Paulco

Seems to be a touch of the Henning Bagers about Ales Dryml . Scores about 5 whether it's EL or PL

Whatever happened to Eric Carrillo ? Out of his depth at Wolverhampton , came to Glasgow and showed a modicum of potential at that level . But at the end of the 2004 season he disappeared never to be heard of again .

Edinburgh will provide a sterner test than Redcar , but the Bandits look a solid unit and i expect them to come out on top . The size of the victory depends pretty much on Edinburgh's reserves . Steve Worrall was outstanding home and away against Glasgow , his form will determine how close Edinburgh push Berwick

God himself , Steve Lawson . He was Glasgow Tigers from 1978 till 1992 . Probably never see such loyalty ever again in speedway

Not got it yet , the cheque's in the post . So the bar getting drunk dry will have to wait till next Sunday

It's pretty obvious the doubling up thing has now spiralled out of control . It really has to be looked at again because from one week to the next we dont know who's going to be riding for who .

Disappointed but not downhearted . True it's never nice to be defeated by ones so smug , but there was enough to give us heart for the rest of the season . Rusty was superb , the way he flew round the team riding Golden Child and whoever his partner was , was really special . Pijper and Lemon were steady and Agent Wolbert wont have to ride against his paymasters every week . Dimitri Berge got better as the meeting progressed and the signs are he'll do alright once he settles into Premier League racing . The two reserves are giving us the most encouragement though , and as neither can gate for toffee we are in for some exciting moments from them both . As for the Smug septet , well they flluked the win thanks mainly to the lesser Worrall and the annointed one . Steve Worrall's brother was obviously sneaked into his kevlars while nobody was looking and St Craig serenely breezed to an effortless maximum . Much sterner tests are to come in the coming weeks and we will have to up a level among a couple of our ranks , but i think we'll be a mid table side at least .

Cold , overcast , but dry . Should be no problems weatherwise , but wrap up well folks

The changes to the track to accomodate the air fence has resulted in the fasted time of last night's meeting at Edinburgh becoming the new track record . That was Craig Cook , who else , in heat 1 at 56.1 . According the last night's programme , the old length was 260 metres and the new length has still to be confirmed .

would give all our ears a break from that megaphone if you did

Hard work with the old foot pump though

The Bible for the season , well done the Speedway Star yet again for a wonderful publication . Apart from the dodgy bloke doing the Newcastle fan review

So the Monarchs bring a 14 point lead along the M8 from Smugville . Not sure if you still get the big spring in the plank of wood for winning this , or a blow up model with a strange facial expression . Anyway 14 points to peg back is doable if we have blown all the cobwebs away after our opening two fixtures . These were the line ups in Smugville last night , so i presume we'll stick to it . Glasgow Smugbusters Tigers 1 Kevin Wolbert 2 Mark Lemon 3 Theo " thank god i'm a Tiger again " Pijper 4 Dimitri Berge 5 Rusty Harrison 6 Kasper Lykke Nielsen 7 Anders Thomsen THEM 1 The Blessed Cookie 2 Samantha Fox 3 The Golden Child 4 Desperate Deek 5 Sam " i guested for the Tigers once "Masters 6 Justin " so did i " Sedgmen 7 The lesser Worrall Presumably the ref will either be the Grand Monarch or his apprentice and hopefully we do what we did last night and gave all the riders , even Samantha , their programmed rides . Prediction , Glasgow 60 THEM 30 .

With the temperature as it was , you never heard many complaints . But to be fair to the Grand Monarch , there was no decisions that had to be made in the Monarchs favour and the meeting was sped through at a brisk pace , and that didn't detract any from the entertainment .

Early forecast promises a dry day , but it is the speedway season . And we dont do micro climates we have sun offs remember

Decent sized crowd as well tonight , with a fair few from Glasgow there . Hope it gets reciprocated on Sunday . Edinburgh's air fence does look mightily impressive

Berge looked a bit wild in his opening ride , before he eventually fell . Was more tentative after that . Difficult place to make your debut . We'll see more from him on bigger tracks

Lemon was unfortunate when he got into a bit of a fankle when we were on a 5-1 , seemed to get to close to it . But we got gifted a 5-1 later on when Sedgmen's chain seemed to snap , so that evened things . Lykke and Thomsen gives us real hope in the early weeks till Berge drops to reseve

Good post George , a thoroughly entertaining meeting for a pre season friendly

We heard tonight that it will be r/r for Wells and Chris Schraam in for Ashley Morris . This doubling up or down whatever it is , is going to be troublesome .

Was not too bad a pipe opener i thought , some really good races there . The four reserves on show gave enough cause for optimism for both sides . The two rookies , Fox and Berge , struggled a bit , but it's early days for both of them . But both teams can take a bit of heart out of tonight's showing .

The cold was gauranteed , just hope this heavy rain is just here and not in Smugville

Oh well here's the first - it's raining here in the west , what's it like at Armadale ? - of the season . No doubt to be answered by " Armadale has it's own micro climate so nobody knows "

24 hours till the action through in Smugville commences , bring it on

Miners lamp for filling programme purposes all ready , raring to go now , c'mon the Stripes