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Lambert rides Owlerton fairly well - I saw him ride for Newcastle there about 2015 or 16 - at the time he was an up and coming rider who I could tell from that night would go on to do great things! I even had a discussion with some of the Tigers fans about him - he come up against Garrity 3 times that night and lost each time but was close - the locals were crowing a bit - I said to them lets see where they both are on 5 years!! I rest my case

There is no reason to do anything else really!

Hume at Ipswich has been decent too!

I know what you mean - I first went in the 87 season to Arena and for me my best days were 87-92 - then i just turned up - once I understood the sport more the rules and got involved more the enthusiasm waned. I’ve only been a peripheral visitor for many years some seasons I didn’t go at all - maybe once or so when visiting my parents - but this year my Father died in early March just as the season was about to start - it was something he and I did together in that 5 year period before I became an adult so to speak - something drew me back to speedway and I have enjoyed 2 visits to Sheffield and 5-6 at Foxhall which is the nearest track when I go to visit my mother. It’s the most I have been to speedway for many years. this season I have just turned up watched the races filled in my programme and ignored all the chatter - I’ve enjoyed it!!! And I agree 100% a great speedway race is the greatest l thing ever!!

Sadly this is all over I suspect - will watch it on Tv rather than go across t’Pennines to see it live

You used to be able to adopt retired greyhounds from the track a few years back - assume they have some sort of kennels there

The Police wouldn’t have let anybody into the stadium - that wouldn’t be their remit - what they will have done is said the roads around and to the stadium are closed and will remain so until such time as we reopen them and we advise you to not add pressure to the situation by having 1500 people arriving most of them in cars! Tigers management actually took the correct decision here!! I have no idea why the greyhounds went ahead - however most midweek Greyhound meetings don’t get many fans at all as the betting it either online or in the betting shops not in the stadium itself - I went to one once and it was literally one man and it dog there in the afternoon! - Evenings different.

Too many fools about nowadays!

I think he just didn't take the the track actually on that point. Yes there is a frustration watching him as you never quite know in advance what you might get, I've seen him get 12 and 13+ this season, and when he does that the Witches tend to win big, and then get a 4 - then to be fair Danny has had a few meetings like that too However his 'proper' average as I like to call it has been about 7 this season so he been a worthwhile addition for the Witches.

I am not in the area so will miss this. The season for me started with a 40-50 home defeat to the Panthers on the cup thingy and I did think 2021 would repeat itself. Since then the season has come together so well and i have really enoyed my trips to Foxhall (and Owlerton for that matter after several seasons of only making the odd visit)! I was hoping to get to Owlerton tonight instead only to find they are away at Kings Lynn!!

whilst watching that video i was remembering the stadium being full up for the classic british finals of the late 80s - always make the most of good times they never seem to last!

Perhaps who knows!! - I do remember attending a football match once many years ago - it was on sky live on a friday night - at the match they announced the attendance at 5,000 and something - the following day in the paper it said 4620!!

Always a tricky thing but I would guess that at Ipswich if its either Kings Lynn or Peterborough the attendance could be about 2,000 or so - certainly better attended this year than for some time. At Sheffield where I also attend on occasions i would say maybe less but its tricky due to the bars / Grandstand but the two matches i have attended were V Wolves and also Belle Vue maybe 1,500+ I do wish they would publish them but they never really have.

Whilst maybe amusing (i did chuckle myself at it) given the fact temperatures reached 40c in Sheffield this summer not impossible!

I read Berry’s book on promoting - very interesting if you haven’t seen a copy try and get one! Yes I have photos taken from my various trips with my dad to tracks In the late 80s and 90s and one thing that is really noticeable is the crowds - plus the obligatory trip to Coventry for the British Final in front of the usual full house! Special days for me certainly

I don’t remember it that way - but it was about 30 years ago now / I seem to remember that they said that dropping down would damage crowds and jeopardise their business - happy to be corrected if that’s wrong from anyone else who can remember at the time.

Well if they ever want a thorough analysis of their shortcomings all they need to do is come in here

Good times - crowds were pretty solid in that period - Galvin never quite the same after his bad leg break but we had a good side back then

At my parents my dad had a programme from a world final in the 1950s - the promotors message could almost apply to day all about crucial decisions being needed over the winter etc etc and that everyone had to come together for the good of the sport

It was certainly very popular on the terraces the night it was run at Foxhall ( and anyone who says or claims it wasn’t either was not there or is lying) - maybe it might have been different had it not gone the way it did who knows!

The lunacy of Swindon’s refusal to be relegated was that they voluntarily dropped down a couple of seasons later if I recall!! as an Arena fan it was great and ushered in our most successful era. i have always felt in order to be taken seriously it should be in place - I just don’t think it’s workable as evidenced in the 90s

Agree it was the best atmosphere I can remember at Foxhall in a long time

Basso for sure a star in the making

Unlucky for the Panthers done twice by the Superheat against the Witches this season

Seems to still be on, lets hope they all have enough tyres!