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Will it be a guest for Screen or has his broken finger healed? Think I'd prefer a guest, regardless Berwick to win by 25+.

In response to the original post are there enough British riders to equally replace riders like Alden, Ostergaard, Wolbert etc? No is the overwhelming answer, of the three riders you mention, two are PL reserves, one of which is struggling big time. Perhaps Kelloggs could have a better go at growing British riders than the BSPA.

There aren't nearly enough British riders of equivalent standard to cover for them.

Doolan for the injured Screen strengthens Glasgow, though can we hit 30?

Hope he's not another Tornqvist. Not the best use of the points available, but good luck to him anyway.

No thanks.

Its looking like a Les Collins final season for Screen, difficult to watch!

I suppose one heat win out of fifteen is par for the course for Glasgow. New signing can't come quick enough.

Agreed, Compton is good for a race win most matches. 8.62 is a decent amount of points to play with though depends on how they are used, there are no obvious riders I can think of. We could have replaced any one of the team at some point this season perhaps with the exception of Screen. If as suggested the new rider will come in soon, we only have 10 official PL fixtures left after Armadale tonight that would count towards an average.

Perhaps it is Compton to go, he was signed initially on a 28 day contract which must be up about now. Hopefully we find out over the weekend.

Not necessarily, we are quite poor at reserve, depending on averages could drop one of Ringwood or Jacobs, sending Raun to reserve, however the rider coming in would have to be scoring from the off. Realistically though it will be a replacement for Raun. Still struggling with no home match for 3 weeks when the weather is glorius.

Time to accept it and move on. It could be worse, you could have signed a rider, got him to do the required number of matches to gain an average and become an asset, who then signs for another club the following season and the BSPA then make him their asset

Its his first full season at PL though. He is at the inbetween stage of racking up big scores in the NL and doing little at PL. A few decent scores for Glasgow in the coming weeks would be welcome!

Why does Joe Jacobs not also fit into that? He was excellent in April banging in some decent scores and looking quick but since then has done nothing. I expected him to do well down at Ipswich but never and other than ht2 now, isn't pulling in many points. Oh, and its also gone quiet about his full transfer ! Was good to see so many new faces in the travelling support, a sporting crowd spread right round the stadium rather than just the fourth bend and contributed to a great atmosphere in the sunshine. Hopefully it means the old school moaning brigade who haven't been seen for years at Ashfield have been replaced and can herald a new era of sporting rivalry that has been missing between the clubs for some time. You may just need to give us a decade to put a decent team together.

42-48 is not the worst it could have been however even with Glasgow chucking away points with Screen in ht 1, though cancelled out by Vissing in ht15 and Raun gifting the Monarchs a 5-1 in ht8 they were always going to be winners. Despite Mitchell Davey failing to score, Glasgow's reserve's only scored in ht2 then registered 7 last places, something you cannot do at home and expect to win. Fricke was pretty decent all afternoon especially coming off the inside line and Cook was in a league of his own. Bager had his best meeting for Glasgow whilst Raun looked pretty poor. With no home match for 3 weeks I do wonder how he will manage to improve. Friday night at Armadale will be a slaughter.

I know but surely we shouldn't have to wait until Friday lunchtime. I'm predicting Monarchs by 12 unfortunately.

48 hours to the match and still no press release. Is normal service being resumed? Do any new fans have to guess who is riding?

Aye, heat win in the opening race!

Ashworth hasn't ridden for 2 months and doubt he could get back into the points quickly, its going to be hard enough with Compton and Raun. A new signing though to use our full points would be welcome, however which position is best to use them. We have misfired in each position, even Screen has been inconsistent, JG has taken a point off his starting average, Bager has been truly awful in the main, and they are the experienced riders. If we do sign a heatleader it will likely need to be a doubling down rider who will score from the start and finding one of those to ride on a Sunday is .......................

Well we hit 30 and Ringwood now gets an average, other than that .................................

FFS, Armadale rules apply - hitting 30 is success and we couldn't even do that. Two race winners all night is pathetic.

If Barrett rode other tracks as well as he does Ashfield it would transform Berwick. As it is they seem to have gambled all their chips on Kennett leaving them weak at reserve with another 3 pointer. Last week at the individual event it was the same with Grieves, often first to gate but third into the corner. We really need to smarten up here. Hopefully Ringwood is ok to do the 2 away matches this week that will finally get him an average, his trip to the fence was a hard one.

Phenomenal meeting today, best visitor to Ashfield this season by a mile.

The injustice of Bellego's registration comes back to dig us in the ribs once again, his progress seems quite spectacular, much like his scoring today. The Bandits top 4 scored all but 2 of their points, winning 10/15 heats in the process and consigning Glasgow to another home defeat. Compton looked a little nervous in his first home match but will settle no probs whereas Raun was a bit wild, regularly scraping the fence on the second turn but never lacked effort. Looked like he was going to come out and practice after the meeting. Next week's visits to Ipswich and Scunthorpe may prove 'challenging'!

Jonas Raun?