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That’s the one thing in common with GB speedway ,the riders dictate.it’s not worth turning up if there is a cloud in the sky these days.Throttle control is a thing of the past.!!

Was anyone on the PZM payroll involved at Grudziadz? Don't think so. And when someone from a higher authority stepped in, he immediately suspended the referee for the rest of the year. Now that is something that nobody in the BSPA / SCB would have the balls to do. Swift & decisive action. None of this meetings to have a chat, in a few weeks time over tea & biscuits in Rugby malarkey like the British authorities do, in order to sweep problems under the carpet.

A remarkable man who led a life that couldn't have been foreseen. He was a true leader of men and undoubtably the best team captain that the Aces ever had. At the time of his accident he had gone up another gear and may have reached an even higher level, sadly we'll never know. RIP Alan and you were so lucky to have someone like Jean to look after you.

I will say this everytime,the riders want these bikes/engines that don’t ride ruts or holes, they and they alone dictate the sport but when the track has some rough it’s the fans that suffer, it is time to take the control away from the riders, in the long run the sport will be better for it and cheaper for riders too

Yes but i felt better after writing it

Again me and the ref differ, not saying it was Buckowski fault but NKI did nothing wrong

https://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/8395/ekstraliga-|-referee-axed-after

The referee from Grudziądz Gorzów match suspended for the rest of the season from referring in Extraliga.

Bit of saw dust, a boiler suit, couple of extra tear offs and a couple of teeth on the back sprocket and good to go, modern riders just not men anymore

Just for something to say to give people who are not on the internet an update. I'm not sure what else I can say right now.

Polish Speedway is certainly doing a cracking impression of British Speedway this year. What a complete and utter shambles. Yet again.

Why? If you watched the following heat after the crash, Laguta was in same position as Thomsen and he had to shut off to prevent same accident. Committed, careless or reckless Laguta was not, but calculated he was by slowing down.

How so, IMO neither rider was at fault, just a racing incident.

Nobody’s fault there but if someone has to go it’s pedersen for me

Hats off to all the editorial and production staff bringing us a quality magazine in these very trying times for all. Well done guys

I seem to remember in the early days of the Mail there being two separate sellers at Hackney, and both would be extolling you to buy either the Star or the Mail as you queued to get out at the end of the meeting. "Get your this week's Star" would be followed by "Get your Mail here". Then a wag in the crowd would shout out "Get (or was it Got?!) your Female Here!" Happy days.

Repeating my own post, doubt anyone will mind: That's a blooming shame, he guested for Hull a few times as Ian Thomas said "I booked Wilkie because you know what you will get; total effort, no more and no less". I was at his 'benefit' at Belle Vue in 1979, 'The Wilkie 4's' and such was his standing in speedway I don't think one rider, certainly none of the stars, dropped out - it was a seriously wet meet too riders covered in wet sludge, but they still rode. RIP....

Glad we are back talking about speedway-all I wanna do here is learn about Old Time Speedway (or as I am beginning to think VERY old Time Speedway). Re the post mentioning Ken McKinlay in the 1956 World Final- I have the Maurice Jones book"World Speedway Final -A History from 1929" Great book easy to read and ended with the World Final of 1978( it was published in 1979). So I am aware of Ken McKinlay's outstanding performance in the 1956 WF. In 1979 I had moved to Calgary in my so-called oil industry (boo) career. I used to have to travel to all sorts of places in Saskatchewan- remember being in Kindersley, Sask and reading this book at a local steakhouse ( I dined alone but you are never really alone if you have a book to read)- however I digress. My main point is does anybody in forumland recall this WF and did they think Ken McKinlay was bound to be a World Champion one day . BTW -a tip to those in a restaurant dining alone who are trying to catch the eye of a waiter-just pull out a book start reading it like you don't give a s**t how quick the service is and it looks like you are taking root there- they're over like a shot to take your order. Trust me it works(if you want super fast service pull out a copy of "War and Peace"!!). As an aside is Maurice Jones still with us or has he checked out to the big publishing house in the sky??

We move on to tomorrow`s 2 matches Sunday July 26th Grudziadz v Gorzow programme starts 3pm 1st race 3.30pm N sport and Premier Sport 2 ( 3.30pm) Sunday July 26th Czestochowa v leszno programme starts 6pm 1st race 6.15pm N sport and Premier Sport 2 (6.15pm) Links http://spedway.ucoz.lv/ https://daddylive.live/embed/stream-75.php http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-3.html Racecards Grudziadz v Gorzow pages 18 and 19 https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:2cac2bff-db69-4e97-98ff-7fb71964e015#pageNum=1 Czestochowa v Leszno pages 30 and 31 https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:8b3be8dc-8f4d-4574-ac18-f395ca5e2dde

I always thought that Alan Wilkinson, like Bob Kilby, was the epitome of what a speedway should be. A hard solid but fair rider,

Uninformed nonsense. SCB has quickly suspended and disciplined referees adjudged to have fallen short of expected standards. But we didn’t feel the need to take to social media to boast about our actions. If I make an error in my job, I accept the need for some for of correction but not for the whole world to know. Mr Stepniewski’s “management board” is basically himself and he just loves being the big “I am”, cleverly covering up that he is the one responsible for appointing sub standards referees. Tonight’s was just one of many.

Tommy Miller was ranked in Stenner's Top 15 rankings three years running - 1951, 1952 and 1953. Not bad for a second division rider.

True or untrue it's still a joke Now Polish speedway is under the microscope it looks just as amateurish as British Speedway

First come, first served and there will be a limit . However if Rob gets a crowd of over 6902 I am sure he will be delighted. If he gets over 400 it will be a bumper crowd for a youth meeting.

