Sidney the robin

Mountain he really has made terrific progress and he will battle hard for every point..I have noticed he has struggled to master Foxhall yet away from home he has been terrific. I feel it is important Premier league teams are made to keep longterm faith with the Brits like Connor,Hume,Bowtell, Bickley (ect) rather than bring in a foreign also rans

No changes i will be happy with this side until the end of the season.If David is out for more than three weeks that is a different story then Rosco might have to have a change of plan.

Really looking forward to this it should be a cracker heat 2 looks very interesting a hard one to call.Holder/Summers/Lawson have to be on there game otherwise i can only see a home win saying that i think Somerset can hit the 40 point mark.

I agree totally about the quality of racing at the Abbey it has been very poor for quite along time now.But you prove my point about the entertainment element that needs to be sorted before you worry about the team.Personally i want to see good racing from week to week results are secondary are you happy to win everyweek but be served up with crap racing.

I don't agree with that to be honest, winning is not everything and personally i don't know anybody who stops going just because of the results.Also Swindon as a whole over the years there crowds have held up pretty well i think the biggest problem for me is the fixture list lack of meetings sometimes up to a month without a meeting.People then get used to not going and find other things to spend there money on often then just picking and choosing there meetings.There needs to weekly racing and the entertainment element should come before winning/losing some people are obsessed with winning i just don't get that part.

In the top five no he also is a enigma and he is not cheap.

No.

Hougaard,Barker, Garrity, Kennett are all non starters for me they are not in the mix.

Michelson could he be an option Steve ? maybe his old average at Eastbourne is to high for me Auty and another change for Jack might be the way.

Could Swindon make two changes now because of David's injury??? annoying really because David was in good form at Belle Vue.

Chuffed for Robert a great victory in two or three years time he will be in the GP series and I believe he will be a player.

Really great to see Josh Auty back on track this year 13 double figure scores out of 19 matches pretty good.I just hope he can get a Prem place sorted again next year as he needs that.

Drew Kemp looks an outstanding prospect but to go straight in at Championship level now is a huge ask.If the league format next year changes and there are loads of two pointers yes that will be fine but as someone else has said the reserves are really strong in the championship now.That is why i think Mountain/Hume are doing ok to average over three because it is a tough league.Drew really looks a great prospect and my hunch is he could cut it but it wont be easy.

You make a good point and touch wood he will get there i really hope so anyway because he is a talented lad..Since i have been following speedway Sam Ermolenko( partnered. with Mike Lee) debut season was the most dangerous rider i have ever seen and look how Sam turned out.Also Malc Holloway a stylish rider had endless crashes over his career but he was technically good so some crashes are unfortunate.Fingers crossed for Danyon but as you said he has to quickly learn from his experiences.

Would you have said that to Rory ? would you have said that to Adam Roynon even going back farther in time Nigel Boocock.Injuries are a part of speedway that is really tough to take at times but we should all stick with Danyon he will get through and be stronger for it.It is great that he has Chris/ Richie both ex riders who understand the game to support him hope Danyon has a speedy recovery.

Auty for me is a better rider more reliable rides his balls off every race he certainly is better than Garrity in the Champs this year. Garrity is good but if you have Six meetings in a month can you rely on Garrity to ride in all of them NO is the answer.

Great post and Knutsson i believe he was a real threat to anybody.I never see him ride but for me he is like ( Penhall ) could of really been a force in speedway long term both had a longterm vision apart from speedway so the public missed out.

I never see Craven ( wish I had) got an autograph from my uncle handed down in pencil that is prized would never get rid of it.Moore Mirac was a class act i think I see Ronnie ride four times.People forget he had that lay/off off six or seven years but was still a class act on a par with Barry/and later Ivan.

He was not far off Wealdstone but did he have other interests business wise.

Peter obviously loved Cowley Steve , because he won the King of Oxford trophy in 1961 and 62. He also won a WC round at Cowley in 62 with a 15 point max.The meeting you referred to was a Oxford v Provincial league select 09/05/63 winning 2 -0 v OVE and the times were amazing how different? ? heat 1. 63.0 - TRACK (RECORD) heat 2 - 63.8.

How good was Fundin around Hyde Rd Ove? i always had the impression it was not one of his favourite tracks.Saying that his results show he was still pretty damn good there when you name Ove, Ronnie, Peter, Bjorn, Barry what a special era that was a golden time.

Looks a terrific racetrack i wished i had of gone there it was before my time. Interesting reading the 1961 head to head results between two of the greats OVE and PETER. It was 7. - 7 overall from league, International, Open meetings , Scratch finals. Golden Helmet, Challenge meetings. OVE did beat Peter 2.0 at Norwich in the Golden Helmet though and he also won 2.0 at Belle Vue i bet they were great duels.

Nothing really has changed in todays speedway in yesteryear when there was a monthly average change a number 2 or 4 would often change with a number 6.Therefore always giving them at least one decent reserve Cradley if i remember rightly went the other way often being top heavy.There reserves were often pushed in the deep end ie) with the likes of Gledhill,S.Collins,Reid,Garratt(rip) everyone to there own in the way they want to assemble a team that is what makes it special if you get it right.

Now if a team gets promoted into the Prem it can budget to get relegated and still make a profit also there is the parachute money to fall back on.Leeds as an example when the inept Peter Ribsdale was at the club chased the dream and paid a heavy longterm price.Football in the Prem is in a pretty good financial place at the moment.Going back to speedway was SKY to blame for the demise of British speedway no is the answer.For me the day John Berry was refused the backing of the speedway family to be the new supremo ended any chance of the sport prospering again in this Country.

The names you named plus Collins,Michanek,Olsen,Lee you would like to think from the year 2000 in there pomp they would of had a chance of winning title's.All hyphaphetical i know all about opinions but Moxey is your opinion blinded by your love of the one- off Final??I am of the same opinion as you and the Series is not a love of mine i prefer team racing but i do respect what the Series has done for the few???I agree with the 10/ 15 year period on judging and Tai is probably only after Ricko/ Crump in the modern day pecking order also when Crump retired those bad burns he received were the reason.In the History of the sport Nielsen and Crump certainly deserved to have won more World titles.