Not a classic meeting. Armadale still has people beat before they arrive unfortunately.
Edinburgh will never change it for that reason alone. Another factor is that the majority of the fans would rather see a skelping than a close entertaining meeting.
Attendance relates directly with success.
we’ll see this tonight at Ashfield, big crowd will be through as they will smell blood.
Surely there is a case for each rider to get a couple of laps to try the track before the meeting starts? This would prevent things like this happening.
Riders out individually or teams get a 5-10 session beforehand. The reason matches generally get better are that riders figure the track out. Surely it would be better for the sport if they were prepared at heat one.
I know people will say, riders should know etc etc but if track prep is unpredictable why risk it.
Give the riders a chance to entertain the fans
Really liked the 18 formula used in 93(?). Two reserve races helped bringing them on.
Would probably be too expensive to run now, and we wouldn’t have enough riders.
we really need to get the training track used to develop young local talent. On a related note, the training track looked immaculate last night.
Track was like a typical Glasgow lady, very wet and a little rough.
Track was there to be attacked. A half hour delay and the meeting would of been complete
The Scotland game being on at 02:00 on Sunday may have a part to play in it too.
It’s a shame the bus isn’t going. Still expect fairly healthy crowd of Tigers there on Saturday. Hopefully a better performance than last time.
Was an interesting match. KT has started the season very well.
Rushen’s move was horrible, do that to the wrong person and he will get hurt either on or off track.
Lidsey looked like he wanted to be anywhere but there.
Batch and Klindt are passengers that wake up every now and again. Half decent performance from any of the aforementioned 3 and Foxes win.
As much as I like to see Edinburgh struggle, it benefits no one forcing a team to go into a meeting under strength.
it will always come to the best interests of the sport.
We had to deal with Dan, Leon and Villads missing meetings last year. I would have been fuming if we couldn’t use a facility to replace them.
Why do we accept these off times to race against Edinburgh? Track will be different and probably suit them. It is like the ridiculous way we accept the Plymouth matches after riding up in Scotland.