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Not at all! They are a credit to their team IMO and show how some are prepared to put themselves out for the benefit of their own community as well as promoting the sport as a whole.

Full marks and thanks to EMTV yet again for keeping us entertained. Great also to see the 2 hosts posing a great threat to the Pearson/Tatum pairing!! Those guys just illustrate why we love speedway with their committed, well informed passion for the sport and their own team!! Footage was a bit grainy by today's standards, but so what. Great to see Cookie at the start of his career and also Kevin Wolbert in his early days at Monarchsville when he couldn't put a foot (or should that be steel shoe) wrong! Always thought John Branney would go places, but not sure what happened to him?

I remember some time ago Tsunami posting something about this. It might have been on a thread to do with altercations between riders. Peter Carr is probably approaching 60 now in the not too distant future. He had several great years (from a spectator point of view) at Newcastle, very late 80's I would say

Bradley Wilson Dean. Should have been riding for Somerset 2020.

Very sad news about Peter R.I.P. and condolences to his family. Peter was a Diamonds fan through and through. Not only did he provide financial backing, but he and his wife did so much behind the scenes when speedway was making a comeback at Newcastle in the late 90s as well as providing heavy equipment for track work when it was needed One of life's genuine characters who will be sorely missed!

Superb meeting Thanks EMTV !!

Been a fan of EMTV for some time and think they are doing a fantastic job providing these streams for our entertainment. The individual heats going back over the years in the "Archive" section invariably contain wins for any combination of red/blue helmet covers, but I don't have a problem with that. It's always great to see Josh Pickering or some other Monarch's rider winning from the back as that's what speedway is all about. So please keep on EMTV with these brilliant streams !!

Being shown at 19.45 according to Tapes Up

Andrew Dalby is a great guy to have IMO as a Centre Green Announcer and we are very lucky indeed to have his services. But, do you know what, I think I have a slightly sour taste in my mouth about the departure of Roy Clarke. Maybe I shouldn't, but my recollection is that he stepped in at very short notice to replace Andrew without having any previous experience of undertaking such a role. That takes some gumption and like his style or not, he was ever dependable and became much more proficient in the role as time went on. He was also very knowledgeable about the sport and had the ability to chat away during those long pauses which sometimes occur when fence boards are being replaced in between heats, or during a long track grade. There's a lot worse than Roy and I suspect we might well miss the rapport that he had with the riders and a large number of Diamonds supporters.

How about a clue at least?

Think Steve Park's post above provides the answer to your question. As to why - anyone's guess !!

Dam - can't find the "menu" link. Just asking for a friend

Sincere thanks to George and the whole English family past and present. Through thick and thin you have never shirked from the responsibility of keeping our Diamonds team going from one year to the next and for that I am so grateful to you all. Best of luck with "retirement"!!

No joy with website. Must be something going on because there was a short YouTube upload several days ago advertising 90th anniversary meeting.

In fairness to the Diamonds promotion, I think you may have taken this completely out of context. If you attended yesterday evening's Race Night at South Gosforth, you would have seen that the draw for this event was made throughout the evening. It would appear that once the draw was complete, someone in good faith has published this tweet in the form of "breaking news". I am sure the follow up promoting of the event will be as polished as ever and to most peoples' liking. As a bye the bye, I thought the race night was a huge success and marvellous to see all the riders in attendance together with representation from the Gems squad. Well done to the organisers - and by the way, the Hog Roast was excellent!!

Now that the full team has been revealed, personally I would just like to go on record and say a massive thank you to every single member of the new promotion team, and Rob the new owner, for getting this show on the road for 2020. The future of Newcastle speedway was clearly in doubt just a matter of several weeks ago, and your combined efforts have made sure that Sunday evenings will continue at Brough well into the forseeable future we hope. The team already has its detractors and some who would detract from the drama of last night's Christmas party, but I'm sure the genuine supporters will come along and support this team even if we have to hold our breath in heats 13 and 15. I think we could well surprise one or two!

Joe Jacobs - retired 2018. Ipswich/Belle Vue Only 26 so maybe him.

With the Stoke connection, wonder if some of last season's Potters riders might be in contention? Joe Lawlor, Joe Alcock, Connor Coles, Tom Perry etc might be part of the team plans if they are ready to step up to Championship speedway.

Great news and great also to see the Speedway community at large weighing in with some very positive comments!!

Not quite sure how to interpret this comment when you quite rightly praise the others you mention in your post. Are you not being a tad ungracious? Just asking.

Well if it’s not, we’ll have been ROBbed

Fanbl**dytastic news!!!!!!!! Nice one Granty!! Just makes our (ErnieW) speedway curry night next Friday so much better - eh lads!!

First time I can remember for a long time a Newcastle thread having a "Hot Topic" label on this forum!!

Well I hope he got his fair share of compensation!! Maybe some small change to build a new speedway track? And what about the Shadow Minister of Speedway Mr Brown putting in a good word in for us with Corbyn's money production team?

Speedway track at Ponteland - now there's a thought. Drown out the noise of all those planes - locals will love it!!