Vincent Blachshadow

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Ah, right. Thanks. I'm sure I can recall the winner (first in the final) getting fewer points than the runner-up at least once some years back.

So how does that work then? (first GP I've watched for a few years - since I stopped going to them, in fact). Four wins and a third place = 13 in the heats, a win in the semi and final = 6. Where does the extra point come from?

19. Came third in his first ride,

Todd Wiltshire made a comeback in 2006 after having had a farewell meeting in 2004.

But would that bother them seeing as they quite often ride in matches (as guests) that could knacker their own team's season.

Respect a man that aided others in an attempt to close the club down is asking too much.

Hull reopened at Craven Park in the mid 90s, which was also around a rugby league pitch, Hull Kingston Rovers this time. Never went to The Boulevard but I was told that Craven Park wasn't quite as narrow. I've seen some good meetings at Derwent Park, Workington, which was around a rugby pitch.

It wasn't the parents my mate was referring to. You can't go into a school and start giving tickets away without permission and the reasons given (late nights and no homework time) were what he was being told when denied permission by head teachers to give tickets away.

One of the problems with giving away free tickets in schools, according to a promoter friend a few years back, is that it's a midweek sport. Out straight after tea and not back till after ten isn't conducive with getting homework done and going to bed at 'a suitable time' (his words) for many schoolchildren. Then there's the holidays, of course. A football-attending friend of mine tells me that the free tickets for matches are invariably for weekend games (at his club, anyway).

Well, the full title of the award is 'BBC Sports Personality of the Year' so it seems reasonable to give it to someone from a sport they actually cover.

Don't you just wait till March 1st when any rider not being used is fair game? Seem to recall this precedent being set by some club or other four or five years back.

A referee, however powerful he might be within speedway, can't over-rule a curfew and allow a match to carry on. In this instance, wasn't he fed the line that there was a curfew therefore he had no alternative but to stop the racing?

But has he guested for just about every team in both leagues as well this season?

I'm not entirely convinced that would happen. Wandering round chatting to folk now and again at the various tracks I go to during a season, I've discovered very few actually know the team situation at a given match before arriving at the track. To even know about changes you have to be on this forum, read the SS (and that won't tell you if the injury or whatever is quite recent), read the local press or the team's web-site. Quite a few of those I see don't do any of those, they just make up their minds to go to a match and they go. I've even come across those that will go to a match when the visitors are light, more chance of a win.