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No worries Inveresk Man (not the same ring as Scotsman, has it?), you mentioned that before I went off for my latest op, so knew that, unless your plans had changed, that one of the East Lothian boys would be absent when CL takes the roll call at 7:45 tonight. Plenty of speedway for us to catch up at. Baldy, when you have shaken the sleep from your eyes, whereabouts are you going to be hiding tonight so that I can come and say hi to you and the others? In my continuing mission to invite 'celebs' to Foxhall, I may have to mention the name of a Portman Road legend (that's football) that I was speaking with last night - I won't name drop, I'm not that kinda guy. Ed Sheeran, look at your tweets!

Rohan Tungate - you little beauty. Chewey ing up the opposition like they were federation storm troopers? Romance ing the stone? Really pleased to see him score so well last night. Always liked the guy and am delighted to see CL's inspired move to loan him out for a year and for him to also compete in the EL, paying off..... Anyone who didn't want him to return to the Witches this season is, errr, looking like baldyman now - and that might not be a good thing - sorry baldy . How's everyone been in my recent absence and, is anyone going to Foxhall tonight, or will the crowd be even lower than the last home meeting? I am worried that my purchase of a dozen clappers may have been eleven too many. And of course there is the first instalment of CL's IFF manic mayhem of fun to look forward to - maybe.....

Apart from Steve Brum, I think we were all surprised Sidney, And nice sentiments fella,

Rohan Tungate - you little beauty!

That's one thing JB did get right, Steve.

I've got my "We Want Shanes" petition in first Baldy - well, mine is the only signature, so I guess I will have to cross out "We" and replace it with "I" - doesn't have the same impact, does it and sounds a bit homo erotic, so maybe I'll bin the idea of a petition and just get my spray can out and graffiti the air fence in time for the Rye Mouse Rickets Cup match. Fans interactive involvement and all that. Reading the Star t'other day, it sounded like the current 1 - 7 will not be changed for foreseeable future - or does that mean that four of them will be changed in the seeable future?

Agreed Steve, apart from the Ipswich thread and a few comments with Mr A Orlov, I tend to keep my nose under the parapet and my eyes on the Days of Yore posts. Hope you haven't had too bad a time of it elsewhere. You're one of the good guys.

Ah, no, not physically chased (I stopped doing that at 15/16 I think - haven't been anywhere near fit since then). Chased as in woo'd, chatted up, wined and dined, performed tricks on my unicycle for and, told them that - no their bums were not big; yes, they were really pretty first thing in the morning and; no, it didn't matter if they threw up in my kitchen sink - all classy ladies as you can tell. Then of course, burgers cannot be juicers. Hmmm, I guess on reflection 'getting it sideways with the kids' could have nefarious connotations, so best scrub that comment and go with - enjoy your early night.

Totally agreed. Unfortunately a lot of the ladies that I have chased have said that it's not just life that's too short when they look at me - and I'm 5' 10'', so guess they aren't talking just about my height. Enjoy getting sideways with the kids.

Indeed, must be at least ten years since I opened a barber's door. Talking of doors, my stomach has opened a few doors for me, so not all bad.

Thank You. That's one of the best posts that I have ever read on here. Tears are literally rolling down my chins, as I laugh my follicly challenged head right off.

I was lucky enough to have seen speedway at both those great stadia and, was at the last ever meeting at Custom House in '72. Brilliant, Girls and Beer - how much money have I spent chasing and trying to enjoy both, but as two divorces, no current partner and a big belly testifies, I only found success with one of the two.

Isn't it just? Finding this led me to discover that there is a world of lego stadia replica out there, and that lego does a range of sports stadia sets including this little beauty advertised on ebay at $5,995: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lego-sports-NBA-Arena-stadium-mechanic-display-exclusive-/171826369738?hash=item2801a654ca:g:myQAAOSwv0tVfhIW And if you simply Google 'lego sports stadia images' you find a treasure trove of amazing replica builds: https://uk.images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A9mSs3HGNixXVGEACtpLBQx.;_ylu=X3oDMTByZmVxM3N0BGNvbG8DaXIyBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=Lego+Sports+Stadia&fr=mcafee And the story here of a guy who turned his hobby into a business: http://www.guysgirl.com/sports-news/sports/custom-lego-stadiums-18300 I never had the patience to do anything like that, so respect from me for anyone who has ever produced something like this. Maybe you should consider putting together a replica of Cowley in the colourful little Danish inter-locking building blocks, Steve...?

