Paulco

I dare say clubs not owning their stadiums has been the biggest factor . Trying to make the sport pay while fending off developers , greedy landlords etc can be easy , hence why so many clubs no longer exist

For me it was Edinburgh winning the Premier League in 2003 , the speedway world never quite recovered from that and the smug levels emanating out of Scotland's capital city only increased in the following years .

Merry Christmas to all Tigers fans and speedway fans up and down the country , even the Weegily challenged from along the M8

The problem is the bloody chairs . You could get more people along the front if those chairs were binned . Every week it's like a load of German holidaymakers , only these ones are putting chairs along the front . I used to enjoy watching from the back straight , but we have now moved to the covered terrace on the 4th bend . I actually miss the days when there was only about 6 of us stood amongst the knee high weeds on the back straight lol

Hope we get lucky weatherwise for the Benfund . Been to three of those , Scunthorpe 2011 it was dry and cold , Birmingham 2012 we were sitting in a beer garden wearing t-shirts , it was roasting . Berwick 2013 , oh my god there were polar bears roaming around the back straight terrace . So as long as dry is in the description.

I'm too young to have seen him race , but Tommy Miller was recently inducted into Glasgow's Hall of Fame . I don't see his name mentioned anywhere on this thread , was he not rated in the wider speedway world ?

Shame you weren't there when we were down this year , we have a very enjoyable couple of hours in the bar after the meeting . Bringing a Monarch into the light hearted exchanges would only have enhanced the evening . Hope you can join in next season

As we have spoke about on numerous occasions , once clubs stop trying to gain an advantage with dodgy track prep and start preparing tracks to maximise the entertainment value , the better the sport will become .

Merry Christmas to the Massif , hope to have another wee session on the beer with you all after another Glasgow win at Foxhall in 2017

Aye getting away from the pages of juvenile mud slinging , I agree . £2-90 isn't an astronomical amount for a magazine in this day and age . Having an actual magazine to hold in your hands to read is always better than clicking a mouse on a computer , much the same as holding an LP in your hands rather than downloading something . I've grown up reading the Speedway Star and into my late fifties , I still do . Much of the soundtrack to my lifelong love of speedway was being greeted entering the stadium at Glasgow by a bloke shouting " get yer Speedway Star , Speedway Mail " , you just had to buy both .

You don't unearth Dan Bewley's very often and Edinburgh stumbled onto him more by luck than judgement last season after struggling to attract a three point reserve for the money they were offering . Mitchell was who was widely touted to fill that spot last winter , presumably as he was local and not expensive , before passport issues intervened . So it's a fair bet he will be included .

That was his forte though . He was good round proper speedway tracks like Scunny , Sheffield and Somerset . He was never comfortable looking round Ashfield and the likes of Armadale ...........well . First time I watched him there he couldn't quite negotiate the first bend .

True , but your lot liked to mock him when he was a Tiger , there's no evidence he's improved much since those days

It's the off season , people have no actual live speedway to watch , so they pick holes in other club's team building , or in some cases even their own club's efforts . We'll get this Christmas bollocks over with , then the countdown to March can begin and we'll all get back to normal ......................trolling and abusing opposition riders and fans , that kind of thing

He has his moments . Apart from heat 13 in the KO Cup final , there was his pass on Barker in heat 15 at Ipswich which clinched us the meeting . Yes he's primarily a gater , and a good one , but he's not incapable of overtaking . He's better than his anointed father in that respect .

Not always I get what you're saying , but nothing gets the crowd going more than a 5-1 over the Monarchs , regardless how that is achieved

That doesn't apply to Scottish derbies

I wouldn't worry too much about some of the comments on here . There are always fans who think they know better picking holes in other club's sides . Regarding Glasgow , the only opinions that matter are the Tiger's fans and the promotion and owners , and we're all perfectly happy and excited about the 2017 season .

seriously ? A proven top three and four youngsters capable of considerable improvement isn't good enough ????? I don't understand your thinking That allegation has been levelled at them before , but when you examine the facts it's a bit unfair . Last season's novelty events first . Pairs semi final defeat by Edinburgh was one of those things you get in the Pairs . Aaron and Richard were sitting comfortably behind Masters when he slowed the race right down , a tactic often seen in the later stages of the Pairs , and Fisher managed to get past Richard , annoying but it happens . The fours was the most disappointing , only had to avoid finishing last in the final qualifying race , and that's what happened , but hey hoh . Then Richard reached the final of the PLRC - not too shabby . So close but no cigar in those events , but they are just the novelty events , nice to win , but not that important in the grand scheme of things . In the seven man competitions , we lost a League Cup final to a very good Somerset side , no shame in that . The play offs were heartbreaking , bad luck cost us in heat 13 against Sheffield . but credit them , they also beat Newcastle against the odds . But we bounced back to win the KO Cup . We had our moments on the road , the magnificent 17 points by Richie at Ipswich in a 46-44 win , and comfortable successes at Workington , Berwick and Edinburgh . Yes we faded on occasion , particularly at Peterborough and Scunthorpe after starting those meetings well , but overall it was a successful and enjoyable season , built round those three heat leaders .

Apart from the KO Cup final of course .

My one and only experience of a Polish speedway league meeting was in 2011 , Gniezno v Bydgoszcz . Scott Nicholls was riding for Gniezno and Emil Sayfutinov was riding in the visiting team . On every lamp post and every wall of the small town was a poster featuring a picture of the previous year's scuffle between the two at Cardiff . The result was a full ten thousand capacity stadium . Not saying anything close to that would be achievable here , but simmering feuds in any sporting occasion adds that extra bit of spice that puts bums on seats . God help the GP's when Nikki calls it a day

Doubt very much the invisible speedway rider would welcome a return to dodging meetings at Armadale

I'm confident that will be the case . We know what the three heat leaders are capable of , so that's the solid and dependable base from which to work from . Nike is a club asset and the entertainment value he brings made him a certainty to be back . He's one of those riders who can light up the most boring meeting by missing the gate and thrilling us with his efforts to get past the opposition . When Peterborough came to Ashfield in the league in 2016 they were very ineffective , Ostergaard got going all too late in the meeting , but the only back up he got that day was from Tom Perry . And that wasn't the first time his performances has impressed the Ashfield viewing public . He had made the progression from three point number seven in last season's Peterborough side , into their top five before injury interrupted his season and ultimately cost him his place . He'll start at reserve and will resume his progression . Jack Smith is a raw novice , but has a fine speedway background and there is no better place for him to cut his Championship teeth than Glasgow . Then we come to the seventh rider to sign , Dan Bewley . We all saw his incredible progress last season , he went from a wobbling novice round Ashfield to beating Richard Lawson in a time a fraction outside the then track record in the space of a few short months . The world is his oyster in speedway terms and his presence in our side epitomises the exciting potential the whole team exudes . March can't come quick enough now . There looks to be a few decent looking sides that will come to the tapes in the Championship , and while I respect them all , I wouldn't swap my side for any one of them .

I'm sure we will

Be sometime in September I would imagine , and yes you read correctly