Paulco

Not allowing Aussies to ride in our leagues is one of the daftest things I've read on here . Ok recently one or two have moaned and whinged and threw the toys out the pram , but we have one or two capable of that as well . The Aussies have brought so much to our sport since it's conception really , and we should embrace them rather than chase them away . There's not a club in the country who's history hasn't been enriched by Australian and New Zealand speedway riders .

I get a bad rep , truth of the matter is i'm a lightweight . I had 2 pints at the speedway last week , and that has been the norm at home this season . Ok away trips are a wee bit different , especially when me and Willie go away for 2 and 3 day trips , but the fixture list doesn't allow for too many of those now .

It's hard to keep interested when you're watching processional speedway and riders missing cause they're riding elsewhere . But I haven't yet reached the stage of not going , I enjoy the wee group I stand with every week at Glasgow and I still enjoy doing away trips .

You only get that kind of nonsense on facebook . " My beloved Glasgow Tigers " and all that kind of crap . On here it's a bit more realistic and down to earth . Even when Jenga starts up haha

And we haven't even had a KO Cup meeting this season yet . Just as well they scrapped the league cup or it would be Christmas dinner in the den followed by a double header with a dozen guests and r/r

Sorry to hear that mate , but I understand how you feel . This has been the most self destructive season I can ever remember .

it's ok , for some reason only known to yourself , you don't like Glasgow because the owners are rich and successful businessmen . And I know you don't support Sheffield , just anyone racing against Glasgow , that's fine too , enjoy your speedway .

These reunions are great ideas , we've had a couple in Paisley and it's great to see the old faces from the 70's that entertained us .

Braehead is the same . While it's hard to take on board ice hockey ideas in relation to speedway , they do a lot right while speedway struggles to grasp the concept of entertaining the public .

last week i enjoyed the sheffield result , did you ? maybe you may get revenge on ThURsDay . there

Probably pointless starting a thread for this as the forecast is pretty horrendous for Thursday , but in the off chance the weather forecasters have it wrong , it's a warm welcome to the Comets . We're in a mess , form has dipped , and we have a major injury crisis to the bottom end of the side . Perry and Lunna have no chance and Bewley must be in the extremely doubtful category . We only beat the Comets by 2 points earlier in the season , so they could come sniffing a victory . Cook , Proctor and Tommy the tape toucher can push our three heat leaders and after that it's anybodys guess depending on who we can rope in to cover . But all that might be irrelevent as i'm tipping the rain to win the day .

We're all very aware of that , but the governing body opened that Pandora's box and there's no reason to think they'll close it . So clubs have to try their best to work round it no matter how difficult that becomes . Sadly it will kill the sport eventually .

Would that be riders who thanks to doubling up are racing most nights of the week . Seems that particular Pandora's box is open until it contributes to killing the golden goose completely .

So do we just give up ? Do you not think a sport which has the ability to thrill and excite us is worth trying to save ? Granted the custodians of the sport have done their level best to kill it off , but we've all grown up loving it and it's still not quite worth giving up on .

Years ago Monday was their traditional race night

This is hilarious . Sometimes a Glasgow/Edinburgh thread can cross the line at times , but a Newcastle /Redcar one never disappoints . Bellers " i'm an Edinburgh fan honest " - comedy gold .

North and South conferences makes sense , with play-offs between the two at the end . With two conferences you haven't got the " we finished top of the league , so should be champions " argument . We can still have doubling up if necessary , but from one conference to the other , same with guests . Then hopefully it would be thought out properly when clashes are a possibility in the play offs .

Sorry , but woosh , our friend " The Scotsman " and his sense of humour has went over your head .

That has died down to a trickle , because you can only use the free ticket once . But the crowds have remained healthy as it's obvious many have returned . Especially families as the kids race on Saturday night looked to have well over a hundred kids taking part . We might be misfiring a bit on the track , but on the terraces numbers are very healthy indeed .

We have 5 home matches left apart from the 3 away ones , we should be ok regardless of the score tonight .

Obviously they haven't and it's no co-incidence that performances have dipped dramatically in the last 6 weeks or so .

Based on his performance last night , Josh Grajczonek must be a good bet for the riders championship here later this month . The way he stalked then reeled in and passed Richard Lawson during heat 11 last night reminded me of watching Shane Parker at the height of his powers round Ashfield .

That actually had to be seen to be believed last night . Most of the talk beforehand was " this will be a walkover , Sheffield only have half a team " , well as it turned out that was all they needed to end our unbeaten home record . In previous weeks i.e. Workington and Redcar , we had raced into a big lead , then collapsed in a heap - that was away from home . At home we'd managed to muddle through . Last night half way through the meeting we'd established a 30-18 lead by heat 8 and all looked well . Racing had been crap up to that point , but we were winning comfortably so all was well . However , by that time the two wobblers had done their three rides and Grajczonek and Howarth were looking in the mood . Howarth and Graversen then took advantage on tacky ride time to register a 7-2 , then between the 4 Sheffield men they chipped away and entering heat 13 they were only 3 points behind . Cue the Sheffield big two to go into overdrive and Glasgow's spearhead to go missing and the most unlikeliest of away wins had come to fruition . Since Berwick things haven't been right in the Glasgow pits , and if that doesn't change and soon then the season will fizzle out in disappointment . The travelling band of Sheffield fans were wonderful throughout and were justifiably thrilled by what they had just witnessed , I shudder to think what would have happened had they been at full strength last night . The title looks to be heading to Yorkshire this season .

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Richard Lawson 3,3,3 in his first three rides for Somerset against Poole tonight . We could have done with some of that at Sheffield last night and we'll definitely need it against the Yorkshire Tigers tomorrow night .