him cruise round for easy money while the Team struggles to win,would not be a great move.He could get a few tac sub rides when required though.

[Solidmango]

48 minutes ago, Paulco said:

Away from the nonsense for a minute or two . Other clubs are announcing signings , but nothing other than silence from the hallowed halls of Ashfield . 

I must confess that the ridiculous points limit doesnt fill me with enthusiasm for the new season and i worry about what will be served up in front of us because of that . 

The " i know something you dont know " mob will no doubt smugly post some cryptic bollocks about who we've got , happens every winter , but team building to 38 points must be a nightmare . 

If we have Cook it takes over 10 out of the 38 points . 6 riders for less than 28 points - seriously . We had that in the 80's with Steve Lawson and 6 of his mates keeping him company in the pits , it didnt work then and Cook cant win meetings on his own . 

Rumours on here from Workington alleging underhand tactics to get one of their riders with Rasmus Jensen seemingly fitting the bill ........really ? Ok he done well during Worky's glory charge in October , but he's never impressed me round Ashfield in the past - Kid Jensen would have been more competative . 

I'd have the engine room of last season , namely Vissing , Starke and Kerr back again , and play the numbers game from there , such as it is . 

Without falling into the ‘mob’ category, I have been told that there are certain timescales that need to be adhered to when trying to sign a rider owned by another club which then results in delays on the rider being ‘announced’. 

 

In addition, Glasgow do try and make the announcements in an exciting manner through their social media outlets. 

 

I hadnt considered Vissing when doing my guesstimates but based on his average he’d do nicely in one of the heat leader roles, adding in Starke, who I feel is at least a point lower than I expected he would be, then I don’t think having Cook is a big issue. 

 

I agree generally with a ‘balanced’ structure but our upturn in form last year did coincide with the arrival of Cook and a more top heavy team. 

 

Time will tell and I reckon we will have 2 or 3 announcements in the near future! 

[Marksman]

25 minutes ago, Paulco said:

Away from the nonsense for a minute or two . Other clubs are announcing signings , but nothing other than silence from the hallowed halls of Ashfield . 

I must confess that the ridiculous points limit doesnt fill me with enthusiasm for the new season and i worry about what will be served up in front of us because of that . 

The " i know something you dont know " mob will no doubt smugly post some cryptic bollocks about who we've got , happens every winter , but team building to 38 points must be a nightmare . 

If we have Cook it takes over 10 out of the 38 points . 6 riders for less than 28 points - seriously . We had that in the 80's with Steve Lawson and 6 of his mates keeping him company in the pits , it didnt work then and Cook cant win meetings on his own . 

Rumours on here from Workington alleging underhand tactics to get one of their riders with Rasmus Jensen seemingly fitting the bill ........really ? Ok he done well during Worky's glory charge in October , but he's never impressed me round Ashfield in the past - Kid Jensen would have been more competative . 

I'd have the engine room of last season , namely Vissing , Starke and Kerr back again , and play the numbers game from there , such as it is . 

With Cook, I think everyone would agree, especially any of his old clubs, he is great for any team he rides for and brings a lot more than his points.

But with the points limit as it is, having 1 guy take up over 25% of the limit on an average that's pretty hard to maintain, never mind improve I can't see it producing a trophy winning team unless you have an real ace(s) up your sleeve aka like when he won the double with Edinburgh in 2014/2015. 

In 2014, he came in on a whopping 10.5 average, but Edinburgh had Steve Worrall putting around 5 points on his average, along with Max Fricke on a low average.

In 2015, Cook came in on much lower average due to team riding with Sedgman, was able to put a point on his own average and had Agent Wolbert adding 2 points, along with Masters and Sedgman both adding points to their average.

IF Cook signs, I just don't see Glasgow having any of these types of riders lined up of to come in alongside Cook who can be substantial 'improvers' to produce a league winning formula.