Dave Jones

What a tremendous race meeting this was. Five of us travelled by car to Prague for a few days & took in this meeting.We sat up in the main stand along with a few other Brits ,& must have made so much noise that after the presentation the top three riders came up to have a chat & say "thanks for the support." A day that I will always remember. and another opportunity to spend some time in a wonderful city. Great times.

A blessing in disguise I would suggest.

Indeed, he's doing my head in now.

Given the confines that were in place , ie space & finance, i think we should be extremely grateful that we have the NSS as it stands. I don't see any other areas of the country where anything any better is proposed currently.

That should sort things down to a tee..

The problem with the buggy was that it is very small & if there were a lot of people trying to get on to go up to the stadium it became a bit of a Wedge. Perhaps they could arrange to" putter nother " one on

So we have a guy who put 50 successful years into speedway promotion, (wouldn't it be great if we had a few individuals with that commitment nowadays), being accused of selling off stadiums when we know he was just one of several directors of Midland sports stadiums ltd & as such would not be the sole decision maker.

I can recall the time that the Stoke stadium had a visit from the local vandals & it was alleged that they caused £35000 worth of improvements to the place .

Well i've still got her .

I didn't make it to Wembley in 1966, but I did get married earlier that year & it only cost 7/6 for the license .

Given the performances of many of the English football teams at Wembley since the "famous day in 66", it might have been a good idea if the whole pitch had been covered in darkness.

Didn't think for one second that they were. I was just trying to highlight the motive behind some average adjustments that have been carried out in the past.

Depends whether your club officials are considered to have been "naughty"at any time recently & as such require some form of punishment.

I think you will find that this is, in fact, the case regarding Mildenhall Speedway & two local residents. Nothing to do with Brandon Stadium whatsoever

O K , I am getting old & the memory isn't what it once was.

You could well be right, it was a long time ago. I had it in my mind that PK dumped Screen? into the fence on the last bend and got an exclusion for his trouble.

That was a tremendous night at Monmore Green. Do you recall Karlsson's last bend manoeuvre which got him an exclusion from the race? An odd move from him considering the meeting was lost with Ott winning ..

I firmly believe that decision by Frank Ebdon was more to do with ensuring Nielsen didn't win the title that year..

The last time I stood in that spot I thought their average age had come down a little.

Neglected, is how I would describe it.

Well the last photos I saw showed that the weeds were coming along nicely

Absolutely, I know I shouldn't really" go there" as it's going over old ground once again but it still hurts 10 years on.

I think EIA needs a reminder of what was going on around that time.Ford was unhappy that Coventry had managed to keep Shamek at reserve for so long, IMO they used the very same criteria that Ford himself used many times (ie they played Ford at his own game)and he didn't like it .Pawlicki's 16 +1 did for Poole on the second leg meeting and Ford reacted by taking in his firework display, turning off the hot water to the visitors shower room & removing the Champagne from the bar area. Hardly the reaction expected from a mature person. Then came the sudden rapidly arranged meeting by a select few who connived a change in the conversion factor for lower league riders moving up, effectively screwing up bees deals for two riders already in place. I've seen comments that the teams shouldn't be selected before the AGM but we all know that it was the accepted way of doing things for years ,and probably stilll is now. We also had the re assessment of Pawlicki's average, another very unfair decision. Despite all the protests to the contrary it seems blatantly obvious that Ford was the Prime Mover in all that went on in the winter of discontent, & to add insult to injury he then proceded to register Kildemand as a poole rider whilst the bees were in the middle of a team shuffle mid season 2011. Kildemand went public and stated that he had no knowledge of his transfer to Poole as he hadn't even spoken to Ford. But it did have the desired effect as it stopped Coventry using him again.Those are just some of the moves of a very underhanded & bitter man.

Methinks Shovlar doth protest too much.

I had it in my mind that it was more about the conversion rate for riders moving up a league which was agreed prior to the AGM at a meeting that Coventry weren't invited to.Consequently that screwed up the bees plans as they had got deals to take two riders from the lower division Kenni Larsen being one (can't recall the other ).