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  1. They're with Todd Wiltshire and Dave Durham... Steve
  2. Funny thing is, I've been trying to come up with an "eieio"! If there was an "Ernie Wilson" or "Erik Eriksson" we'd be fine... Steve
  3. Can't believe you left out o oo... How about this for a team? ie ooo Ei ooo Ei ooo aii ooo Oe ooo i ooo oie ooo Steve
  4. 1 - Ales Dryml Sr 2 - Paul Fry 3 - Lukas Dryml 4 - Piotr Pyszny 5 - Ales Dryml Jr 6 - Huck Fynn 7 - Paul Sly Steve
  5. Okay, I'll let you off this time... Still, not much in the way of Gary Sweets here, not even Mike Cake... Steve
  6. Chris Manchester Ron Preston David Blackburn Bernie Leigh Garry Middleton Declan Eccles Robin Adlington No 8 Trevor Oldham Steve
  7. We forgot Merv Salt and Stan Pepper. Should be in for a good "season"... Steve
  8. Better than the GP lineups today... Steve
  9. My parents knew Viv pretty well, but I never did. Of course, he was a fixture at Plough Lane for virtually the whole time I was going... Just wonder how many of the people I knew are still alive; sad, but it's a long time ago now... Steve
  10. We're friends on FB, and I showed him a footy pic of Viv I found, as a REALLY young man. Martin had never seen it before. Steve
  11. Plough Lane, when I was three weeks old... Steve Iris : So, Martin is your cousin?
  12. Ian Williams deserves a mention, I feel... Steve
  13. Dammit! And Norman D. Hunter... Steve
  14. Bobby Schwartz, Terry Betts, Martin Ashby, Mitch Shirra, Bengt Jansson... Steve
  15. Bruce Penhall Erik Gundersen Greg Hancock Anders Michanek Jan O Pedersen Billy Hamill Simon Wigg Not a bad team, eh? Steve
  16. Rick France Eric French Geoff Lyon Le Robert Craven Lens Williams John Board-eaux Di-Jon Erskine Steve
  17. No place for Reidar Eide, Jimmy Gooch, or Gote Nordin? Steve
  18. Probably Jancarz, Kitchen, and Norman Hunter... Steve
  19. And what about Vic Duggan for Wimbledon? Or Nordin and Harrfeldt? Your memory must be really fading... How about dem Bees? Hans Nielsen Ole Olsen Nigel Boocock Tom Farndon Jack Young Greg Hancock Jack Parker No room at the inn for Hamill, Tatum, Knudsen, Shirra, Mountford, Case, McKinlay, Harris, Nicholls... Steve
  20. You mean you left out World Champions Williams, and Van Praag, and World No 2's Jansson, Kennett, Green, Lamoreaux, Plech, Wigg, Jessup, and Harrfeldt? No place for Croombs, Nordin, Biggs, Case, Lofqvist, Wiltshire, Tauser, Mardon, Lawson, Haigh, Kennett, Charles, How, Tommy,.. ? I really don't know how you came up with your list, norbold... Steve
  21. Of course, but look at the reasons. In Norway the minimum age limit for racing is - or was - something like 18, or perhaps even older.. Back in the day, that wasn't that much of a problem, but it is now, giving everyone else a few years head start. That particularly applies to the Danish, and obviously, Olsen was singlehandedly the driving force behind Denmark's rise to glory. Even though there were only ever a small handful of world-class New Zealanders, there was an incredible conveyor belt of very capable Kiwis coming in to British speedway during the late 60's and early 70's. I know things go in cycles, as in any sport, but Norway and New Zealand are two of the most extreme cases, along with the Americans now... Steve
  22. Strange, isn't it? Forty-something years ago, we could rattle off any number of Norwegian riders. And now? Back then, you could add in Ed Stangeland, Per Aulie, Jonny Faafeng, Henry Harrfeldt, Einar Egedius, Jon Odegaard... Steve Edit : Plus Kjell Gimre and Svein Kaasa...
  23. Never heard such a load of complete rubbish in my life ,, practise before the world final ? . when was that because I went to quite few and never heard of any practise . You can't have been around for too long, then. Wembley always held an official practice a couple of days before the final, and the newspaper preview of the final would always include photos from the practice. Steve
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