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A warning back in 1985

As ever Halifax makes some very good points One thing comes to mind.Going back to 2004 or 2005,we had fans criticising things going on.They were getting posts on here telling them it was the Promoters who were putting in the money and because of that were above criticism and those criticising should put substantial amounts into the sport and then maybe they would have a different opinion.Even worse,they were told by certain Promoters to bugger off More than a decade later,many fans have done........ You have to engage with fans,no matter how hard it might seem.You have to try and explain your position even if some won' accept the answer.You have to fight like a champion to make your business successful,because all of your competitors,whoever they may be,will take advantage if you don't.Telling fans to p off or ban them from forums isn't the way forward

Day 2 from Shadrinsk

European Championship day 2 from Ufa.Bit drawn out at 3 and a half hours.Outside freezing and in the refs box they are wearing Hawaiian shirts 3:22:00 is the great race off between Bauer and Iwema

Also add Brixton Stadium among others and it is hard to think of another city in the world that had so many sports stadiums with all the many proper football,rugby and cricket stadiums https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brixton_Greyhound_Stadium

Look at the ad with the view from a glass fronted stand and it was a decent stadium https://runner500.wordpress.com/tag/charlton-greyhound-stadium/

Frank Arnold was said to be behind an attempt to bring speedway to the Mitcham Stadium in 1947.I wonder was there ever an attempt at a couple of other South London stadia I.e Wandsworth and the short lived Battersea stadium?

In 1948 there was an application host speedway at Charlton.Was that then at the Greyhound stadium?

It does bring back some of my earliest memories of the sport.Not the attending,but hearing the bikes from the end of my street.Even i guess during school holidays,when I used to hear the riders practicing on a Friday morning/afternoon at Plough Lane.I was too young to stray from our road though

Well it seems the cars started over a decade after speedway had closed,so maybe circumstances had changed.Possibly those who had previously complained no longer lived near the track?

Interesting to read that not only poor crowds (not surprising given the proximity to other,more established clubs) but also complaints from neighbours about noise,is given as reasons for the closure of Walthamstow. Not quite the modern phenomenon it is made out to be

Never even visited Walthamstow even though some of my family including my mum come from the area.Stadium that is,I have of course visited Walthamstow to see family

Good to hear someone else appreciated his style.Must admit I have a number of Swindon faves,as for some reason I sort of adopted Swindon as my second team for a few years in the 70s.But only ever visited the track once.Well i only ever visited Swindon twice in my life so far

Good one, although I thought we concluded his surname was Weir?

There are also the two Danes who I think might be related Kenneth Hansen & Kenni Hansen,who I guess his full name is also Kenneth.I Danish they also have their middle name,so maybe qualify for the other thread Kenneth Kruse Hansen Kenni Trasborg Hansen

Here is the great Morian Hänsen on what is probably the Danish equivalent of This is your Life.Mostly in Danish,But a piece in English talking about WW2 with an English RAF guy and also one of his Danish contemporaries On the dirt tracks,Svend Age Engstrôm https://www.dr.dk/bonanza/serie/62/her-er-dit-liv/70565/her-er-dit-liv-morian-hansen

Wasn’t there two Damian Balinski’s?The elder being the uncle of the younger?

It did seem at the time that riders had to get going very quickly as there were plenty of others out there to take their places

Somehow I am not surprised!!!

One young Pole who looked to have a promising future but never really made it.Was this his best ever meeting I wonder?Probsbly his most memorable.Marcin Rempala

Boley Proch is name from the past!!Forced out of the Racers team mid-season.Who was the other Polish Racer a year or so earlier who if I remember rightly was involved in a crime?Sure it was answered years ago on here,but can’t for the life of me remember the answer.

Piotr Pawlicki One was Polish junior champ in 1983 the other a couple of decades later

Some interesting names here!! http://www.speedwayplus.co.uk/andy_freegard.shtml

No Netherlands team in the team comp,but one from Kazakhstan!!!And some angry Dutch riders I guess.Well I see one is quite upset with the Dutch federation...