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OK Sidney! I've never known anyone collecting duplicate autographs, but I'll concede to you if folk do Re Ole Olsen, I don't think I ever mentioned "team riding", other than to answer you by saying I have seen him team ride I stand by my opinion that he was not a team player in the mould of Boocock or Harris As for Gary Newbon - don't get me started!

I take this supports my opinion about televising league matches keeping paying spectators away from attending?

There Their They're

In case you missed it - it was live on tv!No need to fund the promotion by attending at the track

Already discussed here http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=84834

How many due to doubling up/down, how many to foreign clashes?

Aha! Take it you've little time for F1, Philip?

So, what you're saying, Poole fans chose the tv rather than pay to attend Strength to my opinion!

If it hadn't been on tv, perhaps you would have chanced it?

Where were all the Swindon fans last night, apart from the 20 Mr Shoveller mentions? Watching on tv, rather than attending!

Sorry, Philip - what does "you're tight" mean in this context?

Steve Shoveller asserted there were about 20 Robins fans in attendance, and questions why It seems to back my strongly held, and oft repeated, belief that live televising of a league match keeps the attendance down, some, or many, preferring the comfort of their armchair, or bar stool at their local, to view the match instead of paying their turnstile entrance money Yes, reduced admission prices for some tv matches has looked to increase crowd figures, but I wonder if there's any net financial gain from such an exercise, or is it purely cosmetic How many stayaway Robins fans would have travelled to Poole last night if it hadn't been on tv?

This may help - http://www.directorstats.co.uk/director/frank-ebdon/

Don't get me started on F1 Didn't say there weren't any very good GPs Just preferred World Final night, that's all

Carter - by quite a distance, for me Wilson (Ray) Simmons Louis (John) Morton (Chris)

Shoveller shovelling as only Shoveller can, dangling his rod trying to catch some bait

For me, the last real World Champion was Tony Rickardsson in 1994 Since then, there have been various winners of Ole Olsen's Flying Circus, now known as the Grand Prix series They may now be known as World Champions, but to me they are Grand Prix series winners Nothing could replace the World Final excitement I experienced at Wroclaw (1970), Gothenberg (1977) and Empire Stadium, Wembley, for many years

And no doubt your employer can afford you That's the whole point - promoters should only be paying what they can afford - if it doesn't suit the riders with their bespoke vans, etc - tough titty

Any link to the full results?

Better than the Blue Riband trophy

Has Woffinden done his lap of honour?

Pity they couldn't use a photo of action at Brandon to illustrate the article, rather than an away meeting!

Liverpool Echo is printed in Salford - doh!

Trinity Mirror (aka Coventry Telegraph) know no better than to talk to Horton who they know as the Bees promoter when writing about Brandon or speedway In the good old days of the Coventry Evening Telegraph, with "Broadsider" or Alex Goodman, there would be proper professional reporting and investigative journalism, unlike what TM provide today One only has to browse the CT to see just how little connection there is with the city of Coventry - so many errors, repeated over and over, articles written with little or no knowledge or background research It's not only in British Speedway where standards have fallen, there's the British press for starters!

Hope there's one which converts the misuse of "of" to the correct "have" !