The supporters club are organising the annual meet the riders on March 26th at Venue 16 in Ipswich. Shouldn't it be at Area 51

Les Rumsey only rode one season for Crayford, 1980 which was also the year I started to follow the sport My first ever away meeting was the NL 4 Team finals at Peterborough in 1980, Les was at reserve due to his average being affected by a series of bike failures; however this match would be his most memorable for the Kestrels as team manager Pete Thorogood used the reserve can have 3 fides rule to the max in the heats and final, replacing Laurie Etheridge in both his heats and Alan Sage in one of his. Worked perfectly as Les, the big track rider scored where the recovering from injury Laurie wouldn't have and the smaller track specialist Alan probably wound't have either. Les became a hero that night, the only night Crayford ever won a team competition Les's home form improved after that meeting but he left during the upheaval of personnel in winter 80/81 and never really seemed to have a good meeting at London road after he left, retiring at the end of 1982 IIRC I'm sure every Crayford fan, especially those at the showground that afternoon will remember Les with affection and thank him for the great memories we have of that day Condolences to his family     

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rp7m   30 minutes in

Didn’t “have the pick of the rider market” due to how late this deal happened, so basically tempering expectations for this year, but they’ve already “got an eye on where the club will go beyond this year”. My personal take on it, was it sounded like we’ve already suggested. Stick with us this year, real business starts next year.    Also discusses UK speedway in general and the state it’s in. A lot of it was just repeating what was in the press release. 

Would broadly agree with that, I think the top four you have identified stand out clearly from the rest on on paper. Unless Poole are scuppered by injuries they should win it at a canter.

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