crescent girl

Some really sensible posting going on here. Here's to a great (and dry) season, all over the north!

Voice in box last night was the new addition to the presentation team. Which was listed in programme in full. Was reliably told Dick was in conversation last night after meeting with the new Glasgow presenter!

Delighted Kozza is back this year. He'll get some welcome tonight! Seb who?

Impressive. People are trying to help the club, offering help and providing information, and this comes along. Get to f.

. But sometimes politics can't be avoided!

Now there's a thought! Have any of the clubs hiring and naming first-time assets from outwith the Common Market actually got their work permits through yet?

History is made by those who turn up. In twenty years, no-one will remember who didn't ride - only that these four guys did, and qualified to the GP Qualifiers. The result will surely give Batchelor's career a huge lift, and also showcase Dakota North to UK clubs still dithering over who to sign.

Have done, or hoping to do so?

Yet again, he has patriality. Two different things. Do keep up!

New Aussies? Plural?

A number of riders are without a team, usually for good reasons. Sheffield have a budget, and a Germany-based rider with regular commitment to Poland and the expanding European Championships would hardly help keep costs down to the required level.

If Glasgow had dumped Jayden O'Malley at the first opportunity it would have been very damaging (for all clubs) in view of future work permit applications for young, untried riders. As others have said on other threads, the case could yet cause problems in future.

Go Facu!

John Anderson said on the Berwick website: " We have decreased admission prices - and next year I can reveal that the admission prices will be just £12 for adults, £10 for concessions and kids will be absolutely FREE when accompanied by a supervising adult”.

Its folk like you that make Alex Salmond's job just so easy!

Have you been to Argentina? Or just seen videos?

The further north you travel, the harder it is to recruit an NL rider. Remember that Stoke and Buxton are each about 300 miles from the Scottish tracks.

Oh dear, oh dear. Who is this person?

I admire Sheffield's mission statement in signing affordable riders, who will excite and improve (Koppe, for one) and guarantee the club's survival. We've seen Glasgow and Edinburgh going right up the the wall after putting together title-winning sides. Let's be honest, who (apart from half a dozen on here) cares about away match results? Win at home, put on a show and the average spectator will keep coming. You have a superb statium and a promotion who have been in place for years, keeping the ship stable. Be careful what you wish for

Not so. It may turn you off, and others on here, but for "ordinary" spectarors who go to Owlerton just to enjoy watching four guys racing round, a bit of continuity is no bad thing. Too many club's ring changes for changes' sake and give little or no chance for spectators to find heroes. In the "good old days" riders were allowed to stay with their club and become legends.

So it'll be Sam Masters. Averages tightening up now. Who's left?

A big no from me to regionalisation other than the "wee diddy cups". The good thing about speedway is being national, with international riders. Promoters should really make more of this.

If you mean Steve Lawson (the Greatest Living Tiger) then you're very wrong. Steve was sold to Belle Vue in 1977. He then joined Glasgow from the Aces in the spring of 1978. The rest, as they say, is history.

George Hepburn and Ryan Anderson, maybe?

This is constructive stuff. The schools visits were already happening, but other suggestions are there for consideration, and it is refreshing to read a post like this instead of attacks on the promotion. Any more good ideas, people? The ball's now rolling.