Paulco

Would be a surprise because even a mediocre Edinburgh side don't lose that many at home , such is the nature of their home circuit . Can't deny those two are a potent spearhead , but can they ( especially Holder ) be as effective round the confines of Armadale .

No point moving up when you're watching most of the same riders in both leagues anyway .

Bar closed , remember we're down next weekend

Hibs at Ibrox and the Monarchs at Ashfield , think Blobby will stop in bed tomorrow

Even if Peterborough can pull off a surprise tonight , I still think they're too far back to really challenge for the play offs . However if Edinburgh slip up again at home , their position will look very vulnerable

So it's the glorious 12th and hopefully it's a glorious night for the Tigers in this latest of speedway's long running soap opera . Hopefully Saturday's weather god on duty isn't a closet Monarch and scared of what might happen , and we get one of the few decent dry days we're allowed in summer time . For us the only doubt is whether Richie has recovered from his crash in Poland that prevented him riding in the fours . For the forces of darkness - Ludvig Lindgren for smirking Sam !!!!!!!!!!!!! seriously ? One can only assume they offered him the guesting gig for both meetings this weekend to get him to ride on Friday against Peterborough , cause if the Lindgren that turned out for Newcastle earlier on in the season rolls up on Saturday , this could get embarrassing . So i'm going for a cautious prediction of 55-35 on Saturday and another three points closer to the play offs .

Trouble is , speedway nowadays is geared to keep the riders happy . Doubling up , the way tracks are set up , calling meetings off as soon as one has a whinge , that's all to appease them . Fans are just supposed to turn up and accept it . Well as tracks empty at an alarming rate , maybe it's time that changed .

Unfortunately it's just the way modern day speedway is in this country . There always have been and always will be injuries , so a certain amount of guesting and r/r is unavoidable . But with doubling up completely out of control , and riders riding all over the place , that has resulted in those stats that you highlighted . Speedway isn't the same as we enjoyed it in the 70's and 80's ( i'm same age as you ) , we either accept it for what it is now , or until a radical overhaul takes place , or we find something else to go and watch .

We heard at Peterborough yesterday that was intending to ride tonight , hope he doesn't aggravate his injury in doing so , cause he has a much more important meeting on Saturday night against Edinburgh .

As we have seen before , Swindon holding the 2007 PLRC immediately springs to mind . The top riders ride most tracks well , Sheffield is a proper speedway track , not a wee technical trick track , so I don't see a problem holding meetings like this there .

Puts our capitulation at Derwent Park last week into perspective

Riding for Belle Vue at Somerset tonight

Your team seems to be peaking as the other three members of the top 4 are wobbling a bit .

Sheffield now title favourites after that humbling of the Monarchs . Is that the first time Sheffield have ever won at Armadale ?

Wash your mouth out lady haha , or you'll get dry pieces on Sunday

No getting away from the fact , we are suffering a bit of a dip in form just now .

Would love for someone at BSPA towers to come out and explain why a club , who has suffered a horrendous season with injuries , when they try to sign yet another injury replacement - it isn't in the best interests of the sport . More chance of me waking up beside Kylie Minogue tomorrow morning than that happening right enough . You wonder how they manage to dress themselves in the morning , never mind run the sport .

Who knows these days But this is a re-arranged fixture which muddies the waters somewhat . It's a nonsense though .

I wouldn't be so sure . It's unlikely we'd agreed on that date for an important meeting knowing both those riders would be missing .

Seems a couple of the rained off meetings have been rearranged . Thurs Sept 7 Glasgow v Workington Wed Sept 13 Glasgow v Ipswich .

Don't tempt fate , remember last season

Yeah I suppose he's better on proper speedway tracks

You under-estimate the scoring ability of The Swoosh

Same with r-r , i'm pretty sure back in the day if both competing clubs were using rider replacement , it cancelled each other out and both teams tracked a novice . Now it's common practice for both clubs to do so .

We had our 1-7 when we got our glorious draw earlier on in the season