Mr Ore

Now I know he is not Thrillpool (or Shadders) of this parish I can honestly say he was a total embarrassment and maybe cost Rye House a couple of race points. With Ulrich Ostergaard and Tyson Nelson excluded for exactly the same offence his reactions were diametrically opposed with Mick Poss going from hero to zero for making the same correct calls. I can't remember the riders concerned but thought that the Rye rider had taken the points on the line. Mr "Every Week" instead of cheering his man on stormed towards the referee’s box pointing in a threatening way, which is always indicative of what you are claiming has happened being incorrect. I couldn't tell but thought Rye had it but the ref gave it to Redcar. The response from the fence was like a cross between Jack Sugden and Basil Fawlty and had the terraces laughing. Such thuggery may have been acceptable in Al Sparrey's days but we shouldn't revere people for being total assholes in these more enlightened times. In his defence though the start marshall was also being a t**t in respect of the Nelson incident so perhaps they are related. A few less pies would do the start marshall the world of good and may help improve his eyesight. Anyway back to trumpet practice.

Were you the fat bloke in the corduroy top near the starting tapes? Looked nothing like in your photo mind. One of the better if longer nights at fortress Rye. Although they put up the price by 25% the crowd looked far bigger than against Ipswich the other week. Clearly proof that the way to get more fans in is to increase cots of admission. Surely the way forward. Sadly could not locate the announcer's rectum to stick that ******** trumpet stuff at the start of each heat up it. Hardly Rocket Man in terms of entertainment value. Home for 2.15a.m. in time to see Torquay's goalless draw with the Monkey Hangers.

. Shane Porker?

Don't you just love the front covers of Speedway Star at the end of the season showing the victorious league championship and/or cup winning teams? It is a total embarrassment to see guests for the night wearing winner’s medals and waving their fists in victory celebrations. Been the same for far too many years but it still happens. Nothing against the guy as he needs to ride to pay his bills, but it seemed Jason Bunyan was in every winning team photo a couple of years ago. There is no way guests can be justified but at least when it comes to photos common sense could be used by just having contracted riders of the actual team; including injured riders who somehow seem to be left out of such things, and not someone who has been a ringer for the night. Maybe Zielona Gora could take over a British team as the Mickey Mouse race jackets would look more in place here. On a lighter note the fish at Rye House last Saturday was much improved from earlier in the season and cooked from fresh too. My compliments to all concerned.

Moobs squared. But I don't think you should be apologising. Maybe a challenge against Barking would have met with less resistance and be more apt!!!

That should be fun. With all the mosns about costs on this forum however I can't see anybody putting their hand in their pocket to buy a round.

I'm thinking of going to Lakeside on Friday. Any Brummie fans going fancy a fight? Should be a real laugh

Cheers Kev. It does seem to contradict fixture priority as per 16.1 though.

Front cover only took 2 seconds to read. Would have filled in for the delays in the 4s.

The Sheffield programme is exactly the same size as Scunny (Both need an A3 sheet of paper to produce each copy) but is free. Incredibly people still moan about it on here. Hoddesdon Town FC, the nearest senior football club to Rye House produced a 116 page programme last year for £1.50. £1 for 8 pages is hardly VFM in comparison, or 16 for £2 a la Uncle Len whose club is on the doorstep. As we seem to be doing self praise here, I'm drop dead gorgeous you know.

You are no doubt correct but how was it that Craig Cook raced for Edinburgh 10 days ago when he was also programmed for Belle Vue at Lakeside? Not meant to be a sarcastic query but not he first time I've seen this with R/R used by the Elite League side whilst the programmed rider was in a PL match at the same time. In terms of the 220 things which need sorting in British Speedway that has to be number 1.

Although I'm only in my mid twenties I also find Google and Yahoo quite alien. A girl at the school where my partner teaches said her mum had a large chest of drawers for sale and ironically we are looking for one for the spare room. They had posted a photo of it on one of the photo sites so I thought we would have a look before committing, but I couldn't remember the name. I simply opened Google and put in “male 25 seeks young girl with large chest, willing to pay £50 and................................yes officer I’m coming but I am still writing about this misunderstanding on a forum I participate in.

