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Great race a terrific rider. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1O3ij8AnGJU&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1O3ij8AnGJU

A poor GP i feel, but it was great to see Gollob back mixing it pleased for him that pass of Hancock on the inside vintage.!

Grass roots how can you have a proper go at it when our lads can't get the track time.In Poland you can go to a track seven days a week and other nations are alot more forward than us.The blokes who are in charge of our grass roots are doing as best as they can most i think are giving up there own time for next to nothing.Here this country is a nightmare health and safety on the brain local residents having to much of a say in noise curfews (ect). it is pie in the sky to believe if it stays the same for us to improve much.

Good points EC without the odvious stars,is there a massive difference on a going day for most left in.Apart from a few improvers Kildemand it looks a very good product and league to me.

Some much? not pissed again are you? he has a shout no doubt about it i like him others at that track might have more of a shout than him.

What prices do people recon for the PLRC ? Cook 2/1 Doyle 5/2, Bech 9/2 ? Morris 12/1 Auty 16/1 Bach 22/1 i can't see anyone else featuring maybe Alden at his best decent.

Are you surprised ER? we have two Brits in our side yet he gives that kind of response.Ash did say he was disappointed with certain comments he has my full support and endless others and if Scunny are not in one big league i would love him to comeback.

Different gravy than we have now,and the National league was decent also with both the Owen's (ect).

Would you rather the league stay as it is or are you open minded Scorpion? If the leagues changed would you be up for different sides visiting i personally would love to visit different tracks.

Spot on really that's what i like about the PL you generally no the 1- 7 of of most teams most weeks.The fans can identify with that as with the EL the opposite. Endless guests, R/R, D /Uppers. ( which they need bigtime ) missing everyweek changes galore.

Great to here that New Science.

So if there was a change a inferior Product as you call it? would you still go? i would because i love speedway and would still go whatever level.!

A great year for the lad and as you said he will get there with a bit more experience.Newcastle over the years have spotted some great talent and always seem to pull one out of the bag.

I thought you went before that Grachan, John Sutton god i had forgot him spot on.Guthrie i really first took notice of him at the 1973 New Zealand v Sweden test match he was one of those announcers that he was that good you took him for granted at the job he did a real compliment in itself.

Graham Hambly was brilliant in his time at Swindon and the guy in the 70s i think his name was Graham Guthrie? I am not sure ( Grachan will know?)a no frills kind of man but a great presenter.

Fourty riders is unrealistic but as SCB suggested one is that to much to ask?. If they were all at the level of say Ellis Kerr,Howarth,Birks, not a problem anyway.

He didn't get the crowd buzzing when i went people got restless i used to go in the new stand which then was a superb complex.But as someone else said for me he was to much he was to overpowering and commentating in the middle of the races Na not for me.He obviously is a knowledgable man and i am an old fart who is stuck in his ways but his style certainly now is old news have that with crap music a recipe for disaster time to move on.

I used to go to Oxford most weeks in the Nielsen days, he was on the mic in the middle of the races he knows his speedway but he was a poor presenter.

When you put it like that Aces1 it looks pretty dismal,i am not that bothered what happens really staying the same or one big league.The quality in numbers of top class riders are long gone 30 years ago Ward would of been just a name in amongst endless other top class riders. Of course it is a treat to see someone of that ability now and of course we would all miss him but if sky pulls out something has to give.

But you would have to say Aces1 though from 1970 until say 88? they're were loads more top class / very good English riders/ and second strings available.Now the numbers are very low in comparison i think as SCB said start at one at first and even those riders would have to have the right criteria.If the league are missing the likes of Ward(ect) it makes it even lesser of a problem as the huge gulf gap in class will be bridged as we all know the EL is a badly watered down product now.

One of my favourites rob first see him in a WC qualifier at Swindon i think in 1972? when he was a second division rider.Also see him alot when a team mate of Streety later on carried the Robins home and away for years a special rider Legend.

Hunter in order my favourite tracks were Hyde RD, The Shay, Blunsdon, Sheffield, Kings Lynn, Exeter, Leicester and Hackney.A great list and my worst track was Newport Somerton Park went only once a home win 61-17 a terrible homer track.

But they can't though can they? practice with all our health and safety bulls... and stupid curfews speedway has no power in those matters so that is never going to change.And it was me who said the young Pole has a massive advantage over a English lad.If our lads had the help and practice facilities and were then failing then i would except it Lambert had to go to Germany to improve he was forced to i dont believe he would of got the laps in England.

No doubt about it this is a great post maybe some promoters might take note.?

So is the PL sub standard in your opinion? Ward or no Ward many more meetings like last nights dross and the sport will be in the mire.