RonButler

'Tis not beyond the realms of probability that the Aces will go all the way! :approve:

Thanks for the info, Rob. Looks like I'll be glued to the Updates screen! Regards, Ron.

Well ridden, Colts!

In my opinion, Bryn, if a rider states that he's not under the affluence of incohol that should be taken at face value!

Hopefully a convincing Belle Vue win. Maybe this will be a season when the Aces don't flatter to decieve. I do have doubts about Simon Stead. I can't understand why he has been signed!

Where woiuld we be without them? Up the creek without the proverbial channel!

I don't understand why this thread has been restarted by the same poster on the same day and at the same time of day! 'the beast rider' Don't think many of us would regard young Mr Woffinden as such, Jenga. Personally, I regard him as being the best rider in the the world last season.

OK for me on Firefox. Why not post a list of the 'adult sites' on here!

Due to advancing years and poor health I'm not now able to attend meetings. This forum is now my stadium; my desk and chair my grandstand. My consolation is that the weather is always good here! Thanks to Phil and all the texters and updaters. My best wishes to you all for the coming season. May all your EL teams finish below mine!!

I totally disagree with your opening comment. Joe was always a team man and they are the backbone of our sport. When he was partnered with Jason Lyons at Belle Vue they really made their oponents work hard for every point they were able to score. No temperament or anything less than 100% commitment from Joe.

My hope for the 2014 season is that the much vaunted, but totally invisible, National Speedway Stadium in Manchester, which will also be the home of the Belle Vue club, will at last become a fact of speedway life. There have been many opening dates floated by various people associated with the club but no sign of the building work commencing. Sometimes I despair of it opening at all. An understandable emotion I feel after all the false dates given by the club directors.

How strange. I thoght we were still in the season of peace and goodwill.

In my opinion Alf is not merely a legend in his chosen field. He is THE legend. I hope he makes a complete recovery.

This is similar to the situation at Belle Vue. Everything else goes to swell the coffers of the GRA as owners of the Kirkmanshulme Lane stadium. Aces fans dream of the day when the club finally moves into the long promised National Speedway Stadium. After the fans having been given various dates when the stadium is expected to be built it still remains a distant dream. Maybe 2114! [not a typo]

Fer Arry I just knicked a moped. Now 'e won't 'ave it 'cos it's nicked. Any offers? Anfink con siddered.

Ah yes - speedway - I remember speedway. I remember it well. I remember it when it was known as speedway RACING. That's was it was, racing. Men racing against their opponents and using their machines as racing vehicles. Racing was then defined as four men riding to their personal physical limit. Asking no quarter nor getting any from the moment the tapes went up to the moment when the chequered flag was waved. This applied to the man in fourth place as much as it did to the leader. Those wqere the days my friend. I thought they'd never end. Sadly they did! R.I.P speedway RACING.

I have long wondered why people on speedway forums continually compare the sport to football. There are so few ways in which a reasonable comparison con be made in the 21st century. How can a minor entertainment which cannot attract a crowd to a stadium the size of the GRA stadium at Kirkmanshulme Lane to a spectacle which can fill a Premier League football staduim where spectators numbering many thousands converge every Saturday/Sunday.

No, Moxey it isn't 'only one persons view'. I'm in complete agreement with you. To attract the opening night first time visitors to return, and eventually become regular attendees, the product offered must be worth the price paid at the turnstiles. The new stadium and the new eventual new team together will, hopefully, achieve this. It could take some time to build a team of Hyde Road standard I feel. How many of us would shop at a supermarket which offred ow quality merchandise at top prices? I most certainly wouldn't (to be fair I must say that she who does the weekly wouldn't) nor would any wise person.

A word of caution. The application now has to go before the Planning Committee. As I remember it there is a fair amount of housing in the immediate vicinity. This alone could prove to be a problem. I feel it's a litle early to talk of the opening date at this time. Naturally as a Belle Vue fan of several decades I would be overjoyed to see the stadium in action and the return of real speedway to Manchester. This is the resurgence that the sport desperately needs.

I can't understand why so many contributors to this and other speedway forums insist on continually comparing the sport to football. Sadly speedway is regarded as a minor sport. This has been the case for many years as witnessed by the the fact that routine results are rarely available in the popular national daily press. Even when they are a powerful magnyfing glass is required to read them. I wonder if there is any way we, as dedicated speedway supporters, can influence the national daily press to include even the weekly league matches in the sports results section?

There were two Parkers. The brothers Jack [belle Vue] and Norman [Wimbledon]. Both were outstanding competitors at club and international level. They unsderstood and appreciated each others style to the extent that I thought it worth double the admission cost when they were pitted against each other at either Hyde Road or Wimbledon. Those were the days when the sport, now known simply as speedway, called speedway racing and lived up to that name.

Is there an English language version of the Matej Zagar site available. Sadly I only speak English.

Speedway being primarily a team sport I prefer the traditional team format.

Yes, Sidney, Ward could be a world champion'in the future'. I feel though that it could well be quite a few years though. I doubt that he has enough experience of man on man level racing as an individual to expect it for a while though.

As this thread refers to great British riders and as Ronnie Moore was an Australian it proves absolutely nothing. Moore is irrelevant to the stated topic of the thread.