ColinMills

lovely quote!

recall sigalos knocking up 21, but more recently adam shields did 21 at foxhall

only recently. a guest manager!!...... bank holiday, biggest day of yr in speedway, and endless gest riders all over the place. try explaining that to the newcomers!!

i recall a rider winning an individual meeting on a toss of the coin instead of a run off due to rain! only in speedway...........

my god, having seen fridays line ups, what has this sport got to do, to sink any lower?. newcomers turning up all over the country to witness mix n match line ups. farcical

this look a rush job..emil owed 700,000k by polish side according to sundays daily star

not much originality in presentation, do we need to know its someones 18th birthday etc?

if riders stayed where start marshalls put them, there shouldnt be any rolling..the moment they move back, the intention is there

nothing more annoying than un satisfactory start, and seeing pit gate open

i cant give you anything, but my love..stylistics....yes its old, but you have to remember, MAJORITY of speedway fans wo still goes recall the stuff they heard when goin to speedway, yes you have to cater for younger generation, but as things stand, its the fans from the 70s thats keeping speedway alive, not the fans from the 00s

thought into the right music IS a big part of the night, totally agree with scb posts, and also agree you dont need to be a speedway fan to present..it clearly helps, but for me id much rather listen to jonathan green than nigel pearson, for example

do tracks get a special bus service? just for speedway fans?....i suppose crowd wise, the polish league does very well with strong line ups..as soon as you get a warm bank holiday afternoon, crowds flock in, so what makes a week night so different?..some people say its a school night, but that excuse doesnt work with football?

i personaly preferred individual leathers, i liked seeing davis, louis, mauger etc stand out in there leathers.i believe there was far more team riding in yrs gone by, so identifying there partner was never a problem..i do believe we need new fans, but not to the extent of ignoring the older fans..guest riding and doubling up, is a big no, no for me..to attract the new support, you need less farcical rules, you need a team, to feel like YOUR team, and not sharing ridrs around, and seeing them 1 week for you, then the next week against you..i also feel, regarding play off, if you 5th and 6th mid season, fine, but if your sitting 12pts clear at the top, how do you motivate your fans to an away game, knowing your just waiting for the real stuff (play offs) to kick off in a few weeks time?..also notice lack of team stickers on cars these days....i recall following a swindon sticker 1 day, before sat navs, to an away game, unluckily for me, that driver wasnt going to speedway that day and i got well lost!!!

still think world pairs could be staged in world cup week, a festival of top class speedway

john harry, ted spittles, trevor jones, sandor levai, olle nygren, ron bagley, all folk law legends! i still have the newspape cutiing of the day after john louis returned to ipswich with halifax..i sat in the old back straight stand and watched tim hunt fence him on the home straight..sat there boo-ing a home rider co"s i WAS a hughe john louis fan. was great seeing him bt john cook in ht 4.....the headlines read "tiger back to foxhall and trouble"..only read that the other day!

think sigalos was great, but not sure you could put him above ricko?

oh i see.....thats tough as ricko is greatest rider,so has to be him surely?...but witches WERE blessed with greats, yrs ago

yeah, i thought that!..how can donkey, gollob and ricko be named?

i would love to see a john berry statue myself..they rare to say the least in speedway circles..chris was clearly a decent rider, you couldnt argue with that, but on the promotion side (as yet early) he is way way behind on that score..those posts that knocked mr shears, for me, horrid times, but at least it was top flight, for me,thats where witches should be today, tomorrow and as long as foxhall exists

absolutely spot on. not sure you can mention c.louis in the same sentence as john berry

i recall him doin around 12 consecutive races without scoring...at that time i had more points on my driving licence!!

during world cup week, theres 3 empty days, would it not be a money spinner to host a world pairs final during that week to keep the interest going?

really?

i personally think this year will tell us all a lot..especially cardiff, as i think crowd figures there has stagnated, so if having a brit world champ cant break the record figure, not much else will.. as far as sponsors go with bsi/tv coverage, the amazing sponsors with terrestial tv, which springs to mind, was the daily mirror.. unless speedway can consistantly make larger columns in newspapers, or get featured at the end of news items, i dont see this sport progressing too far

id disagree, just my opinion. id say world of sport would of been around the 3-4 million mark..we all know sky only had around 180k watch..terrestial tv is far wider reaching, and lets face it, sky sports are no mugs,they dropped it for a reason