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I would agree with you there Falcace, looks more like Jan Andersson to me too

128 - Steve Baker 136 - Phil White

Andrew thats cos ex Dukes fans would support Sheffield any day of the week as our only alternative is to go to Kirky Lane, no thank you :!: :twisted:

From what I remember there was a competition for local schools to design a race jacket and it just needed to say 'Dukes' and 'Coalite' (then sponsers) on it the rest was imagination The so called cross went after a few years and was replaced by a crown on a ble and red shield sort of design.

The reason for the elephant is because the team took the emblem of the Halifax based Duke of Wellington army regiment, so full marks to Andrew, therefore the elephant appeared on the race jacket and the teams nickname became the dukes.

From what I have been told DFDS (mini cruise co) are putting their prices for 2004 online in the next few days if anyone is interested in going to Gothenberg this might be a cheaper option than flying. www.dfds.co.uk

Yeah then they sold him to Halifax/Bradford and he was (errrmm got to be polite!!) not very good home or away

115 - Shooey 117 - Billy Sanders 118 - Paul Woods

1. Tricky 2. Hancock 3. Leigh 4. Holta 5. Crumpy 6. Cozmo 7. Pedersen Dunno who that would mean is World Champion, but it'll be damn close.

Yeah Man!!!

Thats really bad news :x Doug was a great announcer, he always credit to a rider who had had a great race from either the Dukes or who was ever visiting, which some of the new breed find hard to do. Sad loss to speedway.

Yeah get Ole out and someone in who will at least listen to the riders to see what they want, as it is them who provide us with the racing not a bloke it a body warmer. :x Always thought Olsen was a bit of a Chesney Hawkes

The boys rode great last nite, really glad Havvy was in the points and was honest about his performance in the first round meeting. Only down side was I missed it live so watched it on Sky at 11:30, totally knacked now as didn't get to bed until after 2:00am as couldn't turm off the TV, now ½ asleep at work

No mention of Deano's movement at the start of each race he was in though

According to http://www.crash.net/news_detail.asp?champ...0&language_id=1 the team is:- Scotty Nicholls Lee Richardson Dean Barker Gary Havelock One from Bomber, Shaggy, Stoney, David Norris & Stuart Robson States that he will take possibly six riders, I'd take Bomber and Stonet myself.

Danny Bird, you must be joking, maybe in a years time, he lags behind Steady, Bomber etc at a higher level. Don't ruin his confidence be sending him to Denmark and him scoring chuff all, like he did tonight, he looked more like a conference rider not being able to cope with a tight track, a year away from IOW would do him good.

Like you said Phil Mark should have gone through the right channels, but like you said Olsen & Benfield are gonna listen to nobody, it'll take a rider to get really hurt for them to change their minds

Lets hope Mr Olsen and Benfield take note when an ex world champ is prepared to say change the format then something must be wrong.

I have tried to book online but it says that you can only book 330 days in advance??!! Did everyone who has booked use the blower instead??

Must admit it looks a tad suspect :x

Just seen an ad in this weeks Speedway Star stating that the new range of GP merchandise is on sale through the official website, is it just me or can nobody else find a link to anything to do with the new stuff?? The site has a new front page but sod all mention of merchandise , just wanted to get mine in before Cardiff .

Think it has to be when Bradford won the KO Cup Final at Arena Essex (92 or 93) when we had a Premier League reserve guest for us at a track he had never ridden, teh perosn concerned was Paul Pickering who scored something like paid 14 form 7 rides and wrapped up the cup again for the Dukes as we went down there with only a couple of point lead.

Booked in at the Cardiff Copthorne. Managed to get if for ½ price on the RAC website compared to booking it direct :D

Yeah Shoddy 5 out of 7 isn't to bad to agree on. Had to be really biased though and make 'em all Bradford riders, so even though I thought riders like Shawn & Kelly Moran, Sam Ermolenko, Erik Gundersen were all top riders, not weraing the Dukes race jacket went against them

1. Kenny Carter - First proper hero from the 1st time seen at the Shay 2. Joe Screen - Can make the bike go anywhere he wants on track 3. Gary Havelock - Outstanding rider prior to back injury 4. Neil Evitts - Kept the Dukes together in '86 after KC's demise 5. Simon Wigg - True gent always knew who paid his wages 6. Marvyn Cox - The rider that turend Bradford into a winning side 7. Sean Wilson - Every team needs a Sean!!!