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  2. Posted · Edited by Rayleigh

    15 hours ago, RobMcCaffery said:

    Thank you. Bad news travels fast, but not always in the right direction. A lot of people made false assumptions. Thank you for your support and apology. Much has changed but little actually destroyed. 

    It still could go wrong but at least we have put up, a damn good fight.

     

     

    Rob is right, Steve is putting up one helluva fight and hes not won yet but he has made significant progress.

    The opposition are learning the old adage "Its not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in dog"

  3. Posted · Edited by Rayleigh

    4 hours ago, RobMcCaffery said:

    I have just songs to offer:

    "Fool If You Think It's Over" - Chris Rea. 

    "The Long & Winding Road" - Beatles

    "Homeward Bound" - Paul Simon

    Just nice songs - nothing else....honest.

    DJ Rob (unretired?)

    Yes I'm passionate. You try to kill my Rockets and you'll find out how passionate. The story so far is incredibly complex and would make a good basis for a poorly-written  book (If I were the author). The end is not far off now, it seems. As for offending certain members of the BSF, oh I really do hope I do. 

     

    "Homeward Bound" - Paul Simon wins it for me

     

     

     

     

  6. Posted

    Dont be too hard on the Mildenhall promotion they drew the short straw today.

    The track was dry at 2.45 at 3.15 Mark Spitz did a lap of honour doing the breaststroke. I left at that point realising that there was no chance of any racing and only riding isn't speedway for me.

    I presume that the real motivation for trying to "get to 10 heats" was to avoid all the re-admission tickets (i was pleasantly surprised how many were in the stadium) for another meeting. This would have been a big loss for the promotion in an already tough financial year.

    As a Rayleigh then Rye House fan I am far from a Mildenhall supporter but I do urge fans to put today down to bad luck and continue to support the club through the rest of the year.

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  8. Posted

    Very sad to read about Allen Emmetts current plight. It was him with Maloney, Saunders, Brown and Nigel Rackett that hooked me into speedway for over 50 years.

    Well done to Tony @ Retro Speedway for starting a GoFundMe page.

    As I would have shouted as a 12 year old "keeping going Allen, dont konk out"

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  9. Posted

    4 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

    Well that was gutting. Poole by far the better team considering two of the riders have never set foot inside Arlington before. Eastbourne scrapped home by winning the toss at the start of the meeting and choosing heat 15. That gave them the 1 and 3 needed to get home by a point.

    There was some decent racing in front of what looked like a healthy crowd though the official gate was exactly 1000.

    Nice to catch up with many friendly faces again after a long layoff.

    Middlo clearly not wanting to make any tactical changes tonight although Hume for Cook in heat 12 was screaming to be done. And why did the ref excluded Cook when it looked like from where we were that Kemp knocked him off?

    For Poole

    Schlein was OK. First meeting in a while so didn’t expect too much.

    Keleher had never seen the place. Gated ok but just couldn’t get to grips with the track and struggled badly with bend 2.

    Worrall was very good. Can’t fault his effort with plenty of passing. Just outgated in heat 15.

    Neilsen tried all night.

    King was good value but on the graveyard 4 in heat 15.

    Cook found it very tough. First visit but tried hard.

    Hume was good value. Should really have had an extra ride.

    Plengy to come from this Pirates side, though patience will be required to give our new riders a chance to bed in.

    For Eastbourne.

    They got lucky. 
     

    The home crowd went home happy but deep down they knew they got out of jail due to a coin toss and Poole giving all their riders their full quota.

    Nice touch to have a minutes silence for covid victims and Jon Cook, which was observed perfectly.

     

    Oh how I`ve missed a Steve Shovlar balanced match report.

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  10. Posted

    10 hours ago, Rayleigh said:

    Congratulations on another 1st class edition.

    As somebody who enjoyed watching speedway at Rye House, Arena Essex/Lakeside, Hackney, Crayford, Canterbury, Boston, Exeter, Weymouth, Stoke, Buxton, Coventry, Milton Keynes and Rayleigh You don't know what you have until its gone GO A BUY A COPY OF THE SPEEDWAY STAR TODAY !!

     

     

    9 hours ago, Triple.H. said:

    Have you ever considered yourself to be a it of a jinx ?  :D

    Good point :) I plan to go to Peterborough and Eastbourne so be aware fans of those teams

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  11. Posted

    Congratulations on another 1st class edition.

    As somebody who enjoyed watching speedway at Rye House, Arena Essex/Lakeside, Hackney, Crayford, Canterbury, Boston, Exeter, Weymouth, Stoke, Buxton, Coventry, Milton Keynes and Rayleigh You don't know what you have until its gone GO A BUY A COPY OF THE SPEEDWAY STAR TODAY !!

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  13. Posted

    14 hours ago, Chris said:

    Fair play to Ribbons or anyone attempting to make it difficult for Musk. T0ssers like him shouldn't be able to trample over years of history. The best outcome is for motorsports only to be enforced at the site and this will put him in a difficult position.

    I don't see Rye ever returning now as the track is gone and lease to someone who doesn't care about the club/sport.

    The whole thing is an absolute disgrace and the Speedway Star should be asking questions about the whole episode. The role of the two imbeciles, Chapman/Godfrey needs to be questioned as they played a major part in the clubs demise.

