Wednesday, 25 July 2007

Glasgow Tigers 49 Workington Comets 42

Start of Heat 12
Start of Heat 6
Robert Ksiezak

Glasgow took their first bonus point of the season against Workington on Sunday. A narrow defeat at Derwent park meant advantage Tigers for the return leg.

The meeting was unremarkable, save for Shane Parkers maximum score, Trent Leveringtons heroic attempt to fend off Wright and Nieminen and an impressive performance from an injury ravaged Worky side, who lost Charles Wright in the 2nd heat.

There seems to be a line developing around Ashfield. It's on the outside, where all the grip is. Some would say it's an attempt to gain home advantage, others believe it to be 'The Parker Line' and contend that it makes for crap speedway. If Sunday is anything to go by, they may have a point. If we're going to run a circuit like that, we need to be decimating teams, not slowly gumming them into submission.

Shane - Untouchable
Watson - Impressive
Leverington - Unlucky
McAllan - Erratic
Ksiezak - Consistant
Dicken - Surprising
Coles - Taxi!

I've mentioned Trent's heroics, though that's the 2nd week he's scored poorly at home(by his usual standards). Also like to mention Lee Dicken. Lee seems to have started to go pretty well at Ashfield of late, which is encouraging, he's started to score the sort of points you would expect from a decent rider at reserve. Now, if he can do something about his away form.............

I'm starting to grudge Coles. Each heat I see him out, I shake my head and realise he's not gonna finish anywhere other than third or fourth. We dropped Lee Smethills for this????

Anyway, a win is a win and I shouldn't mump.................

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