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They were at lunch at Maccy ds at the Orbital, went past the site at 1.00.

Shocked to see The Star on sale in M&S Orbital Shopping Park north Swindon today. On closer inspection all dated September 2016!!!???

Just a bulldozer ploughing through the water up on the Hill today. Kid Morra finished sixth in Oz champs won by Master Masters.

MASTERS Aussie Champion...after 4 rounds Masters Sedgy Watt Bratch Fricke Morra Kurtz Tunny Holder Proctor

No she met his twin Alfred in a local care home

Super Simon Stead, Martin Crash Ashby, Charlie Cheeseman Gjedde, Bob Killer Kilby, Peter Killer Kildermand, Mike the Red Devil Broadbanks,

Sounds like a couple of fans on here are saying crowds are around 1000, certainly a couple of matches I've been to there wouldn't be much more than that in attendance(not including the couple of hundred non-paying guests etc.,). Without the new stadium how much longer can the club afford to carry on?

A lot of peeps wont be able to afford the two, unfortunately hundreds will go tomorrow and not Thursday, where it will be back to the hardcore support. Even one meeting a week or 4 a month would be a bonus thesedays. Leicester are just cannon fodder the Roobins should hit 60.

Apart from a Wiltshire Knob?!!!

Gates open early...live band, kids stuff, forecast good, should be a decent crowd up on The Hill tomorrow, may hit 2000. Swindon favs to win, but the Knobs need to get something out of this after their poor recent run. Should be a cracker.

I can only talk for my local track in Swindon. The track and weather hasn't been good so far this year. Crowds are low, and the lack of passing because of the conditions wont attract newbies, or sustain the interest of a lot of the diehards. People don't want to stand around for ages in between races in the freezing cold. I work as a cabbie in town and speak to a lot of passengers about the sport. Most show an interest, but think the admission price is too high. A few have been, half enjoyed it and are still attending, but a few found it too boring, or moaned about the poor views and bad facilities. I had a 30-year break from the sport from 70s-2004, and was still attracted by the noise and smell of the bikes. Didn't like the fact that the British league is now 3rd.choice for riders, and there are so many overseas riders. The sport is stuck in a70s/80s timewarp, the stadium hadn't changed. The racing is the same, but a lot fewer fans means hardly any atmosphere. There's too many changes in riding personnel as well, no continuity. Doesn't seem as good value-for-money without second-halves now. I have taken mates to the Cardiff GP, which they enjoyed, but they wouldn't watch a league match. Still look forward to tonight's meeting as much as when I did when I was a kid in the 60s/70s.

And horns indicators tax discs and mirrors

Yep with Blunsdon being such a big track with long straights its normally gate and go. They've tried spiking it up to give it a few more lines on the turns. The IOW, being the biggest, is too much gate and go.

With 3 Swindon lads in the team the Stokies have gained a Wiltshire based fan!

Superb edition as usual...liked the more detailed Grand Prix review this year, no list of past champions and cup winners this year though?

Wont be going to Blunsdon Hill and paying 34 quid on Thursday if its too parkie! Workington is colder than Swindon, but at least you can sit in a stand at Derwent Park. Very few seats behind glass at SN25.

Great news having BT Vision I can view from next month.

I was losing the will to live at Blunsdon last Thursday...stood in the bleedin' cold for almost 3 hours on a grass bank, to watch about 23 minutes of mainly processional racing, that cost me 20 quid. Also dread those intervals, regrades, and tractor watching. Wont encourage new fans to return. I like the parades, and the music at Swindon is ok.

84 minutes of the ball being out of play!Are you a Stoke fan! I read the ball is on average out of play for about for about a third of the game. I also think speedway meetings are too long winded. Dont think its that expensive compared to football and rugby. Cardiff GP is very good VFM at 29 quid.

Thought that was liniment? Oive lived in the west-country alf me loive and sometimes dont know what them buggerrs are talking bout, specially them there country bumpkins in Wiltshire, Cornwall, Devon, Zummerrzet, Dorset, Glawcester. Just as bad for me to understand some peeps elsewhere with them scousers, Mancs, Black Country folk, Brummies, yorkies, Cumbrian marras, Aberdonians, Glaswegees, Taffies, even that weird souf London accent you hear now. Best to live in the Ome Counties I reckons, somewhere likes Surrey, Ampshire, Kent, Sussex, but couldnt stand that there Essex accent,(although I can get by in Geordieland and Carlisle as have rellies from there). Strange how in this country dialects can vary just 20-miles up the road.

Can remember Facey...then I had a 30 year break from the sport. not returning till 2004. Just as keen now as when I was at school.

Remember gang of us teens in the early 70s used to get the green Bristol bus special from Cavi Square on the Parks, spent half the meeting pushing each other down those banks after climbing in. I recall at the GB_Sweden test in 68 there were more in the climbing queue than paying at the turnstiles!Dont remember seeing a half-naked couple canoodling though on those grassy knolls though. You could make money collecting empty pop bottles. Couldnt believe how many people were there on my first visit in 68, bigger crowds than what I was used to at the London tracks.

Probably not viable sidders, unfortunately. Could afford to go to both in the 60s/70s on a Saturday(used to climb in at The Abbey sometimes). the prices have gone up faster than inflation. Dont know how families can afford to go to footy and speedway thesedays. The Robins need that new stadium, facilities so outdated, with poor obstructed views from those grassbanks, and those dreaded back-straight bogs.

Dont think we would do any better even with top-boy Rosco in charge. This squad is a long way behind those 70s world-beaters. We will ever see those good times again in WTC?

Look forward to the start of the new season. The Robins have received great publicity from the Swindon Advertiser, beating the much better supported football club to the top awards. Front page for local lad Rosco yet again. Hopefully the crowds will turn out in force at Blunsdon now, as they did from 1949-mid 80s, even outnumbering STFC some seasons. Still enjoy the racing as much as I did in 1963 at New Cross.