Shadders

Sadly I only caught his last season with us in 1985, when he partnered Andrew Silver at number 2. Went to his testimonial and saw the great Hans Nielsen for the one and only time. Hmmm.. Come to think of it I think it may have been 1986, maybe it was Kelvin Mullarkeys testimonial in '85 and Garrads last season was '86. My programmes are stored away somewhere!! The Mel Taylor story is a strange one. Expected so much, but delivered so little. I don't think breaking his arm helped. Am I right in saying he came to Rye when Barry Klatt became joint promoter with big Ron?

That's the guy I was thinking about.

It's my go too comment to B4E whenever I want to end a speedway argument. I'll never forget the away meeting at Exeter. It was their final league match and penultimate meeting before they sadly demolished the County Ground stadium. We were on the Western Tour in September, towards the end of the campaign and I was texting to the Speedway Updates site. We'd always been pathetic there, but this time we absolutely murdered em! Have a guess who the updater was!

Why whip yourselves up into a frenzy, only to be let down at the end?Don't you remember 2005?

Yeah, but you'll still be a million miles away from winning it

You're a million miles from winning anything

I think he was one of the last of the Rayleigh riders that moved up to Rye in 1974

Len Silver changed the Rockets race day to Sunday a couple of years ago to avoid clashing with the X Factor on a Saturday evening. He has history.

A bit before my time. Only started going in 1985. The 2005 Rockets side was something special, but they were different times. One question I always wanted to ask. Why did Karl Fiala retire so early, mid 20's I believe? It's a lot tougher to bring through young local talent now. The equipment is way to expensive these days

He won't wanna lose to his son again. Last time must've been embarrassing

Free pies?

There's no doubt Tungate caused Auty to fall. I'm pretty sure he meant to show him his back wheel. I can't believe he meant Auty to fall though. Only a mad man would deliberately use his bike to injure another rider

I'll never forget his guest appearance for us at Ipswich. Four starts and I don't think he completed half a dozen laps in total

The Raiders are hot at the moment, Kent are not. Off the back of the demolition of Mildenhall at West Row on Sunday, no wonder the Kent promotion don't fancy it

You will have the rare sight of Alex Edberg completing all of his heats

Oh, they'll get round alright, just a lot slower than your riders

Crowds are definitely on the wane at most tracks. Glasgow are probably the exception due to the massive influx of new money, but even that will probably tail off. Your away fan comments are spot on. I've drastically cut down on away trips, mainly due to the costs involved. Rye used to have a Northern tour to Edinburgh/Berwick/Glasgow every year, but that's no longer running. You could guarantee 50+ Rockets fans at Berwick, but I doubt they'll be more than half a dozen there on Saturday

This is the thread for the meeting in 2011 Screm http://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/9455/rye-house-2nd-july-2011

How do attendances stack up to say 10 years ago? I first visited Berwick in 2005, when crowds were regularly approaching the 800 mark

I thought as much.

I don't need the attention, I need an answer. Do you have one?

Are you going to tell us all why you had to remind us that Alex was injured 4 years ago, or are you gonna keep on digging yourself a deeper hole?

Love it when people realise they've run out of ammo and resort to pointing out grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. Next patient please!

Trawling through pages and pages of threads to remind everyone that Alex Edberg had an injury four years ago isn't attention seeking? Your nuts pal

What's the point you're trying to make?