frigbo
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On 1/29/2021 at 7:46 PM, frigbo said:Swindon v ipswich 1974.
Only Bernie Leigh has passed from the home team.
For Ipswich, just Billy Sanders is no longer with us.
Norbold mentions Leo McAuliffe still being around. Sadly, he passed away in 2018.
Olle Nygren has also now sadly passed away from the Ipswich team.
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Reading today's article in the Speedway Star about the various rules and regs across the leagues, it just shows how shambolic the sport is. Basically, different rules to decide meetings in each league - talk about over-complicated!!
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Sad news posted on social media by his daughter of the passing of former Belle Vue rider Dave Hemus.
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There are already too many teams...
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Halifax, Wembley, Newport Somerton Park, Trelawny and Belle Vue Hyde Road.
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7 hours ago, steve roberts said:During one of my quieter moments I began thinking which team over the years has been represented by the most Nations/Countries? Oxford must be up there with them? Using one example from each Nation/Country I've come up with the following:
England - Gordon Kennett
Scotland - Ken McKinlay
Wales - Bryan Woodward
Australia - Garry Middleton
New Zealand - Rick Timmo
Zimbabwe - David Steen
Sweden - Hasse Holmqvist
Norway - Dag Lovaas
Denmark - Hans Nielsen
Finland - Kaj Laukhanen
Slovenia - Jernej Kolenko
Poland - Seb Ulamek
Germany - Klaus Lausch
Italy - Armando Castagna
France - Phillipe Berge
Hungary - "Mark Frost"
Russia - Roman Povazhny
I make that seventeen?
PS Eighteen if you count Yorkshire (John Dews) knowing how pedantic some Yorkshire folk are!!
Holland - Henk Steman
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15 hours ago, Natasha said:DEREK FELL - Born 08.12.1951in Danbury Essex - died suddenly 13.03.1991 in Tasmania Australia
Thanks. Sad news to read he passed so young
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6 hours ago, False dawn said:Is the database available to view?
To be honest, describing it as a database is a tad ambitious!! It's more of a list!
You can find all the info in the "rider" section at the following.
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4 hours ago, steve roberts said:There were the three French Brothers who rode for the IOW?
Sebastien, Stephane and Mathieu Tresarrieu
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News filtering through on social media that Alan has sadly succumbed to his injuries.
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2 hours ago, auntie doris said:Rosco saying stadium might not be ready for 2022 racing season.
When asked last week, the builders said "absolutely no chance"
They also said some.of the sections were "f*****!" as they had been stood in all weathers for so long.
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Brian Foote and the late Kevin Holden
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Buster given up on his threat of not running then?
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2 minutes ago, Trees said:Not at all .... imo. They're all different teams wherever they are???
Do you not see the issues having 2 'leagues' with basically the same riders brings?
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8 minutes ago, Trees said:We've had that for years, if it's not in this country, it's Sweden, Denmark and Poland!
Never worried me!
Big difference between riders racing in other competitions for clubs and representing more than one team in what is essentially the same league...
Ideally, it would be one rider, one club Europe-wide to enable inter-league European competition, but realistically that will never happen.
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Don't kid yourself we have league speedway nowadays - we don't.
What we have is a contrived circus where the same riders swap team suits and ride at different tracks that are thrown into 2 groups to give the illusion of 2 leagues...
Many talk of the current situation being necessary due to lack of riders, another way to look at it is there are too many clubs.
Let the weaker clubs close and create a proper, sustainable and credible single league to build up from. Of course, the poor little pampered, over-inflated rider egos will then complain they don't earn enough - because of course they couldn't get a real job to supplement speedway earnings, could they?
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Sad news today about the passing of forner Workington and Belle Vue Colts legend 'Taffy' Owen.
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4 hours ago, Humphrey Appleby said:There was an element of wanting their cake and eating it though. The SGP has never paid a living wage, so riders effectively expected to their domestic league activities to support their world championship ambitions, and the British promoters allowed it to the detriment of their businesses.
Very much a case of the tail wagging the dog, but that's really speedway in a nutshell.
And still very much the case today.
The current farcical facade that pretends to be a bona fide league structure is all about appeasing the riders, rather than the paying customer or what benefits the business....
They'll never learn....
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Absolutely agree, 1985 was the start of the downward slope....
1995 one big league and then the Sky money offered two great opportunitues to reset, re-plan and move forward - both were squandered.
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51 minutes ago, cityrebel said:Monday. This coming weekend was meant to be their Northern tour.
That was a quality bit of fixture planning then!!
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Olsen and Fransden
Olsen ans Weiss Sorensen
Olsen and Thomsen
Olsen and Busk
There's loads...
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5 hours ago, Trees said:The way to go is out of the forum m8 :D. Leave it to those who want the sport to survive and who love watching speedway at their local club. If you have the money to invest in speedway to make it what you want it to be go ahead, if not ..........
Problem is 'Trees', your type of blind optimism of 'carry on regardless' has given promoters licence to simply continue down the crumbling path the sport now finds itself on...
They have treated punters with disdain for years, as they believed they will still blindly turn up each week and suck-up whatever dross was chucked at them under the guise of 'professional team sport'
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Not quite comparing apples with apples here though.....
Schlein for example has ridden for 4 other clubs in the 4 seasons he's been at Wolves!
First meeting-how many riders still alive.
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Pretty sure Jon Erskine and John Bishop are still about. Not sure about Roger White.