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Not really; it was only the heat leaders who kept Plymouth in the match, and Birmingham should never have given away two of the 5-1s.

Really? It doesn't seem any worse than Oxford was a while ago?

They've got the licences: Glasgow apparently helped Birmingham sign Justin Sedgmen.

I use Firefox with an adblock. No annoying advertisements!

Anyway, we were never going to prosper in Heats 13 and 15, against the best rider in the PREMIERSHIP! And the sixth best ... Plus the latest wonder boy who was given seven rides ...

The track was drenched with water before the start, but warmth and a drying wind negated that.

Unfortunately, the turnip is not nearly as funny as he thinks he is

Broken thumb.

When does it stop?

You can't beat experience! He and Nicholls were the best riders on the night.

Ho hum ... the usual supects spewing out their bile yet again ... can they just give it a rest now?

I'm surprised that it didn't happen long ago

Nonsense. There was no need whatsoever to make changes; there was no chance at all that Scunthorpe would win. Douglas was brilliant - he scored half of Scunny's points single handed - but the rest were very ordinary. As for James Pearson: he seemed to be using a Gerhardt engine, which was too slow, even though he was making the starts.

What I want to know is, if this team is called Gladiators ... why do they have as a logo, a Greek helmet?

It's on Facebook: match ON.

It's stopped now in Great Barr.

That was for Berwick ...

The black parts are probably made from magnesium, instead of aluminium, to save weight. we had an engine which had not only the cam cover and timing cover in magnesium, but also the main timing case. Whe we bought it, we did not appreciate that the engine was actually an Ashtech job!

It might be worth pointing out that the same thing - meetings held up by lack of medical support - seems to have happened at Scunthorpe and Newcastle recently.

At a practice session in the early days, Hemsley told me that he wanted a 'fast' speedway; this is why he made it with long straights. Of course, he really should have found out what a fast speedway is actually like!

Can you still just turn up and pay at the turnstiles, or do you have to pre-book?

We've already got 5 million Indians ... but the news refered to Australia, Canada and New Zealand, for work visas.

As for riders, wasn't there talk last year of removing visa rules for Commonwealth citizens? If they did that, there would be a source of, at least, more Australian riders.

What is the site address for it? The old site for which I have a favourite on my computer does not work any more.

Still not working on an ordinary computer!