Sean

it was a work do! take advantage when you get it..and it ain't often with my company, so we tend to make the best of what we are offered!

i'm afraid not, well not at least for now...but certainly a listed possibilty!! but then ..how long is that list??? i could go listing sites until i'm blue in the face, and i won't ever cross any off, even if they become superstores, or industrial estates, because those places still have LARGE car parks!! and possibilties are always there, no amount of bricks and mortar and tarmac, can not be removed as easily as they are put there! "Dream come true" would be a fitting title for any stadium within the M25 at the moment, but things change don't they...nothing is ever impossible! sorry....soap box on a sunday afternoon....i hate sundays.....too close to Monday!

On Thursday, 3/4/03, i had the unlucky choice of visiting a stadium that only hosts that dreaded Sport that causes so many problems to our wonderful speedway. i had to go and watch Dogs running after a piece of rag that is supposed to look like a rabbit (sorry rabbit, no offence). Now to say it was probably the most boring night of my life, there was no atmosphere, and i was on work duties! but i did get a look , for the first time, at the inside of a once, but now forgotton, speedway stadium that launched the team into Hackney back in the mid thirties. a look through Norbolds wonderful "Speedway in London" book tells me that The Wolves run in the National League in 1934, just eight meetings, and then re opened after the war in the National League Division 2 between 1949-51. even after all this time, there is still an outline of a track, but it has very long straights, and very tight bends. there is a beautiful glass fronted stand along the home straight, with a fairly decent (in my view) resturant. a smaller stand along the back straight, with outside and inside seating, and plenty of viewing room around the bends. only one thing really stood out as a problem, trackside, the big lampstands around the outside of the speedway circuit, and inside of the dog track. but alas there are far too many houses around the area to give us any chance what so ever of running there. a real shame in my eyes because it is a waste of a great stadium, in the capital, that would rival Wimbledon with its facilities, and i am sure, NO actually absolutley postive, it would be full to the brim with speedway starved fans from inner North and inner East London. but as i have always said...never say never! Wimbledon is surrounded by housing,although no where near as close to the track as at Walthamstow, and they were told that it would never happen again back in 1993, but what happened??? a beautiful Stadium, without speedway, what a waste. i'm sure that someone on our Forum (Norbold??) will enlighten us more on this great place.

Correct me if i am wrong, but A guy called Heath Robinson rode a few CL matches last year and it was rumored that he was Adam Shields Mechanic, I can remeber quite a few Mechanics Races at Hackney, one included my step father as Mechanic to Keith White, and he rode against a young 14 year old mechanic of Bo Petersen called Andrew Silver! Andy actually lapped my old man twice in a four lap race! recently there was a mechanics race at the end of the Rye House season 2000, which included Simon Moons father Terry, Simon Wolstenholmes Father, Trevor, and Dave Masons Mechanic, can't rememebr his name but i knew him as "Morocco mole"

Hyde Road for permanent track, but nothing can beat that magical night in 1981 at Wembley. 80,000 screaming fans. and those wonderful friday nights at a packed Waterden Road, with probably the fairest racing strip in the country, will always stick in my mind

excellent , you even got your name in Polish...i'm impressed. welcome Wojtek_poland_sullivan, Glad you could make it (i hope he can also read English)

ok Fd, and can you please translate under neath for those of us that haven't the foggiest what you just said. I would love to speak to someone over in Poland about things speedway but alas only speak French!

powers to be........? organise something........? that people would want to see...........? pay for it....? and nothing for themselves.....? best one i have heard for years that!!!

We had some "fun and frolics at the end of 2000 season at Rye, flour, water etc, riders being thrown into puddles, in 2001, i recall a "reverse race"...no i haven't spelt it wrong, but a race that was with all 14 riders from the meeting plus a few second halvers, raced the wrong way round the track, hence no real sliding coz the footrest was in the way! and won by Peter Boast of Boston. but i didn't see Mr Silver de-robed of his trousers like they used to at Hackney back in the eighties, but then thats probably a good thing!

thanks FT

without advertising..... (a really popular red top newspaper with a half dressed female on the third page).......... is advertising free flights to Prague today(saturday) i am going to book mine thru them, 5 nights.....£160 might even take the wife for a second honeymoon........easy!

you don't say Carlsberg in Denmark...you say OL...thats danish for beer and Carlsberg and Tuborg are the only two OL'S your find! Won't the start line be marked with a line accross the track on the tickets? It usually is. i'm in the same boat as you Jo, i am planning to "do" the World Cup circuit in August and i wanna order my tickets but don't know where to get them from Any clues anyone...