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Love your positive posts ( idiot )

In true BSF a pretty good thread has gone to the dogs. Shame.

1) if a club joins after the AGM they have to follow same rules & could only pick riders not already signed up, this would not hinder any other club as they would have already signed up the best riders available! 2) If there's a large number of riders frozen out from the NL, why not allow another team!

It’s upside down - lol

Doyle vs Kurtz = Doyle Batch vs Killer = Batch Jensen vs Wright = Jensen Ellis vs Bewley = Ellis Stewart vs Worrall = close.. depends if Worrall is over injuries Perks vs Lidsey = Lidsey Rowe vs Etheridge = Rowe everywhere else over than the NSS so not close really... dont get the fuss on this Belle Vue team at all

I’d change your red and black tinted specs

For his own safety should stay retired.IMO

not me, it was the wife's car.

Footage of the meeting can be found here

Let's be honest if MD is as big as he was the last time I saw him then they'd have to cull a herd of Wildebeast to make his racesuit.

By Wimborne I assume you mean Poole?! The difference with Poole being that Osborne doesn't 'own' Poole Stadium - they lease it from Poole Council, who have stated they wish to retain the site as a sporting/leisure facility, with just a relatively small corner of the car park and an adjacent site being used for flats.

To be honest both clubs need each other to survive and it's also good that Shielfield is used pretty much all year round

Should enter the CL team.. might have a chance

Half the fun of the thread is seeing people getting their knickers in a twist

Elkins probably had an EF.

So Newcastle have applied to run in this years NT, i suspect it's a test to see if running in the NL is viable. Would give IoW Mildo and Plymouth an extra home meeting to enjoy.

Here is some lovely pre-war speedway related information. Taken from the first report of Dirt Track racing in the Daily Mirror from 1928 From The Daily Mirror 13 February 1928 (page 2) NEW SPORT FOR MOTOR-CYLISTS Britain's First Dirt Track Race Meeting GREYHOUNDS RIVAL? Skidding Thrills When Taking Bends at High Speed Dirt Track racing, the motor-cycling sport which thrills Australia, is being introduced into England. The first meeting in this country will be hold at King's Oak speedway, near Loughton, Essex, next Sunday. Two crack riders from Australia, Billy Galloway and Keith McKay, will compete against some of the leading South of England motorcyclists. The Englishmen are particularly looking forward to the meeting, for it will be their, experience" in a, sport which is claimed to be one of the most exciting in the world.

Art Pechar and Fay Taylour

Same here Steve I also wished I was born to watch the birth of this sport. In the Daily Mail from May 1928 from a meeting at Stamford Bridge there is news story where the reporter called speedway no-more than a circus with no thrills whatsoever. But the following moth in 10 July the same newspaper report plenty of thrill from a meeting at Stamford Bridge. With Art Peacher in a neck-and-neck race breaking the track record at 43.38 mph, beating the mile rolling start record, at Stamford Bridge. In this Stamford Bridge meeting "cyclone" Billy lamont of Harringay won the handicap 'silver wheels' prize of scratch beating Vic Huxley's record averaging 34.45 mph. Fay Taylour beating L.Barker at Hove speedway by 10 lengths averaging nearly 33 mph in a mile match. With Crystal palace Roger Frogley won the handicap in this meeting at Hove in 1 min 34 2-s secs thereby beating the standing start record for the 1 mile course averaging 38.14 mph. Not bad att for all these records in 1 newspaper report. I also found a meeting at Wimbledon in 1928 with Malcolm Seagrave presented a trophy to Vic Huxley in front of a 12,000 crowd the biggest so far at Wimbledon.

Yes. Justin Elkins ef.

Great posts! Wish that I'd been there at the start of something big and which caught the imagination at the time.

I don’t have any problems but thanks for your concern.

Christ

I’d go with (assuming team positions are correct for those teams incomplete!) 1. Doyle 2. Andersen 3. Wright 4. Lawson 5. Cook 6. Covatti 7. Nicol

When did BV last win the league? I think it was 1993. So I don’t understand where your confidence comes from - unless you just like winding people up. I would love BV to return to the top as they have a stadium worthy of champions.

You've done it wrong. Andersen, Harris & BWD are all at Peterborough. You've missed Belle Vue & Ipswich.

I recall his brief spell with Sheffield when he won loads of credit for his sheer guts and can-do attitude. Considering his seemingly endless run of bad luck I'd like to see him having some part to play in the sport. If he's fit and willing to go, someone should give him a place. If nothing else, he could have a role in team management. One of speedway's unsung heroes in my book.

don't think so martin was a shade better than Justin

He made a few mistakes elsewhere as well especially his own team who were firm favourites to make the play offs and didn’t.

And Belle Vue know all about that dont you.

I agree, really nice lad and had more than his fair share of bad injuries.

I know Ove quite well. We've met and chatted on numerous occasions. He is a real gentleman. The complete opposite of his on track persona!

Doyle is a much stronger number 1 than Kurtz. Absolutely nothing between Wright/Killer and Batch/Jensen. In fact Jensen will struggle to keep that average. Below that BV are much stronger. 2 top teams whichever way it’s dressed and will be cut free from the rest of the league.

I remember BV didn’t even make the play-offs #justsaying

That will be 12 noon here.

Surely it is better that fewer animals are bred than to keep breeding animals that are cruelty treated ?This isn’t specific to greyhounds, but any animal. It is like saying if you stop testing products on animals it is cruel because less beagles or monkeys will be bred . It was also the fox hunt argument that if hunts are banned then the dogs won’t be needed....

If this goes balls up from the start,there won't be many there,to see us playing catch up.As one of his main rivals,bet Rossiter can't believe his luck.

Rebel1, you must be part of the track staff to have such knowledge. Would be good to have your insider's view of things like track prep and how things run behind the scenes. Most of us are curious about such things.

What Osbourne & other developers should do ................ be accountable & rebuild or re-site new stadia before any houses are built as per the planning procedure. They should never have been allowed to build houses before the speedway & stock cars were sorted.

Developers are surely less of a threat than waning interest among what few supporters the sport still has.

Who????????

Oh for more characters like Roman Matousek today! Entertainment.

Even with a ten point start in every meeting, Newcastle will finish bottom comfortably - I hope they don't get too battered as their notoriously fickle fans will just stay away...

Great guy. One of the few you made sure you didn't miss his heat's. RIP Roman Matousek

Not convinced Manzares will ever make it big in the sport and feel would struggle just as he did some years ago. Maybe should stay with the change of career he embarked on. Think there are better options even at this stage.

RIP Roman The guy was an out and out racer and entertainer

Nowt to do with Wolves 2020 but just found out that Roman Matousek has died. Was trying to remember his nickname, got as far as 'the flying .......' but damned if I can remember the rest. Went off on an internet search and have spent the last hour reminicisng about the good old days on the Wolfcry forum What was the name of the mag the guys used to do? Wet myself at the 'Where will Gary Havelock be sitting at the World Final' page

My postman is very disappointed. For years, he thought I was the recipient of some very dodgy material as it was sent in a “brown plain wrapper”. Now he realises it’s just Speedway porn

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