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A 15 year old in the Premiership?

Would these costs be paid by Birmingham Speedway, or TNT sports?. I would have assumed the latter.

Seem to remember that Machin may have been a promoter at Sheffield, when the Bates family first started there. Quite sure he was also a promoter at Leicester at some point.

Had a go at doing this. Just copied the previous list, and removed the names of those who have passed on. Names now missing are Taylor, Bales, Williams, France, Louis, and Kennett. Hope I got it right, let me know if there are any errors. 01 - Arthur Payne - 28/08/23 02- Per Tage Svensson - 16/10/31 03- Peo Soderman - 29/10/32 04- Ove Fundin - 23/05/33 05 - Dan Forsberg - 25/03/34 06 - Josef Hofmeister - 17/06/34 07 Brian Crutcher - 23/08/34 8 Mike Broadbank - 25/09/34 9- Barry Briggs - 30/12/34 10 - Aage Hansen - 13/04/35 11 - Gote Nordin - 02/07/35 12 - Bob Andrews - 27/10/1935 13- Reg Luckhurst - 11/11/1935 14 - Doug Davies - 06/08/1936 15 - Sverre Harrfeldt - 23/11/1937 16- Leif Larsson - 16/02/1938 17- Leif Enecrona - 05/03/1940 18- Andrzej Wyglenda 04/05/1941 19- Jim Airey - 19/08/1941 20 - Bengt Jansson - 09/01/1943 21 - Anders Michanek - 30/05/1943 22 - Trevor Hedge - 30/08/1943 23- Terry Betts - 15/09/1943 24 - Howard Cole 29/12/1943 25 - Martin Ashby - 05/02/1944 26 - Jan Simensen - 26/07/1944 27 - Zygfryd Friedek - 19/10/1944 28 - Jerzy Trzeszkowski - 10/01/1945 29- Eric Boocock - 02/02/1945 30- John Boulger - 18/06/1945 31 - Hasse Holmqvist - 18/06/1945 32 - Jim McMillan - 03/12/1945 33 - Soren Karlsson - 23/10/1946 34- Ole Olsen - 16/11/1946 35 - Ray Wilson - 12/03/1947 36 - Doug Wyer - 16/08/1947 37 - Grigori Khlinovsky - 11/11/47 38 - Egon Muller - 26/11/1948 39 - Christoph Betzl - 13/02/1949 40- Jiri Stancl - 18/11/1949 41 - Viktor Kuznetsov - 27/11/1949 42 - Georg Hack - 20/02/1950 43- Marek Cieslak - 28/06/1950 44- Alois Wiesbock - 31/07/1950 45 Tommy Johansson - 21/10/1950 46 - Vladimir Gordeev - 30/11/1950 47- John Titman - 26/01/1951 48- Dag Lovaas - 25/02/1951 48- Jan Verner - 03/03/1951 50 - Petr Ondrasik - 08/10/1951 51- Phil Crump - 09/02/1952 52- Henny Kroeze - 11/03/1952 53 - Valery Gordeev - 28/08/1952 54 - Dave Jessup - 07/03/1953 55- Ales Dryml - 10/06/1953 56 - Scott Autrey - 09/07/1953 57 - Robert Slabon - 15/09/1953 58- Peter Collins - 24/03/1954 59- Larry Ross - 15/06/1954 60- John Davis - 10/11/1954 61- Finn Thomsen - 16/02/1955 62- Mikhail Starostin - 24/02/1955 63 - Tommy Nilsson - 10/03/1955 64 - Jan Andersson - 07/05/1955 65 Kai Niemi - 15/09/1955 66- Jerzy Rembas - 18/04/1956 67- Chris Morton - 22/07/1956 68- Steve Bastable - 16/09/1956 69- Bruce Penhall - 10/05/1957 70- Karl Maier - 24/08/1957 71- Roman Jankowski - 05/10/1957 72 - Bo Petersen - 21/02/1958 73- Les Collins - 24/05/1958 74 - Mitch Shirra - 27/09/1958 75 - Michael Lee - 11/12/1958 76- John Cook - 18/12/1958 77 - Dennis Sigalos - 16/08/1959 78 - Erik Gundersen - 08/10/1959 79- Hans Nielsen - 26/12/1959

Someone mentioned it on one of the threads on this forum. I certainly have not heard anything definite about dogs. Stock cars must be correct as it's on their website.

Stock cars have been finished at Sheffield, their pits area ( so I have heard), is being used to store solar panels. Heard that greyhounds have been given notice to quit ( not sure if that is fact), but it has started some speculation that the stadium may soon go to other use.

Was it Carlo Biagi??

Home team have to declare first.

Seem to be a lot more votes for closed tracks, than operating ones. Probably because there are a lot more to choose from.

Could Adam Ellis be persuaded to do the Championship?

Will Scott Nichols be fit any time soon?

Fancy Scunthorpe to win this, but seems unlikely they will qualify for next stage. Hopefully some good racing. Any locals able to tell me about possible M181 or M180 closures, after the match. Saw some signs about closures on dates of previous matches, but they only applied after 8pm, which was not an issue for a 3pm start. Thanks

Presume two of the three you refer to are Cairns and Rushden, who is the other?

I believe it was decided, some years ago, that NL team's, could not have rider assets.

Don't get speedway star, so what were his reasons for signing for Leicester, then telling them on the eve of the season that he wouldn't?

A similar idea was proposed a few years ago. A European cup, with the best two teams from England, Poland, Denmark and Sweden. Not sure how it would have worked through with "international doubling up"

Thought greyhound racing still there.

Why has Lawson withdrawn from British Final?

Before Woffy was injured we may have looked like a team with four heat leaders and three reserves. Now it looks like three heat leaders and four reserves.

First reaction is that the team is now weaker. Replacing Hume, makes us slightly stronger, but is more than offset by the downgrade from Woffy. Still not sure if there were any better options. Lindgren or Lambert do sound better, but may not be available.

Edinburgh now off so hopefully Foord at Scunthorpe

Just hope he gets there on time.

Weather forecast not too good for Edinburgh. If it's an early call off Foord may be at Scunthorpe.

And I have just noticed that both teams are using rider replacement at Belle Vue which could slow the meeting.

Won't have much time to spare. Approximately 2 hours from Manchester to Scunthorpe, time to load up after Belle Vue, and prepare at Scunthorpe. Hope the crowd are not expected to stand around waiting for him.