diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index c15e257ea9903823de3c2a1892a7cc708ccba13e..42c337dc7d2fefb0673dc492db68bd635c646189 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ synth-check-programming-files:
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Hardware stage
+# . for some reason we cannot use tags + trigger together. So this will be
+#   run on the shared Gitlab runner - which is fine.
 ###############################################################################
 trigger-opc-ua-test:
-    tags: 
-        - fpga
     stage: hardware
     only:
         changes: