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Ooooohhhh, the anticipation

Please restrict your postings to the Newcastle link , you are boring myself & everybody else on this link

Think that's Cookie as well, mind you I mistook Schroek for Riss the other week, so not sure I can be trusted!

I have been around speedway for over 50 years @ many levels, including connections to a few world champions. I truly be leave that Dan has the talent to be world champion. Would do himself a big favor to improve his gating skills otherwise the final goal will be that much harder but possible - Mark Loram! Good luck Dan for 2020 & beyond.

I'm afraid not, the riders are free to work for whom and where they like, granted there may be argy bargy because the club that holds the registration wants to offer a team place and some newby promoter has made an illegal approach offering the rider brewsters to go elsewhere. The BSPA has an appeal process which runs all the way to the ACU but ultimately the rider will ride where he chooses and in my example the club owning the registration gets a loan fee and the club making an illegal approach gets a fine. If club A says you can have him on a transfer only basis then it goes to appeal. The process has been taken to Barristers by certainly one rider I know as well as the BSPA and has been acknowledged as legal and definately not a Bosman.

Photos good , wording is good, but not keen on the angular font. ( it might be funky, but not the clearest to see). Driving past a poster people would probably not take in day, or time- apart from that, a good effort Dan.

Carl is his own man and certainly isn’t clueless

No it didn't. We just all celebrated it a year too early.

I always find comments like this particularly stupid. Of course the paying customer in a sport has a right to know the rules by which the team he supports are competing. And indeed the Speedway regulations are in the public domain, as are all the averages, and the competition rules. It was even a fair question to ask what the mechanism for loan fees was. If teams could negotiate their own loan fee levels it could lead to an unfair competitive advantage. And this question was answered. There was a set loan fee scale which makes things fair. But to demand the intimate costings of a private limited company is just ridiculous. No business operates like that. When you bought your Christmas turkey at Tesco, they will have told you the price they wanted for it. They'd have told you it's weight and any information you needed to know to be able to gauge what you were getting for your money. But you really expect Tesco to tell you how much they paid for the turkey, or how much their rent and utilities bills are? That's just ridiculous.

I am sure that Dan Bewley, like many other riders, is always aiming to be the best he can be. I think the point being made is that it will be a big step for him to become a number 1 next year. Not impossible, considering the steps he has already made and the courage and determination he showed in coming back so quickly from serious injury but realistically, more likely to take him at least 2 more years.

The real trick is to have enough money to sustain your learning period, how ever long that might be. The entry costs are astronomical and your earnings potential minuscule in those formative years.

Poole meeting was removed from the fixture list. Wolverhampton was cancelled due to rain and at the late stage of the season a new date could not be arranged.

I knew what was meant and only made fun of it when the original mistake was brought to everyones notice.

Most as in all except Poole.

Definitely Cookie, I can tell by the way he walks and his shoulders

Productive text is alive and well!

I went to the test between England and USSR on the 27/07/ 74 at Swindon Steve .Vladimir scoring 13pts spoiling Ashby's 18 pt maximum and Valeri scoring 0 England won 66/41 Kuzmin 10pts and the talented Khlinovsky 11 pts also rode.In 1976 the fixture you spoke of the Robins won 47/31 Khlinovsky again scoring 8 pts Victor Trofimov scoring only four pts from reserve they were great events .

I think you're supposed to use end of season averages!

At the end of last season, he also said it was no good having riders who fly at the AFA and can't score away. What do they do, sign them again for 2020 and add Ty Proctor . The mind boggles, well mine does anyway

Give me some time and I'll ask my friend for a scan.....

Who’s Friday?

Not really. That's like saying that Jason Doyle averaged over 13 for Swindon a couple of years back.

I take it from the completed team that Cris Widman may have retired...But as yet no confirmation of that..What ever the future holds for him I wish him all the best.....

