south coast robin

Gerchoo cow son . .let's set up a pie n' mash stall and ave a right ole cockney knees up muvva bran in Wales .

Squibbo alas is no longer with us . Remember him as the top New Cross rider when they closed in '63 .

Would probably include Jagus instead of Loram . Rico could force his way into the top 15 this season and would be good to see other Britboys like Bomber and Steady in there .

Crump Adams Andersen N. Pedersen Hancock Jonsson B. Pedersen Nicholls Hampel Gollob Zagar Lindback Jagus Holta Harris

The official gate was 19,200 I think .

Well done Leigh ....bruv in Adelaide couldn't get to his local meeting at Gillman , so drove the near 500-mile round trip to Mildura . Said it was a superb meeting .

True..especially if you want to get a train to Swindon..there ain't any .

increase from last year .

Will be interesting to see if the attendances increase again this year at Cardiff ? Some strange figures from F.I.M...read in SS that the Aussie Grand Prix attracted officially just over 19,000 ?

I went to Samuel Pepys School ,Warburton Road , Brockley in the late 60s . The Ripper , Ray Morton , also went there ( after me ) . Followed Wimbledon then as New Cross had closed .

Same 'ere..will definitely be returning to Cardiff in 2007 .

Bruv attended , surprised Ksiezak didn't qualify .

Probably the Crumpmeister .

At least Crumpie is there this year .. should be a real battle with Adams, who's had it fairly easy in recent times . No Sully either . Would prefer to not see Steady and Scottyboy included , as it's the AUSSIE championship .

It seems some of the smaller towns like Workington and Kings Lynn get the biggest attendances . When you compare the catchment area of Belle Vue , the old county of Lancashire has about 10x the population of Cumbria . Yet BV don't get better crowds . Neither do Sheffield , in a densely populated area of Yorkshire , compared to rural Norfolk . Swindon , now supposed to be the best -supported club in Britain, is not exactly a massively populated area ?

Geoff Penniket was the best rider at New Cross , excepting the legendary Squibbo , in their last year '63 .

I think Aberdeen would be too isolated . Southampton is a bigger city and there are over a million peeps within a 20-mile radius . They were one of the top teams before they folded in the early 60s. No other speedway team in Hampshire . The East Midlands triangle of Derby/ Leicester/ Nottingham ( over 2 million ) , does not have a team ..used to be Long Eaton , Leicester there . West Yorkshire ... Leeds , Bradford , Halifax , over a million population .. Bradford , THE team of the early 90s , and Halifax were successful clubs once . London .. Wimbledon , Wembley , New Cross , West Ham , Hackney , Harringay , etc ., once the hotbed of speedway 8 million people .. no team , bloody sad !! Bristol..best supported club in speedway once , still speedwayless . Then there is Hull , Sunderland , Liverpool , all major centres of population, over 250,000 , that maybe could support a club . I'm sure Norwich and Cradley would attract decent crowds . Would like to see a club in south-west Wales ..Swansea ? easier to reach from England , than Scottish highlands .

Don't think Bomber is any better than Simon .. can see him being out of his depth in next years series unfortunately .

well done Bomberrr moi 'andsome

That's really p****d me off , Rico and Ulamek being so high in the rankings , would have been higher if they had performed better for Swindon !

Spot on .

If you look at the Elite averages , barring probably Gollob and Hampel , you more or less can pick out the top 15 in the world , and Nicholls is in there .

Have you attended a Cardiff Grand Prix ?, as the noise this year from the British fans when SN won a heat was phenomenal . I have attended England football games and cup finals and that compares to them .

Try getting a train to Swindon after the Grand Prix , there ain't none !!