Title Partner
REPORT Sunday 19th August 2007, 10:00pm
Edinburgh Monarchs
We knew that we didn't have the strength in depth to push Glasgow on Sunday, but our riders gave us some moments of pleasure.
Heat 1 was the first as Derek Sneddon made the start, and Matthew Wethers pushed past Watson on the opening lap for a very nice 5-1.
James Cockle came to life for heat 2, looking a bit wobbly but leading all the way, and we were still four points up.
Kaj Laukkanen gave hard chase to Parker in heat 3, looking impressive on his first Ashfield ride, and Matthew overcame his usual slow start to move into second in heat 4.
Matthew took another second in heat 6, and Kaj won heat 7 comfortably from Trent Leverington, by which time we had slipped 18-24 in arrears.
As at Armadale, David McAllan made a lightning start in heat 8, and he must have imagined he was on his way to another win. However all eyes were on Derek Sneddon, riding the boards with speed and control, and then on lap three coming inside on the third corner to race inside McAllan for one of his best passes.
Quite rightly he celebrated with glee after that one.
Two heats later after seconds by Kaj and Matthew we were 10 behind, so the TR fell quite neatly in time for another Leverington heat. Laukkanen came in as rider replacement and teamed up with Sneddon.
Sure enough they gated, but from an early stage they seemed to be showing too much concern for each other. 'After you, Claude' seemed to be the thinking, very polite no doubt, but it gave Leverington the chance to slip into second.
The politeness could have waited till the last bend, but never mind, a 7-2 was OK.
We lost another couple of 2-4's and then heat 14 looked a bad one with Andrew and Kalle programmed. We tried Matthew (who had had five seconds to the point) as a TS but in fact he made little ground as we lost a 1-5, followed by another in heat 15.
A bit of a feeble finish but some honest toil and some achievement along the way.
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