Noelinho

No Cami, you're wrong.

Our scoreboard is frequently slightly wrong. Never trust it!

They don't have to take a ride. The rule is you must take three rides. R/R can be dished out however you like, within the 7 ride constraint, and the 1-ride constraint for eligible reserves. There is no 4-ride minimum.

No passing at Glasgow? Not much tonight, but I can't think of any track in the UK with more passing week-to-week.

It's not over. We have Cami.

Agree Ace was lucky. Decent start but we usually do.

Don't think he's here. Injured last night in NDL action and withdrew.

Nonsense.

Yeah, flexibility disappears as soon as riders ride elsewhere. Which they all want to.

Vissing still R/R tonight. Think he is still going to be present though.

I was hoping it would look better. It's not raining at the moment. I took a detour past the track on the way to work and the pavements are still damp. A few puddles in places. No idea what's been done to the track though.

Ace is young. Sometimes he panics and overlocks. Hopefully he grows out of it, but it’s part of the growing pains. He can be very fast. Easier to coach a fast rider to stop crashing than to coach a slow rider to be fast. I wish he had grown a little more over the year, but he’s still got a higher average in meetings this year than Ablitt, Hagon and Killeen, none of whom get the stick Ace does. He was always expected to be firmly at number 7. He was never going to get any higher. The bigger question for Ace is probably why his National League form hasn’t been better.

The work on the drainage system is pretty impressive. That's no small amount of rain we've had since I got back yesterday.

Not looking any more promising. Thursday is the first day looking a bit better, but would be a weird day for us.

I very much doubt it. Track hasn't been dry for a couple of weeks. Our track staff are not very positive about track covers. Although we do have them, there aren't many situations when they are effective for us.

Any news on a re-staging date for this?

He occasionally posts on the Facebook page/group if he gets a lot of stick.Maybe once a season. He did it last year when he got stick for heat 15 choices against Poole. The response was basically "I had no choice". That's the usual response!

No protected heats in Championship (I think), but taking a #8 will probably cost because he's likely not getting a ride so won't want to pay out of his own pocket.

If replaced, no.

I believe they can come in at any point, like a reserve switch. No protected heats in this league. The only difference is 6 and 7 must have 3 rides, 8 can have 0. There's probably nothing to stop them coming in heat 15 if you send someone through the tapes and replace them rather than go off 15 metres...

I think in a normal meeting, you would be correct. But as there was a number 8 present, he could have taken the rides meaning Ace only needed the three rides to satisfy the regulations.

He'll be there.

It's 27C where I am. I'm coming in an Eskimo outfit on Sunday.

My understanding was protected heats are a Premiership/Rising Star thing, and not applicable in the Championship.

Rain is forecast, but not loads by Glasgow standards. The banking helps with drainage too. Of course the ground gets much colder at this time of year, which doesn't make it a lot harder. We'll see.