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Agree with all comments. Enjoyable and close meeting, track was very slick but understandable with how much it would have been baked during the day. Not the usual racing, not any chance of a pass around the outside unfortunately. A dozen Sheffield fans made the trip and were vocal on bends 1/2, fair play to them. Broc Nicol looks good. Charles Wright unlucky with his bike breaking down in one heat and touching the tapes on another, a night to forget. Georgie wood unlucky not to get more than 3 rides, he looked good with 2 second places and a lot better than his 2 point average suggests. Good to have Kyle back. Morris a class above and never troubled, as with Lawson. Night to forget for Adam. Alfie rode better than his zero points suggest, he will come good I’m sure, there is something about the boy. Ben got a good return. Jon Cook sounding very unhappy at the BSPA

My first meeting of the season tonight. Looking forward to this, hope the opposition put up a good fight and there is some good close racing that excites my 7 year old son as much as it did me when I first started going 30 odd years ago! Sun is shining bright 10 miles from the reaceway. Looking forward to seeing how Nick goes around our trick track!

Why?

No comments from him on the racing tonight either, which means not only does he not go to meetings but he hasn't even got BT Sport, poor lad

Why did you completely change your original post from Milik to Woryna?

Watching him round Arena was a treat. Truly think he was in the top three around our racetrack ever alongside Bo Peterson and AJ Happy retirement

I came up to watch Arena-Essex and we got well beaten, must have been about 94/95. From memory I don't think Leigh Adams got near to Henka or Loram they were so quick.

How would you compare Loram to Henka when they were together leading the Stars in that era?

Good second heat leader for us at times when the team was rather woeful. Not nice to hear he took his own life, may he rest in peace Edited for spelling (predictive text)

Is this the David Smart who rode for Arena Essex for a couple of seasons, around 1988/1989?

Now there's a blast from the past. He was at Arena Essex in about 1988. First meeting away at Hackney at number 7, he scored 0,0,0,0. We all thought we were in for a treat, how wrong were we! Rob Ledwith wasn't too bad, machinery let him down. He beat Martin Dugard round Eastie, which prompted Dugard to t-bone him after the race had finished! Sorry to hijack the Wolves thread!

I see Branford a few times at Lakeside, guesting against us, and he was good. The guy has got some serious potential. Let's hope he kicks on this season

Have you ever watched Branford live??

I felt the same as you when the news of R/R was first announced. The more I think about it however it's clear why it's been done. Out of interest who do you have in mind who will come in and guarantee us a job as good as AJ would have done?