No,not joking at all. Rohan Tungate is one of the nicest people you could meet, let alone one of the nicest speedway riders. Yes, the feud will go on, and speedway should make the most of it. Feuds were a promoter's dream back in the day and can be great for any sport. The incident this season between them at Leicester which revived it, was down, on track, to Auty again, not Tungate - even Tatum got around to seeing it that way eventually, when he noticed Auty, with his elbows out, not keeping a straight line off the start. I will reiterate: I believe Rohan Tungate to be one of the fairest, most sporting, harmless riders in the sport these days. I could not say that about Josh Auty. Now, lets see if I can find Keny Ingalls contact details, so that I can ask him of his opinion on Josh Auty after the events of Heat 9 at Derwent Park on 11 August 2012 - Ah, yes, here's Kenny's tweet about his broken back: https://twitter.com/KennyIngalls/status/234681373917589504 And here's a tweet suggesting that Kenny was 'Another Josh Auty victim': https://twitter.com/GaryHavelock/status/234777462389747712 You would know better than me Rob, but did Auty offer an apology to Kenny for that incident? If memory serves, with the score at 31 - 17 going into that heat, Scunthorpe had put Auty in as a TR hadn't they? A case of over-riding maybe? EDIT: to say, 02 August at the OTA could be an interesting evening, let alone the return five days later at the EWR. And before that, there is 02 and 04 June and then after on 18 August too. A very interesting sub plot to follow in those meetings. I know that I will be making my way to the EWR on 07 August, if both riders are due to be present that evening. The way things are going up in Scunthorpe, in and out of speedway, it begs the question of how many of the fans that witnessed the event on 17 July last year - that you garner your hatred toward Tungate from - will be in attendance again on 07 August anyway? Oh and you say it was captured on a mobile phone video? Hasn't that type of evidence been banned now? Referring to the incident on 17 July last season, I always find it interesting to note 'Swagman's' comments in respect of the first attempt to run Heat 10 on the, always excellent, Updates site: "Tungate down bend 2 lap 1. All 4 back. Swagman being honest thinks Auty dodged a bullet. Tungate went wide and Auty went underneath." Read more: http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/14746/scunthorpe-ipswich-pl-17-15#ixzz47qKNdkps

Not sure if this exactly what you meant, Gresh, but I posted about the efforts a set of fans had made to build a model track on the 'Swindon New Era' thread, at the end of January: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80463&p=2739214 Or direct link to the story here: http://www.readingspeedway.com/news.php?extend.1751

Well, Karger is one of the two riders that Ritchings has beaten in PL meetings this season. Will be interesting to see who has not improved the most?! Was he ? I thought I saw Bowen with 14 points and Ayres 12 without including bonuses? PS - thanks TB for repeating my earlier post with no comment. Any reason? Lets hope it was worth the bandwidth?

Does this bias explain your totally misjudged John/Georg Hack comment about one of my posts on the 'Poole Pirates 1969 Thread, Rob? You really can be a total 'stunned teachers' union' at times can't you Rob? You accuse Tungate of being a 'dirty git'? What does that make Auty then? Did he not finish a fellow rider's career once and have a number of other incidents against his name? What happened between the two of them at the EWR last season was borne out of frustration, caused by the referee not excluding Auty for his actions in the first staging of the heat in question. If Auty had been, correctly, excluded then the subsequent incident would not / could not have happened. If you genuinely believe that Tungate is the dirtier of the two riders, you need to take a long hard look at yourself in the mirror. There is bias and then there is blind faith in a rider from a team that you support, and I know which one of those that you are exuding. I believe Rohan Tungate to be one of the fairest, most sporting, harmless riders in the sport these days. I could not say that about Josh Auty.

About as German as the Queen I guess. What's that you say? Windsor is a made up name and the family name is Saxe-Coburg? That must mean that King Georg(e) Hack was from Manchester then.....?

Did anyone notice the result of heat 9 in the Birmingham v Kent NL match tonight? Just thought I'd mention it, with no names mentioned.

Really Rob? I'm sure that when Georg was interviewed over the Foxhall PA in 1978 that he sounded decidedly Mancunian in his dialect. Teutonic Mancunian, but no doubt a Manc. What's that you say? Munich? Not Manc? Oh dear, my sense of humour does not sit well with you does it Rob....? Best not to look at some of my other posts in the Days of Yore side of the Forum - particularly the banter about the proposed Clacton-o- Sea track... Keep smiling .

Yeah, spot on guys, those would be Donkeys. I think I remember Keith Rodwell was a Suffolk musician who owned a music shop in the locality, was into speedway and was one of Doncs sponsors back in those times. mOgul, do you own the leathers, or summat like that? Just curious. I am looking for one of the sets of bike covers I had made up for Billy Sanders in 1983/84. They had kangaroos on one side with 'Australian Solo Speedway Champion' and the relevant dates, plus 'J&N' and 'Alan Belham Speedway', and on the other side the logo that Billy used of an image of him riding over the outline of a map of Australia, with 'Billy Sanders International Fan Club' circumnavigating (word of the day) the image. I had two sets made up and presented to him on the centre green at Foxhall as I was fed up with him turning up with John Cook's bike covers. One set went back with his mother, Bonnie, which obviously I have no issue with, but some other person has the other one, and I would pay a small fortune to get that back.

