What about Northampton?

[Hawk127]

1 hour ago, bellevueace said:

Yes there was great rivalry down there at that time, the sport was well supported at every level characters like Jack Milne were box office in themselves, its a pity the Bombers didnt have a longer existence, used to love going down to Hackney, Crayford, Eastbourne etc. 

Although supporting Rayleigh, once I had learned to drive a few of us use to do Crayford on Tuesday, Wimbledon on Thursday, Hackney on Friday and Saturday night at eight at the Weir. When it came to other away matches, Canterbury, Eastbourne, Ipswich and Peterborough. I never went to Rye House until the season that the rockets de-camped to Rye. Jack Milne was one of those up at the top with the likes of Brian Foote and the Kennet clan. Use to relish Dave Lanning turning up at the Weir and the accusations over methanol were legendary. Those were the days.

[Chadster]

I can't remember 1937 world champion Jack Milne ever riding in Division 2. Jack Millen did (aka Millen the Villain).😃

Edited 2 hours ago by Chadster

[YeOldPitGate]

1 hour ago, Ray Stadia said:

But for some, £250K is peanuts! In fact, a possible tax offset! 

The only way I could see it working is if they talked Harry into fronting it a bit like Clarkson's farm and then got a tv deal with Amazon or Netflix off the back of it with £200-£500k of backing from the tv company so they could get a really good side together and also give the marketing a really big push.

[TB1]

Well the only thing I can say about this Northampton thing is cobblers!