Seems the presenters are as tight as the fans and won't pay the going rate for a current CD!!! One was heard to say that if HMV had more CDs from talentless British bands and charged only a fiver, more people would buy them. You don't need top bands with their fancy floor shows and state of the art instruments. If everyone played the comb and toilet paper the costs of buying an instrument would be much reduced and real talent would come to the fore. Savings could be passed to the fans. Every musician would have the same number of teeth in the comb and clubs could use one brand of toilet paper ensuring costs are kept to a minimum. Could call it the Izal League. You can keep your Bruce Springsteen rubbish what British speedway fans want is cheap rubbish. You would have to make rules though to ensure that richer musicians don't cheat by using a kazoo. In the meantime 250,000 fans who lost out on buying Rhiannon tickets at £250 a go were told they couldn't use this as an argument that she is a top performer as we are not allowed to compare different genres to disprove the tight arsed ones who prefer to listen to the old wino playing the jaw's harp outside the HSBC cash point in Gornal. At least that's free. Sheffield Stars cycle speedway team seem to have no problems in playing the latest downloads at their matches. They also play current or real power tracks from the past at foreign speedway matches so why can't we have more up to date stuff at British speedway tracks? Maybe however the music actually reflects the British fans who don't deserve more. Young people however want sexy not cheap. Don't reduce costs make the sport sexy. Ironically though music is relatively cheap in any case but when you get a majority of fans tapping their feet to Perry Como you know you are in trouble. Still it was good to see the BSF band on Britain's got Talent the other week with their remix of Clive Dunn's classic, Grandad. Anyway your sister seems quite a girl SCB. Do you reckon she fancies coming over to mine? We could watch some speedway DVDs and listen to my Mrs Mills collection. Well I am a British speedway fan.

Neil Machin.

I have (not) read somewhere Lewis Kerr's cousin on his father's brother's side, (who he know's nothing about), is called Juan. He could be one of those Spanish Juan Kerrs. (As I am one eighth Spanish I can insult my maternal roots with a clear conscience.)

Sadly I can't go through years of reports as I have a full time job which takes up all my working week. I assure you however (and I do have links with Ipswich) that this came about when they were talking of making them compulsory in the Elite League. That will be the time to check your newspaper cuttings. I said to my Ipswich connections then, what about Brett? As I was trying to imply with my comments regarding witnessing a death in front of me, I don't believe the issue should be finding excuses to prove that other things are equally or more dangerous to discourage actions from being taken. You may want to watch Steve Coogan's excellent swimming pool sketch on "The Day Today" where he lists the years he has been the attendant at the pool with no drownings. Sheer comedy genius but he picked that up from life observations and having heard similar comments it is so British speedway in mentality. My feeling is that one tragedy is 2 too many so do whatever you can to minimise risks. Hearing what Shadders said regarding Luke Bowen it seems that was a similar spot to where Gary Stead received his injury. Whilst an air fence on the bends would not have helped either I don't believe that we should wait for a similar incident on an uncovered bend (obviously not Somerset) before taking action. With my Ipswich links I often have a cheeky dig at all things Norfolk yet am pleased to see young Trees from that county adopt the same stance as me in saying fans can assist in riders’ safety for peanuts. For all the moaning that the fans do on here it seems that we could group and resolve this safety issue by pulling in the same direction for once. I seriously hope that you don't witness what I have before thinking "We should have taken some steps already to stop that. "

