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Kharchenko was probably the best debut performance at Brough Park ever. I was hoping he would defect and join the Diamonds who were a third heatleader short of being any good that year. I think there was a whip round at some point to buy some of the Soviet lads gloves. Must have miffed John Wainwright whose leathers were always taped together. That's how I remember it anyway,

Well done to the Tigers (we were very poor, and consign the result to history ). However, the most important thing is that the Tigers give it their all in the final. After all who wants to see a league won by threatened legal action ? The Aces may feel that they are right according to the actual wording of the laws, but without doubt they are outside the spirit of the laws that they complained about in 2016. Hypocrites.

Have not caught up with the meeting yet, but I can't help but feel this is what you get when you run the play offs in late September early October. Damp and cold and riders and fans would rather be elsewhere. Everybodys enthusiasm is waning at this time of year. Get the play off done on the August Bank Holiday when hopefully, the weather and tracks are still good and fans go into the winter remembering speedway with the sun on their backs rather than speedway getting a cold and trench foot.

Can’t afford it don’t do it imo. You know what you’ve signed up for. As said in another post can’t just pick and choose when you feel like riding or travelling to. If serious about it you’d want as much track time and riding different tracks as possible to improve.

lot of the security work at the vitality stadium as well . so many reasons not the 19th

It’s not in the current spirit that prevails our dead sport which is, Max receives multiple injuries in a high speed smash. BSF cheer and rum their hands with glee when we get a second division rider to replace our 2022 world champion and GP round winner. Fairplay, you guys love it, not. Next we sign an adequate replacement as per the rules and a promoter from our main opposition uses his influence as a controlling committee member to stop it. Luckily the SCB saw through it and told him to jog on. Over the last few decades your spirit has killed this sport in the UK. Well done.

He had a bad fall last week - facial injuries and bruising - maybe he didn't feel like appearing on camera.

Very sad and shocking news , RIP Chrissy

I gave up after heat 10 and watched something else, I get Eurosport with my sky subscription , I can honestly say if I had to pay extra I wouldn’t bother. The GP,s haven’t been a lot better either, apart from one or two they have been borefests as well. The sport is on its arse at the moment and the TV coverage isn’t helping.

Agree 100%! When I watch vids on YouTube, it's amazing just how poor the racing was generally. As I've said before, I miss dirt on tracks, black leathers, monkey masks, gleaming chrome machinery etc (which all helped make it the spectacle it was), but the actual quality of racing today is often far superior.

What I don’t understand is how Terry Russell has the right to close down the speedway. if he says he can’t make it pay then at least give someone else the chance to take it on. the situation stinks and definitely looks like a big brown envelope has changed hands somewhere.

Most of the season at reserve , hopeless away and couldn't pass a snail with arthritis , saddled with an average over 5, abs awful signing

Definitely. I think there are questions to be asked about his part in this - such as why he tried to sneak the closure through without anyone actually knowing about it and it only became public after it was leaked on here. Like others, I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility of him getting paid off.

Very sad news but it appears that the next edition will be the last. I, for one, will miss the two magazines...from dropping thru' the letterbox I wouldn't put them down until having absorbed all the contents. At least I have the entire collections to browse thru' at my leisure reminiscing the good times! May I take this opportunity in thanking Tony Mac, Susie and all the contributors over the years.

As we always say... The rose tinted specs were coloured in by the atmosphere of being in big partisan crowds, which meant the racing often became "great" when you won.. The reality was something very different on many occasions.. A shame those who run the sport havent got the capability required to deliver big partisan crowds today.... As the racing deserves more watching...

Think you left out 'unecessarily' out of "Then the bikes..... developed". The bikes are ruining the sport, as the cars have for F1.

Why.... Does it remind you of Kirky Lane??

Easy... The tens of thousands of lapsed fans who will come flocking back to attend every week... All of them very happy to pay 25 quid a pop... Come on. Keep up at the back... Wonder if it is another five year plan.?

It all gives season ticket holders a meeting they've already paid for. You wouldn't see any other sport season concluded incomplete.

Well done to Belle Vue, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton on completing the Northern section riding their two home and two away fixtures. Congratulations to Wolverhampton who have qualified for the "final that never will be", as the Southern section couldn't be bothered. Shame on King's Lynn and Ipswich who staged just 1 fixture, and Peterborough who didn't even bother staging any at all!

But you knew the score when you signed on for a NDL side. Plenty of riders did long away days the other way round and ran at big losses for the trips however they did them because signing for a NDL side means you sign up for all the meetings not just the home ones and away tracks you like.

Yeah it would make sense start off small and build it up, run in the NDL and make money on track hire, other events etc. However, looks like there could be as few as 7 in the championship next year IF Glasgow were to have a go in the Premiership. I’m sure if that was the case the BSPL would be asking the possibility of Workington joining the Championship. Afternoon racing in the NDL, with trackdays, the British youth championship and a few Open meetings with star names is probably along the lines of what will happen in 2023.

Rob Lyon would also walk away from it I know that a a fact. He has his eyes on building a team to win the premier League again next season

I should have mentioned Dick was 96- another long lived speedster- it must have been due to breathing in all that Castrol R!!

Having spoken on the subject to some of the members of the Save Coventry Stadium group, I can appreciate that they are fully on top of things so I think it best not to complicate things for them by e-mailing individual councillors. The group have done a great job so far, and will continue to do so, so the campaign is by no means over just yet.