I think your team would probably come out on top but this one from the mid 60's onwards would give them a run for their money: 1. Sverre Harrfeldt 2. Dave Jessup 3. Gote Nordin 4. Edward Jancartz 5.Tommy Jansson 6.Olle Nygren 7. Reg Luckhurst/Trevor Hedge

Premier league

Soz realised I was running late for work and had no time to finish the post i thought I had deleted it lol.What I was going to post was. We all want Dan and Robert to reach world class but the down side of our wants the way things are today is that if they do there's more than a good chance they will drop the British league.So wishing them success means I could miss out on the pleasure of watching Dan ride live every week and Robert when his team comes to the NSS.To me watching them on TV is just not the same. I am already gutted through his own success at missing Max blasting round the boards this year after watching him progress over the last few years. As British fans these days their success is our and British speedways major loss making our league weaker and weaker sad sad days.

Think for Birmingham to be in the top 6 they will need to sort the track out and have a lot more dirt on it.

There was a speedway meeting at the Youth Sports Arena in Tijuana in 1969. I know this did happen as my friend has a programme from the event.

Only enough to win television quizzes.

This is The Championship and the League in which the majority of the brightest young prospects born bred and nurtured in the UK are racing and learning their craft. Surely Poole could and should have invested in some young emerging UK talent?

Agreed! Can't really add anything to your prediction, other than to 'endorse' your comment about staying 'injury' free? I also think that if we stay injury free, then we will always have at least one strong reserve, which can be a 'trump' card at times!? Starting with 'Paco' ....on his day, he can beat any team's reserves/second string riders....home/away!

Only saw Wooley a couple of times last season but there appears to be less of him and was riding well rather than his old gate and road block technique which won't work on the Island. As covered by the others Campos has to be a better rider than his average, Morley is the standout rider in the league and if Connor & Chad continue their improvements from last yea it looks a strong side. Titles will hang on whether Leek discovers some technical ability and can keep out of the fence and if Coles can find enough funding to keep competitive.

If it’s any help,my transaction was done by TICKETS COM,MILTON KEYNES.

Media Briefing issued tonight: The Management of Berwick Bandits have had great pleasure in the first hours of the new decade to announce that Cramlington-based, Fire Training Services (North-East) Ltd are proud to be title sponsors of the Bandits for 2020. Trevor and James Fenwick of FTS have been closely associated with the club for a number of years and welcome the opportunity to step in to support the team this coming season. FTS provide a fire consultancy service, focusing on the provision of safety training to industry and commerce. Bandits' co-owner Jamie Courtney was delighted and said: "It’s a massive step forward to welcome FTS on board at this relatively early stage and we will be very proud to be carrying the title of the ‘FTS Bandits’ in 2020. "We will be doing our very best to represent all our sponsors in the most professional way -- as we always do -- and we are very excited to bring a very cool brand of the FTS Bandits to the tapes for the new season. "Team race suits are back and we have got some exciting new additions to add to the merchandise range for the new season too. "The Bandits promotion would like to say a big thanks to Mike, Yvette, Jamie and all of the team at Mike Hope of Wooler Ltd for their tremendous support throughout the 2019 as title sponsor." Club co-owner Scott Courtney went on and added: "Title sponsorship is always a season long commitment and it’s never a given that anyone will commit to more than a season at a time. I’d like to say a massive thanks to the Hope family for backing what we do at Berwick Speedway and in many ways we are just continuing to carry forward a vision they had a massive part in creating. "I’m very happy to confirm Mike Hope Of Wooler Ltd will continue to back the Bandits in 2020 in the associate sponsorship area of the club. "We have a few more troops on the ground this year in helping the club generate sponsorship and we will be announcing our sponsors thick and fast as we approach the beginning of a new decade of professional speedway in Berwick upon Tweed. "It’s a real pleasure to be working with FTS in 2020 and we are very fortunate to have the backing of a company that share our passion and vision for Berwick Speedway." The Bandits are planning the announcement of the club's ‘Powered By’ sponsor as well within the coming days.

If that team beat the 64.84 team average above, they either improved an awful lot throughout the season or someone's abacus needs new batteries.

actually if this was taken to law it would collapse like a pack of cards - riders are actually self employed contractors and the asset system is a load of bollox.

Likewise. Booked tickets and printed at Home,no problems .E mail conformation was instant.Hope you manage to resolve the problem.Done mine of SON website.

A used Cortina mk III, a christmas hamper and 1000 embassy coupons.

