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Ok, moving on..... Ivan Mauger Ove Fundin Jack Parker Peter Craven Peter Collins Jason Crump Eric Langton And now find another club team to beat that!

Tom Farndon....

I agree Hancock must now be considered in any list of all-time greats. As time goes by, he will move higher and higher simply because people forget the old stars and riders like Moore, Young, Craven will drop out - even Briggs and Fundin. As we can see in waihekeaces 1's list, there is not one pre-war rider because they are just forgotten. But what about Farndon, Huxley, Wilkinson? There's no doubt Hancock deserves a high place but as always the more modern the rider the higher up the list he will be.

If you don't want to you don't need to write an editorial, that's up to you. However it seems to me that what the SS should be doing is giving a bit more factual explanation about the FIM process given all these comments about poor Darcy and the amount of time it's taking. It must surely be the responsibility of the SS to explain to its readers what FIM regulations state and that this case is no different to those the FIM have dealt with before. Instead, by not doing this, you are tacitly supporting the idea that Darcy Ward is being hard done by and that, for some reason, the FIM seems to be picking on him personally when this is not the case. If you don't think the SS should give an opinion on the matter, surely you must agree it should state the facts.

Not forgetting Josef Hofmeister.

We don't know it is going to take 45 days. FIM regulations say it can be UP TO 45 days. Unless you've heard differently.

What you're making there, Phil, is a general point about the FIM. This case is nothing out of the ordinary. You might want to criticise the FIM for the time they take generally, but, believe me, this case is nothing special. They are not treating Darcy Ward any differently to how they would treat any other rider. It's just a shame people like you and Middlo don't know this.

Yes, ok, you've all convinced me. Move Dag up.

It's dry today.

1. Sverre Harrfeldt 2. Rune Holta (he was Norwegian once) 3. Reidar Eide 4. Basse Hveem 5. Aage Hansen 6. Lars Gunnestad 7. Dag Lovaas

Jimmy Ogisu Er... That's it.

Yes, I thought about Hans Andersen, but somehow he never seems to have lived up to his potential. A few years ago he looked like a World Champion in the making but it never quite happened. Good call with Bo Petersen certainly.

Jan O is the fifth automatic choice. My other two would be Tommy Knudsen and Arne Pander but by this time next year I have a feeling we could be adding NKI as an automatic.

Here's my Africa team Doug Davies Henry Long Keith Harvey Buddy Fuller Doug Serrurier Mike Ferreira Peter Prinsloo

And Doug Davies!

Did you ever see Barry Briggs ride, pugwash?

mickthemuppetCan you ever get anything right? Eric Langton was a much stronger rider before the War. The fact he was still getting those sort of averages after the War shows just shows what a great rider he was over his whole career and much better than Bill Kitchen.

Doug Davies, possibly the best of the lot.

Blimey, Mick, you're even older than I thought. You saw Eric Langton in his hey-day????

Agree 100% with your first choice team, Rob.

Soften them up, then hit 'em hard in the second match with your best team, eh Rob?

Sorry, remind me again, who is Darcy Ward? Is he a speedway rider? Has something happened involving him recently? Can I find any information about him anywhere?

Zenon Plech first came to ride in England for Hackney in 1976. Marian Kaiser 1959 Leicester; Henryk Zyto 1960 Coventry; Stefan Kwoczala 1960 Leicester. Kaz Bentke 1961 Coventry; Pawel Waloszek 1961 Leicester.......

Plus Lionel Van Praag at no.8 for another world title.

A very close call between Knutson and Michanek. Perhaps we could have a pre-meeting run-off to decide!