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What a wonderful night . Couldn't get to Poole due to work commitments, but what a night we had at Ashfield . The team were amazing last night , I was one of the ones who doubted a 14 point lead would be enough down there , but from opening 5-1 the doubts disappeared as we ticked off the heats . But this is for the guys who has brought this club up from its knees . 2013 and 14 we were standing among the weeds on the back straight , turning up and watching us getting hammered every week . Fans selling possessions to help buy the first airfence ( ironically from Poole ) . Now we have a wonderful stadium ,a terrific track , a team who can now call themselves worthy champions . What a difference . Poole will bounce back from this , they have a cup final yet to race and if they win that they will have won two of the three competitions, hardly a disappointing season . Roll on 2024 , but please Glasgow , dont let Bomber leave .

Well done to Glasgow Speedway,the Facenna’s deserve it for the effort they have put into the Stadium and the Sport and it was a great Team effort from the the Tigers.Although take a bow Chris Harris that what the fans pay to see,absolutely brilliant over the 2 legs,some sensational riding.

Congratulations to the Tigs, who certainly deserved this over the two legs. Don't go with this sour grapes that Blobby has been spouting on here. If their owners have allegedly splashed the cash to assemble the side, so what, if my club was able to do so, I certainly wouldn't be complaining. The Facennas have also transformed Ashfield into one of the best stadiums & race tracks in the UK and it is fitting that they now have a Championship winning side to grace it.

The Champions. Travelling home in style. Meanwhile, up the back of the flight…

Could not understand what Leicester were thinking with those team changes to be honest. mental! I remember Harris as a 16 year old at Exeter in 1999, would never of thought then he would go on to have the career that he has had. Looked good around Exeter but rubbish away from home, as was the norm for all their riders apart from Colesy. He then came to Newport with Trelawny a few years later and got a faultless 15 point maximum beating Watson, Smart and PUK. Couldn't believe the difference in his from in a matter of seasons. He has been an absolute pleasure to watch for 25 years. Never looked a future world champion but always gives it his all. Be a sad day when he packs up.

It would have made no difference. As soon as Glasgow signed the ringer, the title was theirs. It made no difference which teams Poole had picked. Glasgow upgraded from a rider lucky to get a couple of points away, to a rider who topped the averages, on what, 9.4? . A second string no hoper to an Extraleague heat leader on a “legit” 5 points. From that moment the title was decided and no team, Oxford or Poole, could compete with a team who had got a huge points injection. It was “within the rules”, no matter how ridiculous the rules are for allowing an assessed 5 point premier league rider into the Championship in the same average, so Glasgow did nothing wrong, but as a competition, the Championship as a competition was at that moment killed stone dead.

A tasteless thread, love them or hate them, Poole has been the most successful team in speedway and every team should aspire to be at their level, when we lost to Poole a couple of years ago, Glasgow fans congratulated them, there was no animosity, we have fought to get to their level and we achieved it this season. I would hope that some Poole fans would have congratulated the travelling support as there are some really nice Poole fans, lets face it all teams have 1 or 2 that go too far. Poole are not finished yet they still have the KO cup to fight for,and already have the BSN trophy. As for Glasgow, we have put a lot in to upgrading facilities and stadium, and it is not extra money for riders from management, they try to get sponsorship for riders, anyway I am going to enjoy this season and look forward to the fight next season.

Drew kemp is doubtful, taresenko on standby to guest for scunthorpe at reserve.

Crowd was well over a thousand , which for a meeting hastily rearranged twice wasn't bad . The crowd levels at Glasgow are generally pretty healthy

I know its been difficult for you and I can understand your frustration but thought I'd add some facts to your emotional outbursts. From the BSPL web site, Marcin Nowak's Rolling Average from 14 meetings was 7.16. His real average (not Green Sheet) based on his 10 meetings this year was 6.70. His home average was 6.30 and his away average was 7.25. Now do you really think these are the figures of a "no hoper"?

Poole fans were very friendly and a credit to their club through the entire night. Gracious in defeat, and a good number stayed behind to applaud Glasgow being presented the trophy despite the pouring rain. And it was the same 2 years ago, unfortunately for us under different circumstances.

