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Fourteen Favourite Swindon Riders

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Nobody mentioned one of my favourites,Andrew Silver!! spectacular rider,but maybe Swindon wasn’t one of his best tracks?I remember him more at Rye,Arena and his appearances at Plough Lane

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As the adverts are on during The Chase, I'll have a go...

Leigh Adams

Phil Crump

Martin Ashby

Ed Stangeland

Brian Leonard

Leonard Raba

Milan Spinka

Shawn McConnell

Andrew Silver

Renat Gafurov

Alf Busk

Bo Petersen

Norman Hunter

Per Sorensen

 

Edit - forgot Brian Karger....sorry Per, you're dropped to the bench....

 

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15 hours ago, frigbo said:

As the adverts are on during The Chase, I'll have a go...

Leigh Adams

Phil Crump

Martin Ashby

Ed Stangeland

Brian Leonard

Leonard Raba

Milan Spinka

Shawn McConnell

Andrew Silver

Renat Gafurov

Alf Busk

Bo Petersen

Norman Hunter

Per Sorensen

 

How many races did Raba finish?? he certainly had ability as he was picked for the Polish wtc team in 1984.?

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Frank Richt kicked right off at me about that! 

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Somehow I am not surprised!!!

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55 minutes ago, Sidney the robin said:

How many races did Raba finish?? he certainly had ability as he was picked for the Polish wtc team in 1984.?

Not sure exactly, but he only had one ride at home in his 5 official matches.

Went on to be one of Kolejarz Opole's greatest ever riders and finished 2nd iin a Polish Championship as well as his WTC Final appearance.

Could have done ok for us, given time.

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1 minute ago, iris123 said:

Somehow I am not surprised!!!

He did have a shocker in his only meeting for Swindon against Eastbourne.

Martin Yeates wasn't particularly polite about him when he got dropped. Two sides to every story I guess....

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2 minutes ago, frigbo said:

He did have a shocker in his only meeting for Swindon against Eastbourne.

Martin Yeates wasn't particularly polite about him when he got dropped. Two sides to every story I guess....

It did seem at the time that riders had to get going very quickly as there were plenty of others out there to take their places

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Leonard Raba had. six official meetings for the Budgies three of them at home.   Reading (h) paid 2 from 4 rides ( two falls)   Bristol.  (h) 1 point from three rides beat Sjosten.    Bristol (a) paid 2 from four rides.  King's Lynn (a) 0 from three rides.   Wolves (a) 0 from two rides.   Leicester. (h) 0 from one ride pulled out of meeting. Six matches 17  rides paid for 5. points i do think given time he would of been ok but Swindon in 1978 were pretty weak.

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Reading and Bristol were Challenge Matches.

His only home league meeting was against Leicester and he scored 0 from 1 ride.

His league record was:

5-11-0-0-0.00

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17 minutes ago, frigbo said:

Reading and Bristol were Challenge Matches.

His only home league meeting was against Leicester and he scored 0 from 1 ride.

His league record was:

5-11-0-0-0.00

Thought he had less meeting's Frigbo as you said including challenges six matches the other pole we had Jerzy Trzeszkowski  was poor as well.

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25 minutes ago, frigbo said:

Reading and Bristol were Challenge Matches.

His only home league meeting was against Leicester and he scored 0 from 1 ride.

His league record was:

5-11-0-0-0.00

Out of six matches i thought 3 of them were challenges and 3 in the Gulf british league.?

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Raba's Swindon record is:

3 Challenge Matches:

1+1 from 4 home v Reading

1+1 from 4 at Bristol

1 from 3 home v Bristol

5 League Matches:

0 from 3 at King's Lynn

0 from 2 at Wolves

0 from 1 home v Leicester

0 from 2 at Ipswich

0 from 3 at Poole

 

 

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41 minutes ago, frigbo said:

Raba's Swindon record is:

3 Challenge Matches:

1+1 from 4 home v Reading

1+1 from 4 at Bristol

1 from 3 home v Bristol

5 League Matches:

0 from 3 at King's Lynn

0 from 2 at Wolves

0 from 1 home v Leicester

0 from 2 at Ipswich

0 from 3 at Poole

 

 

The last two meeting's in August can't remember him coming back you learn something everyday eh!!!   The management must of thought something of him to bring him back his pedigree was pretty good and he proved in the early 80s he was decent and got in the  Poland WTC team in 84.

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