Was that the equivalent to Phileas Fogg (the rich English gentleman, not a bag of crisps) circumcising the world in 80 days back in Victorian times, Steve? John Hack? Wasn't he Georg Hack.s brother? Georg had very fast bikes when he rode for the Witches in 1978 & 1979 - he just had trouble controlling the speed and the power on a tight little track like Foxhall, I remember John Louis borrowed one of Georg's bikes in the 2nd Half of a meeting and, interviewed afterwards, JL said something like:- Georg described the bike as "schnell" which JL thought translated as 'snail' and the bike was therefore slow, but blooming heck it was fast. Believe Georg is running a personal fitness business or similar these days and the Spiller boys are training with him - may be wrong on that though.

Was that the 1st and 2nd bends or the 3rd and 4th bends like at the NSS ? And now Tac Sub? OMG you are motoring today BL65. A man whose humour level seems very much on a par with mine. We just better make (sea) sure that we do not destroy(er) the thread totally with our puns. I think we have been sailing close to the wind already and our piers may tell us to Frig(ate) off soon. Ah yes, Coventry Road on the south side of the Park, My elder brother had a big flat in Albermarle Gardens on the the north east side of the Park. That flat would be worth a flippin fortune now, but he burgered off to Canada about 45 years ago now. Albermarle Gardens was named after George Monck, the 1st Duke of Albermarle, who was a soldier, sea captain and statesman - not at the same time, of course, as even back then men could not multi-task - or that's what his many women told him - probably at the same time and while lying down in the buff. Coventry Road, you will know, of course Steve, was named after John Coventry, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1426 (nearly half-past two). His descendants, include - Vince Hill, Philip Larkin-About the poet, Lady Godiva, Peeping Tom and the late Jimmy Hill (and his chin) who all have come from (John) Coventry - or a john in Coventry, or have been to Coventry, can spell it , or have been sent there at some stage in their lives. 'macca56' an education in Pistory - history made fun and totally non-factual. I try and avoid my Doctor like the plague - well, at least until I have the plague - a bit like today - 'macca56' is not a well boy, sniff, sniff, cough, cough and he can feel the man-flu arriving shorty. Sorry Sidney, didn't mean to imply you are not tall... You been off yourself Sid, or you doing part-time or shifts these days - or just skiving? Roobins v 'Ammers could be a half decent meeting. At least the weather is set fair. Give Lewi Kerr a cheer from me. The lad deserves an ovation at each track after his prang last season. These guys really do risk life and lamb every time they swing their leg over .... a bike, I mean. Ex Witch Romance Chewi Tungate is going well at Reserve (and against his ex club in the PL) and his confidence will be rising past his knees soon - which aren't very far off the ground, but Ro is normally as short of self-belief as is his stature, which for an Aussie is unusual, but is quite endearing I think, I have a lot of time for the little fella and am very pleased that he is getting it together with bot the Robs and the Rebs. The OTA suits his style down to a 'T' - as in Tungate, so he should be a confident little soldier now and be whooshing out of the gate and away. As I said on another thread, a confident Master Tungate is a fast difficult to beat speedway rider. I would have him back at Foxhall in an instant, but riding at the OTA is probably the best thing that could've happened to him and his career, and may even boost him up sufficiently in his SGP Qualifier to see him progress. Enjoy yor day and the meeting tomorrow buddy.

Thanks Steve. No malice or modern day comparison intended by me, of course - well, maybe the comparison bit. I seem to re-call that too about the Boro track. In cricket, of course, I remember when Essex CCC used to play at Valentines Park, Ilford and Southchurch Park, Southend-on-Sea. The pitch at Ilford was affected by pollution and the Southend pitch was certainly affected by the tide, with spin coming into play when the tide came in over those massive mud flats that were exposed when the tide was out past the end of the longest pleasure pier in the world - a bit like a batter, who may be in when he's out (of the pavilion), but could be out when he's in (the pavilion). Good old Essex CCC, so poor, that they used to have to drag the scoreboard from their Chelmsford HQ around the county whenever they were playing at another venue, as they could only afford the one. Times have changed a bit now, but they have under achieved badly since the halcyon days of Fletcher, Gooch, Lever, East and my South African cousin, Ken McEwan. Southchurch Park used to have an aviary in it, if memory serves. They had some very exotic birds in there - a bit like in The Only Way is Essex. I never saw a duck in the aviary, but there were plenty on the cricket wicket. Essex CCC - another great reason, apart from bad motoring memories, to hate Kent (spit). Morning Sidney. You're out and about early buddy. Hope you have an enjoyable day, and leave that nice young Doctor alone, eh?

I didn't really Dave, but I didn't have anything else to contribute (not for the first or last time) so I'm just pleased that you carried it on from my post and raised me - as they say in some card game or other - with Ellesmere Port's notable exploits . OK then, as the OP was referring to LCFC''s fantastic achievements, I'll counter bid with, Ipswich Town FC: 1960-61 = promoted as Champions from Football League Division 2; 1961-62 = Crowned Champions of Division 1; 1962/63 = finished 17th in Division 1; 1963/64 = relegated after finishing 22nd and bottom of Division 1 - (some would say, unkindly maybe, never to be seen again, and currently mired in the second tier for a 15th consecutive season).