Parsloes 1928 nearly

VERY ironic that what should/would be a totally decesive fixture (RH vs, Stoke) is just three days AFTER this 19/9 extended deadline. Hard to work out why/how seeing that coming up, the deadline wasn't extended to the end of the weekend..? Would make zero difference to when the PO semis would be held but (potentially) a massive difference to what could be the final top four...

Stoke have a couple of o/s matches too which shan't now be raced before the P/O deadline but that hasn't hurt them.

Mentioned in the Star this week quoting the NL Co-ordinator, so 19th. it is!! Seems IoW need a draw or win at the NA on Weds to get that 4th. place. Though after Stoke losing at home to Rye House today not sure if a win might not put the Islanders 3rd..?! Academic though as my understanding is the play off semis will be Dudley vs. Stoke and Mildenhall vs. either Scunny or IoW...

And you're also forgeting my very good friend (but NOT a relative!!) 'Gentleman' George Barclay who rode in the same team as his son Terry at Sunderland and on one occasion for Crayford too!!!

A birthdate of 5/4/98 makes him ideally placed for a full season of NL racing and then turns 16 basically in time to start PL in 2014. I'd be surprised if - as others have said - it wasn't as a Rye House riider in both cases... But if it was as a Norwich rider how good would THAT be!! Yes - he WOULD be "too good for the NL" but surely not a lot of harm to the confidence to sweep all before him; and after all because of that DOB again only the NL would be available to him (in 2013) as an option..

Yes, that's very true! Would be nice if Iwade were to stage an FIM meeting one day but can't think that'll ever happen!!!

Spot on there!!

"Khumo"..: what ho..?!

Well done to all involved today - wisjh I could've been there but certainly will on another time..

Result from Lakeside tonight: Lakeside Young Hammers 17 (Mark Baldock 7+2 [PM]; Jack Kingston 9 [M]; Martin Pearce 1) Rye House Pocket Rockets 7 (Danno Verge 4; Joe Exley 2; Adam Briggs 1+1) 1) Kingston; Baldock; Verge; Exley 65.2 [5-1] 2) Kingston; Exley; Briggs; M. Pearce NS 64.7 [8-4] 3) Baldock; Verge; M. Pearce; Briggs 67.3 [12-6] 4) Kingston; Baldock; Verge; Exley 65.2 [17-7]

Perhaps an FIM ruling..? The Internationale staged annually at Plough Lane from the early '60s was an FIM meeting... Not a rule in GB Speedway generally... Or at least not that I'd heard of.. btw, I've no idea why this is coming out as crossed out either!!!!

Lakeside Young Hammers' final AJL match of the season home to Rye House Pocket Rockets this Friday (31/8). 7pm start time (BEFORE the main Lakeside vs. Poole EL match). Teams are (NB. in alpha NOT riding order): Young Hammers: Mark Baldock; Jack Kingston; Martin Pearce Pocket Rockets: Connor Coles; Bradley Tokeley; Danno Verge

Lakeside Young Hammers' final AJL match of the season home to Rye House Pocket Rockets this Friday (31/8). 7pm start time (BEFORE the main Lakeside vs. Poole EL match). Teams are (NB. in alpha NOT riding order): Young Hammers: Mark Baldock; Jack Kingston; Martin Pearce Pocket Rockets: Connor Coles; Bradley Tokeley; Danno Verge

I understand that 'the Man Mountain' has to date (I think one match remaining...) dropped just a solitary point in this year's AJL...!

Mate, I really don't know. Tbh I've been entirely focussed on the AJL this year and - to my shame - have actually only attended one NL match all season ; actually, knowing your now Scunny Saints connection, I'd have asked you that question...!!

Well I guess that's why the four fixtures are scheduled in this order as for IoW and Stoke that play off deadline IS important but far less so one assumes for RH & Buxton...

Am sure it's likely to be changed due to the number of meetings this season lost to rain but when was/is the NL 'cut-off' date for the play offs..? Certainly some of these are bound to be after that date...

