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Todays meeting has been called off http://www.glasgowtigers.co/?p=3096

Todays meeting V Plymouth is ON

Guys the newsletter will be sent out every week as it is our wish to keep the supporters informed with what is happening on and off the track. Many thanks for the feedback all will be taken on board as this is your club and we are all fans of the Tigers

Dear Tigers fan, We bring you exciting news. A slightly irregular issue of Red Alert given that it is Saturday night, however we wanted to share some absolutely brilliant pre Christmas news with you that Tigers have our penultimate signing in place .. our xmas present to you! Arriving at Ashfield, to bolster our Premier League challenge in the new season is none other than the ultra stylish and exciting JAMES WRIGHT. James is a rider with considerable experience at Premier and Elite League level, and of course if a former Conference and Premier League riders champion and previous winner of the Scottish Open title. He arrives at Ashfield with a very modest 6.73 starting average which was achieved within a very strong Somerset side last season. We can tell you that James is exceptionally pleased to link up with the Tigers having had some very good performances around Ashfield in the past, including coming very close to winning the Ashfield Classic in 2010 before outside intervention (Boooo Ryan Fisher)! Speaking only this evening, having returned from holiday, James looked forward to the season ahead: I like it at Glasgow, and I have always been well received by the fans there and genuinely look forward to the fresh challenge ahead. I have spoken several times to Alun and Sean about 2013 and genuinely get the impression that I will get every encouragement to have a really good season. I enjoyed my year at Somerset and know full well that I have room for improvement in my scoring and consistency which is definitely something I will be looking to deliver on for Glasgow in the year ahead. I know Joe (Screen) and James pretty well and, from what I am hearing from the clubs management, Glasgow is going to be a pretty good place to be. I look forward to meeting up with the fans in the new year. Tis the season to be gifting. A brief reminder that we have extended our discounted season ticket offer period until 31st December and that purchases within this period is inclusive of complimentary admission tickets and exclusive Tigers themed DVD! The best, and quickest, way to take advantage of this is to visit the Season Tickets Page of the club website www.glasgowtigers.co and either: 1. download the application form (to be sent, with your cheque) to the address shown, or 2. securely purchase your season ticket online using a debit/credit card (or PayPal account). Please note that online purchases do carry a surcharge (as detailed) to cover the payment processing fees which are levied. We value your views Please keep an eye on the club website over the next couple of nights for the launch of our supporter survey as an opportunity for you to provide us with some invaluable feedback which, collectively, we can use to help plan future changes and activities which will make your enjoyment of Glasgow Speedway even greater. We will be allowing a couple of weeks for responses to be returned, and will announce some prizes for 5 lucky participants. We will announce the survey results at the STARs event in February. And finally Have yourselves a Tigeriffic Christmas! So, there are lots of things happening, and lots of exciting news yet to announce in the weeks and months ahead. The journey has only just begun, we want you to follow, and support, us along every step of the way between now, 2013 and beyond! Please continue to spread the word amongst family, friends and workmates about signing up for Red Alert, and about all things Glasgow Speedway Please dont be afraid of speaking out and telling us what you think, after all, this is not our speedway club, it is yours! Mon the Tigers Alun, Gordon, Colin, Craig, Derek & Ian P.S.: Thanks for already playing YOUR part in supporting the RED REVOLUTION. Together we are an unbeatable combination!

"The new promotion at Glasgow Speedway have launched a weekly e-newsletter for Tigers minded fans - and speedway fans everywhere! Dropped directly into your inbox, our e-newsletter not only brings all the latest news from the home of Glasgow Tigers but will also bring interviews with many big names in world speedway. Glasgow's Speedway Star correspondent Bryan Copland will be speaking to several big names inclusive of new World Champion Chris Holder and Elite League title winning Swindon team manager Alun Rossiter. Our series of interviews will be exclusively published in our new e-newsletter. So what are you waiting for! If you haven't already signed-up, please send an email request (with your full name please) to info@glastigers.co.uk and we will add you to our mailing list. Please be assured that any requests, and associated data, will only be stored by Glasgow Speedway and used for contact purposes strictly in relation to Glasgow Speedway. We will action all requests to unsubscribe and will not share or pass data to any third party. If you already receive the weekly e-newsletter, please help us spread the word and suggest that fellow supporters send us a request to join the Red Revolution!"

