WembleyLion

Ten home matches in 1986 all lost by Lynn Two away wins at Swindon and Reading though!

I remember 1986 when Lynn lost every home meeting although they did win two away!

Well done to Redcar for getting the meeting on. Eastbourne were generally much sharper at the start and overall deserved their victory. A thoroughly enjoyable 400 mile round trip as far as I was concerned.

You are right as always Mike. Nothing changes and I could list a catalogue of Speedway disappointments over many years that compared to last night. It is just something some of us have become hardened to. I will of course keep going and so will others but sadly I fear many more won’t and have already given up and I do fully understand why.

Absolutely Mike - myself and my mate watching last night concluded that it may be the case that only Wolves riders are allowed to use the track in that way! Scott Nicholls was one exception of an away rider who we came up with who seemed to know about it! Keep it to yourself though!

Yes indeed and the Wolves riders used ‘Karlsson’s corridor’ off turn two to good effect all evening.

Looks like Eastbourne are at Kent that night now!

Similar problem for me. This morning they sent me an event reminder with my ticket plus four tickets relating to other fans!

Very sad news R.I.P Jon

Hi Tony Just managed to obtain three programmes from 1973 staged at Leicester’s Granby Halls! I wonder how many fans saw meetings there!

Hopefully after heat 14 they will see sense and move the remaining heats to Torun

I think it would require a minimum of 4 (4 way!) dead heats so technically not all!

From a mathematical point of view the answer is 7.5 I guess. 120 available points divided by 16 riders. This would involve at number of dead heats!

I came very close to seeing five riders tie on 13 points in the Golden Hammer on 23 October 2017. It was going nicely to plan right up until heat 19 when Max Clegg had to win which he did and Ashley Morris had to finish second which I recall was going to happen until he fell and remounted for third. In heat 20 Broc Nicol would have also have needed a second behind the winner Ben Morley but Broc fell and was excluded although it didn’t matter by then as the possibility of five riders on 13 had ceased in heat 19!

Thanks andout and Chunky. I’m off this week so will continue to go through my own records of meetings I have attended. I actually reckon I have seen more dead heats than matches where both teams scores where within two points of each other for the entirety of the match.

Thanks for this but I was asking a different question and was looking for matches where there was no more than two points between the teams throughout the meeting which will not be that many I suspect. Your list shows all matches where the final result was no more than two points between the teams which will be plentiful as your list shows. If you could filter it to show those where the scores were never more than two points difference throughout the entire meeting that would be of great interest to me.

It was dirt in the jet.

Found a few more I have been to with never more than two points between the teams:- 16/05/75 Peterborough 38 v 40 Birmingham 27/04/76 Crayford 40 v 38 Newcastle 06/07/78 Ipswich 39 v 38 Reading 07/05/79 Ipswich 39 v 39 Birmingham 28/04/80 Reading 39 v 39 King’s Lynn

I have been looking through some programmes this year when I might otherwise have been out watching Speedway and I have been searching out the meetings where there were never more than two points either way throughout the meeting so obviously one can eliminate anything where the final score was more than two points difference. From memory in 50 years and over 3,000 meetings I have only seen this happen less than 10 times but I need to fully check. Anyway here is the first one:- 26/09/70 - Wembley 40 v 38 Newcastle

Hi Marcus I’m hearing good things about this young Pole and look forward to seeing him on track. As I have said before Michael was a brilliant rider at the age of 16 mixing it comfortably with the big names of the day!

Very well done to all at Plymouth Speedway for putting on another great show. I am really enjoying my 450 mile round trips down to Devon and back and judging by the number of other familiar faces, many of whom were also at Scunthorpe on Sunday, there are quite a few long distance travellers making the most of these socially distanced meetings. Let’s hope they can run next week also.

1 53.13 2 52.44 3 53.00 4 52.12 5 52.50 6 52.87 7 54.43 8 No time 9 52.84 10 53.81 11 53.75 12 52.86 13 52.50 14 53.75 15 52.93

I have to agree a lot of what is being said about Michael on this thread. He was brilliant at the age of 16 the like of which I have never seen in any other rider in 50 years. In my view even the extremely talented Darcy Ward was well short of the level Michael was at as a teenager.

Yes indeed had Michael won heat 18 in the 1977 World Final at the very least he would he been in a run off for the title!

I remember that evening at Ullevi very well and Michael was a deserving champion. I was also present at Ullevi for his first World Final in 1977 and he came quite close that night when just 18! Certainly had the ability to win more than one title but that’s another story!