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From what I remember, quite the contrary! Injury wrecked what looked like being his best season, can't recall what year off the top of my head. Always liked Ty, passionate rider and a very funny, dry sense of humour. Pleased to see him making a good start to the current campaign.

You can blame the Championship promoters for our Danes being missing

Congratulations to Paulco and Elaine on their wedding today.

Two days until the meeting and the forecast is still dry for Sunday. Two iconic teams without a permanent home, I do hope this meeting is well supported.

Barker being a gobby little sh!te..... never? The bloke will get his comeuppance one day when a rider takes real offence. shame because in there somewhere is a good exciting rider

I was able to watch Ivan's funeral from Australia from a livestream 90 minutes. Emotional, very interesting, great pics and clips and so great to be watch! When the bagpipes play New Zealand's national anthem went Ivan's coffin was driven away .. l had a few tears. I hope that the livestream has now recorded and is still to watch. Really wonderful watch. (There is right through the flicking film was very poignant). https://livestream.com/FuneralLivestreamingAustralia/events/8173657/videos/174019226

Plenty of time for the forecasters to give us numerous conflicting forecasts in the next 48 hours

Why? He scored 15 last time at Lynn on bikes that are almost certainly sitting in Norfolk. There seem to be a lot of comments on Premiership match threads about Polish meetings this year, not sure scores over there are particularly relevant to our league. Not rubbish at all. If all clubs had worked together for the good of British speedway as a whole there would have been no clashes as Premiership fixtures would have been on Mondays and Thursdays.

As much as i like speedway if i was there i would probably be fishing right across from that track in Wislok river.

Did you see earlier the link to the live you tube of rzeszow practising this afternoon- who wants to watch that !!!!

What a joke !! The fact that Lynn agreed to this meeting tells me all that we need to be know. We cancel meetings because of the effect the weather would have on the crowd and then arrange to run a meeting when half a team is missing . You couldn't make this up...... Why not switch this fixture to Thursday when all the riders could've rode, or just give Swindon the points without bothering to race, it would save the embarrassment, it cuts-out the financial outlay, it would save hours of work and let the sport be left to die quicker...... You can add me to the list of those not bothering to go ....... .

That is a shame if NKI is missing as I wanted to see Zach beat him again.

Sorry this is nothing but a total farce. I predict a Press Release on Tuesday calling Wednesday's meeting off because of previous heavy rain coupled with poor forecast. Anyone want to bet against it?

Another massive crowd in Lublin !!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/04/24/ivan-mauger-speedway-world-champion-obituary/

For the 3 heat leaders this year guests are allowed As Baggy points out above 2nd strings are r/r

Apparently the developers have argued that we do not need Blunsdon as we have now made Wimborne Road our own

I was able to watch Ivan's funeral from Australia from a livestream 90 minutes. Emotional, very interesting, great pics and clips and so great to be watch! When the bagpipes play New Zealand's national anthem went Ivan's coffin was driven away .. l had a few tears. I hope that the livestream has now recorded and is still to watch. Really wonderful watch. (There is right through the flicking film was very poignant). https://livestream.com/FuneralLivestreamingAustralia/events/8173657/videos/174019226

James scored 10+3 for Sheffield tonight 7 rides excellent performance

Ricky wells scored well tonight, have always liked him from when he started at Coventy. Shame not to see him back at Rye this season. Can see somebody snapping him up hopefully.

Some lovely memories of Ivan from Peter Collins and Alan Wilkinson in this weeks Star, the overriding theme seems to be the bike preparation they gained from the great man.

Maniak hasn`t missed a beat all evening.

Absolute rubbish what about the idiot that planned the premiership fixtures are they not to blame more so as we don’t have a fixture on the 9th

No weather ?

Gambo has put on the rolling averages thread that 2017 WILL now be included (20 meeting total) This could make a big difference and will certainly even out any potential large risers or fallers

indeed scored 11pts from 6 rides

Hoping for a you tube link just before the lublin v Rybnik match starts. I have a decent Eleven 2 picture on http://www.maniak.tv/kanal-2 it`s also on http://v4.ustreamix.com/stream.php?id=eleven-sports-2-poland&v=1524484509 It`s a nice day in Rzeszow- their training session is live here

Swindon should sign Alfie up he is obviously better than their reserves!

