DavyH

My ramblings from the Monarch's Chatzone Well done Cookie! Racing got better as the night went on with Cookie/Claus race the highlight. While I am biased in favour of a Monarch winning, always good to see the leading qualifier win the final. Abby says Cookie winning was better than any fireworks! Hopefully Joe is ok for tomorrow night, Theo was superb, Claus had a couple of great races, Max and Deek too and Mitchell impressed in his last two. Dunno about Tobias though, close in some, well adrift in others, maybe get him back on 3.00 next year after a dodgy airport burger? Bager is a different rider from 6 weeks ago, Hougaard got close, Rory lost a heat or 2 in an Open!! Tully, couple of bad races, Worrall, Wells and Wolbert the same. I see a win at Berwick, but for now our thoughts must be with Ricky Ashworth after his fall at Scunny tonight

You mean Team GB of course!

It will have to be a boxed series!!

Easy win for the Monarchs I see but at least Mr Raun was 2nd top scorer for the Tigers - with 5 points!

George finally speaks the truth

You are so lucky you weren't riding v a Scottish team, we would have caught that tenner before it hit the floor

I think after Max's scores recently it makes no difference whether Joe or Max are at reserve? btw, r/r for Joe tonight scored 2, r/r for Aarnio scored 5+1 - Tsunami will be very sad at us Monarchs cheating again I blame the burgers

While obviously delighted with the score today, it is worrying to see the Tigers in such a mess. The team was a huge gamble at the start of the season, you had two old timers who would have their good days but probably not increase their average, two riders who had went downhill rapidly from their EL days and three untried riders. It's not worked. It's never easy to bring in riders when there's not many available but anything would be an improvement now. At least it's still early in the season so you can strengthen up and try and give us a match in the Scottish Cup!

I did say there had to be a first time Rob! Going by Scotland 1314's comments he has Cook down as winning ht 15, no doubt others will confirm the exact scorers, I can't as I'm in France! Cheers

Come on Rob - what do the BSPA know about speedway? lol You never know though, they have to be right sometime. Mike Hunter will have a match report up on the Monarchs Official site, usually around midnight.

From the Chatzone Rob Heat 14 Fricke, Davey, Birks, Blackbird Result: Birks, Blackbird, Davey, Fricke (59) 1-5 (51-35) FTG Monarchs Chatzone Heat 15 Pijper, Cook, Birks, Auty Result: Pijper, Cook, Birks, Auty (Fell) (56.2) 5-1 (56-36) Monarchs take 1 & 3 Easy 5-1, Birks chased hard but never looked likely to pass. Monarchs Chatzone

Not the greatest viewing I agree. I did hear that plans to install temporary seating on the new 1st turn were knocked back due to health and safety reasons. After visiting Torun last month (15,00 capacity, all seated covered stadium provided by the council) I did think about asking West Lothian Council to build something similar for the Monarchs - would I be wasting my time?

Problem is that the M8 will be very busy at 4pm with Hibs fans going home? Well it was last year

Sunny now in Livvy Paulco I've no doubt that Glasgow had the fire brigade working overtime last night flooding the track to save you from a heavy defeat Being serious for once, while it's always disappointing to have a meeting called off, it's good to see that an early decision was made.

Plans are afoot to make the bends right handed for next year

Sunny but freezing wind in Livingston, I suppose that I could wrap up well but the Paulco/george.m approach of simply drinking enough to not notice the cold seems a far more attractive opposition! Looking forward to a decent meeting tonight with a 10 point win for the Monarchs

I'm just amazed to hear that Schramm fell off!!!

Indeed George, I'm sure none of us will accuse you of a sun-off with snow lying about But seriously, it's a real bummer that both our opening meetings are off with everyone geared up to go. Tigers have had some good publicity and hopefully any newcomers will try again next week. But what can anyone do when last March was 20 degrees and this March is minus 20 degrees? Fingers crossed for a milder week ahead and we get lift off next Friday/Sunday at our respective tracks

Video night on 14th Dec - I expect our all conquering team to be announced then!!

The last time I looked the winner of a race is decided at the end of four laps - I assume you have psychic powers that told you Cook wouldn't have passed anyone in front of him? Not like you to be bitter about anything to do with the Monarchs!

Well Done Cookie, best in the PL!!

Just home after a wet drive through Armadale, very heavy rain about 6.30pm killed any chance of racing tonight

Well done to Newcastle on finishing top of the League - If any other team win the play offs it will be a hollow victory - unless of course it is the Monarchs when I reserve the right to open the best malt and king eddie cigars!! I've never agreed with play-offs in any form of league sport - it simply favours the strongest team over a few meetings - leagues should be won over a season. It's often said that a lucky team can win a cup but only the best team over a season will win the league. Still with speedway in such a mess i can't deny the possible financial gain to the play off clubs - still don't like it though!

My ramblings from the Chatzone without any personal abuse to posters like Ipswich Jules And they say that cheats don't prosper eh? Not a great deal of good racing tonight on a slick slippy track after all the recent rain but the controversy more than made up for it. Ipswich looked really decent, every rider either won or looked like winning a race but their antics left a sour taste in the mouth. I can understand why Tressarieu and Tungate stayed down in consecutive heats to get a re-run when on a 5-1 against - every team does it! Surely the rules need changing here - why not make the remaining rider go off 15m if his team-mate is excluded when on a 1-5? Poole got away with murder in heat 7 when he turned right causing the Monarchs to do an emergency stop - every bit as bad as when Derek locked up and was excluded. But for Risager to actually knock off Derek in heat 10 on the last bend and get away with it was unreal, I can only imagine the ref didn't see it!! Good win for Monarchs in the end with Summers outstanding, hopefully we'll clinch that 6th place! After last Fridays's processions at least we have something to talk about!

£10 for a programme???? My entire weekend in Poland for a GP isn't much more - I went to Cardiff once, was excellent but everything was so overpriced ( hotel, ticket, entry to sheepland, parking, DRINK) I have no intention of going back. Cue mean Scot remarks