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The first visit to Manchester from an Oxford team in nearly two decades. The first chance for Oxford fans to see their team race at the National Stadium A first appearance of the year for Jake Mulford. https://www.bellevue-speedway.com/news/preview-colts-oxford-june3

To answer my own question, Sedgmen has signed to replace Ellis. The guests are for Auty.

I can't keep up with the Birmingham goings on. Who has Sedgmen signed to replace? Auty or Ellis? I presumed he'd replaced Auty, but if so, why is Ellis also missing?

Just shows how badly the rules are written. Regarding the "Transfer Window" it says "This permits changes to the team on 2 occasions, except for proven long term injury." So if you read that as written, it says you can change the team on 2 occasions... but not if you've got a proven long term injury. If you've got a proven long term injury you can't change the team at all! Also what is meant by 2 occasions? Can you change all 7 riders, and then change all 7 riders again on the second occasion? Or can you only change 1 rider on each of the two occasions? can you combine the two occasions and make a double change? It's not clear. If transfers are banned during the first 25% of league fixtures and during the last 25% of league fixtures, then surely BV are in the right to change the declaration before embarking on their first league match? If the League Cup matches are included in the tranfer ban, why aren't they included in the 25% count? The fact that the League Cup is not included in the 25% suggests they are not included in the transfer ban. When is the start of the season for NDL teams to declare? Because at the moment Leicester only have 6 riders. It's widely known that they will be adding Max Perry this Friday when he turns 15, and becomes eligible...(In fact the BSPL website currently has him listed illegally) but at the moment they only have 6 riders. Should they have declared a 7th rider before March 15th only to kick him out without turning a wheel when Max Perry is 15?

Why? The number 8 isn't going to turn up for a meeting where he isn't riding! If he's replacing the No.7 in that meeting he's going to have rides. If he's in the PJL match he's going to have rides. If he's not replacing the No.7 and there's no PJL match, then there's no need for him to be there, unless he's mechanicing or spectating. Would imagine the Premiership would pull rank over the NDL. But I don't think there's many NDL matches scheduled for a Monday or Thursday, so it's not going to be a common thing.

Could this be the Peter Craven Memorial trophy line-up? Best book your tickets as soon as they go on sale.... Dan Bewley Bartosz Zmarzlik Tai Woffinden Maciej Janowski Robert Lambert Max Fricke Jason Doyle Brady Kurtz Kenneth Bjerre Charles Wright Rohan Tungate Jake Allen Phillip Hellstrom-Bangs Norick Blodorn Tom Brennan Jordan Palin

Seem to be called The Saints http://www.oxfordsaints.com

I saw this stupid comment a few pages ago. Now, no one responded, and that's probably the best way to treat a posting of such amazing stupidity. But I thought I'd have a look into this claim "The NL is full of riders who started riding in the 1990s" So how full? How many of the 56 riders (8 teams 1-7s) were riding in the 90s? Most? A half? A quarter of them? 10%? Well..... The answer is...... Rob Ledwith. OK then..... How many of these riders are old enough to have been riding on 31 October 1999 (the last possible day of the 90s)? It's still just Rob Ledwith . In fact 25 riders from the class of 2019 weren't even born until the 2000s! Let's skip forward 10 years... How many were riding prior to 2010? Well it's just 10 (and 4 of those just scraped in in 2009). And, exactly one half of the 56 riders in the final 1-7 of 2019, didn't make their NL debut until 2017 or later. Seems the NL is doing a great job and is full of youngsters.

When Poole claimed to be the Manchester United of Speedway they were only about 10 miles out. It turns out that the skint Pirates are the Bury FC of Speedway.

Doubt it was Poles who stole it.... but you never know!

Workington. And it was the good old NHS who performed and paid for all the operations. No doubt the Poles helped towards his rehabilitation, as did Belle Vue who raised over £4,000, Workington who raised a similar large amount, and of course the Ben Fund.

