Parsloes 1928 nearly
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1 hour ago, poolebolton said:Good to see Kent and Somerset competing for worst Social Media in the league.
Alright then a challenge to you - you find me ANY club in ANY league that's posted MORE news items on their website (and therefore also on the Official FB page) than Kent Kings in the past two seasons. If you can do it the beers are on me when you visit Central Park.
Maybe gets at least some facts straight in your end before posting moronic nonsense like this..?-
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I remember watching David Mason for London Lions 20 years ago and he is no better a rider now than he was then, how can a rider who has never been anything teach other riders? if a rider like that wants to ride a bike then he can go and do events with the Dragons or Southern riders clubs, certainly shouldn't be taking a team spot which a youngster wanting to make his way in the sport could have yet alone draw a wage from it.
Well that's nonsense...
Back in 1996 'Magic' was recording one of the highest ever averages in the history of the third tier AND, as you say, doubling into the top division with the London Lions. A few years later he was the Conference League Riders Champion.
No, of course at 40 he's not better now than he was then but David has most certainly been at the very top in this league before and for some years at that (hence a record number of maximums at this level - a more salient fact really than record points scorer) so to say he's never "been anything" is frankly ridiculous..
And as Teaboy points out, his average and more importantly consistency marks him out as still a valuable second string in anyone's book.
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Well one thing's for certain - you're not going to be able to fit in Mear, Hurry, Morley & Wajtknecht!!! The points limit is going to be around 40 NOT 70!!!!Can Rob Mear or Paul Hurry ride for the Hammers in the NL? Surely if Adam Ellis was allowed in last year's NL, then they should be able to ride for us.
I wonder if we could persuade Ben Morley to join us? Luke Clifton is a former Hammer that may be interested in a return to Arena.
Zach Wajtknecht should be a definite, following his acquisition last winter. Jack Kingston is another asset that is likely to be in the line-up.
I was really hoping Taylor Hampshire would join us, having been a Hagon Academy member, but King's Lynn have nabbed him . Sam Bebee also progressed through the Hagon Academy.
Jason Edwards and Drew Kemp would be excellent signings, when they get old enough.
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They do deserve a pat on the back from the 'heritage' perspective but how about them ever honouring the commitment Newham made as a council back in the very early ['70s to find land for a replacement Speedway track in the borough (which I understand they made when allowing the redevelopment of the Custom House Stadium..?
Ironically all their problems and surely soon to grow in terms of expense, supporting WHUFC's move to the Olympic Park could have been saved if they'd allowed Speedway (which is infinitely more suited to the space) to take place in the OS..
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Hmm, well reminded by the very helpful replies (thanx!) that I certainly did see the aforementioned Jimmy Squibb, Colin Farquharson & Hasse Holmqvist ride - I 'searched' again [not sure what I did wrong the first time!) and found them obviously, plus the following:
Christer Lofqvist (who is of course a blindingly obvious one!) plus from recent touring parties the rather more obscure John Marquez and Robin Bergqvist; and totally obscure indeed a second halfer from Crayford in '76 called implausibly, Stuart Farquar..
It's not exactly hundreds though is it! And certainly none beginning with 'Q'...!
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In this day and age when it's possible (if one is suitably anal mind you...!) to produce a spreadsheet listing all the riders one has ever seen, I've noted that out of the near 2k on my list there's not a single one who's name begins with the letter 'Q'..
More than that - a search (also possible thanks to the wonders of modern computers!)shows that the letter 'q' doesn't even appear anywhere in the first or surnames of ANY of these near 2,000 riders!
This is odd! Surely there MUST have been some riders over the years who's name began with a 'Q' - a surname like Queen for example; or at least contained a 'q' - like say McQueen..?
Can anyone (as this is now officially the start of the silly season..) come up with any 'q's over the years??
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A last heat decider could perhaps make a draw but Brummies by 4 or 6 looks odds on.
Do all Brummie supporters have such little faith in their fabulous only once beaten team.
Oh dear.....
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No Flat Track races - that's a shame.
They're back at the Bike Show at the Excel in East London in Feb 2017 though
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From what I have read elsewhere Parsloes 1928 nearly, the Romford team shared the track at Dagenham.
Yes I know that - this was the point I was making...
Rather like many decades later Poole hosted a team called 'Bournemouth' this is an early example of the same kind of branding
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Of course it does. It has been made clear by Government that there is a national shortage of houses. Get real!
There's a national shortage of homes that anyone can afford - a rather different thing!
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Very interesting.
A few unusual things, I'd say.
Racing on a SUNDAY in the '30s/'40s when sport on the 'Sabbath' was largely frowned upon...
And an 'Amateur League' - also unusual at a time when Speedway jealously protected its status as a fully 'professional' sport.
Also must be one of the very early examples of a team being named after a local place 'Romford' without a Speedway track of its own.