    Thanks for your support Chris. You have always been direct but I have nearly always agreed with your comments

    You don't need to like Steve Ribbons and if you have past issues with him please park it  Right now he is doing everything he can to try to save the day for Rye House, its gonna be hard but he has made real progress (it would be bad timing to list the details right now). Keep going Big Steve.

    14 hours ago, Chris said:

     

     

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  14. Posted

    14 hours ago, JohnHyam said:

     

    Maybe the criteria the land must be used for sport is being met? That could be covered by five-a-side football, activities in a gymnasium? The clause did not specify sole use for speedway.

    John, The lease says Motor Sports clearly, now councils have been known to ignore such clear directives hence why we have an ex planning officer in communication with the council.

  15. Posted

    11 hours ago, Ben91 said:

    I don’t think the interest is here for a new venture sadly. Or there are too many hurdles I should say. Rye worked because it was already in-situ. There was also some kind of clause on the land that it had to be used for sport I believe. To buy land with planning permission this close to London would take deep pockets, you’d make your money back and then some by building houses on the land, not a Speedway circuit. If you were silly enough to try and do that I suspect those responsible for giving such permission would probably kick you out on the basis that there was a Speedway track in Hoddesdon and it went out of business. Even though that isn’t the full story. 

    You are correct Ben91 that is the hope however longshot it is.

  16. Posted

    4 hours ago, Ben91 said:

    Anyone trying to save Rye House has my full support. But.

    I’m a Rye House fan, I live a stone’s throw from the track. I am a regular contributor to this forum, which is the biggest (potentially only) fan forum for British Speedway. I don’t buy the Speedway Star however. I haven’t heard a peep of any attempts about trying to reopen the track except what I see here. 

    Now this isn’t a “why hasn’t anyone told me” comment. I just think if you’re trying to achieve something like saving a Speedway track you should be looking to garner as much local and online support as possible. By all means use the Star as an outlet, but don’t make it your only outlet because not everyone reads it. Just as not all Star readers use this forum, or Twitter, Facebook etc. 

    I fear that Rye is beyond saving. If there is a glimmer of hope then it needs to be promoted and exhausted properly before it either works or is given up on. 

    Thanks Ben91 for supporting anyone trying to turn this thing around.

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  17. Posted

    1 hour ago, JohnHyam said:

    ...or had a mention in regard to Wimbledon and Norwich - and as far afield as Spain?

     

    1 hour ago, Ray Stadia said:

    Maybe 'Steve' is the same guy, who was going to bring speedway back to Milton Keynes? :unsure:

    Mock away gentleman. Lets just layout a few facts, he jointly re-opened Rye House in 1999 and was not in charge when it shut, he re-opened Wimbledon on his own and was not in charge when it shut. He ultimately failed but spent a fortune of his own money to try to re-launch Norwich after 50 years.

    No doubt he has made mistakes and has faults but please feel free to list your achievements on behalf of the speedway world, its so easy just to smirk and snipe.

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  18. Posted

    I genuinely wish you luck tonight.

    However on the off chance you don't win then please get behind anybody who is doing his damnest to salvage what is a very bleak situation and I can assure you he has made more progress than many of us thought he would make.

    Regarding crowd levels I was actually at a meeting with the BMR promoter at the time and he showed us his records from the first season in the Premiership and the highest crowd was 1,800 and nothing under four figures so 600 is easily attainable.

    This is still a long shot reviving the Rockets but there is a maybe a glimmer of hope.

  19. Posted

    You may not like or rate Steve (remember in 1999 he and another fan chose not to give in when the track was concreted over for stock cars)  you might be right the odds are clearly in the hands of Musk and his bulldozers and there is only a slim chance of this working but Planning officers can be really awkward (one person closed down Romford and Mildenhall have in the past had problems) but right now I only see him trying to save the day so I will back him. in short its seems its his hope or no hope.

  20. Posted

    On ‎12‎/‎7‎/‎2020 at 3:50 PM, winstoncigar said:

    Same old tom twit. The 'Rye House Speedway Action Group' are going to appeal to the local council planning department.

    They also have promoters queueing up to run it. Apparently.

    None of whom will have pockets anywhere deep enough.

     

    Of course you are welcome to your opinion  but perhaps you would like to outline your plans on how to revive Rye House and then we can decide whether its better that "tom twits".

     

  22. Posted

    On ‎8‎/‎2‎/‎2020 at 9:22 PM, KeirStarmerFan said:

    Another maximum for Grigory Laguta today.

    He is made for the Showground track.

    Out of interest, anyone know if he has ridden at Peterborough?

    I will have what ever your having

    I was concerned with your name KeirStarmerFan (the man who at the Director Of Public Prosecutions said "Jimmy Saville had no case to answer")

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  23. Posted

    I urge people to rally and keep buying the Speedway Star it is an institution and if we lose it would be sadly missed.

    I remember a chap at Rye House, I think called Arthur bellowing "are you reading Speedway Mail" well nobody does now.

    On a practical level the history articles and brilliant.

    Remember you never knew what you had till its gone ...…. Rayleigh, Rye House 1 and Rye House 2.

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