Paulco

Once the early morning haze burns away , it will be a lovely afternoon . Obviously the Comets will fancy their chances of all 4 points , and all recent form suggests that . But our boys will be fired up to end this terrible run we're on . C'mon the stripes .

Yes you really feel so sorry for the team on the receiving end of an 8-1

Yes , the Croatian national football team know all about that

So a fortnight after our home humiliation at the hands of " the beast from the east " , the meetings don't get any easier for our misfiring Tigers . Since the Edinburgh match we've lost the services of James Wright , who has seemingly fell out of love with the sport and has looked a shadow of his former self , and we've lost Joey Ringwood to injury which happened in that crash with Mitchell Davey . So it's Scunthorpe's impressive Ashley Birks guesting for Wright , and r/r for Ringwood . But we'll have to raise our game dramatically to get anywhere near the Comets . Couple of ex-Tigers in the Comets' ranks in the shape of Rusty Harrison , Chris Mills . And of course there's his holiness , the Son of God Richard Lawson who also is joint track record holder . Really is about time he took up his birthright . How Workington cope without their early season hero , Micky Dyer , will tell us if they can challenge for a play off place , but going by the way Glasgow have seemed to have lost their way , they must be strong favourites to claim all 4 points on offer tomorrow . Teams for Sunday - Glasgow 1Joe Screen 2 r/r for Joey Ringwood 3 Ashley Birks (guest ) 4 Henning Bager 5 James Grieves 6 Harley Horwood 7 Joe Jacobs Workington 1 Son of God 2 r/r for Terrible Aarnio 3 Rusty Harrison 4 Kyle Howarth 5 Rene Bach 6 Ashley Morris 7 Chris Mills With a favourable weather forecast , we should see quite a few clad in blue and white on the back straight tomorrow . And on all known form they should be the ones celebrating come 5 o clock .

Cant see why not . James is , in reality , with-holding his services . R/R for the away meetings at Plymouth and Leicester , and the home meeting with Workington , next weekend would seem our only option . After that the new averages will kick in , then we'll see where we are , who's available and who's affordable .

Two 3 pointers never works , regardless of how strong the top five is . We went down that road in 2004 and finished 11th .

It is , but doing nothing is not an option

Spot on . 30 point plus home defeats gets tracks closed down .

You think that was bad , you should have seen us at home today

Probably still have hit 60 against my mob even if you had

Edinburgh , they are gits

Joking aside that was the worst ever home performance i've seen from a Tigers team in my life . Woeful doesn't come close to describing it . A score like that would be bad enough at the dump , but at home Joe Screen cant take on teams on his own , especially not teams as good as the binmen . Today , sadly , highlighted the gulf between the two Scottish sides . Looked a pretty decent crowd in the stadium today as well , despite the Scottish Cup final and Cyclone not being able to make it . Plenty thinking to be done in our camp ahead of our next home meeting against Workington in a fortnight . We've been patient , we've praised our new promotion for their efforts to make the club a success and we've backed the team . After this weekend's toothless performances , that team has come to the end of the road . Who we can attract ? Who is available ? And are they affordable ? Is something messers Biggart , Pairman and the directors will have to address before the season implodes and the Red Revolution bandwagon comes off it's wheels .

Dont think we can attach any blame to the track , we could have had this meeting in Bydgoszcz and the result would have been the same . We are just not competative away from home , simple as that

I'm getting heartily sick of whinging Edinburgh fans moaning about the staging date / start time / time of the month / full moon , whatever . Today the weather has to be warm and sunny , okay there's a football match on but true speedway fans wont care about that . I hope there's a large contingent of Monarchs fans at Ashfield tomorrow , there's a better than even chance that they'll see their team win . But if they think it's going to be too difficult or would rather not bother , then such is life - it's their loss . Personally i think today's meeting will be a cracker and i hope the stay at homes enjoy the Antiques Roadshow or whatever other nonsense might be on the telly .

