Mr Blobby

So the return of the replay which is virtually over now after Somerset won by a massive 26 point margin in Wednesday which has kind of took the edge out of this match for tomorrow. Either way I hope it's still a cracker of a meeting. Teams for friday: Edinburgh Craig Cook Derek Sneddon Theo Pijper Joe Tabaka Claus Vissing James Sarjeant (G) Max Fricke Somerset Jason Doyle Kyle Newman Alex Davies Josh Grajczonek Nick Morris Charles Wright James Mcbain (G)

Simply not good enough form certain members of the team! You can not be performing like that at such a crucial stage of the season especially with the play-offs coming up in the next few days! Well done to Somerset they can only beat what is in front of them and they certainly did that!

Right you stop trying to cause trouble some of us a very touchy and might take that to heart!

So here we go again after two fantastic legs in the first running of the semi final! Should be another cracker with the rebels hoping to take a bigger lead to the dale this time with the monarchs looking to keep it closer than the last time. Hard one to call with the rebels having Wright at reserve at the oak tree arena this time and Edinburgh having Max back at reserve instead of Derek Teams for Wednesday: Somerset Jason Doyle Kyle Newman Nick Morris Alex Davies Josh Grajczonek Charles Wright Oliver Greenwood (G) Edinburgh Craig Cook Derek Sneddon Theo Pijper Joe Tabaka Claus Vissing James Sarjeant (G) Max Fricke

Any guest for Morris (within his average of course) as he is higher than Mills (3.15) Morris (3.66). Not a lot out there to choose from for Workington. Or ourselves as all the usual NL league guests are riding. Can see Max cleaning up at reserve which could turn the tie completely.

So Peterborough v bell Vue has been postponed tomorrow so Cookie will line up at number 1 for the blue & gold tomorrow!

Still don't understand why Cook is getting slated for heat 15!!!! What were people expecting him to do, get off and shove and wait for the other 3 to catch up and hope Tabaka got past one of the Ipswich riders and that Cook didn't get past himself? Cook done the right thing clear off and win the race and give Tabaka the rest of the track to try and make a pass unfortunately that didn't happen so there isn't a lot that can be done about it now!

They will let you in the stadium and call it of at 3pm take your money and run!

How can you team ride with your partner if your partner is at the back?

It's a NL guest! (probably Liam Carr/James Sarjeant)

Will probably be Liam Carr again as wee seem to be using him a fair bit and he has scored everytime he has ridden for us as a guest and obviously max.

Ben Barker is back............. then gone before the meeting has even finished! poor lad haha Well CL your boys took one hell of a beating!!! Only really Lanham, Risager and sort off Barker were on the pace the rest rotten. Now onto the home boys Cook majestic, Derek was Derek, Theo was fast apart from 15, wee joe was fast all night and deserved more than the 5 he got, Claus had one of his better armadale performances, Young liam was very impressive again and Max was fantastic and never looked like he had been away. Got to laugh at CL when tungate fell he was out kicking the dirt at the 3rd bend and looking at it as there was something wrong with it, trying to find an excuse as always!

No guest max is riding!!!

So abandoned after 2 heats. Bit of a dilemma here when is the rearranged fixture going to be??? as all premier league fixtures need to be finished by Monday (i think ) if not someone will correct me. We are at home tomorrow, Ipswich Thursday, home again Friday and Newcastle Sunday, while Workington are holding the GB V AUS test match on Saturday so the only available dates are Wednesday or Monday.

Should have no problems getting this meeting on tomorrow as it's supposed to be dry all day tomorrow. Jacobs in for Hawkins makes no difference really as Jacobs won't be a threat. Hopefully Max will be okay for Tomorrow as he is hoping to be fit.

Maybe he would of scored more than usual but not as many a Bellego did today not a chance. Lets be honest if this was lets say a league match and both teams had full strength sides the outcome would have been the opposite of today's that's for sure.

So we try again after the original match was called off. The monarchs will have Henning Bager at reserve in place of Max Fricke who is hoping to make his return on Friday. Likely Line ups for Monday: Workington Richard Lawson Rusty Harrison Kyle Howarth Terio Aarnio Rene Bach Ashley Morris Chris Mills Edinbrugh Craig Cook Derek Sneddon Theo Pijper Joe Tabaka Claus Vissing Liam Carr (G) Henning Bager (G)

Well that was embarrassing!!!! How many times are we going to let Glasgow pick whoever they want in these SC matches because every time we do we are on the receiving end of a pumping! Derek and Joe showed no interest what so ever and were stinking. Barrett don't even know why he took the booking as he rode as if he didn't want to be there as he crawled around at the back. Pass marks for Matty, Theo and Vissing. As for Glasgow select they could only beat what was put in front of them which they well and truly did. Bellego scored a good 8 or 9 more than what Thomson would which was one of the reasons behind our defeat and the reserves as well.

Seems like there is a change of plan we now apparently have Matty at number 1 for cook and Barrett at 7 in place of max.

Not a great fan of these Glasgow select v edinburgh select matches. As they usually come back to bite us in the bum. So Glasgow have replaced the Dane who has a serious injury and can't ride today with bellego who's average is double thomsons and grajczonek for screen. While we have tommy fenwick at reserve for Mitchell davey and Matty wethers for the injured fricke, we are also running R/R for cook who has a virus. Can see us actully getting beat today as the tiggers have strengthened and we have weakened our side.

So henning hager guest for max fricke on Friday who hasn't recovered in time from his horrible crash last week. This makes the witches stronger at reserve but we have the stronger top 5 so should be a closer than people think

Another tough meeting for the boys in blue & gold with the witches making an appearance this time. Max is hoping to be fit for Friday but will be very doubtful so a guest can be used. As for the witches they will have Ashley Birks guesting at number 1 for the injured Ben Barker and will also have a guest in Kasper Lykke for the injured Ritchie Hawkins who always seems to get injured or a illness of some kind when ever he is supposed to be at Armadale but that's a different story. Line ups for Friday: Edinburgh Craig Cook Derek Sneddon Theo Pijper Joe Tabaka Claus Vissing Liam Carr (G) Max Fricke (if fit) Ipswich Ashley Birks (G) Cameron Heeps Rohan Tungate Leigh Lanham Morten Rasiger Adam Ellis Kasper Lykke (G)

Well done the lions on your win! But performances from captain deek and wee Joe like that at such a critical stage of the season is not what is needed tabaka mainly down to machinery as it usually is! Points lost in my opinion but still more to be won so we will just need to put that one behind us and move on to the next bring on those pesky witches!!! Oh forgot to say well done to cookie on beating his track record in heat 1 then 5 then 15 as well he is some man!!!

There is a very good chance that it will be R/R for max tomorrow after his heavy crash tonight.

Another great night at the Dale between these two teams!!! First of all would like to wish Max and Kyle all the best as it looked nasty! Would of liked to of seen us pull it off tonight and we probably should of but due to an under performing Vissing which is understandable due to the pain he has been in after the heavy crashes he has had in the last few weeks and going from 4 - 2's to 3 - 3's as well cost us. But on the plus side we all get to see 2 fantastic legs of speedway all over again!!!!