Tigerblade

To use a cricket parlance, the Diamonds "declared" after Heat 12 as well it seemed, you might have got 60 otherwise!

Probably 1994 - we lost all our first 12 meetings, surely there must have been 4 home meetings on the trot somewhere in there.

Thank you for that, Salty, said book has been duly downloaded! I never saw Garry Middleton, he sounds like someone you would either love or despise - somewhat unfortunate that the fella he pointed a gun at was called Trigg.....

This. All of a sudden we are getting people saying "I've been going since 1960 and this is the worst ever" - some people have clearly forgotten about 1994 and 1980 in that case.

Can I have some of what you're on? More likely to be 60 - 30 to the Diamonds the way we are going......

Wasn't there some bad feeling between Jimmy Nilsen and Brian Karger for a long time, as well? I seem to remember reading that Anders Michanek did not like Ole Olsen, although I am not of sufficient speedway attending vintage to remember any particular incidents.

It was originally broadcast on 24th July, Gemini, might still be on the BBC iPlayer. Judith was most amused at their war cry

I seem to remember you saying something about mid 1977, so you are probably about 10 meetings in front of me lol. Whoever said about a low crowd for the 2000th meeting, it was only advertised as such from Monday/Tuesday, so they did quite well to get as many riders as they did. Nice to see 3 generations of Allotts, with Guy being in his 90s now. As I said on my Facebook, even though a few of them didn't reach great heights, they still form part of the memories and I thank them for that Just a shame the present Tigers didn't do better!! Todd and Joe did their job, as did James, and I find it difficult to have a go at Broc Nicol as he has been thrown in at the deep end a bit, but the heat leaders.... Having said that, it just goes to show Scunny's capabilities when they more or less all click together. I only wish Jake Allen had been held up in traffic for a bit longer! (That's a joke, before anyone starts flying off the handle)

I remember reading an article in Peter Collins' Testimonial programme (August 1980) where Richard Bott said that Faberge hadn't wanted to know about sponsoring PC when he was World Champion, yet they agreed to sponsor Tony in that first season, maybe Barry was more persuasive lol. I don't remember the first part of your post - I would have thought Roman would have easily been the best newcomer that year! Especially with the reputation unknown Poles had in those days. As I said earlier in this post, he did seem a bit over hyped, but then again I don't suppose that was down to him.

The stadium could do with them, as some parts of the first bend terracing has become worn etc over the years to the point of being dangerous.

What a disaster, especially after being 10 up after 6 heats - seems once the track dried out a bit, the Hammers adjusted so much better then we did. And there was me thinking whilst the riders were in discussion "I hope Morris and Ellis aren't now complaining about a WET track", after having seen the debacle at Swindon on the telly on Monday! I agree that the continuity is a big problem, although some clubs have had it far worse than Sheffield.

Dogs are there from 2pm - 6:15pm, so it'll not get done then.

Kids have been at school (or at least, supposed to be) when the Pairs were on the Fridays earlier in July in past years, why is September so different? (Once again, I know Scotland is different re school holidays)

Football clubs can make special requests to be away on a particular weekend. Assuming Cardiff City are aware of the GP, I would imagine this would happen. Having said that, they've coped with 3 football play offs on consecutive days, not all of the fans will have travelled straight in and out on the actual day their club is playing. I have missed the last 3 at Cardiff and was wondering about going again next year, but I am also now faced with the football dilemma. I'm not actually that fussed about missing a home match, and I only go to certain away games now, but you can guarantee that it will be the same day as one of the ones I actually want to go to!! I don't understand some of the grumbles about kids being back at school. When Cardiff was in June and early July, that was in school time as well. (I realise Scotland is different, before anyone points that out)

I would have enjoyed watching the double header planned on Sunday as well, but can understand why they chose to change things.

I saw a good example the other week when Charles Wright had a heavy crash at Sheffield, he (maybe foolishly) came out for his next race, and Ty Proctor practically carried him around to a 2nd place in a 3 - 3. As a Sheffield supporter who saw Alan Molyneux's disastrous year with the Tigers, I have no doubt as to Ole Olsen's team riding capabilities, even if I only ever saw the Bees once a year at Owlerton!

Not a bit of it, it just frustrates me when folk contradict themselves in order to suit their own arguments. I've never even met the "establishment" in this case (the Sheffield promotion)

I couldn't agree more with you Rob, I apologise to those posters if it wasn't meant that way, but it seems like the Sheffield promotion are being blamed by many for the lack of home fixtures, when every team is suffering with the same thing this year due to the fixed race nights. Look at Peterborough - obviously I am aware that they have Showground availability issues as well, but they're racing at home Friday and Sunday this weekend, and then don't have another home fixture until August 5th, which is a double header, then the next home fixture is 9th September! At the Berwick meeting on 14th June I heard a group of people moaning like hell about the fact we'd not had a home fixture the Thursday before (we were at Ipswich, who have also had similar fixture issues), and the fact we weren't going to be having one on the 28th, saying all the stuff about people getting out of the habit etc. Then the same folk the week afterwards were slagging the promotion off because we'd arranged the Scunthorpe KOC meeting for the 28th when the England v Belgium game was on. Which was known about at the time of their original criticism.

Yes, like you say, we got the other side of the coin last year with Richard Lawson at Redcar last August, who probably did better than Josh G would have done.

I can also remember John Louis guesting for Shawn Moran in 1981 against Reading and getting 2 points, it didn't help that Kenny Carter was guesting for the Racers and got a maximum! Needless to say, the Racers won narrowly.

Re: Georgie - I did hear a story that he'd said the travelling was a bit much, therefore it might not have been down to the Sheffield promotion as to why he wasn't in contention to start this season. Anyway, it's nice to have him back, although I do feel a bit for Jack as he wasn't really doing anything wrong, had been struggling with machinery, and last week was his best performance of the season, but sometimes that's how it goes.

Yes, stock cars were there on Sunday - the track is often a bit worse for wear after them, but when we share a multi purpose facility, I don't know what we can do. Someone who is old enough to know better was moaning about it last night, saying why do they have them at Owlerton etc... simple answer is, they probably bring in more revenue than the speedway, however unpalatable that is. Without knowing what is going on in the background, a couple of the Bandits looked utterly disinterested from the word go, had it not been for falls by James and Jack, and Danny Gappmaier having a storming performance from reserve by the Bandits, it could easily have been 60 plus. Nice dilemma for the Tigers' management with 2 of the reported 3 under threat putting in great performances, and the other one not doing too badly either. Also a mention for Charles Wright doing some great team riding to help Jack Smith in the early stages of Heat 7.

Grajczonek didn't ride for Sheffield in 2016, do you mean 2017?

I went to this one, as a long time friend who supports Mildenhall was there on her way back from Stoke the night before, and she had been raving about Drew Kemp to me. After yesterday, I now consider myself a converted fan! (Drew Kemp, that is, not Mildenhall!!) I really enjoyed it as a "neutral" as such, although as Smoggy said, the result was never really in doubt, was more convincing than it looked due to Coventry getting a 5 - 0. First time I've ever been to Leicester as well - Beaumont Leys, that is.

Not totally Dane related, but I always thought of Dave Jessup as a dull rider, as he was the complete opposite of the Americans around at the time - how I wish that Team GB had 4 or 5 like him now.....