I just assumed he was coming to Berwick because it has a FREE car park

38 is what I've heard , but even that is unacceptable. They can't keep watering down the Championship and expect the fans to turn up and pay 20 odd quid to get in and watch a load of 6 point riders . We've finally got the title monkey off our backs . Time to think hard and see what ambitions we as a club really want . Yes the Monday and Thursday thing isn't ideal , but the size of the crowd that turned up at Ashfield last Monday shows what is possible if you have the right opposition . We have the facilities , we have the track fit for the Premiership.. Let's bite the bullet and move up

Now that the points limit has been agreed, Peter Facenna has discovered that Vadim has some Scottish ancestry from the ancient (but not very well known) Celtic-Russian alliance. He therefore qualifies for a British passport and will in fact be coming back next year on a 2-point average. From here on he’ll be known as Vadim Gus (short for Angus) McTarasenko.

Glasgow only signed Tarasenko due to Marcin leaving, there would have been no change if Marcin was not recalled by his Polish team. Granted the change did strengthen us, due mainly by moving Tom to 2 with Bomber, at the same time we lost our power house pairing of Claus and Ben and that lost us points

What happened to not talking about it?

Glasgow will be defending the league championship trophy next season 100%. Great club and good fans I'm glad they are staying put.

Congratulations to Glasgow Tigers. Just reward for a great club with great fans . Enjoy it guys .

I don’t think Poole choked, Glasgow were clearly the better side and had they had been able to field that team all season they would have finished top of the league no question. They finished with a top five that was ultra strong and pretty much had five heat leaders, Brennan and Vissing have and are potential 3rd heat leader quality at least.

He may not have been doing so well for Leicester but was still doing ok enough not to get dropped. Part of the reason for Leicester's collapse was the day they released Bomber, extremely poor management decision! No wonder he felt like packing up. Nonsensical !

Wet in Glasgow now, we're peeing ourselves laughing.

Congratulations to the Tigers, well deserved and commiserations to the Pirates. Very much a team effort tonight with all riders contributing and Chris Harris very much the leader. Pleased for Cami Brown, who takes a lot of stick (even from his own team's supporters), but always seems like a genuine speedway guy to me.

What a speedway rider Chris Harris has been and is, will be a sad day when he packs in.

Well done Glasgow, they deserved it, great performance over both legs, we were very poor but Harris was sublime, at least we can say we do get passing at Poole , like Monday mainly Harris doing all the passing. Obviously disappointed but congratulations to Glasgow and all your fans.

Just sitting here on my own, crying, drinking my flat white. Poole have become so irrelevant they can't even win the lower league anymore. Please leave your sympathy comments below

and Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, and Grub.

Biggest issue I can see is race night I think Friday works best for the Glasgow crowd. I don’t mind the odd off night but wouldn’t want Monday and Thursday to be our regular race night

I keep reading this and I always have the same thought.....a club like Glasgow with a good racetrack moving up would enhance the Prem, so even if one considered the top league to be 'inferior' it would be less so with Glasgow in it. You'd have seven in each division and a more even spread of the better circuits. Plus why would you not want to see the likes of Emil, Doyle, Bewley, Holder, Tai, Laguta, Lambert etc on a regular basis?

Why would they want to move up to an inferior product

Congratulations to all at Glasgow. Been so impressed with how the club has improved on and off the track and also the friendliness of the fans. Came up to Glasgow in 2017 and @Gazc went out of his way to help me when he didn't need to. Had a brilliant night there for a derby match vs Edinburgh (Bewley max) and been rooting for you to get the title ever since. The club does so many good things off the track as well, especially social media and community activities.

This place is mental. Honestly, I’ve never know so many grown adults to call one another names. It’s insane and I’ve been on the end of it. Poole will use last night as motivation. They won’t forget seeing Glasgow’s riders and staff celebrate around Wimborne Road, so I’ve no doubt they’ll be as competitive as ever next season. Celebrating without class is the sign of a poor winner, but I’m not just referring to this topic. I don’t know @Steve Shovlar, but even following his gracious acceptance of defeat, he was being goaded and questioned last night. A bit of class wouldn’t go a miss.

