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Wimbledon Centre Court it is then.

What's wrong with Odsal?

And supposing A beats B, B beats C and C beats A?

Good to see that Heat Four was "Speedway out of the top drawer" though.

Oh, guess what, heat two and Dudek also "fired himself to the front." Fancy.

Good to see Jason Doyle "fire himself to the front." I wonder if any other riders will do that?

What I do miss are the Wembley Finals set in the magnificence of the Empire Stadium with 90,000 fans yelling their heads off..... But then I'm just an old codger, so what do you expect?

There seems to be a mistake with the title of this thread......

Ove Fundin was in 15 finals altogether and finished in the top 3 11 times. Jason Crump also finished in the top 3 10 times running from 2001 to 2010, bookended with two fourth places, 2000 and 2011.

I don't really understand why he got the nod for Heat 15 instead of the skip.

Bomber, a guest? Surely not!

I'll look out for you. Will you be wearing your full military uniform?

Hooray! Well done.

You're better finishing 3rd than 4th; 5th than 6th; 7th than 8th and 9th than 10th. It's not that difficult to understand.

I didn't say that! Where did that quote come from?

The flashing images are fascinating….

There is some dispute over when ignoring started. Some say Johnnie Hoskins was the first person ever to ignore anyone, but others say the Americans began ignoring everyone else long before he did - and, in fact, still are.

Very sad news. I met him out in New Zealand over 20 years ago. He spent a day with me showing me the sights of Auckland, including Western Springs Raceway. His views on Ivan Mauger and Barry Briggs were particularly entertaining! I think you could say he was not exactly star-struck! In the evening he and his wife, Lynda, took my wife and me out to dinner, where we met up with Tommy Sweetman. It was a great day. He was so friendly and informative. Oh yes, and he was a pretty good rider in his day too! R.I.P., Bob.

and over here…

I've been reading on here for months that there's been no publicity, no-one in Northampton even knows there's a new speedway team, the promoters have been hopeless in…er…promoting. It'll all be doom and gloom. And yet here we are, everyone reporting a good crowd. I blame the promoters.

1. Northampton (I just felt sorry for them.)

It depends what you call the 'good old days' because to me the 'good old days' were exactly the days when every team member did wear the team colours - black leathers and a team race jacket. Well I say every team member wore black leathers but there was always the odd maverick such as Nigel Boocock and Mike Broadbanks (as he was then!)

I wasn't around in 1928.

Good job you mentioned that, they probably wouldn't have thought of it...

Well, at least Northampton have achieved twice as much publicity on this Forum as any other club with two threads running....