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Read in SS that over 250,000 watched the Cardiff Grand Prix on Sky. Would have been a lot more if it had been on mainstream TV. Plus the 40,000 at the stadium. Also remember reading that around 70,000 pay to watch at least 1 speedway meeting in a season, with crowds averaging about 30,000 a week.

Would like to see the ex-Swindon schoolboy Crumpie or Hancock win again...Sayfutdinov, Pedersen, and Gollob will be frontrunners, with perhaps Lindgren, Andersen and Holder as dark geegees. Just hope Bomber and Tai perform well for Little Britain. Always like to see the lone Norwegian Holta do well. Hampel usually rides well in Cardiff.

Woffinden and Bomber have been selected as the 2 Brits so we should support them, even though I would have liked to have seen Rico in there. Thought Zagar was a bit unlucky not to get a place.

Well done Leigh, one of the best riders never to be World Champion, but at least I wont have to watch him struggling at Cardiff again

Zagar Lindgren Andersen Woffinden/Harris

Crump Sayfutdinov Gollob Pedersen Hancock Jonsson Adams Zagar Lindgren Andersen Holder Harris Bjerre Woffinden Hampel

Well done to the ex-Swindon schoolboy.

Used to follow the Dons in the 60s when New Cross closed as they were the only club left south of the river. Moore, Nygren, Hedge, Luckhurst etc., Sidecar with Dad and little bruv from Peckham, then we emigrated to Swindon 1968.

Fundin Briggo Mauger Olsen Knutsson Craven Moore How Plechanov Harrfeldt Jansson Harryson Sjosten Nordin Nygren Persson Woryna Jancarz Ashby Broady Kilby McKinlay McMillan The Boococks Wilson Betts Squibbo Brett Monk Hunters Hedge Luckhurst Gooch Pander Airey Pratt etc., a great decade for Speedway

Arne Pander Colin Goody

Bobo Valentine Russ Dent Bo Wirebrand Joonas Kylmakorpi THe Boococks Berndt Persson Gote Nordin Bart Bast

As a 12-year-old

Perhaps it was 69 Bobbath...my bruv in Oz has all the old Robins programmes, but I'm probably the bigger anorak Never owed anyone a beer as I'm too tight

1968 test GB versus Sweden...there were more people queuing up to climb in than pay, me included ...attendance 12,000 officially. The 16-17,000 lockout for a late 70s meeting...think it was a Golden Helmet race. Briggo and Ashby, riding for Exeter, side-by-side for 4 laps, 1968. A Briggoless Robins losing their 3-year unbeaten home record to Newcastle, including Mauger and Olsen, the same year. Seeing Adams and Gjedde winning the 2004 Elite Pairs, the first major trophy for many years. The atmosphere in a crowd of over 5,000 for the play-off final versus Coventry in 2007.

Swindon is halfway between Cardiff and Wembley but my vote would be Cardiff...stadium roof, ideal city centre location.

First Grand Prix for 'er indoors she loved it. Apart from long hold-up on motorway(we arrived at 5.15, just in time after 3-hour trek from SWindon). Sneaked into middle-tier although we paid £29 for upper-tier Good racing brilliant atmosphere had a bit of fun with the Poles dancing around in the seats(shame about Leigh Adams) will def be going again next year. Great entertainment..wish league meetins were as entertaining

Did seem to be more drunks this year than previous...more Poles?? glad we didn't get the last train back to Swindon, unfortunate for the guy with the frightened kid...drove instead 3 hours there half that time back!! bloody motorway hold-ups. There will always be a minority of drunken idiots spoiling people's fun but the many Poles round us were good-natured, chanting Leigh Adams name as I was wearing my Swindon shirt.

The missus and me had a good laugh with the p1ssed-up Poles mid-tier bend 4. I was waving their Gollob flag as they wore our Swindon and England hats. Perhaps there should be more alcohol controls though.

Leigh Adams

Fundin/Rickardsson Briggs/Mauger Nielsen/Pedersen Penhall/Hancock Crump/Adams Gollob/Plech Craven/Collins Plechanov/Sayfutinov

My first speedway meeting... at the Frying Pan...but don't remember the result.

Worky have 1,000 seats.

Free...I climbed in

Crump Pedersen Adams Andersen Hancock Gollob Jonsson Nicholls Harris Holta Sajfutdinov Lindgren Bjerre Walasek Ulamek

1968...Blunsdon, crowd of 12,000...Great Britain beating Sweden...in the 3rd. meeting of the 3-match series but losing 2-1 overall. Home riders Ashby, Broadbank, and the Boocock Brothers against the top Swedish trio of Jansson, Michanek, and Sjosten. An out-of-sorts Mauger, and no Briggo or Fundin. They were Kiwis anyway