I don't think there actually was a track in that town until the late '60s was there?
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Hi,
I know Craig Cook holds the overall T/R at Beaumont Park but can anyone tell me the National League track record (from the time they had a team in the NT in 2014)?Thanks.
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Hi,
I know Craig Cook holds the overall T/R at Beaumont Park but can anyone tell me the National League track record (from the time they had a team in the NT in 2014)?Thanks.
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Hi,
I know Craig Cook holds the T/R at Beaumont Park but can anyone tell me the National League track record (from the time they had a team in the NT in 2014)?Thanks.
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Hi,
Must admit I did assume that the original NL (which ran - with a break during the war.. - for over 30 years) would've had a 'Riders Championship' for at least some of this time. Thus being a forerunner of the BLRC (now ELRC..).
But I think maybe that this was an incorrect assumption? Certainly I can find no evidence of it...
Could someone please clarify was there any 'League Riders Championship' contested by members of the original NL? In any of its divisions?
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Do you mean to say that the article I wrote for the Wimbledon Programme back in 2003 was wrong? Some ghost writer you turned out to be. Can I get my money back!?
Yes okay - I'll pay you 50% of all the money I've been paid editing Speedway programmes since 2002...
Which works out at exactly £0.00!!
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NL 4s takes priority over any league meetings. And where's Ritchins?
Sadly that is NOT the case....
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Hi,
Have been grappling with the history of the Laurels & the WJ Cearns Trophy for a few years now - since it was resurrected first in 2003 at Plough Lane and then ten years later as Central Park.
I know that in 1953 (three years after Mr Cearns' death) the Laurels (which had been staged in 1939 and then again from 1946...) was made for the WJ Cearns Trophy in tribute to that pioneer of the sport and of stadiums generally...
I had been saying that since 1953 the two events ran as one but I have been put right about that now!!
Can anybody out there clarify then please, in which years (it's a number of times between 1954 and 1991, though not a huge number I think...) was the WJ Cearns Trophy/Shield run separately from The Laurels (ie they were completely different meetings)?
And in those years when it was, who were the winners? -
With the Olympics on atm and with Speedway going to be back in the World Games in Wroclaw next year (2017) I wondered if anyone did have any more details of that meeting held at Wimbledon Speedway as part of the WGs when hosted in London in 1985?
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Finally if he could just ease up on the vocal HRT it would make a massive difference. (The high rising terminal (HRT), also known as upspeak, uptalk, rising inflection, or high rising intonation (HRI), is a feature of some variants of English where declarative sentence clauses end with a rising-pitch intonation).
Brilliant!
In all the years I've dipped in and out of the BSF this is by far the best thing I've ever read!!
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. Well, it's not. I can't comment on Dave Carrington, all the matches I have attended with him in charge seem to have gone without a hitch and received no adverse reaction, I can only conclude he is one of the better referees currently.
You can't indeed - it's PAUL Carrington!!
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Really?
Taken from the kent kings website: -
The manner of the eventual victory, though, left a nasty taste in the mouth - when tactics replaced racing as the match reached a climax which ultimately was prematurely cut short: the dreaded ‘curfew’ denying the SLYDE Kings (and the public) the last heat decider which such a keenly contested battle demanded.
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Actually by heat 13 indeed the scores were level again at 39-39 all, but by this point a different tactic seemed at play with the ever approaching curfew of 8.30pm being used as a stick to beat the hosts with. Ritchings had been ineffective all meeting and had taken a knock from his earlier fall. Rather than directly replacing him though in heat 13, the two minutes allowance was simply exceeded before Parkinson-Blackburn then took every second of the next 120 seconds allowance before getting to the tapes. This had followed a similar set of circumstances in the previous heat: the impressive Smith hadn’t had any problems starting or indeed racing up to this juncture but unaccountably didn’t make it out of the pits. It seemed he was being saved for heat 14 but the upshot of the delay caused by exclusion and Parkinson-Blackburn replacing his namesake, was that valuable time was lost as the witching hour approached.
Many thanks for bringing this to all of our attention (not so much mine as I wrote all of this..): excellently written and 100% factual.
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Just seen this and there is a Graham Drury reaction piece on there from Tuesday morning sent by the Brummies press office - there was nothing from Kent as they didn't send anything!
Well you can withdraw this comment immediately. I am the Kent Press Officer and a full report of the match was sent to all of the local and national outlets including of course the BSPA Press Office the night of the match (i.e. Monday night) and posted as always on the Kent website first thing on Tuesday morning.
Mr Silver has chosen not to make any public comment on what happened on Monday.
ReallyI'm rather surprised that Mr Drury has (apparently) made numerous comments denying accusations that haven't actually been made.
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Thank you JC!
Post-war Wal Morton also rode for ... Haringay, ....
It's double 'r'...!
Harringay!!!
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