Here you go probably when the sport was near its peak how it missed Bruce  

Now your talking General the old british finals at Coventry what a great day out 10k plus would turn up, you had Silver, Havelock, Wigg, Tatum, Morton and loads more in with a shout of winning brilliant days. I was 16-19 when I used too go with my best friend and his dad, my mates old man was an utter loon behind the wheel and I always remember the carnage of getting out of the car park after the meeting when he would be doing his biscuit and battling for every inch of space spare heading to the gap out of the field with 5,000 other cars.

Hoping we get an upgrade like we did at the first SWC held there... Blocks A and B will be on camera most of the evening given there will be a camera covering the home straight, so making it look full would be a priority for me if running the event... Even a crowd of 12,000 will generate well over a million, so even if the Aces only make £150k or so profit that is still around five domestic matches worth of income... Maybe Mark Lemon will be speaking with riders this weekend to see if they want to come over?... Good luck with that, if so, especially given the current injuries sustained out of Poland by some top riders... I see Janowski got stopped from riding in Sweden on Tuesday by Wroclaw...

All that money for the temp stand and it’s two years in a row they can’t sell the Friday out. Surely it is hitting them financially as a club negatively?!  Any news on Bewleys replacement!l for Belle Vue yet?

Which is why call offs are so frequent... Fixture pile up pressure used to focus the mind on getting meetings on, due to often running weekly.. Now you still have plenty of Mondays and Thursdays left to run those postponed meetings.. Mondays and Thursdays later in the season which, (with a certain irony as the clock is suddenly ticking to compete the season), often get run in very ropey conditions!!! So much of what all this self policing does is show how important an independent governing body or person would be, as if they decreed, (as they would), "one point each, move on", so many more meetings would take place... Also, so many more riders wouldn't be allowed, (without proper sanction), to duck out of UK meetings whilst still riding elsewhere, and domestic meetings wouldn't be allowed to be planned in against other meetings elsewhere, when you 100% know riders will be missing... Hence, we will never have an independent body or person in charge..

What I do miss are the Wembley Finals set in the magnificence of the Empire Stadium with 90,000 fans yelling their heads off..... But then I'm just an old codger, so what do you expect?