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So do we have to call you Co promoter or is it someone else lol

Very sad day all round and the sad news of the passing of dave tatum just adds to the sadness and puts everything into perspective, I've been going to Brough Park as it will always be called to us for about 50 years when my dad first took me, seen some great riders and great teams, from the Owen brothers nicki pederson David bargh too many to name here, I'm a naturally a glass half full person so praying this won't be the end and someone will be able to keep Sundays as speedway night....

Have any meetings been held with ARC regarding the speedway situation.

The site at Seaton Burn would be ideal for multi use such as speedway stock cars bmx any travelling fairs circuses even possibly music festival noise licence being granted of course, if I'm right it's a brown field site which I think would make gaining said licence easier, somebody like Rob who I beleive runs an events company would certainly get the best out of it, which makes all this even harder to accept, and I'm sure he feels the same, it would be the making of speedway in Newcastle, but at the moment looks like a complete non starter.

Great win for the diamonds, some good close racing, track was very dry which was to be expected great guest plus special mention to Connor Mountain who looks like a very good rider all in all a very entertaining match, anyone who choose to stay away maybe get ya arses back next week eh

Last home match you could use your phone would think it'll be same this time

Do we need to print off tickets or can we just show ticket on the phone does anyone know please...

Don't bother trying to guess lottery numbers this weekend... Excellent performance from the diamonds

Looks like Adam Roynon riding for us next season according to speedwaygb twitter feed....

Completely off topic for a minute but just found this bit of nostalgia on YouTube 1983 4TT finals with Beaton hunter Emerson Joe Owen and Martin Scarisbrick

Bugger that's right it has been a while lol

Come on you obviously haven't a clue wot your talking about when it comes to financial stuff and taxes etc, we've seen you making mistakes filling in your programme before remember.... :-)

Is the Seaton burn site the field right next to the A19 just before you get to Seaton burn roundabout on opposite side of the lane from quad bikes if so there were machines on there today looking as if they were doing test drilling probably not connected by the way

Does anyone know the legislation for getting a new noise licence, if it was on a brown field site ie industrial would that help get one?

Apparently he's talking to Newcastle, Gateshead and North tyneside Councils about getting land on a long term lease, he knows the financial costs of it all, and says an out of town site is preferable due to the problems with noise. Rob Godfrey is advising him on things due to the success of scunthorpe stadium.

Does anybody know what arcerage the likes of Somerset or even redcars stadium covers just to get some idea of what we're looking for...

Is this Sunday dogs racing definitely happening or is it just my mate heard it off a mate who works at the stadium sort of thing...

Just been looking on Google earth at the cambois track and it seems to be about 100 yds from North Sea so should be lovely and warm all season long

Just a thought about the current situation, I know the cut off for racing is normally 31st October but is it possible to use stadium past that point... Although I'm personally thinking this season is going to be written off totally, don't mean to be a doom merchant just my gut feeling...

On a similar note, what are ppls earliest memories of speedway at Brough Park, mine would be the reopening in 1975 my dad worked shift work so we could only go once every three weeks, I was about 5 or 6 yrs old. The Owen brothers Robbie blackadder Phil Michaelides Ron Henderson Tim swales, many a time I'd be chased out of the pits by Ivan the pits Marshall whilst looking for autographs.. If I remember rightly they had the telephone to the referee next to the start gate which made for a brilliant watch when Ian Thomas tried to reason with the ref lol

Don't think anyone thinks HE alone kept the club alive financially, but he's been the ever present and was possibly the person fighting to keep speedway alive when other investors came and gone, although I stand to be corrected on that, anyway its onwards and upwards from now on hopefully, has anyone got any suggestions for team manager next year, going off some of the posts on here over the years I think there's a few think they could do it better off the forum not naming anybody in particular mind

My apologies just didn't want to go down to their level lol

Probably just decided it was time to relax a bit, or is that not controversial enough

http://www.newcastlediamonds.co/news/article.asp?id=101087 Good luck and thank you for all you and your family have done for Newcastle speedway, without you Newcastle speedway would probably have never reopened all those years ago and continued upto present day

Many thanks will have a look