frigbo

Although i don't have one particular item that is massively valuable or rare, I am quite chuffed I have every Speedway Star and one-off World Final programme.

Swindon v Ipswich 1974. Ashby, Louis, Nygren, Leigh

Pretty sure Jon Erskine and John Bishop are still about. Not sure about Roger White.

Olle Nygren has also now sadly passed away from the Ipswich team.

Reading today's article in the Speedway Star about the various rules and regs across the leagues, it just shows how shambolic the sport is. Basically, different rules to decide meetings in each league - talk about over-complicated!!

Sad news posted on social media by his daughter of the passing of former Belle Vue rider Dave Hemus.

There are already too many teams...

Halifax, Wembley, Newport Somerton Park, Trelawny and Belle Vue Hyde Road.

https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/2314/sigvart-pedersen

Holland - Henk Steman

Thanks. Sad news to read he passed so young

To be honest, describing it as a database is a tad ambitious!! It's more of a list! You can find all the info in the "rider" section at the following. https://wwosbackup.proboards.com/

Sebastien, Stephane and Mathieu Tresarrieu

News filtering through on social media that Alan has sadly succumbed to his injuries.

When asked last week, the builders said "absolutely no chance" They also said some.of the sections were "f*****!" as they had been stood in all weathers for so long.

Brian Foote and the late Kevin Holden

Buster given up on his threat of not running then?

Do you not see the issues having 2 'leagues' with basically the same riders brings?

Big difference between riders racing in other competitions for clubs and representing more than one team in what is essentially the same league... Ideally, it would be one rider, one club Europe-wide to enable inter-league European competition, but realistically that will never happen.

Don't kid yourself we have league speedway nowadays - we don't. What we have is a contrived circus where the same riders swap team suits and ride at different tracks that are thrown into 2 groups to give the illusion of 2 leagues... Many talk of the current situation being necessary due to lack of riders, another way to look at it is there are too many clubs. Let the weaker clubs close and create a proper, sustainable and credible single league to build up from. Of course, the poor little pampered, over-inflated rider egos will then complain they don't earn enough - because of course they couldn't get a real job to supplement speedway earnings, could they?

Sad news today about the passing of forner Workington and Belle Vue Colts legend 'Taffy' Owen.

And still very much the case today. The current farcical facade that pretends to be a bona fide league structure is all about appeasing the riders, rather than the paying customer or what benefits the business.... They'll never learn....

Absolutely agree, 1985 was the start of the downward slope.... 1995 one big league and then the Sky money offered two great opportunitues to reset, re-plan and move forward - both were squandered.

That was a quality bit of fixture planning then!!

Olsen and Fransden Olsen ans Weiss Sorensen Olsen and Thomsen Olsen and Busk There's loads...