Paulco

It was changed to July 5th for KL's visit . But i've since heard than June 21st might be on the agenda for the KL meeting , but i'm not 100% sure . I'll find out for definite today .

Same here , he's totally barking , but the tears are rolling down my face at this one .

You will be very welcome

Aye , we're having a dress rehearsal in Newport next Friday .

The ones that aren't still in the pub you mean They'll have to shout " Scaramouche , Scaramouche will you do the fandango " pretty loud for me to hear them .

I think the whole GP series is living on borrowed time to be honest . You are correct though , i fully expect this year's crowd to be a bit down compared to the last 3 or 4 years . I shall be making the pilgrimage once again though .

Tai

You need to go mate . Cardiff is a social gathering , sod the racing - the Cardiff track is usually crap anyway .

Erm ................................. Just as well Subedei is banned

Yup , you don't leave the pub until the pre-meeting bollocks is completely finished and it's safe to take your seat .

I can remember paying 55p to get into Coatbridge in the mid-seventies . But before that my dad paid or he lifted me over the turnstile ( which was the norm at speedway and football in those days ) .

I worry though how badly our Premier League will be affected if the under 21s becomes a GP type event . Too many riders could be posted missing at crucial times of the season if this happens . The international demands are bad enough without increasing it .

It's all to do with track preparation i would imagine . I've seen Leszno on the telly and there seems umpteen racing lines , likewise Bydgoszcz is universally accepted as the most entertaining GP normally . Then you see some EL tracks and they're as bald as a coot .

One for my Monarchs pals . I remember in the dim and distant past - well the early seventies anyway . Was there not a track at Newtongrange ? Whatever happened to it ?

With the dearth of British talent at the moment , it's not completely out of the question that young Mr Barker might be riding as a wild card .

That's the good part about this . Those hotels who keep jacking up the price year after year can now go swivel .

You forgot Glasgow dear .

You're never going to please everybody Sue . We always turn it into a weekend anyway to take in the Pairs and a meeting on the way home on the Sunday .

While 1993 and 1994 were indeed two special seasons in the history of Glasgow speedway , back to back league and KO Cup doubles , my favourite season was 1991 . Watching a young Jason Lyons and Shane Bowes emerge as riders was very enjoyable and that season culminated in taking probably the best team ever to ride at 2nd division level , the 1991 Arena Essex Hammers , to a replay in the KO Cup Final . That season paved the way for what was to follow a couple of seasons later .

Think it's great . Trying to kill time on the Saturday , whilst trying to stay out the pubs , aint easy . Gives us plenty of time for a good night after the event .

When Ian Hoskins paid a visit to Glasgow this season past , he was waxing lyrical , while being interviewed on the centre-green , about the immediate post-war Ashfield and in particular Ken Le Breton . I'd heard so much about him from my father and i would have loved to have seen him ride . Actually i recently saw a couple of photographs from Ashfield in that era , and you couldn't have shoe-horned any more people onto the terraces - it was packed . Oh how times change .

I started going to speedway in the last year Glasgow were at the White City . And as i was only nine , my memories are few and faded . I would love to have been old enough to appreciate Glasgow Tigers / Edinburgh Monarchs derbies when they rode out of the White City and Old Meadowbank respectively , and both sides were in the top flight . A place i never made it to was Odsal , would have loved to have seen a league meeting there . And having loved the Coatbridge circuit , i would have enjoyed " The Shay " when Eric Boocock was in his pomp . I'm afraid Halifax was another one i missed out on .

Nicholls is by far the best rider we have at present , but is a bit of an enigma . There are times when he looks more than capable of living with the likes Nicki Pedersen and Jason Crump , but unfortunately he can't sustain it and reverts back to mediocrity all too often . Harris , apart from that freak night at Cardiff , has looked hopelessly out of his depth in GP's and how he has obtained a wildcard for next year is beyond me . I would like to see both of them do well , but i'm afraid you can only see them languishing down in about 10th and 11th places or thereabouts once again .

Agree totally . The GP series is how we find our World Champion , how is this possible when a certain amount of riders are only selected through a quirk of birth . If we must go down the GP route then let's get a better method of qualification sorted out .

Arrange to have a weekend free at the end of June and you can join me in the annual Cardiff pub crawl .