"Glasgow Tigers Promotion have made a commitment to communicate with all of our supporters - all year round - to allow them to have a voice and make them feel an integral and valued part of their club. We have recently re-started a weekly e-newsletter - delivered directly into subscriber inboxes - which is currently issued to in excess of 500 supporters. The e-newsletter content is intentionally differently flavoured to that of any media releases and is very much focused at letting our supporters know about the things which most interest them both on track and off. The next issue is due in the next couple of days and will preview some forthcoming events and news which will interest and intrigue every Glasgow fan! If you haven't already signed-up, please send an email request (with your full name please) to info@glastigers.co.uk and we will add you to our mailing list. Please be assured that any requests, and associated data, will only be stored by Glasgow Speedway and used for contact purposes strictly in relation to Glasgow Speedway. We will action all requests to unsubscribe and will not share or pass data to any third party. If you already receive the weekly e-newsletter, please help us spread the word and suggest that fellow supporters send us a request to join the Red Revolution!"

Has Helfer been dropped

As the season culminates, there are clubs who have publicly announced problems and suggested the possibility of – at best -- ownership changes. It is familiar territory to both our clubs in action tonight. In our 44-year history, the Bandits have had six main owners. Although the majority of transitions have been peaceful transactions, twice in that time (in 1989 and 2008) there has been a ‘bit of an emergency’ when the outgoing owner/promoter announced his intention to close the club down unless someone was prepared to take over in the fairly-narrow window between season’s end and the BSPA conference in November. Both times, a buyer came forward and the club progressed. The second time, progressed hugely. Our friends who are here tonight from up the road are currently facing a similar problem. As someone who first watched the Tigers while at primary school, I naturally hope the moves currently afoot in the big city to achieve a peaceful transition, between the present ownership and any prospective incoming buyer who might be knocking on their door, work out. While I recognise that ‘my’ Tigers (you always remember your first love, don’t you?) are currently wobbling a bit as regards a buy-out, the Glasgow club has been in much worse situations in the past. In 1954 I was in tears (I was only little) when they ran half-a-dozen or less meetings and pulled out the league, closing down for a whole ten years. In mid-season 1987 and six different circuits down the line they were in every bit as much trouble, getting thrown out of the league for a series of some of the worst attempts at promoting speedway you ever did see, let alone an overdraft – with no prospect of redemption – of over £50,000. Believe me, in the autumn of that year, Glasgow Tigers were without a doubt dead in the water. That they were resurrected and installed at Shawfield Stadium over the very wet winter of 1987/88 only thanks to the brilliant organisational skills of the late Neil Grant (a hero largely airbrushed out of Tigers’ history) is now rarely chronicled, and tonight we find our friends at an eighth track and yet again experiencing a wobble. However, this is not their greatest crisis when compared to the two I mention above, and I do believe there will be speedway in Glasgow next season. Fingers crossed, Tiger-people! For those wanting to catch a glimpse of the wondrous pleasuredome that is Ashfield – just in case – there would be no better time to do so than tomorrow afternoon, when our A&J Scott Bandits are racing. Tapes up at 4pm. As opposed to 1987/88 (when the bad weather was mainly confined to winter, where it belongs) this has been a truly awful summer, and Sunday past’s PLRC at Sheffield was just one more meeting to suffer wet-weather woes. The really galling bit is that there was not a whit, not a jot, not a whisker of doubt in my mind that Seb was going to win the thing. Now we have to await another fortnight for the restaging (1pm start!) although (of course) I’m still fully confident of the lad’s chances! On the subject of the PLRC, I applaud the BSPA’s decision to allow everyone who was at the original staging to use their raincheck tickets to return without a further charge, or that southern-based supporters can use the same readmission tickets to visit the ELRC at Swindon six days later. Well done, promoters! Finally this week I wanted to mention how well Argentinian Nico Covatti has adapted to the Elite League since joining Birmingham. The folk on TV seem to think he’s an Italian but be assured he ain’t, although (like so many Argentinians who have European ancestry) he is entitled to have two passports. Anyway, Nico has done splendidly since pitching up at Perry Barr, and since I had watched him in action at Bahia Blanca during my wee trip down there in January, I’m really pleased for him. I’m also pleased for our own Bandits. Because our “own Argentinian” Facu Albin, was able – in their clashes I saw, late in their season – to certainly match and often beat his pal Nico when they raced each other. Wee Facu’s got that much potential, and given the chance to bed himself into British circuits next spring, just watch him realise it!

