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Regarding the suggestion that riders should be allowed to "test ride" the track before the meeting - on many occasions in televised meetings one hears the comment "the track will come to the riders later in the meeting" Therefore, wouldn't everyone - riders, mechanics and spectators - benefit from there being a practice session immediately prior to every meeting? The bikes would be correctly set up, track conditions and (to the visiting riders) size and shape would be experienced, and the track itself would "come to the riders" earlier in the meeting - all this would improve the spectators' experience

Welcome everyone to the 2018 s**t shovelling season from Mr S**t Shoveller himself

Goodbye to "Team GB" - result!

Today! http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16124434.BOOST__Oxford_return_for_Speedway_and_Greyhound_racing_on_the_table/

This report is definitely from today http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16121977.Report_finds_reopening_Oxford_Stadium_is__commercially_viable_/

On this day in 1959 Coventry and former Birmingham junior Alan Pearce (23) succumbed to head injuries sustained in a crash at Banister Court, during a Junior Challenge match between Saints and Bees the previous evening - part of the second half of the Southampton v The Rest meeting He had ridden for Bees Juniors earlier in the day (Good Friday) at Oxford in another Junior Challenge Match, which followed the Oxford v Coventry challenge match which saw the first ever appearance for Bees of Nigel Boocock

RIP Alan

Don't know why this appeared on the OM site the other day!

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxford/11083116.___You_have_got_plenty_of_leisure_facilities_in_Leys____say_dog_track_developers/

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Happy memories of Bank Holiday visits for the FIM Internationale RIP Plough Lane

Pay the riders what they're owed, maybe they can then pay their suppliers

So? Needs sorting, houses put in order, miscreants dealt with, victims satisfied

Shouldn't there be a proper, official, investigation into Kim's claims Surely the SCB and/or the ACU should get involved It needs stamping out Would be interested to know whether Philip Rising's magazine would care to take the lead on this It is, after all, speedway news, and that's what Speedway Star is there to report

Sad news about Henryk, so soon after Buzz Are Bentke, Pajari, Soederman still with us?

So, what trouble has the group caused?

Steve Shoveller locked out of school

Perhaps they'll get rid of that stupid title "Team GB" and call it "Great Britain"

I take it from your previous comments that you actually know each of them and everything about their nature Will you accept that the increased amount of televised speedway in recent years has actually caused attendances at league meetings in the UK to fall? I'm not saying it's the only cause

I'm not talking about those who drifted away prior to the vast increase in televised speedway It's those who have gone since - indeed there may be many reasons, but it is the televising that causes them to stay away For example, there are financial savings to be gained by watching on tv compared with regular track attendance Televising therefore offers that incentive, being the cause of staying away, not the reason Your knowledge of human nature does not seem to recognise that some patrons actually enjoy the sport itself, with no tribal instinct to support only one team - therefore "skipping it to watch another team on tv" doesn't actually enter their equation

Baffling! Now you're saying more people would have drifted away from speedway had it not been on tv (which is NOT the same as saying people have been attracted to the sport through it being televised) Please supply proof that you do actually know about the wider world's human nature I'm not sure you understand your own!

Have you tried getting a ticket for a Premier League fixture?

Gosh - such a highly qualified person on the BSF - who would have thought it! You may know about your own human nature - and that of your nearest and dearest - but the wider world, oh no you don't! Seriously - you actually prove my point by saying "tv may have given them an excuse to stop going" They definitely wouldn't have opted out of so many meetings had speedway not been televised - which is the whole point I make

You obviously know more about my friends and acquaintances than I do

Not solely Philip, but tv coverage most definitely is a factor