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After 3 underwhelming meetings earlier in the week the World Cup delivered tonight. Cracking meeting, with 4 closely matched teams. Great ride by Janowski in the final heat to clinch it - delighted for him.

You forgot the plastic palm trees that we were so proud of in 2004.

No. However, they have joined forces to promote Premier Greyhound Racing. Arc own a number of racecourses and Entain own dog tracks through their Ladbroke and Coral organisations.

ARC PLAN FOR GREYHOUNDS AT WOLVERHAMPTON - Greyhound Star | News from the Greyhound Industry Here's a link to the story in the Greyhound Star. No mention of Monmore, but more on Perry Barr.

Crazy decision to exclude Thomsen. Lindgren was the primary cause of the crash, if not him then Thorsell, but no way should it have been Thomsen.

I could remember that Derek Dougan, in his guise as Kettering Chairman, had something to do with trying to introduce it. A quick Google confirms it. A brief history of football shirt sponsorship - Football Pink I think there was also a fuss when Jimmy Hill tried to get round the ban by incorporating the logo of sponsors Talbot into the design of the Coventry City shirts, but that was possibly the 80's?

Birmingham had the BRMB logo at some point in the late 70's possibly 1978?

You would think someone at Eurosport would be looking at the quality of the camera work and, sadly, the awkwardness of Kelvin and kicking some backsides.

Missed a couple of races, but what I've seen so far has been entertaining.

Really enjoyable read. The Crossroads story was a first for me - fascinating! Not so sure I agree with the sentiment of the badge though! Thank You!

Fricke 1500 more Dudek 2000 more Ta

Vaculik 300 more Dudek 300 more Lambert 200 more Ta

Both matches been shown are only in the first set

Vaculik 100 more Holder 100 more Ta

Predictable afraid, but as a Cradley fan i have to go with Erik and Janno. Erik was a Dudley Wood legend with 3 World titles under his belt, but also blessed with a lovely character which meant he was (afaik) popular with most in the sport. His accident at Odsal finished his career but in typical Erik fashion he has maintained a great outlook on life and it is good to see him still involved in the sport. Janno took a bit longer to get to World class status but by the time of clinching his World title was clearly well deserving of the Championship. Sadly we will never know how many other titles he could have accrued as he was another who retired prematurely through injury. Finally, special mention to Kristian Praestbro, who was, (for Dan McCormick) a fairly unsung signing from Belle Vue in 1978. Not only did he have 2 excellent point scoring seasons as a Heathen, he also played a massive role in helping Erik in his formative time at Cradley.

Lindgren £50 more Holder £50 more Zagar £50 more Ta

The only thing you have to go on is the previous weeks answers. Which aren't much help!

ARC are just interested in having a product to put on the screens in the betting shops each day. I think they are tenants at Perry Barr, not owners?

The owners of the racecourse are ARC, who are the other company involved with Entain (owners of Monmore Green,) in this Premier Greyhound Racing "project".

A "Transformation and Experience" director? WTF?

Can't do a link, but if you look on Poole-speedway.com/club history you will see the incident mentioned in the review of 2013. Too detailed to relate the full details here, but it is much as I said earlier and was to protect their ability to make team changes.

If memory serves, they were quite honest about it. I think a further meeting before the end of May and the effect on averages would have made it hard to make the team changes they wanted. I seem to recall Jon Cook who was the Lakeside promoter at the time had a few moans but I can't recall if there was any censure of the Poole promotion. I'm sure there are a couple of Poole fans on here who will have a better recall. Just realised it didn't really answer the original request you put in the OP for it to be a rain-off. Edit. Reply to Tony's question re Poole cancellation

Slightly different angle...... My eldest daughter lived for some time near Wareham in Dorset so whenever I visited from Belfast I often tried to take in a meeting at Wimborne Road. One May the Pirates were due to ride on a Bank Holiday Monday, so I arranged my flight back from Southampton to be on the Wednesday (no Tuesday flights from memory). For some reason the Wednesday flight was quite expensive and it also entailed me pulling a sickie for a couple of days. So imagine my annoyance when the meeting, against Lakeside I think, was postponed at fairly short notice, not because of bad weather, but because holding the meeting would have caused difficulties with averages for Poole to make some planned team changes. At least I got a couple of extra days with my daughter, but it was an episode that me realise that domestic speedway was going down the tubes.

Jan quickly won the fans over at Durley Wood when he arrived midway through the 1970 season. If I remember correctly his home debut included a couple of last bend overtakes to help clinch a victory over Wolves. I think Cradley were allowed to sign him to bolster a weakened team, but no sooner had he signed then Colin Pratt suffered career ending injuries at Lokeren. I think the dark forces of rider control wouldnt allow him to return to Cradley in 1971, so he only rode a half season in the green and white.

Another great effort. Loved the pic of Charlie Monk smiling.