DavyH

Time to start putting some lemonade in the bundy Bryn! Best wishes for a quick and full recovery.

They'd need a few days to do that George

C'mon Paulco young Mr Bates, can't have ridden the Dale often but soon mastered it! But what a fantastic meeting with some great close racing. With the Rebels having such a strong top three, it was imperative that Monarchs paced themselves to get 8 in front. It all went wrong in heat 13 though before Josh and Joe team rode superbly in 14 to get it back to 8 up. Still a twist in the tale as Cook had to come from behind to secure the necessary 3-3 in heat 15. A great contest between two very strong teams with Monarchs strength in depth just winning out over the strong top three of the Rebels. Hope the big crowd is back next week!

Sneddon replaced Davey in blue.

Unfortunately his big points haul came at the expense of an injury to Mitchell Davey - hopefully he will make a speedy recovery, he's not had any luck.

Looks like a Monarchs reunion

I think to be fair that caithglen is merely commenting on a photo rather than apportiioning blame. We should be thankful that both riders got off relatively lightly - worst crash I have seen at Armadale and I was probably the closest spectator to it. I stood on the hill above the pits area about 15 yards from the crash, next to the dressing rooms so that I could hear when doing the Chatzone Updates. I feared the worst tbh, my first move was to get my 8 yr old granddaughter away from the scene as she was obviously upset. Abby was delighted to get my note in the morning saying that Claus was OK and Rob had "only" a sore arm. Hopefully there will be a few £££ handed in for Claus on Friday to help with bike repairs and Rob will be back in the saddle soon.

Calm doon Mr Fire! First of all I don't do twitter and nowhere on here have I saw what you say mentioned. I'm happy to take your word on that and as a result I don't think Cook is right this time. However, if you read what I said, I was merely asking if the reason was financial or otherwise for Cookie turning down the invite. Look at the first word in my third paragraph! It says "perhaps" - it's called offering an alternative view - having debate on a forum. The most important point is that both Cook and Barker settle their differences off track (peacefully!) and get on with their careers safely.

I can understand why you and many others would think that BigEd but I think Cookie has already shown he can learn from his mistakes - remember he couldn't ride Shielfield until the last year? Also I think we are aware that he had major problems away from speedway a couple of years ago but he got himself sorted out to become the top PL rider. I never commented before on Ippogate but from all reports both riders deserved a fine but Cook lost it in the discussion with the ref - he acknowleged this the next day and indeed apologised for his actions and the fact that he let down his team mates and fans. At the same time Mr Barker was spouting off to the Sun that "it wasn't me, it was a big boy that done it" Perhaps when Cookie said he couldn't afford to be in this GB challenge he meant it not from a financial viewpoint but that it was too soon to get involved with Barker again? There's another one, possibly three Edin v Ippo clashes this year and hopefully both riders will have cleared the air before the first one, after Scunny last Friday and Edinburgh this Friday, we have seen how dangerous this sport can be without riders going on track bearing a grudge. Hopefully by the time they next meet, they will have had enough time to reflect and concentrate only on their racing.

We did try to run it in the spring time but it snowed or rained, tried to run it in summer but too sunny!! (well that's not been brought up for a while!) Will be interesting tomorrow with Monarchs possibly weakened whether Claus rides or not and Tigers hoping their new look team will gel and Mr Screen with a new engine. For Paulco, I think we won the first leg about 100 -0 so hopefully Monarchs can win this much coveted trophy maybe in a race off? On a serious note, there's a subsidised Monarchs bus to Glasgow with the aim of boosting Glasgow's air fence fund - good to see the teams working closer this year!

And the latest I have heard is a dislocated elbow for Rob - after seeing that crash that is still a relief

From official Monarchs site - "http://www.edinburghmonarchs.co/news/article.asp?id=1418

I think such discussions are for another day mick, just now the main concern must be for the riders. It appears from Monarchs facebook that Robert has arm/shoulder/back pain, Claus sore head, both riders being checked over in hospital. Hopefully we'll hear better news tomorrow, thoughts and best wishes to both riders for now.

Tell you what Martin, to avoid you having to change your user name, I'll vote no There again if we go independent Glasgow have a chance of finishing second in the Scottish PL lol

And you wonder why we want Independence!!

England are not riding in the forthcoming meetings though, GB are. You may care to check out Mr Tully's place of birth and where he grew up!

You mean Team GB of course!

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