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Love your positive posts ( idiot )

In true BSF a pretty good thread has gone to the dogs. Shame.

1) if a club joins after the AGM they have to follow same rules & could only pick riders not already signed up, this would not hinder any other club as they would have already signed up the best riders available! 2) If there's a large number of riders frozen out from the NL, why not allow another team!

It’s upside down - lol

Doyle vs Kurtz = Doyle Batch vs Killer = Batch Jensen vs Wright = Jensen Ellis vs Bewley = Ellis Stewart vs Worrall = close.. depends if Worrall is over injuries Perks vs Lidsey = Lidsey Rowe vs Etheridge = Rowe everywhere else over than the NSS so not close really... dont get the fuss on this Belle Vue team at all

I’d change your red and black tinted specs

For his own safety should stay retired.IMO

not me, it was the wife's car.

Footage of the meeting can be found here

Let's be honest if MD is as big as he was the last time I saw him then they'd have to cull a herd of Wildebeast to make his racesuit.

By Wimborne I assume you mean Poole?! The difference with Poole being that Osborne doesn't 'own' Poole Stadium - they lease it from Poole Council, who have stated they wish to retain the site as a sporting/leisure facility, with just a relatively small corner of the car park and an adjacent site being used for flats.

To be honest both clubs need each other to survive and it's also good that Shielfield is used pretty much all year round

Should enter the CL team.. might have a chance

Half the fun of the thread is seeing people getting their knickers in a twist

Elkins probably had an EF.

So Newcastle have applied to run in this years NT, i suspect it's a test to see if running in the NL is viable. Would give IoW Mildo and Plymouth an extra home meeting to enjoy.

Here is some lovely pre-war speedway related information. Taken from the first report of Dirt Track racing in the Daily Mirror from 1928 From The Daily Mirror 13 February 1928 (page 2) NEW SPORT FOR MOTOR-CYLISTS Britain's First Dirt Track Race Meeting GREYHOUNDS RIVAL? Skidding Thrills When Taking Bends at High Speed Dirt Track racing, the motor-cycling sport which thrills Australia, is being introduced into England. The first meeting in this country will be hold at King's Oak speedway, near Loughton, Essex, next Sunday. Two crack riders from Australia, Billy Galloway and Keith McKay, will compete against some of the leading South of England motorcyclists. The Englishmen are particularly looking forward to the meeting, for it will be their, experience" in a, sport which is claimed to be one of the most exciting in the world.

I'm sure others will give better answers than me, but to me it just looked like plain fear. If he didn't have a clear track ahead of him, he looked like he got spooked very easy, bailing out as soon as riders started to bunch up around him. Ironically, a few of his retirements at Smallmead were downright dangerous almost causing crashes in themselves.

Art Pechar and Fay Taylour

Same here Steve I also wished I was born to watch the birth of this sport. In the Daily Mail from May 1928 from a meeting at Stamford Bridge there is news story where the reporter called speedway no-more than a circus with no thrills whatsoever. But the following moth in 10 July the same newspaper report plenty of thrill from a meeting at Stamford Bridge. With Art Peacher in a neck-and-neck race breaking the track record at 43.38 mph, beating the mile rolling start record, at Stamford Bridge. In this Stamford Bridge meeting "cyclone" Billy lamont of Harringay won the handicap 'silver wheels' prize of scratch beating Vic Huxley's record averaging 34.45 mph. Fay Taylour beating L.Barker at Hove speedway by 10 lengths averaging nearly 33 mph in a mile match. With Crystal palace Roger Frogley won the handicap in this meeting at Hove in 1 min 34 2-s secs thereby beating the standing start record for the 1 mile course averaging 38.14 mph. Not bad att for all these records in 1 newspaper report. I also found a meeting at Wimbledon in 1928 with Malcolm Seagrave presented a trophy to Vic Huxley in front of a 12,000 crowd the biggest so far at Wimbledon.

Yes. Justin Elkins ef.

Great posts! Wish that I'd been there at the start of something big and which caught the imagination at the time.

From The Daily Mirror 20 February 1928 (page 22) Th news report of the meeting at High Beech in 1928 SIX HOURS OF RACING THRILLS Skidding Feats in Dirt Track Motor-Cycling CRQWD 30,000 Huge Success of Sport New to This Country FROM OUR SPECAL. CORRESPONDENT LOUGHTON (Essex), Sunday. Over 30,000 people flocked here today to watch the first dirt-track motor-cycle races held in this country. This sport has proved such a tremendous success in Australia that it equals the popularity of greyhound racing in that country, and if yesterday's crowd is any criterion it should arouse equal enthusiasm over here. There were thrills in plenty motor-cyclists tearing around the track, and, in some cases, landing on their heads with their machines skidded from under them. But the enormous size of the crowd which gathered at King’s Oak speedway provided the greatest surprise of them all. The races were time to be run from 10:30 a.m until 1:20 p.m. and there were to be eight events with several “heats” in each race. Crowds Across Track With such a fest of thrill offered, motor-cyclist turned up in their thousands while motorist and other rolled up throughout the day. Considerable difficulty was found in accommodating the large crowd, as all spectators, owing to the danger of being ran into by the machines, are supposed to be confined to the inside of the track only. As this was impossible, even the hundreds of stewards present could not restrain the euthanistic crowd from crossing the track and watching races from the outside. Those who desired a “grandstand” view climbed trees, where, both in climbing and swinging from the branches, they supplied as many thrills as the motor-cyclists. Two Australian “cracks” Mackay and Galloway, were competing, all the others being Englishman wo have never ridden on a dirt track before. “CORNERING” CHEERS They made a brave show skidding round the bends in a cloud of cinders and with their machines leaning over at a precarious angle to the accompaniment of tremendous cheering form the crowd. Although there is little actual danger for the contestants, many of the women spectators of whom there were thousands with the “pillion girl” well to the fore could not repress screams as some of the riders subsided gracefully on to the cinders, while their sporting machines careered away like wild horses. To minimise the danger all the riders wore crash helmets and special steel-shoed left boots which took the brunt of any scrapping when cornering. In addition, Mackay who is very tall, wore a special pad on his knee in case the later touched the ground. When the English riders have attained a sufficient skill in the sport, speeds will increase and send up the thrills by leaps and bounds, for the whole art of the sport is experience.

