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Watching football tonight they said something about a player than no-one liked apart from supporters of the team he played for. This reminded me of a couple of riders from when I was a kid supporting Ipswich. Namely Preben Eriksen and Tim Hunt. Favourites of mine when riding for Ipswich for sure. Any memories from Ipswich fans? No doubt other teams had similar former favourites too.

My memory might be cloudy as I was only 12 but sacking Hibbs seemed premature at the time. I thought he was doing ok and we didn’t cover for him that well afterwards did we? I think Baldwin did well some of the time.

Can someone remind me what happened with him? Seemed to be on the verge of going places in 1996 (or 1997?) and then his average dropped massively. Had a gap and returned but totally flopped as I recall. What happened? Did he get injured?

Can someone remind me about him? I seem to recall his form was very up and down and included loads of retirements. Anyone know why?

No, I would assume not. Russia are still attacking Ukraine. In any case, do either of them want to do the GPs? Tied up to the issue of riding as a poles in the Polish league as well innit. And given there are only 3 wild cards, given that two of which must go to Holder and Bewley, that only leaves one for someone else anyway.

So, I’ve only watched speedway since 1979 but the worst I’ve seen were definitely Nicki and Ronni Pedersen. In third place maybe Preben Eriksen. Although when he rode for my team I only saw him as ‘hard but fair’ of course. 😄

This was in response to Ronni fencing Doncaster a few heats earlier though wasn’t it.

Is there such a rule in British speedway still? I’m sure there used to be. I seem to recall Polish leagues have yellow and red cards for dangerous riding. I’m a neutral but wasn’t Chris Holder’s pass on Lampart on the televised meeting on Eurosport an example of this? I couldn’t believe the ref didn’t exclude Holder.

Middlesbrough v Boston 02/10/80 was 58-18. Boston had only three scorers. Gagen 7, Spinks 6, Hollingworth 5, Chris Cole 0, Ian Turner 0, Keven Dye 0, Guglielmi 0 Guglielmi crashed out in heat 1. Dye and Cole both excluded on 2 mins in the reserves race. Protesting at track conditions maybe? Anyway, they carried on!

Hi. Apart from 2008 they’re in a book I’ve got by Alan Robertson called British Speedway Leagues 1991-2007. I can get scans or photos of them if you’d like.

According to Maurice Jones’s Speedway Survey 1989 book Arena didn’t use any in the league or KOC, but Hackney used one. Nigel Leaver in for Andy Galvin at Eastbourne. He scored 9.

This is what I have for Rye House v Ipswich. I don’t think I attended so not sure where I got the details from. If not in Speedway Star they were probably in the local paper.

I have the Programme still. I've got Les Collins replacing John Davis in heat 8. Came last. His only ride.

I have details of Rye House v Ipswich 1st leg at Ipswich on July 19th (second half after main meeting v Exeter) was 42-35. 2nd leg was on August 12th. Ipswich won 49-29. I have heat results for all races and times for all but two of you need them. Details must have been from Speedway Star or the East Anglian Daily Times as I didn't actually see either meeting!

No chance? Is it that bad in Ipswich? I live in sussex so I'll be setting off soon so any more updates will be appreciated!

Has anyone tried to get out of Cardiff after the GP (or after anything at the Millenium Stadium for that matter) by train before? Are the trains often too packed to get on? Thanks for any help.