Scott0311

http://www.chasndave.com/tour_dates.html

I can proydly say that I have paid to see Chas and Dave live - Bournemouth Pier Summer 2004 Guaranteed to get everyone singing like it or not. Legends!!!

Staying in the Dusseldorf Mitte, close to station and flash your room keycard and you get free use of the local transport which (so I have been told) includes the train to Gelsenkirchen.

Cardiff - Booked Gelsenkirchen - Booked (also without the missus!!)

Count me in. I have just ordered the 2006 set and would love previous years.

Especially Jagus!! Couldn't believe I got 25/1 for him on SkyBet this afternoon

3 more points for Bomber. 2 points from his last race (heat 17) behind Hans should give him a final spot.

Any news on Gollob's replacement yet??

Check out the SGP site. Go into World Cup and click on draw - Rounds 1 & 2 on there with heat line ups.

Courtesy of the Official Reading Bulldogs Website - Leszno (Poland) - June 11th: 1. Fredrik Lindgren (Sweden); 2. Krzysztof Buczkowski (Poland); 3. James Wright (GB); 4. Daniel King (GB); 5. Ricky Kling (Sweden); 6. Pawel Hlib (Poland); 7. Lars Hansen (Denmark); 8. Thomas Stange (Germany); 9. Karol Zabik (Poland); 10. Dario Galvin (USA); 11. Lubos Tomicek (Czech Republic); 12. Andrev Karpov (Ukraine); 13. Jason King (UK); 14. Pawel Miesiak (Poland); 15. Sebastien Alden (Sweden); 16. Chris Holder (Australia); 17. (Reserve) Steve Boxall (UK); 18. (Reserve) Kjastas Puodzuks (Latvia) Pocking, Germany - July 2nd: 1. Christian Hefenbrock (Germany); 2. Morten Risager (Denmark); 3. Henrik Moller (Denmark); 4. Troy Batchelor (Australia; 5. Tobias Kroner (Germany); 6. ZDENEK SIMOTA (Czech Republic); 7. Guglielmo Franchetti (Italy); 8. Jurica Pavlic (Croatia); 9. Edward Kennett (GB); 10. Rene Van Weele (The Netherlands); 11. Adrian Miedzinski (Poland); 12. Friedrich Wallner (Austria); 13. Miroslaw Jablonski (Poland); 14. Robert Pettersson (Sweden); 15. Antonio Lindback (Sweden); 16. Ben Wilson (UK); 17. (reserve) Alexander Lieschke (Germany); 18. (Reserve) Patrick Hougaard (Denmark).

Cheers Steve for summing up this afternoons "proceedings" perfectly. I had a friend come down for the weekend from Ipswich to watch the meeting and some friends of his travelled down from Coventry and were even on the internet at 11.30 last night to book a hotel room so they could make a weekend of it. How much money has been spent by your average speedway fan to travel down to Poole - petrol money, hotel money, food money etc. It's all very well and good giving free re-admission to the restaging, whenever that may be, but how many supporters will be able to travel down from Manchester again? How many of the riders will be able (I was going to say willing) to ride in the rearranged meeting? I can foresee a rerun of the 2004 ELRC when we had the likes of, and this is not being disrespectful to the riders, Sebastian Tressarieu representing Eastbourne and Josh Larsen representing Arena - as I stated previously this is not meant to be disrespectful to these riders but the ELRC should be made up of the TOP riders from each club. If, as I expect, this meeting is restaged at the end of the season how many riders will have travelled back to their home nations or will be unavailable? In the age of modern technology did no-one think of checking out the short-term weather forecast? I checked out 2 popular weather websites this morning and they both said showers between 3 and 6pm followed by a dry clear evening. Hardly rocket science is it to delay the meeting for an hour or so and restart at 7.30 (which is a true speedway starting time anyway). Getting home I turned on Sky Sports to see Jonathan Green and Kelvin Tatum talking from a dry and clear evening at Poole!! I love the sport of Speedway and I will defend it with a passion but my god why do we always end up shooting ourselves in the foot and making, in my opinion the greatest sport in the world, a laughing stock? Thanks for your time. Scott in a perfectly dry Bournemouth.

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