1 - No 2 - The loan fee is paid to the British Club that holds the rider’s registration, it is not connected to their nationality. 3 - Loan fees are indeed based on the rider’s average

Warriors complete with Tom Woolley. A stronger team this year! Morley is a stand out rider in the league and can hold his own anywhere. Campos & Woolley are a dependable middle order and there’s average improvement definitely in Campos. Woolley, I think, will improve slightly with a stable home base and he’s tasted second tier racing now. Hopefully Coles fares a bit better than his last Smallbrook spell but he’s improved as a rider since and also has second tier experience now. Those 3 aren’t big names as 2nd & 3rd heat leaders, unlike BV, but there’s strength in depth and none on a downward trend. But I believe the real strength is at the bottom. Wirtzfeld & King have both had a season now and impressed at times last year and should again add 1-2pts to their averages. Leek is a new recruit but was having a great season last year until injury and should be one of the best 3.00 riders and could add 2pts himself. Any bad spell by any of the 3 will drop them to reserve to reignite their season with no worries over who steps up to number 2. More than happy. I can see a play-off campaign coming, a close call between the Warriors & Mildenhall for the NT, a decent KOC effort, a strong NL Fours run and not forgetting hosting the NL Pairs!

I remember watching Charles Wright when he was a reserve at Glasgow many years ago he was woeful and never got any better for a good few years He really struggled then he just clicked a few years ago and look at him now nobody would believe you 2 years ago if you said he would be British riders champion speedway is a sport that fxxks your head and once you get it into your head that you can beat anybody you will then go from strength to strength so I would never right anybody off these days

When did that hold any sway? Try visiting the Poole thread (everyone else does!)

Yes indeed. We often discuss greatest riders ever, greatest Britons and so on. Now whether Tom Farndon could be reckoned the greatest ever is, of course, open to speculation and there are many rivals for both accolades (greatest ever and greatest Briton), but what I think is not in doubt is the legendary reputation Farndon left behind him due to his personality and, to use a word that probably wasn't around in his time, sheer charisma. He was idolised in his day in a way that no other rider before or since has been. I think that has much to do with why his memory lives on.

Seems odd to think that he would be 109 years old now....yet still remembered with reverence

Was there a little falling out with Danyon after being released, ???? also the two you named have also got quite alot wrong in there tenor so far.But i wish the Brummies well going back to Jack if he does not have the NL to fall back on and especially if he is at number 6 it is going to be a tough season.Even with youngsters making the reserves look weaker for other sides there are some real talent out there (i.e.) Palin,Thompson (2) Flint, Bickley, Bailey.Connor Mountain a fine little rider a good example was hindered by not getting extra ride's elsewhere saying that he still did very well.

Who do you think you are? Doctor Who? It is still 2019! .................. later

Championship team, premiership prices.

Other 15 year olds for 2020 include Mickie Simpson, Alex Goldsborough, Archie Freeman, Gregor Millar all of a standard for a proper development league were more competitive track time would benefit them all. 2021 will be a fairly sparse year with only a few present riders turning 15 with the outstanding talent being Sam Mcgurk 2019 was an exceptional year for the number of young riders coming through and the numbers probably won’t be matched until 2022 as there’s a good crop of 12 year old riders who will turn 15 then so let’s hope we have a development league for them to ride in .

Eli is a nice lad but not yet ready but at 15 still has time. With respect the sides tracked at Birmingham this year were poor and did the MSDL no favours, there would be visiting riders winning comfortably and even then its on a slick bald surface that offers little in terms of learning for riders development into the higher tiers. Probably right there but its high calibre ex-moto crosses that make it higher not has bike can scramble. By comparison if you look back at Danny Ayres early days he was borderline dangerous and on the deck more than he was upright. It took a lot of time, effort and guidance to get him up to a consistent competitive level. If Leicester can offer that to Woodward then maybe they can unearth a gem but my limited viewings of him have been that he has limited skill sets but he could well prove me wrong.

Thanks Dave Need to decide when I go on holiday... And yes, some people might think I'm sad for arranging my holidays around who the Diamonds are against... But they're my team and I support them, don't want to miss a meeting, although that happens far too often Plenty of football fans are like that, but as soon as a speedway fan is, they're shot down and called sad... No wonder we're dying, we're all pessimistic and miserable