orion

The big league was hardly the salvation in the 90's thou

To late ...speedway has sunk so low it can't be saved now in the uk . Years of making the standard lower has killed it I think only in speedway can people used the same plan 29 years in a row only to think the way forward is to do the same the next year .

Here we go again lets cut the standard ..When will speedway ever learn . Year 30 of the same plan

But those have still been in place. teams, have still been racing on sat and sun and crowds have still been going down with clubs closeing .People used to play local football at a weekend but now it's nearly dead as there is far more things to do.In the 70' s what could do on a Sunday bar go the church .Times have moved on .

The teams that run on Saturdays have hardly been getting big crowds . it's pretty clear that people these days do only other things on a Saturday night . I would go to watch Swindon on a Thursday but would not go on a Saturday .and there plenty who feel the same . Yet again it's just old speedway fans wanting to go back in time . that time has past

I think Swindon missed a trick .Zach should have been put in heat 13 and Perks in 14 .Perks had a great chance of picking up a point in 14 while Zach had none .Would have put Ellis in 15 as well .

RR makes Poole even Stronger .. Swindon will have to pull off a shock win

Can we get on topic please ...Glug Glug Glug Glug

Orlov always did with kss.its embrassing

Biggest crowds I seen long time and the best meeting..speedway can be good !

How can you talk about the NSS and Hyde Road at the same time ? ...all tracks were better in the old days as you needed much more skill .Lets be honest the NSS has not even got a Fun fair .

Still can't see woffy making the team

I think in old money it's a whoosh

No .don't you remember the British Finals of the 70's and 80's

Very true .all from 25 years ago

Me and my Shadow

You dumber ? irony of the highest order .

First of all its a good track but it's hardly the best ever ..it's good racing but hardly any skill is needed so you need to steady down ,I would hardly say taking in gate money and not paying bills well intended in fact a lot people would say it's almost stealing . Not sure what makes your opinion more valid than the next person and trust me I know plenty about what went on to quailed to hold such an opinion ..the bottom line is no matter how you dress it up they have kick out of the sport because they never paid there bills because there business plan was hopeless .and doomed to fail .

No offence but when you dont pay your rent you likely to be kick out of your house .i am sure you clever enough to work that out .Morton and Gordon had a awful business plan that was always going to end in failure so it's matters not who wanted there hands on it .

Of course not .whoever heard of a promoter putting there bank balance first over rider safely .its already been pointed out on here on how little you understand how the sport runs .

There was no successful testing and Gordon and Morton did not believed that the problem had been solved ...you only have to look at what happened about the hose pipe to understand how honest they are ..it's no wonder they were kick out of the sport in the end .

Well Done the Race horse of the same name ..just won at Exeter at 9-1

? the German Gp the other year was no doubt given a racing licence do think that track was ok ..? Not enough testing was ever done to know that it was going to be ok .the two riders who were asked to test the track the track told Belle Vue that the track had major problems and they never rode the track at night . Graham Reeve was also called up the night before as there were problems with the 3 and 4th bends ..so it's just a load of garbage to say that this problem just happen 2 hours before the meeting started . Have a look back 48 hours before the meeting and your see that the cat was out of the bag that the track had massive problems it was over this forum . Morton and Gordon took a risk to run the meeting due to the ticket sales without making sure the track was ok so the buck stops with them . Of course Phil Rising who happens to be great Friends with Chris Morton tends to miss out a lot of the facts what happened at the time . As I said if Swindon track is not fit for racing next week I won't be blaming the BSPA I won't be blaming the people who done the work I will be blaming Swindon Speedway as it's there job to make sure the track is tested before you let fans into the stadium something that Belle Vue never did .

You are the one who speaks rubbish ..It's common sense that Belle Vue Speedway are the ones who must make sure track is fit for purpose before they open (as Swindon will do next week ) no matter who built it in the first place .You don't have to have any facts just common sense , ,You don't and can't reply because there is no answer to that . If Swindon run the meeting next week and the track is not ready I will the blame the club not people who built it as the buck stops with them as it would do in any other business who have not fully checked and ran tests before opening .

Morton and Gordon messed up ..they try to run a meeting on a track that was clearly not fit for purpose ,. Thou MCC were at fault for the building of the track but it was Belle Vue who should had ran test meetings etc etc to make sure it was ok before letting a massive crowd in . As I said on another topic ,Swindon have done the right thing by not running the meeting but you really do have to question why this work was started so late .