Sergeant Wilson Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Perhaps it's just a Glasgow City Council thing.Sunday is a pretty good day for it but a few warm Friday nights in the summer,good meal,few beers,good racing would surely attract a fair number of punters.In Possil? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobRoyGuy Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Perhaps it's just a Glasgow City Council thing.Sunday is a pretty good day for it but a few warm Friday nights in the summer,good meal,few beers,good racing would surely attract a fair number of punters. Which in turn can only help Ashfield F.C a successful Glasgow Tigers can only be good for Ashfield and vice versar. Credit to the local guy's . Not forgetting their roots , investing in the two local sports clubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clash city rocker Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 In Possil? Ha...aye see what you mean. Was in the bowling club across from the ground a few weeks ago though and Possil is looking pretty good these days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fear no foe Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 If a few Friday nights during the summer helped the club to thrive then ffs a could handle it....might even go meself if it was close. I hope its you thats movin tae the speedway track n no the other way aboot !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobRoyGuy Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 Ha...aye see what you mean. Was in the bowling club across from the ground a few weeks ago though and Possil is looking pretty good these days. It is big investment , lots of new housing . Probably a fair few new people to the area. Two local sports clubs could do quite well in the area with the right businessmen behind them with a vision which these guy's seem to have. Glasgow Junior clubs are slowly but surely are starting to plan and act with the future in mind. Benburb being another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Ha...aye see what you mean. Was in the bowling club across from the ground a few weeks ago though and Possil is looking pretty good these days. I like the ground and club as well actually. Any plans for Perthshire or will they be stuck where they are? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobRoyGuy Posted December 29, 2014 Author Share Posted December 29, 2014 I like the ground and club as well actually. Any plans for Perthshire or will they be stuck where they are? Never thought about Perthshire in all this. On Ashfield the club is as you say decent. The few old guy's you bumped into always really friendly , i know it sounds cliche but real junior men who could probably tell a story or two. I think a couple of guy's who used to post on here were ' younger ' guy's (ewan i think was one ) who did a lot of good work for the club when rankin was in charge. Hope they are still involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsene Tatters Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Floodlighting not withstanding, Tigers are forbidden to run on a Friday because that's Edinburgh's race night at Armadale. Regarding noise, most tracks operate within strict curfew guidelines - meetings are often abandoned due to delays caused by accidents or weather. Glasgow have staged some midweek meetings in high summer, I think they can run from 7pm till 9.30pm. The sport is on it's uppers, usual crowd at Ashfield is around 600 and has been falling for years. Poole are one of the few tracks in the country that regularly attract 4-figure crowds. Eastbourne, which I saw mentioned, is well out in the sticks, they were reporting crowds of 200 at times last season. You pass a sign for Hampden Park on the way there which can be disconcerting for the unaware. Craighead Park is still widely acknowledged as the worst venue ever to stage professional speedway in the UK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Floodlighting not withstanding, Tigers are forbidden to run on a Friday because that's Edinburgh's race night at Armadale. Regarding noise, most tracks operate within strict curfew guidelines - meetings are often abandoned due to delays caused by accidents or weather. Glasgow have staged some midweek meetings in high summer, I think they can run from 7pm till 9.30pm. The sport is on it's uppers, usual crowd at Ashfield is around 600 and has been falling for years. Yet these chaps have bought Tigers, cleared their debts, bought Saracen Park and are going to rebuild it? Seems odd. How many places in Scotland still have greyhounds these days? Shawfield... Armadale... Gretna (not the football ground)... ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clash city rocker Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 I hope its you thats movin tae the speedway track n no the other way aboot !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GazMcCann Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Brilliant news for ashfield ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arsene Tatters Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Yet these chaps have bought Tigers, cleared their debts, bought Saracen Park and are going to rebuild it? Seems odd. How many places in Scotland still have greyhounds these days? Shawfield... Armadale... Gretna (not the football ground)... ?? Glasgow Speedway had reported losses of £50k in 2013 and were struggling early on in 2014. It certainly isn't a sport in which you'd invest expecting some sort of return, meeting costs run upwards of ten grand although they'll save a couple of bob on the rent now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommyboy Posted December 29, 2014 Share Posted December 29, 2014 Glasgow tigers have home meetings on a sunday afternoon. As far as I know they can't have evening meetings because of a noise curfew which means no racing after 7pm. I remember being at Keppoch Park on a couple of Sunday afternoons during the 90s ( it was around the time that Possil YM BC became Perthshire BC),and we could certainly hear the noise from the bikes just up the road.. Incidentally,as I don't think it's been mentioned,the first 'home' team to use the newly opened Saracen speedway in 1949,was the Ashfield Giants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Prior to the Craighead Park fiasco, I think there was a more sensible greyhound stadium in Blantyre where the Tigers were based as well before the East Kilbride expressway arrived on the scene. Used to walk past it a lot when I was knee-high to a grasshopper but never ventured inside. Hopefully, these new owners are investing with a view to getting out of the second tier stuff that isn`t pulling in the crowds and into the elite league (?) and it isn`t all some sort of Baillieston or Bellshill style real estate scam. You would like to think the Ashfield committee would run it all past a lawyer, but those two recent examples show how people who run junior clubs can be duped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowdenbeath Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Yet these chaps have bought Tigers, cleared their debts, bought Saracen Park and are going to rebuild it? Seems odd. How many places in Scotland still have greyhounds these days? Shawfield... Armadale... Gretna (not the football ground)... ?? Still greyhounds running at Thornton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 Cheers. That's not Thornton Hibs park, though? If so - by the sounds of it Ashfield Juniors and Berwck Rangers are the only clubs with speedway still running round their parks, and Cowdenbeath are the only club with stock cars doing so, and no-one shares with greyhounds nowadays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Pennel Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 I've heard it said that Hurlford still have cheaters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilbowie's Finest Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 The stadium is surrounded by houses. But I am sure there are evening meetings held at Armadale? Old Folks Home directly across the road and loads of houses nearby - I can even hear the evening meetings from my own house in Bathgate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue manalishi Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 But I am sure there are evening meetings held at Armadale? Old Folks Home directly across the road and loads of houses nearby - I can even hear the evening meetings from my own house in Bathgate! Im guessing Glasgow District Council imposed the curfew in response to complaints from people who live next to Saracen Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike strutter Posted December 30, 2014 Share Posted December 30, 2014 No - one in their right mind would though. Is the correct answer...the folk in the houses next to Ashfield must be gutted about all this (from a noise point of view) .....any improvement to clubs within the junior game has to be seen as a good thing.....good luck to Ashfield (the fookers) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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