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Speedyguy, since the Bradford Bulls 'developed' the stadium there is no chance for speedway to return to Odsal as they have built on or around the 3rd and 4th bend, the attached link shoudl show the stadium as it looks now. http://www.bradfordbulls.co.uk/bb_stadium_...sp?stadiumid=18 As for speedway in West Yorkshire, they are currently looking at venues in the Halifax area, so best wishes to Mr Hayes and his team with their venture

210 - Billy Sanders(y/B), Marin Yates (w), Lance King, Alan Graham 211 - Alan Mason 212 - Chris Morton 213 - Rikard Hellsen & Bootsy Monaghan 214 - Bobby Schwartz 215 - Mitch Shirra (y/B), David Bargh 216 - Bo Petersen

Manages to get in there early for a change. As Trackman said thanks for your work putting these pictures up, I started going to speedway in the early 80,s so this is my era!! 201 - Bobby Schwartz, John Cook, Shawn Moran, Lance King, Kelly Moran, David Bargh, Kenny Carter (yellow hat), Larry Ross and Phil Crump 202 - Phil White ? 203 - Shawn Moran 204 - Kelly Moran 205 - David Bargh 206 - Bruce Penhall, Dennis Sigarlos (sp), Kelly Moran (partly hidden) 207 - JanAndersson 208 - Jem Doncaster, Neil Collins, Marvyn Cox, Simon Wigg and Colin Part. I suppose the shoulder belongs to Eric Boocock

132. Bobby Schwartz (w) Tim Hunt (y/B) Rob Ashton on the deck

112 Peter Carr? 115. Jem Doncaster & Martin Hagon

112. John Davis & Dave Morton 113. Shawn Moran & Sean Willmott

Didn't think anyone would get Gianni!! He was in my dream team on speedwayplus site and nobody believed he existed

75. Jan O Pedersen 76. Peter Collins ® Dave Morton (w) 77. Martin Hagon

44. Red is defo Rob Ashton

I think the major thing that will affect these guys is if they get a knock, which when they were a few years younger might have kept them out for a week a two, will now keep them out a hell'uva lot longer (creaking bones and all that). As foir technical ability IMHO there is still a massive gap between the likes of TRick, Gollob, Adams, Nicki P and Crumpy to say the like of the next bracket, Andersen, Scotty, Toninho

Might be showing my age a bit now, but when I started going to speedway in the early 80's if a rider veered (sp?) to the left or right and halted another riders progress within 30mts of the start he was excluded (or should have been). As much as I like TRick that was bang out of order in heat 24 and he should have been thrown out of the race

If Adams rode like that every time, how many times would he have been World Champion by now

Thats the lad, cant believe how smooth he looked

Went to watch teh Sheffield v Workington match and stopped to watch the young 'uns having a blast around the circuit, normally after heat 15 I set off home. There was one of them that really caught my eye, must have only been reallt young as the bike looked massive compared to his little frame, he wore red and balck leathers with a bike with red guards, nothing fancy. His style was superb and couldn't half slide it round the bends, just wonder if thats another one off the sheffield training conveyor belt. One point thhough that always sort of bugs me with the young ones trying their hand is that they are more bothered about flashy kevlars, bikes, helmets etc when they struggle to actually ride the bikes, surely that should all come when they are competent on teh bike or is that just me!?!?

Funneist choice of transport I've seen was what Sean Wilson turned up to Bradford in a few years before they closed. Relient Robin with a trailer attached which was pure genius, but to top it off there was a blow up doll in the passenger seat, you had to see it to believe it

Try www.speedwayplus.co.uk they have a good selection of defuncy track piccys. Can only speak about Halifax (The Shay) the stadium is currently used by Halifax Town and Halifax Rugby League, the stadium has been semi developed and the squared off so no chance of speedway returning to the Shay.

The most memorable Halifax junior was Kevin Bellfield, especially when he nearly mowed then junior manager (Trevor Hardacre??) over on the centre green after clipping the fence near the start line. Anyway back to the post, didn't Kenny Young used to sell speedway spares?? Seem to remember him being based in Lightcliffe

302 - Shooey (Red) & Chris Morton (White) 303 - Shooey 306 - Ian Cartwright 307 - Martin Hagon (Neil Collins in background) 308 - Doug 'Flyer' Wyer at the mighty Shay

298 - Peter McNamara

295 - Dave Morton & Reg Wilson

286 - Larry Ross, David Bargh, Kenny McKinna(?), Shawn Moran 287 - Kelly Moran 288 - Kelly Moran, Larry Ross, Alan Graham 289 - Dennis Sigalos 290 - Les & Neil Collins 291 - Shawn Moran 292 - Simon Wigg, John Cook , Marvyn Cox, ???????

281 - Chris Morton, Les Collins & Andy Graham 282 - Larry Ross & Billy Sanders

Thought he went to support Poole, can remember Sky showing him at Wimbourne Road a few seasons ago

Well in the 90's it has to be Bradford. Countless KO Cup wins, an Elite League title, Gold Cup North, Gold Cup and BSPA Cup, with a couple of close finishes in the league and a few KO Cup semi final's thrown in for good measure.

David, I can recommend 'Beacon Hill' campsite which is about 3 miles outside Poole. We will be stopping there Friday to Monday, so better not chuck it down, LOL