Just to confirm guys info I received from IMG I can confirm that practice will be open to ticket holders only. Access via Gate 3 – gates open 14:30. Must be the first time I have answered my own question

Does anyone know it ticket holders are allowed to watch the practice on Friday. I know that this has happened before but cannot see if it will be the same this year.

You could get a taxi from Udine to the track but the problem is always getting back at the end of the meeting. We had a car last yaer as we were stay in Verona and we gave a couple of guys a lift back to there hotel but I know Andy Smith walked it back and it is about 1 hour walk

The draw takes place at 13.00 local and practice starts at 15.00. I don't know if it is open to the public but the Press office is open from 12.00 to 15.30

The wild card and reserves for the opening round of the 2010 FIM Speedway Grand Prix season has been confirmed. Wearing the number 16 race jacket at the FIM Otomoto.pl European Speedway Grand Prix, on 24 April in Leszno, Poland, will be 26 year old Polish rider Janusz Kolodziej. This is the first time Kolodziej will ride in a Grand Prix as a wild card, he has previously been a track reserve at GP’s held in Poland and is a regular first team member of the Unia Leszno club. Kolodziej’s compatriots, Damian Balinski and Maciej Janowski, take up the number 17 and 18 track reserve berths respectively. This is the third consecutive year that 33 year old Balinski is a track reserve at the GP in Leszno. Maciej Janowski (19yrs), currently holds the record as the youngest rider to participate in a Grand Prix when, at 17 years and 17 days, he took his place in the main body of the field as replacement for the injured Niels Kristian Iversen at the 2008 FIM Final SGP held at Bydgoszcz. Credit to FIM website

I would almost be as good a laugh as watching Team England sorry Team GB in the world cup most years

I will take Spain again, won me £50 for the European Championship win plus I also had Italy two years before that and that was £60

We took in Terenzano last year and I will try and answer your questions. I think Udine is the nearest place to stay as the track is next to a small village but just off the Autostrada. If you hire a car there is plenty of free parking in the fields next to the stadium. The fields are all marked up for car parking. I think you would strugle to get any public transport back to Udine, you could book a local taxi to take you there and come back for you I am sure your hotel could sort this out for you. We flew into Milan(only direct cheap flights from Scotland) and hired a car and stayed in Padova(as we were staying on for 3 days and know the area well). the road to the stadium is great and easy to find. If you need any more info just let me know. Ian

Just two this year, well at the moment. Leszno and Terenzano Had to do Leszno as Leigh Adams has promised us a tour of the pits

Yip Sandie you are spot on. The figures I gave you are what it says at the bottom of my screen on Google earth, but if I put your figures in it takes me to the same place. Hope you enjoy the meeting the forcast is 25c and sunny

Hi Sandie I will check this out tonight and get back to you. What type of sat nav are you using as I have programmed it into my Tom Tom.

Using Google Earth I have it at 46"00"05.52"N 13"13"39.58"E

You can pick your tickets up at the track this year as well it was an option on the delivery page. I booked mine and will pick them up on the day at the track.

Mitch was only called up late last week and he still made it there with bikes and rode at Glasgow yesterday. No excuss for a 4 man team

Italian GP tickets now on sale at www.ticketone.it Got mine booked

The web address for Green Ticket is http://www.greenticket.it/index.html?imposta_lingua=ing

Looking at goole earth it look as if it is the same set up as Lonigo with about 1000 seats and the rest is standing or sitting on the grass banking. The company that sold the tickets for Lonigo is called Green Ticket and you pay online and collect your tickets at the track. I will look out my tickets from last year and get the web address. Ian