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  1. Posted

    2 hours ago, ONTWOMINUTES said:

    Any of you fen tiger fans remember a rider called ian peel ? Just wondering what his background is. Thanks.

    Don't know if this is the same person, but there was an Ian Peel who was a Kings Lynn junior in the late 1970's. He appeared at Mildenhall in the Suffolk Junior Championship in 1978. He may have appeared in some second halves there as well, I don't know. He did make four appearances for Boston the following season. All  I know of his background is that he was born in 1960 in Spalding.

  3. Posted

    Yarmouth v Norwich 'B' in 1961.

    Yarmouth - Johnny Fitzpatrick, Roy Trigg, Ivor Brown, Geoff Pymer, Ken Last, Ron Bagley, Jim Chalkley.

    Norwich - Clive Featherby, Peter Atkins, John Debbage, Terry Betts, Harry Edwards, Cyril Crane, Trevor Hedge.

    As far as I know Roy Trigg, Terry Betts and Trevor Hedge are still with us, but sadly Ivor Brown, Geoff Pymer, Ron Bagley, Clive Featherby and Harry Edwards have all passed away.

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    2 hours ago, lisa-colette said:

    Maybe it was a typo! I did google it and only articles I could find about a possible return for Southampton were from 2008 and 2011.

    There's a Facebook site called Bring back Southampton Speedway, run by a supporters group who have ambitions of bringing back speedway to Southampton. Not much information about how or where this may happen however.

  6. Posted

    41 minutes ago, cinderfella said:

    Can't remember who but there was a rider in the late 60s/early 70s used to use an old hearse to transport his bikes around and dressed appropriately.

    Do you mean Tyburn Gallows who I believe was as undertaker. He used to tell people he was a former Hangman's Apprentice. A real character.

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  7. Posted · Edited by HertsRacer

    On 11/28/2020 at 12:20 AM, norbold said:

    42 riders entered on the day in 8 different events, each with scheduled heats, semi-finals and final. In all  50 races were programmed. I do have a few more results than appear on Speedway Researcher (should I send them to you, Tiger Owl?), but nothing like 50 races and in those races that I have records of, there are only about 20 - 25 different names mentioned, leaving something like 20 who don't get a mention. Norman Lewis may well have been one of those.

    Oh, just to add, DC, the meeting WAS advertised with posters, in the motor cycle press and in the local press.

    The meeting was also heavily advertised in the Daily Mirror the week leading up to the meeting. If you have access to the British Newspaper Archive website they also published some terrific photos after the event showing both singles and sidecar action during the day.

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  10. Posted

    27 minutes ago, kitten2502 said:

    Genuine question - As most clubs have been selling club masks, if they are worn, does this mean that the social distancing will be reduced to 1 metre+ rather than 2 metres?

    Think masks would be a absolute requirement to combat the additional transmission risk in talking above the noise of the bikes. Also I note that one of the suggestions for outdoor music concerts is payment for entry through E Tickets so there is a contact for you in case of somebody attending unknowingly having the virus. Could be that you may need to sign in at the stadium as is required for pubs.

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    On 6/28/2020 at 11:20 PM, stevehone said:

    needs to be run very much along the lines of IOW and the holiday makers they target

    Ironic that they got kicked out league prior to the 1954 season because they only wanted to run during the holiday season. Went there for my first ever meeting in 1961, their last season, while on holiday.  I remember there was a big crowd watching. I'm sure it would be viable if they could ever get the stadium owners to agree.

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  13. Posted · Edited by HertsRacer

    2 hours ago, ruffdiamond said:

    Easy, just hand out gloves and masks at the speedway venue. ;)

    Would be a must. The 2m rule has not been scrapped, the wording is that you can be 1m plus, but should take a number of precautions eg wear a mask. Also one of speedway's main problems reopening would be noise. Pubs are now banned from having loud music of any sort so as to prevent customers having to shout above the noise, which is thought to increase the risk of transmission, the shouting that is not the music. So again the only way speedway could overcome a similar obstacle with bike noise would be for masks to be compulsory. 