I'm late to the party as I'd avoided seeing the result and I only got to watch it in the early hours, after work. Congratulations to Glasgow & their fans. That was an epic title winning performance. Every Glasgow rider contributed by scoring vital points, stopping Poole getting the 5-1's they badly needed and can feel immensely proud. For me, heat 10 summed that up. Was hoping the Pirates could could get the better of Basso for a last chance saloon 5-1, but then Complin pulled out that performance keeping Lawson behind him for 3 laps and scored a vital 2 points. Brilliant

Hasn't Worrall got the small matter of a failed drug test hanging over him? Team managers have little say when it comes to money and riders... well they never used to.

Just got in having struggled to get out of the car park. Congrats and well done to the Tigers, especially Bomber. In my opinion despite winning the coin toss the wrong gates were chosen by Poole in both meetings, but hey ho you can't win them all. Congrats again.

Wonder where I was? Just got back and first of all congratulations to Glasgow on their title. By far seemed to want it more, and although Pirates rallied in the first leg, the damage was done when the Glasgow track suited the home riders. We were the better team through heats 9-15 of the first leg, and all of the second, but meetings are run over 30 heats and not 22 and Glasgow fully deserved it this year. Bomber was a second faster than any other rider on show tonight. He would have gone through the card like he did in the first leg if he had really had to. But the job was already done and it was raining quite hard. Why take an unnecessary risk? Brennan and Tarasenko backed him up and it was job done. Pirates by comparison seemed languid in both meetings. Poole again threw points away but even if it had been all four back when Worrall was excluded, it wouldn’t have made any difference, just narrowed the size of the victory. Since the signing of Tarasenko, Glasgow have been by far the strongest team in the league and as I predicted when he was signed they would go on and lift the title. Proved right unfortunately for us. Next up the KO Cup and a trip to Scunthorpe. Better raise our game or that will be heading up north as well. Well done Tigers.

Ah right understand it perfectly fine now. Thanks for clearing that up mate.

You don't think nowak could've matched his 8 from 5 rides, which was 5 from his first 4 rides? Tarasenko was pretty average both legs against Oxford. But don't let that get in the way of your flawed logic

Let’s be honest if Poole had won on aggregate he wouldn’t even mention Tarasenko.

I can't add any more reactions but if I could some would have been "likes" and some "laughs" I'll leave it to everyone to work out which comments they would have been for.

It would enhance the Premiership ,but they have a good product at Championship level and additional expense would possibly need a bigger crowd to make it financially viable and that could be the problem given the state of the sport.Poole dropped down for financial reason and the are probably the best supported Team in the League. Its not the Championship that has been problem in recent years.Although they are starting to dwindle in numbers these days. But everything is rosy they tell us.

That’s speedway !

Don’t worry, when Bomber got the choice he often chose the wrong one. Eventually he realised it was easier to choose heat 15!

Birmingham seem to live under the cloud of closure constantly. To step up a league under those circumstances is foolishness of the highest order. If they do then I doubt they’ll be coming to the tapes at all for 2025.

As the fog clears from my hangover, had a thought. Do Poole fans think that by choosing the easy group in the play offs may have affected them? Glasgow were battle hardened from 2 tough matches with Oxford and fighting back from 10-2 down at Redcar. Whereas scunny at home apart Poole cruised through. Son of god's move on Lee apart I don't recall any all out going for gaps you might expect from a team behind in a play off final

If they were it would have been posted in Div 1 section lol

Almost unbeatable over both legs and was good for Sheffield too, not so good for Leicester earlier in the season. I believe he should have been in world cup too.

Very respectable response Sir see you all again in 2024.

7 whisky's for the 7 riders, that sounds about right to me. Guess whose no making work tomorrow. Beats a flat white anyday. Come on the Tigers

It happens, 2010 was worse! It is a strange feeling not winning but another well done to Glasgow, they deserved it.

Absolutely superb from the Glasgow promotion in showing the final in their stadium on their big screen... something that was sadly missing from Leicester last year!