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One or two on here are quick to point the finger at Kus, for apparently not doing his job. But look at his scores will tell you he is at least riding to his average, some others in the team are not, our faltering No1 for example.

Possibly one of the most despicable attention seeking posts there`s been on here for a while.

And still 2 days to go before the meeting starts, as yet we haven't had many Newcastle fans along to join the fun, they and the Scunthorpe fans seem to be still debating their "meaningless" fixture from last Sunday.

SCUNTHORPE Scorpions promoter Rob Godfrey said he could hold off on signing a new number one if Anders Mellgren continues to show his remarkable rate of recovery. Mellgren, who fractured his back against Redcar at the start of the month, has shown a rapid recovery and posted a picture on Twitter this week of him practicing on a bike. Godfrey believes he could only be only three or four weeks away from returning to the side but admitted he has a big decision to make whether to sign a temporary replacement or not. He said: "We will sit down and have a look at it but it is a huge gamble whichever way we go. "Sometimes you have to take a chance and if he is only three of four weeks away I would rather wait for him. "Anders is actually sitting on a bike and seems to be having no ill effects from the crash and it is unbelievable that he could be back so soon. It is looking more and more positive. "That will give a huge boost to everybody. If you look at the matches since we lost him and we haven't done well at number one. "When Anders comes back he will score points and if we had had him we would have won our matches more easily." With Mellgren missing for this weekend's trio of matches Godfrey has moved quickly to secure guests with Leigh Lanham coming in for tonights away trip to Ipswich while Somerset's Pontus Aspgren will fill in away at Rye House on Saturday. The Scorpions will continue with rider replacement at home to Plymouth on Sunday. Godfrey said: "Both Leigh and Pontus are specialists on those tracks but I think we have enough strength at home to continue with rider replacement. "Having a good reserve such as Ryan Douglas means we can carry off rider replacement at home. "If it scores eight or nine points, which is aroud what Anders would get then that is a good return so I think it is the way to go." Despite the Scorpions facing three matches in four days this weekend Godfrey believes the team will be able to cope with the tough schedule and hopes to get early points on the board as the Premier League campaign begins in earnest. Scunthorpe already boast two points from their opening Premier League fixture against Somerset and Godfrey is hoping to pick up a couple of away points before the home meeting on Sunday. He said: "It thought it would be tough having so many matches in a short space of time but we should be OK. "There are only two on the trot so we will be fine as long as there are no dramas and if there are we will have good riders on stand by. "We want to get some points on the board and the team know they can do it. "We have got two good guests and have done well at both Ipswich and Rye House in the past so I would expect points from both meetings. "Against Newcastle on Sunday we were beaten by the referee and I have told the riders just to keep riding like they are." Godfrey believes his team are improving all the time and will have to be at their best as there are still plenty of good teams to visit the Eddie Wright Raceway this season. Despite that he is mindful that the team has thrown away healthy leads in each of their home meetings this season but believes that when they switch to Friday night meetings at the start of next month the team will be able to hold their leads better with confidence in the team growing all the time. He said: "On a Friday night we can make the grip last longer but for some reason the mentality is totally different on Sunday than Friday but we expected this would happen. "Thomas Jorgensen, Josh Auty and Ashley Birks are all getting better but I think David howe is the one that has surprised us all. "However there is still a lot more to come from this team. "I still believe we are going to win the league. "In speedway it is not how you start but how you finish the season and I think we are getting stronger all the time."

Fantastic offer and all credit to Peterborough Speedway I hope there`s a massive crowd.

Buxton have signed Berwick`s Stefan Farnaby for their 2014 season.

Northside isn't that far away if the riders are wanting to test equipment.

This match was described in Post 16 as a meaningless match, nine pages later it seems it was anything but.

Giving the presenter at Berwick I`m amazed we get any music at all, horrendous or otherwise.

Is this still going on.

You mean the Polish guy, when will people understand that any decent rider from Poland will not commit to a full season over here.

Yes but that is Glasgow's gain, with a bit of luck they will dump him before he has enough meetings that make him one of their assets, leaving the way clear for us to nip in and sign him full time.

No tin hats needed, I see the point your making though I don't see any rider out there who can do any better then we have right now, not even this promotion would dare to go back to the likes of Aspregren or Edberg. As I posted earlier we can only hope that once the averages have sorted themselves riders will start to perform in their new positions.

True Glasgow were up against a team bang in form yesterday, but a zero score from your No1 and an attitude to go along with it is unacceptable. Wolbert seems to be having issues right now but that cant be doing him nor Glasgow any good.

It was mixed news for a couple of Berwick riders in Poland today, Claus Vissing was rider for his club Krosno where he scored 11+1, sadly his team was beaten 55-34. Better news for David Bellego where his club Ostravia were victorious at Ople 49-41, Bellego scoring 4+1 including one heat win.

I`d be surprised if he had.

Don't know why there is empty seats, this meeting sold out in three hours the other. day.

Berwick, early on, looked like they might have nicked a point, before falling away in the later races. The season is now firmly up and running, you get the feeling there`s more questions than answers with this Berwick team. Hopefully once the averages have sorted themselves out we will see an improving picture.

Fair enough though the predicament Wolbert finds himself is doing Glasgow and the rider no good at all.

I`m only thinking of the young fellows mental state, he`s obviously not getting any, he`s gambled his money away, now he`s worrying about the state of Glasgow Speedway, next stage of his decline is announcing his love and devotion to the Monarchs, so we`d best save his soul while there`s a chance.

Refer to post 30.

Not unless you take a chance with an un-tried rider from Sweden, or Czech etc, or maybe a rider from the EL looking to double down, the first is a gamble the second leaves the risk of losing a rider when the Glasgow fixture clashes with his EL clubs match. Hopefully the Glasgow promotion will have taken Wolbert to one side and explained that his performance today was unacceptable, especially as we know he is capable of so much more.

He rides.

Ok so Glasgow give Wolbert the chop. who then comes in. The riders that are on the side-lines are there for a reason, and being a Sunday track wont help Glasgow`s search for a new rider who have contracts in Poland.

I`ve only seen Glasgow once this season, Berge looks like a bit of a talent as does Thomsen, Harrison and Pijper seem to be doing ok, but Lemon and Wolbert are not, as yet, scoring the points Glasgow need to win meetings. The dilemma for the promotion might be how long can they let under perform, especially giving the season they had last year where things didn't exactly go to plan. IMO their supporters deserve so much more. If, and its a big if, Wolbert is doing to Glasgow what Gjedde did to Berwick, then he needs to be giving the boot. Berwick let there then No1 fiddle a move to Newport, Glasgow cannot let that happen.