No, it wasn’t fair - Steve Shovlar squeamed and squeamed and squeamed.

Peter Oakes visits the NSSC to talk about his association and friendship with the one and only Ivan Mauger.The event is at the Brandon Club on Thursday 3rd May. Tapes up 8pm. Everybody is welcome with all proceeds going to help Neil Vatcher's Young Lions U16's. We hope you can join us. Venue: Brandon Club, Main Street, Brandon, CV8 3HW (just down the road from the stadium) Entrance fee for non-members £3.00 Future dates for your diary; 24th May. BSPA Chairman Keith Chapman interviewed by Steve Brandon. 7th June. Debbie Hancock. A welcome return for the Somerset promoter.

The Stars have a strong 1 and 2 pairing and strong reserves although not sure what Andersen will make of Monmore. NKI, Lambert and Rose should score well, NKI holds the track record and always goes well round there. Should be a Wolves win but will be closer than our first 2 home meetings, 6-10 point win

Weather forecasts appear to be ok for Lublin and Leszno today- cloudy / sunny intervals- no rain forecast.

Spot on Waco. Morley in great form at present, Hopwood doing his job and Campos punching above his weight (partial pun intended). The tail does have serious problems though. Verge will have better nights but Widman is a major concern and Sealey being beaten by the home guest asks a lot of questions. However IOW are a loyal club to their riders and will give them a fair chance but alarm bells must be ringing. Eastbourne had their top end not entirely firing and still won comfortably as the reserves are going from strength to strength. To be fair it won't be the only team to get turned over by the Eagles but feel the Warriors are slipping out of the winning habit again.

Anyone got the know how to put the piece in the Telegraph on here

Really pleased to see that even the Telegraph did a full obituary of Ivan on Wednesday this week. A lot of stuff I am sure many of us were not aware of.

My pay day loan has been successful, so i will be going to stand at the home straight hopefully Jim will be there always a good crack with him

Ty 12+1 guesting for Redcar at Sheffield good to see him getting some track time

Both Neil and his wife are so much more than administors. The amount of work they both put in is unbelievable. The only people who tend to criticise them are the ones who have no idea what they do.

Apparently, there has now been a *U-Turn/*Rethink/*Clarification (*delete as appropriate) regarding the Green Sheets. 2017 averages WILL be included this year for a 20 match Rolling Average. Riders who do not have a 2017 average will maintain their starting average until they have completed 4H & 4A.

Unless the covers are like the ones they have at cricket which are sections on wheels that can be easily wheeled away or the covers roll up on a device behind the safety fence they are virtually impossible to put out or remove quickly with minimal staff to do the job.

Heat 14 now online :

I'm afraid the part in bold shows you really don't understand. There is nothing 'open to abuse' as the rider could have just been replaced anyway.

also, what happened to that track dryer that was made a few years ago to be taken around the country for Sky meetings?? was it ever used? and where is it now?

It could help circulation no end if they always had a front cover with Ivan Mauger on. This week's (enforced) step back in time just reminds one of the 'samey' ness of modern days photos of modern day riders. Contrasting sharply with the vivid richness in so many photos of the seventies stars; and the individuality of the riders depicted. or is it just me ?

Bring back the upright Weslakes I say

It is a shame for Holder really re-his passport visa etc. To think if his Great Grandfather hadn't been such a robbing old goat he could have been English and not needed one to ride here.

Watched the first match at Redcar between these two teams and have to say Archie Freeman looks so much quicker and smoother than last year. Made an outside pass comfortably on Elliot Kelly without any fear. Couldn`t stop to see this meeting but certainly in his pre meeting practice was really attacking the track in a smooth controlled manner--so good to see young British riders making progress.

Or was it due to having another extensive regrade after ht10 that yet again worked against us. We were in complete control up to that point but in heats 11 - 15 the score was 11-19. That would have finished us off against decent opposition, as it did on several occasions in 2017.

Having no team suits is crap. Having that ancient marching music is an embarrassment and totally cringworthy.

I live within a 10 minute level walk to Torquay United. I warned my friends about Osborne right from the off. There is a very strong element that want only one thing....Osborne out! There has been talk about a takeover from the Truro City owner. Sooner the better. The council are being very objective to Osbornes plans. Thankfully, they can see straight through him. The suggested site for a new ground is pure pie in the sky. The ground there is swampy and will never drain properly.