THE DEAN MACHINE

i have a couple of views about the NL/3RD division , first i dont think me or buzz or any of the older riders has ever stopped a young rider getting a place in the league , if they couldnt get a place it was more down to their ability than anything else , and imo calling the 3rd division a development/training or whatever you want to call it league is holding the league back , yes it is a league for young riders to learn and start out in the sport but speedway at all levels is a form of entertainment and the public are the wage payers, im speaking as a fan now when i say if i watch speedway i want to see great races not a trainng school ,i want to see the best that division can offer , i dont care if the riders are 70 or 15 years old , i just want to see great racing , i think their are some great stylish young riders in the NL but their are also some older riders that give good entertainment and surely thats what speedway is about , i know many promoters lost sight of the aspect of entertainment years ago but speedway needs them to get it back at all levels , calling it the national development league just says amature and dosent make me want to watch it ,so why would any new supporters

i agree with most of what you say here, except me and you have worked in speedway long enough to know a good idea for the benifit of speedway will only happen as long as the boys club is on to an earner,imo the hackney idea wouldnt have happened if it wasnt for the dudley success, but the dudley success isnt down to just useing a famous speedway name and riding somewhere else , in the 14 years it was without a track it never went away ,speedway in dudley is big and has always been big always in the local papers ,it is almost a political issue round here and that hasnt happened to hackney,i think hackney will be a success at hackney but not this venture , for the good of speedway i hope im wrong

i just think this is silver/cook trying to cash in on the name hackney , they have seen what has happened with dudley and think its a way to make money , but you have to live in the black country to understand dudleys success, they have both been without a track for nearly the same time but they are worlds apart in fan base , there are 2 issues in the black country area which get major newspaper coverage ,one is the proposed mosque and the other is a track for cradley/dudley ,its been like that for years ,not just in the sports sections either, im not knocking hackney and i hope it succeeds ,but i just feel that some promoters are running short of ideas to make money and will exploit any idea they can , if it attracts old fans back then great and i hope it is the start of some way to get hackney back in hackney but i dont think thats what this venture is about , also i feel £12 is to expensive for NL racing ,speedway in general has got to take a couple of steps back and start to get people goin to watch speedway again and charging them alot of money isnt the way to do it especially in the current climate when money is tight for a lot of people ,

chris harris

it gets worse

nothing would suprise me in british speedway at the moment

add the isle of wight to that list of frustration

plymouth is only 200 miles from the midlands ,80 miles past somerset ,hardly the end of the earth is it , if it was refused it wasnt because of location

maybe there will be a couple of suprises for the NL next season

march

i see old righteous one has spouted his wisdom ,you really should get the job of running speedway ,

while i agree with the 2 points here ,restricting commonweath riders and riders wanting £20+ a point ,the fact is introduce those 2 rules and there will be a major shortfall in riders for next season , this year when injuries start there isnt enough riders to go round now ,i think introduce those rules and you rule out half the current riders maybe more, but i agree something needs to be done, and just for the record i am not on £20 a point so this isnt a personal gripe for me

yep ill be celebrating in style by washing my bikes

we didnt deserve 4th place ,team GB did us proud, i think we were unlucky to get outside gates when the track was soaked but thats the way it goes ,well done to the poles and every nation that competed in a fantastic world cup ,proud to be a brit

very sad news , jean was a lovely friendly lady who became a good friend from my time at mildenhall , my thoughts are with ray and her family, DEAN

It was a great and gutsy performance last night, and we did nothing wrong ,it really came down to one race ,heat 23 Danny tried to go down the outside of a AJ and AJ ru him out wide and put danny at the back , if Danny had got another few inches infront of AJ he would of dropped it on AJ and i think we would be talking about a different result today ,sometimes in speedway the difference between wining and losing is the matter of inches and last night was a perfect example of that, it dosent matter who the five riders were as long as they give it everything and they did, it was a great nights speedway and im am very proud of TEAM GB.

just watched it back on sky i dont think that scott is that hard on emil , yes he does run him wide but not right out to the fence and when there is a tiny bit of contact scott has already got his wheels in line and is making his exit from the corner, i would say emil clipped scotts dirt deflector rather than the other way round, what happend after that was handbags at 20 paces, a great night really enjoyed it , referee was crap .

1 Sam Ermolenko 2 Ronnie Correy 3 John Cook

maybe thats why pedersen is world champ and as great a rider as adams is he isnt world no. 1, pedersen has got the perfect attitude to be world champ, he is not out to make friends or please people he wants to be no.1 and doesnt except 2nd best

its about time that old t**t Felton retired

hi mate i rode there from the first match to the last at the showground, if i can help in anyway i will be only to pleased .DEAN FELTON

germany was a shot itself in the foot day for speedway, but for gollob the outcome couldnt of been more perfect for a couple of reasons