skydog

Same for me.

An American football team used the centre green at Reading's Smallmead Stadium for a couple of years, I'm sure they were called Thames Valley Chargers, maybe they were a manifestation of the team you played for?

In a straight race its James every time and in all fairness he has been due chances above others for the past few seasons. Surely the decisions should be whos better end of not whos younger? If its a straight fight in ability then fair enough but far too many riders get signed being young rather than good. Personally never seen anything in Meadows to think he is anywhere close to NDL standard and more MDL mid order rider. And Eli is from Worcester area.

Just remembered Plymouth are doing NL so he'll obviously be in their team if he does want to race at that level.

Would love to see Dan at Oxford next year.

If its 350m it certainly doesn't look it! I dont know what being inside it would make the length of a Speedway track, but as someone who believes small tracks arent great, and having been to Aldershot, I'll stand by my original comment!

Aldershot would be ridiculously small if it were inside the tarmac track

I'm sure I've driven past Hove dog track and it's in the middle of a housing estate. We have spoken to the council and there is no way back unfortunately.

It is

To be fair it was the council that insisted Smallmead close... GI's sin was making excuses not to build a new one when the council offered the land.

I have no idea how that comment ended up here, I thought I was still on the Under 19s final thread!!

No stream I take it?

I'm sorry I dont have a signed copy straight from the BSPL but when a club are asked for permission to use their riders and that's their reply, it was taken to be true.

I dont know how it works but that is what the club said. They definitely said it was the BSPL that had told them the riders would be banned.

If you mean where was the threat of a ban made, promotions were notified by BSPL that riders would be banned so that they wouldn't give permission for their riders to race for IOW or "nomad" teams. Or that's what one club claimed when asked for permission.

I think the way BSPL worded it was that they fully supported "amateur" racing on the IOW... then decided that it isnt amateur if you are paying riders and charging people to get in (that's why Lydd are exempt from all this). So what about the NDL? Suddenly they dont class it as amateur, even though they had always previously said it was. A vendetta? Surely not!

The standard meaning of that is that a maximum of 6 people can mix, or more if all of them are from only 2 households.

Those i's and t's are very time consuming, I'm sure you'll have your new stadium soon...

Indeed... It was 2007 when he told us we would see the new stadium going up next to Smallmead during the 2008 season. I do believe that was also one of the early promises to Swindon fans before they decided to rebuild the existing stadium. I hope with all my heart Swindon doesn't go the same way.

Jordan is an undoubted talent, maybe a year too early for the Prem, but I would persevere cos it may not be.

And this is the crux of the matter. I took numerous new people to Speedway and always said dont judge it on one match, give it 3 or 4. But what can you say when they have to stand around for an hour then see less than half of what was advertised? Whatever the reasons are, that doesnt leave a good impression.

Surprise dog meeting, that is definitely a new one!

Unfortunately we werent there every week, Dan actually only rode at Eastbourne about 5 times in 2018. He was very impressive though - I do remember in one of the last matches, the Eagles were against Kent, and it was known that Len was already watching with great interest. And Dan was very keen to impress. There were obviously a few NL bosses interested in him, cant remember if Eastbourne were one of them. Maybe with Tom and Jason already on board they had enough young talent! Actually, didnt they go Championship in 2019?

I've been looking for this myself. It is showing on our very own Speedway Updates site -although it's not open for comments yet - so I'm hoping they have someone sending them details.

I just watched it and very much enjoyed it. Belle Vue is one of those tracks where just the way it rides makes it more exciting than most others. The lines there mean even when they are strung out a bit, theres still a good chance of making up the ground in one bend and challenging for position. Of course I was only watching highlights but considering some have said it was boring gate and go, the highlights were good