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He clearly had more of an influence than the owners gave him credit for. Though you can see from the owners point of view that in the three seasons SD picked the team we actually moved further away from winning the league, so its a fair shout for the owners to pick their own team this season. Its their money after all which helps us outperform our crowd size, though they have got the structure and some of the riders oh so wrong. Add to this the track changes and the move to bring in an Assistant Manager were all designed to dilute SD's remit and influence. I dont see them going back or even contemplating it.

Said that when SD left, now ringing true. Money wont conquer all as we know.

At least there seems a bit of fight about them tonight. Same old result though. Wonder if some know that was their last ride tonight, they as well as us can see we need freshened.

A damning half term report card though this could have been written a month ago. The Lakeside meeting at home is crucial and I'm not confident. Richard Lawson will be back to prove a point and Nick Morris will love the widened track, so that's our top two negated on current form. Keep going the way we are and our season will be over at the end of August. By a cruel twist of fate our last league meetings are back to back against the 0131, and how they would love to be the ones to finish off our playoff chances, if we haven't done that ourselves by then.

Im sure he retired before the new style silencers came in. Be interesting to see how he goes.

Thats a fair point, we could be forgiven for thinking he's doing a phased retirement and going to pack in at then end of this season. He's been pretty poor so far, let down by a somewhat endless run of mechanical issues and a lack of sharpness. I don't think he likes the Glasgow track and seems we have become the least important of his priorities. However we need moves at other clubs to be able to replace him.

Willie Lawson for Ruml at reserve! I'm sure he was at Ashfield last week, filled out a bit if it was!!!

I wonder if Glasgow are paying too well or even have guarantees for some. We seem unmotivated at the top end with very little fight or desire to improve.

Our home crowds havent been good since Edinburgh thrashed us at Ashfield. We are shaky at home never mind on the road.

This is just one in a long line of many. I don't buy into the don't panic mantra of the owners, this team will come good when the evidence is overwhelmingly otherwise.

Bit of a pumping down at Sheffield. Nine points from the top two doesn't help especially when our 5 point reserve on a false 3 point average decides he's going to bang in a couple of race wins. Well done to Sarjeant from his biggest critic. Can see Harris in the middle order at the next set of averages. This team needs changes, matches like this expose us even more than normal.

Nearly choking here!!

Dont like his performances, nothing personal.

Will we see Jack Smith, just released from Sheffield replace Sarjeant?

He's also pretty head strong and may be chosing not to invest in his equipment or being selective in his efforts whilst the pay issues go on. Worky would find it difficult to recruit a replacement if they dropped him, they couldnt even find a willing guest on Friday, so have to stick with him.

Yeah, for the second season! There is nothing out there to replace Sarjeant on 3.37 so we are stuck unless there are a raft of team changes at other clubs.

All in perspective. Campton never beat any of the Glasgow 1-5 but did a 2 pointer learning his trade and a 3 pointer on the way down. Had your TM been on the ball he would have given Campton a Bickley ride as his seventh which would have edged Worky closer to a league point.

We know, read the threads for our last 3 home meetings, we are desperate for changes. Mediocre teams keep turning up and running us over, just someone seems to have disconnected the alarm bells.

Decent meeting on a cold night. Worky did well as a 4 man team, Klindt was awesome, not what I expected and Campton got 11 from reserve without ever looking that great. Rider replacement for Proctor got 9 which is in the zone of what he would have scored but zero for Bewley isnt. His presence would have had us twitching. Worky rode the track well and again showed the home riders going out to the fence isnt always the fastest particularly running the inside line on turn four, like Nicholls last week. Starke was much more comfortable and Sarjeant got his only points in ht2. Perhaps more important was Michael Max was Team Manager, as he was at PB on Sunday. Have more changes been made behind the scenes?

Find it hard to believe Worky couldnt even convince a reserve from one of Ippo, Sheff and Redcar who arent riding tonight to turn out. Thats perhaps another downside to their cashflow issues.

Ouch. Been around a long time and still doing second halves. That seriously devalues this meeting. Keeps the Worky wage bill down though, bit less for the liabilities column this month.

Glasgow will def move heaven and earth to get this on, it could be months before Worky agree to come back. Gating boots on should see us through. Hopefully.

Swap you Bacon for our seasoned under performer at reserve! Disappointing result having been ahead early in the meeting, particularly from ht11 onwards. Its not like the Glasgow website to be so forthright, its usually flourishing with positivity, but it pulls no punches on the EF's and mistakes. Perhaps the frustration some fans have had this season is beginning to register with the key decision makers.

Sorry, cant get multi quote to work on my phone!

Absolutely, so every time a balanced team turns up at Ashfield we will struggle throughout the meeting and be taken to a last heat decider. Its Worky next week with Campton at reserve, so same again? Doesnt bode well for the rest of the season. Isnt the solution to restructure our team to become more balanced whilst we can. Redcar, PB and Berwick have all strengthened up over the last week and Newcastle's signing remains to be seen. However they are trying to improve rather than just accepting.