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Not when it's raining.

No worries, I was just returning the compliment and making conversation. Cheers Alan.

I don't have a favourite overseas team but I would like to know why your club use the mouse logo, how did that come about?

Ah right, well it must be poor then if it doesn't measure up to this place. Great ride by Sundstrum there, under plenty of pressure from Laguta.

Less grass? The track shape and size looks ok but it is proving processional.

Good luck Peter Ljung, that looked nasty.

That's a good statement, puts it all in perspective and offers an insight into the relationship between manager and rider. This pairs series has been a welcome inclusion in the Eurosport schedules because it means we get speedway but it has a long way to go before it will receive the proper recognition as a big series, here's hoping it continues and GB are able to put forward a squad for the 3 meetings next year.

Here we go, it's going to be a long night on Eurosport, or a very short one.

Racing not great but decent result for Belle Vue. Great to see Lambert ride, I hope he has a bright future. Poor Nigel, so gutted that the meeting went the distance he's trying to get Wolves abandoned..

Great ride from young Lambert, lovely rider to watch, reminds me of PC the way he finds gaps that aren't there, pure natural. Also puts his manager to shame going out and attacking the track just after Lyon was mithering the ref to call it off

Lyon, pathetic action getting on the phone to try and get the meeting stopped, should be embarrassed.

Heat 10 this, heat 10 that, shut up Nige, like a stuck record. Good to see the Aces bouncing back, solid looking, here's hoping they can kick on from this.

It's 'so black and white' but you then say it 'seemed' to be the starting gate that was the issue, not factual then? This thread has revealed things that most of us would not have been aware of yet you complain that it's still going, stop contributing to it if you want it to end. It's a decent thread imo because in the main it hasn't descended into snide remarks and backbiting. Just sayin'

Thanks for the reply, Olsen has prepared a few dodgy tracks in these stadia, doesn't he normally have a week to get Cardiff track laid? Probably like most on here I know a good few who have turned their back on this sport over recent years, there will be a good few more after this fiasco.

Know what you mean about Len Silver but maybe it's down to the materials he has to work with these days rather than his own failings, then again we do still see well prepared tracks here and there, is that because they spend more money on their material?

I can feel your pain, what a journey you made to end up being treated with such contempt, I would be livid if I'd travelled a couple of hundred miles never mind over 4,000. As you say they need to understand they are in the entertainment business and without fans they have no jobs, the sooner the sport is taken by the scruff of the neck and brought into line the better. It's rotten from the top down.

They become tv pundits and steal a living that way instead, jobs for the boys. I think the covered seats are more to do with the fact that they can't sell them because they don't offer a view of the track due the the height of the air-fence, could be wrong though. Also I thought the dirt deflectors stop the shale flying up, or have they stopped using them now?

How is that relevant? The poster who complained about the flag was clearly in attendance, you rubbished his comment because it didn't make your personal radar. Give it a rest pal, you are just making yourself look stupid with your comments.

and breathe....

No minor detail if you'd shelled out like he/she did to attend the meeting,

I heard today that wizwig is back, here's hoping

Thanks for that, I've recently had same problem but got round it by right clicking on the 'jigsaw shaped' message telling me silverlight needs your permission to run and selecting the option to run it, only problem being is that I have to do it every time I log in to view. I'll try what you suggest and hopefully it will be sorted.

http://speedway.manchesterpaul.net/racecards.html cheers for another season Paul.

Great post, we share plenty of memories from that era, although you clearly retain more details of the actual results than I'm able to. My most vivid recollection of Declan Eccles were the grey overalls he always seemed to wear, made him seem a no nonsense type of rider, great to watch when in full flight. Wasn't Glen Hornby another of Bamforth's fledglings, I seem to remember he also went out on a limb for Martin Scarisbrick, neither of the pair ever fulfilled their supposed potential. We sat 3rd bend also, easily the best place to view racing @ Hyde Road, PC & Mort had so many different lines round that pit bend, almost impossible for any rider to outdo them. Was the little souvenir kiosk still there, just inside the Redgate Lane entrance? Bought my first Soren Sjosten rosette from there. Going in the pits after the meeting was always a great end to the evening, Larry Ross always had his bikes in a big estate car, Citroen I think. See, you remember results, I just retain the trivia, still great memories though..

No need for the rubbishing comments, each to their own and all that. The total points stuff is for the studio analysis section as far as I'm concerned, if Nigel alludes to it the odd time fair enough but he's screaming about it as the riders are crossing the line, all wrong for me..