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  2. Posted

    G the Bee -'Of course, Newport is the meeting's rightful place. However, when Poole took the meeting over for a year they raised the bar, both in terms of rider quality and the numbers of riders taking part. That level has never been maintained in my opinion.'

     

    Poole are an Elite Leauge club, Newport a Premier Leauge club I would imagine that Poole would have a bigger budget available for rider quality.

     

  7. Posted

    Just a shame that Newport appear to have chosen to use a number of other riders ahead of their own Number 8

     

    Newport put together a winning team within the rules despite having five riders unavailable, they are in with a chance of winning the National League trophy - do you expect them to throw it away ?

     

    When the Late Tim Stone put out weak Newport Maverick sides he was slated by everybody for fielding a team full of training school kids, now when Newport want to win they are slated by the likes of you. Theres some just like having a pop no matter what Newport do.

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    No they post on there own website ,newports has been under constuction for the last 2 months. so there only access to the public is the BSF or tanya's Site , both ignored by the management

     

    Bill this was an important meeting for Newport Speedway, clearly the management wanted to give it every chance of going ahead. Had the rain stopped they could have had a raceable track within an hour or so.

     

    Call off a meeting early and it clears up then the management get slammed, as happened with the late Tim Stone a few times, call it off to late the management get slammed ! Its a no win situation.

  15. Posted · Edited by father jack

    It's a great idea and Steve Mallett mentioned this to us last year. Main problem is we cannot leave until 2nd October at the soonest as the US Nationals are on October 1st so we will be in the air on Rider Cup weekend.

     

    Thanks for the reply Steve, it's a pity the dates didn't coincide.

     

    Maybe Newport could stage a special meeting involving the Americans based here ? A four team event perhaps, GB v Australia V Sweden V USA at PL level

  16. Posted

    Steve, the Ryder Cup is on in Newport at the time of the dream team tour, maybe yourself and the Newport Management could get together and arrange a meeting during the cup weekend.

     

    Newport will be full of Americans that weekend and with a bit of publicilty and maybe liase with the Celtic Manor - advertise the meeting as an International involving the USA and the place could well get a bumper crowd.

  22. Posted

    Leigh on a side note do you know what your uncle Tony Clarke is up to now a days?

    As a speedway mad teenager he was one of my idols when he rode for Wembley and Wimbledon in 1971 and 1972.

     

     

    Tony in fact rode for Newport Wasps in 1972. Was top scorer that season.

  25. Posted

    Rubbish. It should be passed about to another clubs to have a go. Newport might make a tidy sum out of it but so would other clubs. Stick the names of clubs that would like to run this meeting into a hat and draw out the lucky one.

     

     

    So for the sake of argument Steve, say Poole took a gamble on a mid-winter meeting and it was a sucess, and their idea. I take it you'd be quite happy to loose it would you ?

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