1967

Brian Whaley had shown some impressive form at Adelaide's Rowley Park and came to Scotland along with his parents who later became Tigers promoters but that story is for another day.

Ever generous, his bike actually made a BL debut before him as he lent his bike to Alf Wells who blew an engine in the premeeting parade and the Kiwi scored six points on it. His own debut came the folowing week when he was pressed into service with Bill McMillan on the injured list and Johnny Faafaeng AWOL. Sadly he only managed a single point and it was back to the second halfs for him. 

He got an extended run after captain Maury Mattingley got a leave of absence to sort both himself and his bike out and managed a few points from the reserve berth but lost his place when Mattingley returned for a spell in mid July. He was reserve for the Northern Riders round at The White City and with a couple of no shows gets his full five rides, one of which saw him finish ahead of a lack lustre Ove Fundin who would subsequently win his fifth World titke at Wembley a few weeks later. With Mattingley again drifting out of the team he finished the season with an average just over 3.00 from nearly 20 meetings. He also guested for Edinburgh at late season meetings at Newport and Exeter 

 

1968 brought a number of changes for the Tigers. Firstly Danny Taylor sold his shares to Les, Brian's father. Charlie Monk got his requested transfer and Maury Mattingley and Alf Wells also left Glasgow for pastures new. In their place were Oyvind Berg and Lars Jansson. Russ Dent was retained but was unavailable until mid April by which time Brian had ridden in about half a dozen league meetings without pulling up any trees. So it was back to second halfs until Danny Taylor signed him to ride for his newly formed Berwick Bandits in the new Second Division. He was an immediate hit scoring a 15bpoint maximum in his new colours at Teesside aka Middlesbrough. With Bill McMillan struggling for form Brian was recalled to the Tigers side with Bill heading down to Berwick where he broke the track record. After a run of indifferent scores Brian announces his retirement and sells his equipment. However many supporters tell him he has done the wrong thing and he relents... And comes back after buying a new bike ...an expensive fortnight. While hIs Tigers scores weren't great, he was  top scoring for Bandits, winning the Berwick Festival Trophy with a 15 point max and signing off with a 12 point max in their last home meeting of the season v Rayleigh at the end of August. A few weeks later he announced that his season was over as he was  needing a cartilage operation, possibly this explains his low scores for Glasgow. 

His Tigers average fell to below 2,50 but he averarged nearly 8.00 for Berwick in nearly a dozen meetings. He missed out on the 1969 season having taken a job as a draughtsman but returned towards the end of 1970 having a few second halfs at Hampden. and a couple of meetings for Mddlesbrough, the scene of earlier triumphs.

1971 saw him sign for Division Two newcomers Sunderland, a small track and possibly not best suited to his style having been brought up on Adelaide's Rowley Park. He was a second string/ reserve at East Bolden  but his season ended  in early August after a string of low scores, possibly due to a recurrence of his cartilege problem. He made a short lived comeback the following year before giving up the sport for good.