On a night where the Workington reserves scored nearly as much as my team put together , it was a painful night being a Glasgow fan watching that . Even allowing for the fact that the Comets were strengthened to almost ridiculous proportions , we were abysmal . Seeing the white and yellow helmets trailing in almost half a lap behind , race after race , made us thank our lucky stars we'd had a good drink in Cockermouth beforehand . We were completely and utterly outclassed tonight . Only Screen and Jacobs can hold their head up tonight . James Wright used to bang in double figure scores round Derwent Park for fun once upon a time , tonight you'd have thought he'd never seen the place before . As for Bager , well ................... The Comets fans who just like to see 5-1's must have enjoyed tonight , but for ordinary speedway fans it was complete torture . Glasgow away from home is as about as entertaining as Eastenders on a depressing night . Dont get me wrong , the new Glasgow promotion are doing a lot of things right , our bus down to Workington today was partially subsidised by the promotion . But the days of Glasgow carrying a decent travelling support around the country must be in danger of ending should this level of mediocrity be allowed to continue . I love my club , with a passion , but nights like this make me wonder why i bother .

It's always busy

I think it's actually hilarious . Just highlights how farcical the guest system can be . You have two journeyman riders , Aarnio and Mills , two steady PL riders , but as good as they're ever going to be . And they have been replaced by two of the most improved and promising riders in the PL this year , Tabaka and Dyer . It might only be for one night , thankfully for the rest of the league , but would a team consisting of Lawson , Tabaka , Bach , r/r , Harrison , Kerr and Dyer actually lose any meetings home or away . I somehow don't think so . If and when we reach the 20 mark tonight , possibly round about heat 12 or 13 , we'll do a conga on the back straight .

Apparently not

Hahaha , we'd be lucky to get 30 at Ashfield against this side , never mind down there . Hope they're down to normal strength when they come up to ours in early June .

Are you i'm going too , but still trying to work out why I know it's all above board and i know the speedway star averages include bonus points etc , but on 2013 form . Terrible Aarnio 7.12 - Tobacco Joe 8.48 . Chris Mills 5.91 - Micky Dyer 8.74 . Ashley Morris 5.22 - Lewis Kerr 7.13 . Plus they all can have a r/r ride lol . So we thought we were onto a hiding with the normal Comets septet , but this line up would romp the Premier League . I think i might have to have a few in Cockermouth beforehand to numb the pain

Third time lucky for our first visit from the binmen this season . Twice we've tried and twice the rain has said no , but the forecast is pretty good this Sunday . The mob from the East are now beginning to get into their stride and are now beginning to batter all before them . Impossible to beat on their own , erm , technical circuit , Plymouth last Saturday became the first away league win on their quest to fulfil their pre-season status as title favourites . Craig Cook has started 2013 as impressive as he finished 2012 , but he has plenty of support from the latest septet in blue and gold . While they are flying high , we come into this meeting wounded after last week's home reverse and likely thumping at the PL select side in Cumbria on Saturday evening . But even though this is a dead rubber as far as League Cup qualification goes , there's never a meaningless meeting between the Tigers and The Forces of Evil . Sunday's teams - Plucky Underdogs 1 Joe Screen 2 Henning Bager 3 James Wright 4 Joey Ringwood 5 James Grieves 6 Harley Horwood 7 Joe Jacobs THEM 1 Craig Cook 2 Desperate Deek 3 Theo Pijper 4 The Golden Child 5 Claus Vissing 6 Mitchell Davey 7 Tobacco Joe No predictions necessary , let's just turn the form book on it's head and bring this mob down a peg or two .

Workington's guests make them much stronger on Saturday

This was going to be a tough meeting for us , but since the Comets have turned into the PL all stars - it looks impossible now . We go there in the hope that Derwent Park suits our new Aussies , and James Wright remembers how good he used to be round there , but with the guests Workington have drafted in for the likes of Mills , we'll be lucky to reach 30 .

Last Friday Nicolai Klindt guested in place of Jason Doyle for Somerset . The reason being that Doyle was down to ride for Birmingham and the Somerset meeting was a rearranged fixture . Last night Lindgren was down to ride for his Swedish club as the Newcastle meeting was a rearranged fixture . Explain to me the difference between these two cases and why you think Lindgren and Newcastle should be fined ?

Thoroughly enjoyed last night's meeting , great track and some cracking racing . It was nip and tuck with Berwick just edging it until Paul Starke's unpleasant actions . There's nothing worse in annoying your average speedway fan than what Starke did last night , but as it turned out his actions only seemed to fire up the Diamonds even more and they ran out comfortable winners . I honestly didn't mind who won the meeting until that incident , then i was all for the visitors . Just as baffling was the apparent disappearance of Eddie Kennett in the two races the Bandits were depending on him the most . Still despite the contraversy it was a terrific meeting and another triumph for the Premier League .