Dave Goddard

See, I can commentate on a race without even being able to see it

Good evening from the commentary box

Drop it please. My comment about staying silent was intended to be humorous. I appreciate you can never please everyone with a commentary, but I try to make it as informative and enjoyable as possible for everyone - and interacting with people through Twitter gets them involved too. As for the biting on small fish comment, I don't like fish much

Ah - I didn't know about that, that's before I worked there. Won't happen this year though.

Sorry, I'll stay silent next time...

I don't think that was Premier - every meeting I have done for them from Sweden has been live.

No baiting or starting arguments on my update threads please. Hope you all enjoyed that, thanks to all who helped out.

Wroclaw v Gorzow and Torun v Leszno.

There will be, yes.

We did that jerk, er joke, last time I did this I think

Many thanks one hour to go!

Hello RnR, thanks for starting the thread so we can banter on here during the broadcast will the blank racecard linked above definitely be the heat format used tonight? I'm a bit out of touch with it all after so long away, Don't forget to tweet me at @MidSportsMedia if you want to say hello during the programme!

I am at Premier Sports HQ ready to go later this evening

It would be brilliant if Ghostwalker could provide his excellent insightful previews again this year - they were immensely helpful during my previous stint as TV commentator. Is a racecard available anywhere to print out, or will there be tomorrow?

Pleased to announce that I will be providing the commentary once again too on both leagues and I will be taking tweets during the live Swedish broadcasts again!

"That Run-Off" as I still refer to it. BWitcher, was one from MBI and the other JSD Videos perchance?

Dave Jessup - every time he was in position to win a major title his engines let him down. Leigh Adams - if only his career hadn't coincided with that of the great Tony Rickardsson, he would surely have won a world title. (Anyone know how Leigh is doing now after his accident a few years back?)

I always call Adam Roynon "The Bionic Man" in my commentaries. Adam Skornicki is the "Rockman" as he looks like a member of a heavy metal band. George Major was "The Flying Banana" thanks to the yellow leathers he had made when he rode for Birmingham to match the club colours. Nigel Boocock was "Little Boy Blue" for the same reason. And I believe that last season Jack Smith and Jack Parkinson-Blackburn became known as "Jackson 5-1"!

Yes it was JSD Video - I've got a couple of old crash compilations of theirs somewhere - Coventry, Long Eaton and Peterborough, plus guest footage from a lot of other tracks (even including Linlithgow!). Personally I thought Colin's commentaries were pretty good, certainly better than my efforts over the last few years!

Was Colin "That's an interesting one for the referee...." whenever anyone fell off?

They were probably all using Mauger's bikes. (edit - just seen that Steve said the same above)

I did the commentary on that one hope it was satisfactory.

Do you mean the British semi-final from this year?

No-one able to answer? Just remembered another one - can't remember who it was but during a sidecar race at King's Lynn in about 2002, one of the passengers fell off the back of his outfit and was literally run over by the following machine. I thought he'd just been seriously mangled but after a minute or two he got up and walked away. And I don't think everyone walked away unhurt from this one unfortunately, but I remember Aidan Collins losing it on one of the turns at Workington, and his bike shot onto the centre green and hit one of the photographers. A truly horrible moment. Richard Lawson and Peter Karlsson's crash at Monmore Green earlier this year was very scary too and not easy to commentate on for the meeting DVD - I thought that Lawson's bike had smashed into the Wolves flag girl at first and it was a couple of meetings before she returned to the track. But in terms of horrible crashes, there are two from car racing I struggle to watch footage of at all - Alex Zanardi's IndyCar crash from 2001, and Tom Pryce in the 1977 South African GP. Yes there is footage online of both of them, and no you definitely do not want to see them.

Sorry to bump a slightly old thread but have been wondering, did Lee fully recover from his injuries? I remember after the crash he never seemed to be mentioned again in the speedway press, anyone know how (and where) he is now?