Er yes, i think we've established the second halfer that day at King's Lynn WAS the Barnsley-born Peter E. Smith...

Andy Galvin....

I KNEW we could rely on you to solve the mystery!!!! Cheers!

It's been pointed out that actually this may have been Jamie Moohan... And as he's a Kiwi too that makes more sense... Am disappointed with my good mate Craig...: if he'd come up with a nickname for Jamie I'd not have misheard... ! After all, IF it is Woolen something sheep or wool related (perhaps 'Jumper' to show how fast he was from the gate..?) or something bovine if it IS Moohan...!!

Funny enough i was at that one too - that also was a good meeting. Good entertainment at RH this year!

Glad to see such words of praise from firestone1 and refreshing to hear them. Indeed tonight's meeting was an absolute cracker. Certainly the best meeting I've seen anywhere this season and one of the best i can recall at RH for many a moon. Monday night crowd held up well too. The Comets did well after a bad start and in truth they certainly could've won this match. Got to be highly unusual in a side which saw, by the end, FOUR riders (out of six) scoring paid nine or higher yet when the T/R came it went to a man who totalled just one point at the meeting's end. The reason really was an accident of timing and very much affected by the new rule about no T/R from heat 12 on... Hindsight's a great thing and in truth Lawson looked okay in patches and at first lead his T/R race but seemed his machine was very down on power. Roynon & Garrity were both superb - Garrity at RH is now firmly in the bracket of a rider it's literally worth the admission alone to see..! And yes, I DID pay to get in!!!! A milestone meeting for me as a spectator, as it marked the 40th. anniversary of my first Speedway meeting (at Canterbury in '72) and with a full second half this was like a throwback to those days. With a junior match and appearances from some tasty new young Aussies this was simply excellent entertainment and superb v-f-m. Well done to all at RH for putting on such good value Speedway this season.. Really showing what can be done! Oh and it's purely selfish on my part coz I'd go every meeting IF it was a week night track, but more Monday night meetings PLEASE! Details of the junior match & other races here: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=71107&pid=2162309&st=0entry2162309

Post Olympics fare at Rye House on Monday night: Resullt and scorers from MDL match at Rye House Stadium, Monday 13/8: Milton Keynes Knights 20 (Conor Dwyer 3; Adam Sheppard 3; Oliver Greenwood 9 [M]; Brad Tokley 5+1) Stoke Spitfires 14 (Shaun Tedman 8; Simon Pearce 1+1; Danno Verge 5) [MDL] 1) Tedham; Sheppard; Dwyer EF; Pearce Exc 2M 63.9 [2-3] 2) (rerun) Greenwood; Verge; Tedham; Tokley 61.0 [5-6] 3) Stopped/awarded: Tokley; Verge; Pearce; Dwyer fell no time [8-9] 4) Greenwood; Tedham; Sheppard; Verge 61.2 [12-11] 5) Dwyer;Tedham; Sheppard Exc. left track; Pearce EF 63.1 [15-13] 6) Greenwood; Tokley; Verge; Pearce 61.0 [20-16] In the end a comfortable win for the MK Knights - indeed had Conor not had both an EF and a fall when leading they'd have wrapped it up sooner. Just a three-man Stoke Spitfires outfit always up against it, especially with Simon having machinery and injury probs. Oliver was again a class apart and really at this level looks nigh on unbeatable around RH at least.. Tough on Adam - who was running third in heat 5 only to shed his chain on the straight yards from the line. He did coast home but at the moment of the chain snapping he had unintentionally been thrown off track literally... A bit harsh to exclude him for that I felt.. Also some other junior races/appearances: from Aussies all i think..? Harvey Horwood did two four laps from the gate timed at 59.9 & 60.5 Two races between Shaun Mason and Jamie Woolen - both won by Woolen in times of 60.3 & 60.1 Anyone know any more details of these three riders..?

Er, and indeed WAS. Result and scorers on another post