So basically it says the president of Rybnik saw Dan Bewley performing well in Britain so he moved to sign him for Rybnik. But for this year Bewley has transferred to Wroclaw, and now Rybnik think they will have a poor team because they're in trouble and can't afford to sign a good replacement? Diddums. Put your dummy back in son. If you can't afford to compete with Wroclaw, that's your problem.

It's possible because they're building the new ground on spare land at the side of their existing stadium, and selling their existing stadium for housing. The small space they're building in, and the close proximity of houses would presumably rule Speedway out.

Just wondered, who is highest in your list? Baby Spice or Ginger Spice?

What's wrong with 16 year old Palin riding in the 2nd division. 16-year-old Peter Collins, Chris Morton, Michael Lee, Kenny Carter, Andy Smith, are just a few riders I remember riding in the 1st division.

Not necessarily forgotten. As with much of the internet, things remain online for a long, long, time. Hence by simply googling "Gustix Proboards Forum Admin" I was able to hop in just a few clicks to find all kinds of weird and wonderful old discussions. I loved that thread with the complaint of being "hacked by four people" and then 8 (or 9) "bogus members" with "names like other members" joining in 24 hours and crashing a proboards forum with "images designed to make the forum look stupid".... ...If you read on, It turned out the Administrator had been paying for additional storage space, but then stopped paying. When he was downgraded to a free plan with less storage space, the images already posted by his own members were already over the free quota, and he just had to delete content to free up space again. Sadly no infiltration from the dark web after all!

Another Proboards here where an administrator called John knew the exact length of the New Cross track (and lots of other stuff) over 10 years ago. http://londonspeedways.proboards.com/thread/235/new-cross

Those old proboards forums did provide some entertainment though. see here http://support.proboards.com/thread/604533/group-hacked?page=1

I remember Buzz Burrows' interview after the meeting. He said that when he won he had no idea the prize was going to be a sewing machine. He said he was stitched up.

Why didn't the Saints also sign Jesus? I thought he'd have been nailed on for a team place.

I suspect - as has been alluded to above - that Baldyman is referring to the thread about his Facebook group which you started. The thread which you were posting on quite vigorously right up to last night. The thread which you hid this morning. If you can't remember doing any of the following I'd suggest you ask your family to get you tested for Alzheimers.

The Lord said to Peter "Come forth and receive eternal life".... But he came second and received a small plastic trophy off the meeting sponsor.

Except he's already signed for Scunthorpe 2020.

Why? You've got a 2 hour-plus live broadcast that's been shown on Eurosports (Say Monday nights as normal). Then you cut out all the boring nothing happening time. Trim it down to 30 seconds before the race starts, a minute-and-a-bit race, 45 seconds-or-so to flash up the result, progressive score, and a slo-mo replay of the start or any passes. Repeat 15 times. Throw in a mid-match interview. Add 5 minutes chat at the beginning, 5 minutes chat at the end, and you've got yourself a nice compact 1 hour highlights programme to show on Quest or DMAX for the free-to-air audience on (say) Wednesday or Thursday. A newbie isn't going to get excited about watching a long drawn out 2+ hour live match. But edited down to an hour's highlights all-action programme, it could be very eyecatching.

So the news is now official. A 5 year deal with Eurosports. I would assume Pearson, Tatum, Quirk, Brandon etc will move with it, and the programme won't be much different? Eurosports have already got a fair bit of other motorsports, so I guess we'll fit in OK with their regular fare. I think the bg plus is that they're also opening up highlights to a free-to-air audience via Quest. Presume the highlights will just be the live footage rebroadcast with the gaps in between races chopped out, but I'd like to think the possibility exists for Quest to actually turn it into a real highlights programme within the 5 years. I've always thought a compact highlights programme would be a better way to present the sport to newbies. No idea on the money (but then I had no idea on the money from Sky's latter years or BT's contract). Hope there is money, or the chance to renegotiate, otherwise 2025 is a long time to wait for the next chance to do a deal. Overall though I think this is positive news. The BSPA now need to get their act together and not mess it up again.