  14. Posted

    On 6/23/2020 at 2:59 PM, ruckerroo said:

    restaurants and pubs to reopen

    Hairdressers to reopen

    Hotels and campsites to reopen

    OUTDOOR LEISURE ACTIVITIES CAN RESUME

    Places of worship to reopen

    SD 2M REDUCED TO 1M

    Surely that's very good news for speedway getting up and running .

    Not so easy. Friend of mine who runs a pub showed me the list (46 pages) issued after the announcement of the reduction as to things he will have to do in order to open. Mind boggling.  Cant see any promoter or stadium owner having the cash to make tracks Covid safe for spectators.

  15. Posted

    1 hour ago, cityrebel said:

    There is a lot of snobbery in speedway. When West Ham dropped down a league, it was like pulling teeth trying to get my old man to take me to Custom House.

    In fairness to your dad it wasn't West Ham moving down but Romford Bombers using the track as a stop gap. As a Bombers supporter I didn't enjoy going to Custom House either. Didn't feel the same.

  16. Posted

    6 hours ago, fastaway said:

    Home:
    Stoke (31/3), Exeter (7/4, 20/7, 7/9), Wombwell (28/4), Southampton (5/5, 23/9),
    Birmingham (2/6), Plymouth (6/7), Yarmouth (19/8), Hull (31/8, 19/10), Hastings (5/10), The Midlands (13/7).

    Away:
    Stoke (30/6), Hull (3/4, 19/6, 31/7), Exeter (12/4, 11/10), Poole (21/9), Southampton (27/4, 4/5, 23/6, 14/9), Wombwell (25/6, 10/8), Santry (25/7).
     

    Try Speedway Researcher website. Certainly got details of some of the home meeting second half's

  17. Posted · Edited by HertsRacer

    21 hours ago, DC2 said:

     

    Well, that’s quite simple.

    It’s been admitted that some figures have included deaths where Covid has been suspected rather than confirmed by testing.

    And it’s clear that where Covid is included as one of two or three “causes” on a death certificate it may not have caused the death.

    From the BBC:

    ”Is coronavirus causing the deaths?

    The death figures being reported daily are hospital cases where a person dies with the coronavirus infection in their body - because it is a notifiable disease cases have to be reported.

    But what the figures do not tell us is to what extent the virus is causing the death.

    It could be the major cause, a contributory factor or simply present when they are dying of something else.”

    I spoke to a friends wife yesterday who is a Death Registrar at a hospital. I asked her the question, if a person was knocked down by a lorry and killed and the autopsy showed they were carrying the virus would he be included as a Covid death. The answer was yes.

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  21. Posted

    2 hours ago, BWitcher said:

    The death rate is massively spewed as they are only testing serious cases.

    Over 80% of cases have mild symptoms or none at all, these are not included in any 'death rate' figures.

    Plus, as you've pointed out, not everyone who dies actually died from the virus itself. There are two cases now in Portugal (out of the six who have died) where they died of other reasons but was discovered they had Covid-19 at the time. They're included in the stats though.

    What should be being looked into are the reasons why Italy and Spain have such a high death rate compared to many other countries.

    Can't comment on Spain, but a large percentage of cases in Italy are from one region, Lombardy. It is already been said that there are more older people in the country. Also Italian families are more closely linked than many other countries, ie they spend more time together, therefore the virus is easily transmitted.

  22. Posted · Edited by HertsRacer

    28 minutes ago, iainb said:

    There are some people on this forum that won't take it seriously until the death toll passes that of seasonal flu... by which time of course it's all too late. I just hope that they are in a tiny minority.

    A balance has to be made between informed information and a little bit of hysteria, fear is (rightly) being used to make people act, "social distancing" etc. Of course there are people who have higher fear thresholds (speedway riders a prime example)... and then there are the plain stupid and you just won't be able to reach them, which is where enforced lock down comes into play.

    I do agree. The problem is knowing what to believe.  There are people who post knowingly false information on social media which gets picked up on and is believed to be true when it isn't. 

     

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  24. Posted

    49 minutes ago, Mimmo said:

    I'm not to good with computers, and I can honestly say that not a single person on the close I live in, either has a computer or would know how to operate one if they had, and I'm being genuine with that comment. 

    A lot of towns are setting up community groups of volunteers who will get shopping,  medicines etc for the elderly. Try phoning your local council to see if they can give you a phone number for one near you.

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