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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...

Problem is 'Trees', your type of blind optimism of 'carry on regardless' has given promoters licence to simply continue down the crumbling path the sport now finds itself on... They have treated punters with disdain for years, as they believed they will still blindly turn up each week and suck-up whatever dross was chucked at them under the guise of 'professional team sport'

Not quite comparing apples with apples here though..... Schlein for example has ridden for 4 other clubs in the 4 seasons he's been at Wolves!

Weren't Robert Nagy and Robert Csillik paired together at Glasgow?

Per Sorensen and Alf Busk at reserve for Swindon in 83/84

Just kicking the can down the road... There are too many clubs anyway, although everyone seems to pitch it as "not enough riders"

Crumpy, what ya doing?

Greyhounds re-opening to the public 5 days a week from August 16th.

No surprises I'm afraid. The fat end of naff all has happened - the place looks a right mess

Precisely this.....

Thorpe was hit by the grader when turning around at the tapes, if I recall correctly

Looks like the move back to Royal Mail has done the trick for me. Cheers...

Interesting that the suggestion there is he didn't continue at Hull due to work commitments. The Speedway Star report of his one challenge meeting for the Vikings suggests it was due to his performance.

Thanks again.

Me neither. Was regular as clockwork before the changes - now nothing unless I email or ring yourselves.

Hopefully Royal Mail will do the needful tomorrow as nothing arrived today (5 wks out of 5)