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I have not attended a Grass Track meeting since the 1960's, but looking at the list of past winners and placed riders of the Poacher, this looks to be a great day out. Interesting to see kelvin Tatum was as good on grass as he was at Long Track.

Good for you.

Dick Bradley...now that's a name you don't hear about so much.

Charlie Monk.fish...I like it. Another rider from that era was Ivor Brown-ale!.

As every "Hammer" from the 60's knows. the best rider ever was Sverre Harrfeldt.

What have Olsen, PC or anyone else got to do with Greg?.

Us boring old men are a great source of knowledge, wit and wisdom. Some of us anyway!.

I'm thinking of adding Matthew Werthers to my list. He is an original and seems a sweet lad. Marcel Limberger...a big cheese in his home country.

Lewis Bridger Ryan Fisher Victor Flood Ricky Leak Mike Reed

Oh happy days!.

Brad (h)Amburgey Danny Baker sebastian Ba(na)as David Cheshire...cheese

What about Trebor Redmond or Veg Luckhurst or Oily Nygren?.

This is getting silly

And Wal(nut) Phillips and Wally Green.

I don't like too many sprouts!.

With only 8 teams competing and half the league making play-offs, the end result does not mean much. A 13-15 team league with teams meeting each other once home/once away, and the team finishing first are champions is much more meaningful. If the team finishing 4th. out of 8 wins the play-off final, are they worthy champions?.

Sprouts Elder Tiger(nuts) Hart Terry(s)...chocolate orange...Betts Colin (s)Pratt Alby Golden(Wonder) Scott(s)...porridge oats...Autrey Tommy Sweetman

When and where did you first see Speedway?. For me this was 1960 at Rye House. However, my mother was attending meetings whilst pregnant with me. So, if you count attending a meeting as am embryo, put me down as West Ham 1947.

In principle this seems a sensible idea.

I am somewhat surprised at some of the anti-Hancock sentiment being shown. He is a really nice person, or seems to be, a triple WC with a GP record almost impossible to beat and the fact he has avoided serious injury for 20 years is no accident (excuse the pun). He knows what to do and when to do it which puts him right up there in my opinion.

I can't help thinking Krasnikov could be going for his 11th. straight WC title if he had stayed the course.

I said no 2 people would agree. What this does show though is what a hotbed of speedway London used to be, and how sad it is not to have our sport in the capital.

Thank you iris for your insight

I said no 2 people would agree

From 2016 on, should not National meetings be held at the National Stadium, or at least the British Final, ELRC and SWC.