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  4. Posted

    2 hours ago, Fromafar said:

    Hotel prices in Central Edinburgh at that time of year are extortionate.

    So I see, but coming from the south east it's similar to London or any other European city so have found a couple reasonable deals, but they are based on 2 night's hence not really wanting to stay in Glasgow although will spend the day there Friday to see the sights

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    13 minutes ago, Gazc said:

    Mis-understood on the taxi query it will take around 1 hour to the centre of Edinburgh and 70-80 pounds or thereabouts.

    Thanks, I'll  have to have a think about it, really wanted to stay in Edinburgh both night's but will perhaps look into staying in Glasgow

  6. Posted

    7 minutes ago, Gazc said:

    It will take you 10 mins to get from the stadium to Queen Street Station, I will let someone advise on the Waverley one as I am not too sure.  

    Appreciate the info Gazc, 10 minutes seems ok, +1 hour from Glasgow to Edinburgh, and thanks for the message

     

    It will be Friday 1st June  v Scunthorpe, I will message you a bit nearer the time

     

     

    The cab querie was getting a taxi from Ashfield back to Edinburgh if no trains were unavailable

     

    Coming to the speedway was not my reason to come to Scotland, but would love to catch a meeting while I'm there

  7. Posted

    4 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

    Being from the East I would suggest staying in Glasgow on the Friday after speedway,as you would take while to get back to Edinburgh on public transport.Bus and train required just to get back to Edinburgh not taking into account where  you are staying in Edinburgh.Good 2 hrs travelling at least IMO .

    Thanks for that, I've not booked a hotel yet but was looking in Edinburgh old town centre so wouldn't be too far from Waverley, would a taxi be ridiculously expensive?

     

    How easy is it to get from Ashfield to Queen Street station?

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  8. Posted

    A little help required if you don't mind

     

     

    To cut a long story short, my 10 year old lad, when given the choice of a few days away with his old man, and told he could pick anywhere in reason  to go, has chosen Scotland

     

    End of May/Start of June, so a quick look at the fixtures show me Glasgow are riding at home against Scunthorpe, I will be flying up to Edinburgh on the Thursday so will be completely reliant on public transport. Is it a fairly easy thing to get from the speedway back to Edinburgh after the meeting, baring in mind I have a youngish kid with me?

     

    Or would it be better to get accommodation in Glasgow for the Friday night?

     

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

  9. Posted

    38 minutes ago, Daniel Smith said:

    That's my point, those at the stadium know nothing of Doyle's injuries like the rest of us. They have no right like people on social media saying he's only got concussion. The facts at the moment is nobody has a clue. So just wait from an official press release or Doyle himself. Everything else mention IS just speculation.

    The man himself has tweeted to say he is ok

     

    https://twitter.com/Jasondoyle43/status/983067530112786432

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  14. Posted

    On ‎18‎/‎03‎/‎2018 at 7:45 PM, Steve Shovlar said:

    Looking at my wizja tv plugin on kodi, all the sports channels still show. I can’t test as when I click on nsport for example it asks for a username and password. Mine has expired and I won’t renew just yet as it would be dead money.

    I have installed goldvod.tv on my kodi box but the options for buying a membership are basically diabolical. Bitcoin, and unheard of dodgy sounding sites where I wouldn’t risk anything. It says it takes ebay gift money but I don’t know how that works. Can someone who has done it put it down in simple steps with links?

    Widja takes paypal. Couldn’t be simpler.

    my subscription is still valid as i paid for a year

     

    none of the channels were working when i tried at the weekend, not even eleven sports or polsat

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  20. Posted

    I would agree that from a fan point of view then a Raiders team is a great idea but sadly I suspect most of us have seen how few of our fellow fans will watch a Premiership/Championship team and also watch a National League team at the same track on a regular basis. I have seen the size of crowds over the years at National League meetings at tracks that have a team in one of the higher leagues and with that knowledge I can understand why promoters do not want to run two teams at many tracks. What is needed is fixture lists that give a full programme of fixtures in the league of choice then tracks could run a full programme with just one team.

     

    Rye House has been the track I have visited the most in the last year and this season they ran/planned home meetings as follows:-

     

    April - 4 Saturday night

    May- 2 Saturday night (1 rained off), 1 Bank Holiday afternoon, 1 Junior on a Sunday afternoon

    June - 1 Wednesday night, 1 Junior on a Sunday afternoon

    July - 1 Saturday night

    August - 4 Wednesday night (2 rained off), 1 Saturday night, 1 Bank Holiday night, 1 Tuesday night

    September - 1 Friday night, 1 Monday night

     

    Just shows how uneven a fixture list Rye House landed up with. Two senior meetings in two months during the middle of the season with four meetings in eight days at the end of the season. I would agree a Raiders side could have filled some of the blank dates but would they have broken even, let alone made a small profit? The questions we really need to find an answers to are how does a track run a season with regular meetings that will be supported by the fans? Are we willing to have a meeting once a fortnight or do we want weekly meetings? Do we want to watch racing in two leagues or will we only support the team in the higher league?

     

    Personally, I am happy to watch racing in all three leagues given the chance but find weekday meetings much easier to attend due to other committments at weekends.

    I attended every meeting that was on a Saturday but can't make weekdays meetings due to time restraints/work. I felt a bit short changed after supporting them every week until about June, then only seeing 1 more meeting

     

    How were the crowds for the weekday meetings, anything like the Saturday crowds?

     

    If I'm honest I wouldn't travel to Rye to watch National league with both Kent and Lakeside closer

  22. Posted

    Fair enough if you had more on Worrall.

     

    Out of interest what would have happened if I had withdrawn all money from account this morning. Would they have put account into negative figures?

     

    was wondering the same, they settled my Worrall bet before they took away the Bewley one, I hadn't mentioned they got that wrong but they obviously noticed when they were re checking the scores, if I had been quick I could have withdrawn my whole balance before they reclaimed their bewley money

     

    don't suppose there is anything they could do bar deduct it next time you put money in

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