I don’t have any problems but thanks for your concern.

Christ

I’d go with (assuming team positions are correct for those teams incomplete!) 1. Doyle 2. Andersen 3. Wright 4. Lawson 5. Cook 6. Covatti 7. Nicol

When did BV last win the league? I think it was 1993. So I don’t understand where your confidence comes from - unless you just like winding people up. I would love BV to return to the top as they have a stadium worthy of champions.

You've done it wrong. Andersen, Harris & BWD are all at Peterborough. You've missed Belle Vue & Ipswich.

I recall his brief spell with Sheffield when he won loads of credit for his sheer guts and can-do attitude. Considering his seemingly endless run of bad luck I'd like to see him having some part to play in the sport. If he's fit and willing to go, someone should give him a place. If nothing else, he could have a role in team management. One of speedway's unsung heroes in my book.

don't think so martin was a shade better than Justin

Swindon look clear favourites for me.

He made a few mistakes elsewhere as well especially his own team who were firm favourites to make the play offs and didn’t.

And Belle Vue know all about that dont you.

I agree, really nice lad and had more than his fair share of bad injuries.

I know Ove quite well. We've met and chatted on numerous occasions. He is a real gentleman. The complete opposite of his on track persona!

Doyle is a much stronger number 1 than Kurtz. Absolutely nothing between Wright/Killer and Batch/Jensen. In fact Jensen will struggle to keep that average. Below that BV are much stronger. 2 top teams whichever way it’s dressed and will be cut free from the rest of the league.

That will be 12 noon here.

If this goes balls up from the start,there won't be many there,to see us playing catch up.As one of his main rivals,bet Rossiter can't believe his luck.

That is a few times that you have mentioned "Rob" as if it is his decision & his alone. How do you know that Rob agreed to it? Could Rob have been against the proposal but out voted as this is how decisions are made, by votes. The BSPA has a committee of 5 members but almost all the promoters would have had a vote. By the way, I do not agree that all 3 meetings should be on the same weekend, as it could be a financial burden to some families with it being just before the summer holidays. There is also the issue that Peterborough could not fit it in at the Showground.

What Osbourne & other developers should do ................ be accountable & rebuild or re-site new stadia before any houses are built as per the planning procedure. They should never have been allowed to build houses before the speedway & stock cars were sorted.

Developers are surely less of a threat than waning interest among what few supporters the sport still has.

Who????????

Oh for more characters like Roman Matousek today! Entertainment.

Even with a ten point start in every meeting, Newcastle will finish bottom comfortably - I hope they don't get too battered as their notoriously fickle fans will just stay away...

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/18147100.decision-day-next-week-new-abbey-stadium/ Cant help but have bad feelings about the lists of potential issues and purposely half baked statements and ideas offered. “Opportunities for support and investment have been lost to other sites in Swindon and competing stadiums in the region are now starting to draw trade away.” Is a quote from the owners. Where? Have I missed all these speedway/dog racing facilities opening up nearby? Would be a possible excuse if Reading was still there, but some one razzed that. Can’t think who. “The owners proposals include screening with trees and other barriers and also a ‘neighbour hotline’, manned during all events, to enable residents to report noise complaints directly to the stadium“. You can’t make this stuff up...or infact you actually can. Thia is all Osbourne does, spout empty, vacuous, nonsense to slither away from scrutiny and delay things further. All eyes on next week.

Not convinced Manzares will ever make it big in the sport and feel would struggle just as he did some years ago. Maybe should stay with the change of career he embarked on. Think there are better options even at this stage.

RIP Roman The guy was an out and out racer and entertainer

Nowt to do with Wolves 2020 but just found out that Roman Matousek has died. Was trying to remember his nickname, got as far as 'the flying .......' but damned if I can remember the rest. Went off on an internet search and have spent the last hour reminicisng about the good old days on the Wolfcry forum What was the name of the mag the guys used to do? Wet myself at the 'Where will Gary Havelock be sitting at the World Final' page

My postman is very disappointed. For years, he thought I was the recipient of some very dodgy material as it was sent in a “brown plain wrapper”. Now he realises it’s just Speedway porn