I bow to your superior knowledge regarding Rye with my 2-3 visits a year being insignificant alongside. However Ii can easily recall injuries to riders hitting the fence during my few visits so am sure you would have at least seen those too. The portly Yorkshire version of Scott Smith's injury is still in the memory. If you want an easily proved recent case why not ask Jason Garrity if he would have rather hit an air fence at Sheffield or almost lose his eye with the extremely safe mesh alternative?I know that riders are not he best judges of their own safety but why not humour him and ask? My point about the Foxhall fence was that it was alleged there had been no serious injuries there. I mentioned Brett Saunders as one example that the claim was rubbish. There are too many sweeping comments made which are crap and you don't or shouldn't mess with rider safety. Having seen my favourite rider die a few feet in front of me owing to the safety fence you may appreciate why I find the blaze attitude of many posters on here so offensive. Again I have heard loads of complaints about other dangers around the tracks, which seem to have passed you by, and agree that they have been given a deaf ear on occasions. It doesn't mean that you do nothing: you deal with it and for £20 a fan most issues could be sorted. The fact that two things need sorting out doesn't mean you ignore both. Sadly a riders life to Briish fans is not worth such a small contribution. Finally I think you should have put a smiley face with your joke as I am sure the humour went above people's heads. To say you shouldn't have an air safety fence as it would obstruct the view of those on the bends at Rye is comedy genius. Who in their right mind would prefer a rider to be injured than have some minor inconvenience to their sightline?

If Norwich ever come back it can definitely be branded as a sport for the whole family.

Not seen such huge skid marks for years. Will have to look at the video again though as I didn't notice the state of the track.

Ask Jason Garrity as a recent victim. He nearly lost an eye hitting a stray bit of wire in the mesh at Sheffield. I also remember John Louis pointing out how safe the Ipswich fence was and he couldn't remember any serious injuries being caused by it. Alzheimer’s at such a young age JL. OK it referred to the fence prior to Mark Loram's crash and a different part of the track but Brett Saunders had to have his spleen removed after a collision with “the safe bit” during JL's tenure, which is pretty severe in my book. Irrespective if one injury is avoided it is worth it. Let me throw one of my usual curve balls in here and suggest that if everyone posting on this forum paid £10 every track could have an air / foam fence. No doubt we will have refusals owing to other tracks already putting them in so how about we all put in £20 and pay back those who already have air fences. Allegedly everyone on here claims to have an interest in the continuation of the sport but when something positive could be done for a pittance very few would contribute. My preference would be that they charge £1 per post towards a fence fund which would definitely shut some up

There were more retards sat in the row behind me in Cardiff on Saturday than I saw in the whole of the last football season combined. At least I now know that Chris Harris is a Firkin Count as we were all advised every time he raced. Must be some reference to him owning a brewery I suppose.

I was at a bunfight the day before the Cardiff GP speaking with a load of guys I had met at the groom's stag do. When I said I wasn't staying in the hotel overnight as I needed to be home for an early departure to Cardiff. I was surprised when they all seemed to know about speedway and watch it live on Sky every Monday. When asked what they thought they said it was a load of young blokes with tattoos racing in poor stadia with nobody watching. None could believe that it was being held in the Millennium Stadium, which made it a whole lot more attractive in their eyes. Would they go? Yes but only if there was a decent facility and crowd. A potential dozen new fans there who all live within an easy drive of Lakeside. Just get a decent stadium and this lot may attend. They also couldn't believe it was so cheap to get in.

Depends on what they have been doing to make them go to Specsavers!!! I hear that Richard has Metrosexual appeal but that would be out of order to do that while reading my posts about him .

Please let me start by saying that this response is not intended to have a go, as I find your posts try to be very positive and appreciate this one is intended to be. My slight amendment to your comment would be that the crowd appeared to be a healthy one not bearing in mind the start time but because of it. It seems that the majority of negative posts about the earlier start came from people who would never be going to the track or at the most once a season, when all they would need to do would be to take an extra hour from work to get there. As you say there were loads of cars in the car park when you arrived 40 minutes before the start. It is a speedway thing to resist change, whilst the rest of the world moves on. Proof of the pudding seems to be that the locals are actually attending. Whilst speedway crowds in GB are absolutely appalling throughout the ones at Central Park are no worse and indeed better than most. It won't happen but it would be good to see what the crowd would be for a 7.45 start. My feeling is that it would be lower as locals will go home first and get settled in to an evening of Alexander Armstrong and his Pointless chum, Richard before deciding not to go out again. At least Mr Cearns seems to know his fan base and appears to be keeping loads of newcomers with this initiative. I live nowhere near the track but with a bit of determination can easily make the start time, without missing any work, and don’t have to sit through hours of loony tunes before the first race.

Is it Somerset, because all their fans have the same surname!!!!