Tigers At The Tapes: Newcastle Diamonds

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Sunday, 18 September 2011

Glasgow Tigers 50 Newcastle Diamonds 40, KO Cup Semi-Final, 1st Leg

Joe Screen

Lemon & Sneddon

Sweetmans Sweep

Nick Morris

Nick chases Mark Lemon as he tries to get to grips with Joe's bike after his own machine packed up.

Claes Nedermark

Theo Pijper

Michal Rajkowski

Start line preparations

Theo Pijper

Start of heat 13, dead level into turn 1

James Grieves

Monday, 25 April 2011

Glasgow Tigers 50 Newcastle Diamonds 43

Joe & Josh head into the 3rd bend ahead of the hard pressing Derek Sneddon. Josh eventually ended up on his arse, but Joe hung on for the two points needed for the full three points.

A good start for the Tigers, but a Newcastle 8 -1 in heat 5 drew the scores back in. As with last week, it was the later heats that decided the points. Raj & Henry took a vital 5-1 in heat 12. Josh & Joe did the business in 13 to take the gap out to nine. The final heat was a beauty, with Lemon gating and going. From there it was down to Joe & Josh to keep out Stuart Robson. Josh tumbled on the last lap, but Joe held on to bring in the points for the Tigers.

Both sides lost reserves early on, with Nick Morris & Richie Worrall succumbing to their heat two bumps. Nick was a definite miss for Glasgow, though fellow reserve Michal Rajkowski covered the bases fairly well. Not the best day out for Theo Pijper or James Grieves, but hell, it's bike racing, they'll be back and it'll be someone elses turn to have a slow day.

Best wishes to the team on Monday. I'll be at Rab Ha's with the rest of the non-travelling Tigers crew. See you there if yr not off to Brough Park.

Tigers v Diamonds

Friday, 10 September 2010

Spare Stuff From Diamonds & Monarchs Meetings

Travis leads Josh & Kenni Larsen

Sneddon, Anderson & Grajczonek

Travis McGowan

Diamonds pairing of Larsen & Sneddon duel with Travis McGowan

Josh Grajczonek

Ryan Fisher

John Braney, Nick Morris & Adam McKinna

1st bend

Lee Dicken. Not a good shot at all, but interesting in that it demonstrates Lee riding one handed. He could be about to reach for a tear off on his helmet, but it might also be that he's giving his injured thumb a brief respite. Needless to say, lee shouldn't really have been riding, having declared in the programme that he would be resting up. Injuries to our guests at Berwick the previous night put paid to that notion.

Andy Tully, snapped as he made his way to the dressing rooms.