I see the accurate posting Police are out tonight.

trackwork because of ruts

Honestly, I didn't know.

Keir has just caught a fish with his little tiddler bait. Take the shame R&R

Referee more dodgy than the Chinese Government.

The referee is a "homer".

That's the way I seen it trouble is had that been Niki on the outside people would still have blamed Niki

Tommy Miller appeared in the same Bulls team as Ken McKinlay at the Bothwell (Glasgow) training track at the end of 1949, where he was discovered by White City. He proceeded to top score for the Tigers in Division 2 in 1950 with 251 league points and a 9.78 average. Miller upped his average to 10.70 in 1951, then achieved 10.91 and 10.81 in the next two seasons. In the 1953 league season he only dropped 3 points at home. Miller outscored McKinlay in each of the 4 seasons they rode together for White City. When White City closed, Miller joined second division Motherwell for a fee of £1,500 in 1954. His league average dipped to 7.70 and it was said that he was not popular with the fans, so he moved on to Coventry, also in Division 2, part-way through the season, for a much-reduced fee, managing to average 9.90 for the Bees in the league. A significant dip in his scores followed in 1955 and 1956, with his average dropping to 7.47 and 6.69 respectively. Coventry fans blamed Miller for the poor performance of the team and he was released, before joining 2nd Division Oxford for the latter part of the season, where his average was just 4.29. With White City closing at the beginning of 1954, Edinburgh pulling out of the league early on and Motherwell struggling on to the end of the season before closing, Tommy Miller had no choice of tracks north of the border and maybe this was a contributory factor in his rapid departure from the sport.

It’s always been like that but the fence line has been a great source of passing in the past

Yeah you can't play the same card twice, won't work, oh well. Maybe next year though ....

Your were too busy ordering Panto tickets.

It definitely was Ostrow- i could hear the crowd shouting to the people on the centre green " the track`s behind you "

Sequence of events: Heat 9 takes place in heavy rain. Rain continues. Racing suspended for extensive track work. Sun comes out as the TV returns. Still work to do. It is possible for a heavy rain shower to be followed by sunshine.

Was heavy showers. Looks like we are not going to see anymore though. Gone to Extraleague meeting instead though looking at the wide angle shot, rain showers are close by here as well.

Me or we too, in addition to the nearby Scunny we had plans to take in Sheffield, Belle Vue, maybe Redcar & Peterborough and possibly Wolves. Though Peterbrough soon became a 'prob not' due to the disabled parking issues; no iffs or buts sadly it would likely have been too far for my mate's dad to walk from the parking area to the stand, or at least the stadium section. One solution for you, Iris123, though would be to take your partner to Wittstock speedway for a birthday treat you would both 'just happen to enjoy'. Go on, you know you want to and you may just 'get away with it' . (English humour in the realms of a disppointing situation for speedway)....

Well according to Sam Ermolenko on our commentary feed he's called Veroni, we also learn about Kapashack and Berlingo among many others. Sam speaks another language all of his own.

Returning to the subject, I looked into It a little more... What is particularly interesting is that Swindon started off the 1957 season in pretty poor fashion! They struggled in a few challenge matches, and their Britannia Shield fixtures weren't impressive either. Things appeared to change when they acquired Neil Street for the start of the league programme. It wasn't just a case of his own scoring making the difference, but they really seemed to gel as a team. The main thing that happened was that even when one of their heat-leaders had an off-night, someone else usually managed to step up with a good performance. Prime example was at Southampton, which ultimately won them the league; Ian Williams and George White only scored four between them, yet they won 49-47. Overall, it was quite a remarkable change of fortune when Streety arrived...

EDDIE Toogood - who was at one time Briggo's mechanic - sold SS at Wimbledon and Eastbourne as well as Hackney. A great character and a lovely man.

Yes it's a greyhound track - what's more, it's currently one of the busiest closed-doors greyhound tracks with 6 meetings a week (mid-morning into lunchtimes every Mon-Tue-Wed-Thu plus both Friday & Sunday nights), each of those meetings on its own being worth more in betting industry tv-fees than a speedway meeting's rent plus catering profit. Let a crowd in for speedway and risk the news a couple of days later of a covid-positive spectator ? - if that scenario happened, that's a fortnight's quarantine for anything at the stadium and so, given their hectic dog schedule, bang go 12 greyhound fees !! Are you still wondering why any of the greyhound landlords that enjoy the bonus of speedway revenue have had to protect their bigger (and all-year-round) revenue first ? !!

The best match race i have ever seen was between alan and joe owen at the park rd track at barrow , they put on a hell of a show riding side by side knocking lumps out of eachother, a memory i wont forget .

Maurice Jones died some time ago. All his speedway archive was auctioned off.

I saw Ken ride for my local team during his last year in Division One (before dropping down to star for Scunthorpe) and despite not being anything like the force he once was he still caught my imagination with his immaculate black leathers and bobble hat and still favouring the JAP engine, His World Final record was certainly impressive and I personally think that he is often overloooked when talking about the "Stars of Yesteryear". I have the same book and as you say it's a joy to read....simple yet straight forward. Shame that it's never been updated.

Everyone has things in their life that as they get older they remember 'as clear as day' even as the years advance. . Wilkie's crash that night is one that I can still see unfold to this day.. One that even as a young kid I had seen happen dozens of times before... One that 999 times out a 1000 the riders get up from and walk away.. Truly tragic that Alan never did walk again following that crash.. But truly inspirational the way he reacted to it, and lived with it. I suppose you either have that strength of character, and the courage needed to go with it, or you don't... And as he proved over his racing years, and the many years since that night , he had both in abundance..

Congratulations to Scunthorpe`s Tero Aarnio on becoming Finnish Champion today.

Top 5- he will be be top 3 - no problems