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Andy Galvin was always guaranteed to get the Wimbledon crowd going.

Norman Strachan?

Unless he's doubling up between Easter and Christmas?

I think Cross is the wrong religious festival so maybe use r/r instead?

Another arrival today!

I'd say that since lockdown started I've enjoyed reading the Star more than ever. I did worry how you were going to cope in the winter without the track reviews but you've made a good start so far. The series on the KO Cup looks as if it will be a winner.

John Dews was captain of Sheffield but was never their number one, same for the Templeton brothers at Edinburgh and Glasgow and Alby Golden at Newport. I recently saw a picture of a 1969 newcastle team with Mike Watkin, not Ole Olsen as skipper.

I was born in November so no one was riding, home or away. I suddenly feel strangely deprived..

I got an email about renewing my BT TV deal. Checking the new packages on offer, there was no mention of Eurosport.

I remember seeing this on TV. Was it about the time rear wheel spoilers came in? I seem to recall Dave Lanning suggesting they had something to do with it.

Shows how bad Hackney were that Patrick Pawson got two points! I was at the the match the following year. Cyril Maidment complained that the announcer was mispronouncing Jancarz's name. Needless to say he got a very dusty response..

Installing the air fence (not really necessary at Rye) more or less ruined the bends as viewing areas.

There are 120 available points in a 20 heat individual meeting. Divide that by 16 and you'd get 8 point something, so the lowest possible winning score would be 9, if my maths is correct, which there's every chance of it not being.

Just like the good old days!

Nigel Boocock (11) and Rick France (9) scored 20 out of 23 in a 55-23 defeat at Belle Vue in 1968 and Boocock got 14 out of 27 at Sheffield the same season. Despite all this one-sidedness Coventry actually won the league that year!

Sheffield had Charlie Monk, John Dews and Brian Maxted score full maximums in a 54-24 win over Belle Vue in 1968. Has any individual done better than Nigel Boocock scoring 16 out of 24 at Wimbledon the same season?. There was certainly one more occasion when he scored over half his teams points that season.

Was at that meeting. Carter broke the track record in his first ride, which didn't sit well with the crowd. Morton came out the next ride and was obviously going for the record and the crowd really got behind him, though he was ahead by a mile. When it was announced that he'd smashed Carter's record the noise was tremendous. And if it needs saying, what a great track Hyde Road was.

1s 6d to get in!

One of the things I noticed watching the SEC was that Lambert may not often have been first into the first bend, but he regularly was coming out of the second bend. I always thought that was a characteristic of Woffinden at his best.

Andy Galvin rode for the Dons a few times as a young kid, but when he came back riding for Hackney he used to wind the crowd up something rotten. Great box office, though

The letter actually says they propose to resume greyhound racing at Poole when the public are allowed back in, a far cry from the implication of the original post.

When you begin a competition you get a drop down box which gives you the option of choosing a team to control or 'control none'. This gives you control of every team. Even then on the match screen, next to each team's name is an icon, either an outline of a head or a computer. You can change these. The head icon for both teams means you control them both. Hope this helps.

Pretty sure you can control every team on Flying Shale if you want to.

Certainly agree that the classic Aces body colour was excellent. Clear design, striking colours; perfect. I liked the West Ham colour. Red and Blue go well together and the crossed hammers were a clear indication of the area the team represented. I could never understand why in later years they felt the need to add 'West Ham London' to the jacket; completely superfluous. I quite liked the Hackney chequered flag race jacket; very distinctive, though the hawk itself seemed a little feeble and got a bit lost against the chequered background.

The probability is that by the time speedway gets back, the dogs, horse racing and possibly even football would be back and in that case I feel there'd be little interest in speedway by the bookies.