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Dogs are edible! Don't try to find out what is in your sausages

The Somerset stadium is now a wonderful facility. If the new Coventry stadium - if it is built - winds up as good as this, you will be doing very well.

Changed his mind now.

In that case, the track which is most central and easiest to get to, and easiest to ride, is Perry Barr.

Shagrat and Gorbag.

Er ... you have actually seen any NL racing? They are NOT 'wobblers'!

Get behind Sandhu? He's the one who is knocking your stadium down!

That really will finish speedway off!

IN which case, you would be better just running the Storm for a couple of years. As it was supposed to be land which is too polluted for housing, could the land be the sewage farm near Wolston? (In future, we will be able to tell Cov fans because they breath through their mouths ) The rest of this area is farmland.

Oddly enough, exactly the same comments were made when Birmingham applied for permanent planning permission in 2010. Until noise monitoring took place; it was found that with the new silencers, the speedway was inaudible!

I doubt if he dares

Actually, a rider's first experience of 'a league meeting situation' has to be in the MDL or NJL. Very few - only those with extensive grasstrack etc. experience - can go straight into the NL without a year or two in the Development Leagues.

No - the MDL is the 'Development' league. The NL is the 'Third Division' - a league in its own right.

sweaty sock in a frock = Scotsman in a kilt!

The adverse camber meant that half of the track was unusable - what is the use of that? They need a track where the skilful and brave can go round the ouside by the fence to overtake.

No he didn't; it was for defeating the French in the Battle of Blenheim, and some others, many years later.

JPB has been riding in the Scunthorpe amateur winter league; he was mixing it with Max Clegg and the like.

Some things could do with improving. Page after page of fawning over the GPs: who is that interested? National League tucked away at the back as an afterthought. It's a fully-fledged league now, Phil! Only a postage stamp-sized section for MDL/NDL affairs. This deserves very much more. Totally ignoring the Amateur speedway scene, although Richard Hollingsworth sends a report every month. There is Lydd, Iwade, Dragons and STR as well.

Pink is good. You can easily see them!

The teams declared squads at the AGM, I think, but given the amateur staus of the riders, this will almost certainly change as the season goes on. Actually, riders need to be in different teams in order to get as much experience as possible.

what

You can buy a pre-owned 4 valve Jawa bike for about £1000, or a GM for £1500. 'F2' bikes are a dead letter; apart from the factors above, the ones I have seen are much more complicated than an ordinary speedway machine, and have a radiator!

There is somewhere: Scunthorpe. Mind you, Scunthorpe or California?

Does anyone know if there is a UK importer or agent for the Polish Joba speedway guards? I have found a website but there is no facility for ordering anything, so if anyone knows how to get hold of some?

Results: Open class, 1st Max Clegg, 2nd Jack Parkinson-Blackburn, 3rd Josh Bailey Support Class, 1st Mick Skinner, 2nd Chris Bambury, 3rd Sam Chapman (not the Birmingham Sam, another one!)