Liontamer

Looks like most of the rain fell in the bogs. I didn't bother queing up to use the trough, I just slashed in the lake outside.

Not bad for the first of the season.

DOH!

Thoroughly enjoyed myself today despite being asked to pay an extra 50p each just to get to the bar!! A bit of a p*** take when you've just stumped up £14 each to get in. The deep rut on bend 4 needs to be sorted out before the season starts, & before it causes a serious accident. Having said that my son & I both enjoyed ourselves, even if we did have to swim to the bogs.

I remember sitting next to Arthur in the Long Eaton changing rooms after a meeting. He showered, ran out to his car, & brought back a crate of beer for everyone.

Don't know what all the fuss is about to be honest. Fay was an ok rider, but I much preferred her in King Kong.

Happy happy days when you could hang over a fence & watch the riders flash past inches away. I remember riding at Crewe & watching the crowd lean back as you went past down the back straight...awsome.

I posted this on the Plymouth thread but it's certainly appropriate here.. Leicester Public: Can we have another mosque please? Leicester Council: Of course you can, here, have two. Leicester Public: Can we have a speedway track please? Leicester Council: No, but you can have a mosque. Leicester Public: But we don't want anymore mosques, we want a speedway track. Leicester Council: Well we've listened to you, & we're here to represent the people who voted for us, & give the people of Leicester something that will guarantee we get voted in again at the next elections, so where would you like your new mosques?

I'm here Gem, & I, like all the other Lions fans live in hope. After seeing what's been achieved at Scunthorpe, Redcar & Plymouth I never say never, but having been involved with trying to get speedway back in Leicester, I can only assume that the three aforementioned places have councils who wanted speedway back. Sadly that isn't the case in Leicester in my experience.

Great day, really enjoyed it. Thanks to the few people who spoke to me at the PoW. & the many who didn't including one in a pink hat who ignored me when I said hello. Other than that a fantastic day.

Which is all very well, but not much use when the great dane is standing on the podium. Come on Nikki P.

No, you have to bring it to my seat...it's in the smallprint.

See this is what irritates me. People constantly come on here bleating that "speedway isn't being promoted" & "you only get 15 minutes of entertainment", but when additional entertainment is laid on you resort to insults & hoping she's drowned out with airhorns. You're damned if you do & etc etc.

I've got a spare room, but it's a bit of a hike to the stadium.

My kitchen's the same. Anyway, it'll do you good to get out for a few hours...bless.

Not me. My Lions scarf is folded away in a drawer along with my horse blanket & giant slipper ready for winter.

I'll be there. 4 of us travelling by car. Come up & say hello if you see me lying outside the Prince of Wales, or failing that just chuck a bit of odd change in me cap.

Sheep.

I agree with everything you've said.

Funnily enough when I was moving house in January I found a Leicester Lions t shirt in my shed. I've got loads of memorabilia up in my loft, & I chucked a folding footrest & one or two other bits away when I moved.

Never heard of him. Seriously though you are quite welcome to have a browse through my race jackets, I live in Syston if you want to pm me, & I found out this morning I am going to Cardiff, thanks to a mate I do work for in Wales, who gave me 4 free tickets. I bought a pair of leathers off Ray Wilson because he always hated them (red ones with black & white pattern as seen on front of one of the history of speedway tapes), & I always used to get booed when I rode at Coventry in them . My biggest regret is giving them to a young rider when I packed it in.....DOH !

Over 70 race jackets including Leicester, but they aren't for sale I'm afraid. Favourite riders were Ray Wilson & Johnnie Boulger (who my two sisters were mad on). Happy days.

This thread has made me realise why, after almost 40 years of travelling the length & breadth of the country watching speedway, I can't now be bothered. I haven't got Sky for the first time, & I'm fed up with riders like Rickardsson & Jonsson taking the pi** out of the paying public while they are only interested in the GP's. It's time we gave the riders an ultimatum. Either you ride in the GP's or you ride in the so called "Elite" league, which seems to contain more second strings & novices these days than genuine elite riders. If someone like me who has lived & breathed speedway for the majority of their life now can't be arsed, then what chance have we got in attracting newcomers to the sport. I've long ago given up trying to defend the sport to mates who see speedway as little more than a mickey mouse sport, & to be honest I can see where they are coming from. Oh & despite enjoying Cardiff in the past I honestly couldn't care less about going this year, & I've been offered free tickets & hotel accommodation.

RT, it's taken you nearly a week to post that. How far from Peterborough do you live?

It was at Taff Vale Park.