Sidney the robin

How would those two do away from the big home advantage of Arlington though? Birmingham for me is a fairer track..Saying that i like both of those you named Wood had a good go at it at Sheffield and Brennan looks like he has a bright future.

How is Danyon Hume going B ? he seems to be getting there seems to be a real decent gater but is gutsy to and a real racer.Just hope he stays injury free as he is a raw talent who will learn as he goes along he certainly has a future.

Great to see the young lad back and Birmingham again have three terrific heat leaders.For me the main thing for Jack is not to put pressure on himself and start enjoying his racing again he has real talent and has years in front of him to make real progress technically style wise he has everything.

It should be a comfortable home win for the Robins tonight as long as complacency does not creep in.Rye House have riders who can go well at the Abbey so it should be a hard fought meeting.What i like about this Swindon side is even without knowing the averages for next year i would be more than happy with Nick,Batch,Tobi, Adam , Zach being the core of next years team.

Rosco said last Thursday the team will not be changed this season and i am 100 per cent behind him on that loyalty means a lot.Some of the names mentioned to come in if anything makes us look weaker.

I dont know WK a great question maybe i am wrong but Briggs was pretty professional really fit as well physically. stronger than most.Mauger was good really top class he took the sport forward but Briggs like you have said endless times was very unlucky and I believe he would and should of won his fifth title in 72.

Spot on.

I think in those days WK when the riders went to the tapes most of them were on the same sort of aquipment a level playing field the skill element track craft then came into the equation.That is why IVAN was so special aquipment immaculate he ploughed money into his aquipment and got his rewards later on.

I was thinking that myself Scotsman would you judge a rider on one performance? i actually first saw Brennan on the small track at Swindon and he impressed me.A couple of guys who who i know come on to the forum and both see loads of NL racing and I respect both there opinion's greatly actually felt he was not making that much progress and had to get away from Eastbourne to progress.Looking at the Championship Bacon, Mountain,Hume have the highest averages it just shows you how tough the jump is from NL racing for me out of the two pointers Hume barring injury will go on he has something.I would just give him time Brennan just think if he come in now and went to Berwick,Workington,Edinburgh,Scunny,Glasgow a totally different ball game a totally different level look at Bickley 0 again last night he can't buy a point,

WK i can remember going to Eastbourne one afternoon ( hated there dam claxon!!) and seeing the Italian rider Nano Righetto ride. His bike god it looked like he had just picked it up from Steptoes junk yard what a heep.!!!

Really enjoyed last night some proper racing Morris v Schlein was superb.Rory was majestic his track craft awesome a special mention for Zach a brilliant effort getting the better of Howarth shows he is getting there improving by the week.

Whatever you say to be honest means nothing , were you at the same meeting as me tonight ??? Schlein outstanding very quick mega quick great track craft his race with Morris was terrific.some decent racing tonight.!

Winning is not the be all and end all there is a lot more about speedway than just that.

After all the changes in the last two years Ford had to get something right Nielsen when he is in the top five he will often only be getting three rides he will find it very hard in the top five.

Does it matter?.... who would your pick ? for me i would give Bewley his head now in the pairs and the WTC funny thing is you have not even commented on the Sheffield semi .!!!

I really thought after last season Chapman really needed to try and win the respect back from the Lynn supporters.The Lynn supporters dont seem to want and expect much just a bit of respect and people willing to listen to there queries.You cannot keep taking the p... out of the paying customer once they stop coming it is very hard to ever entice them back.

It will be interesting to see what the crowd is for the Monday Swindon v Rye House fixture .How many people apart from the die hards can afford two meetings in 5 days? i cannot remember many meetings at the Abbey being held on a Monday unless it was a Bank Holiday or Tv meeting.

Thanks Norbold i have the Anniversary meeting 1968 with Leonard and Briggs on the front and the 1967 meeting you talk about i need to get for my collection.I am missing 8 West Ham home programmes between 1967/70. Can you remember Bradshaw/ Nygren beating Briggo??? thanks again Norbold.

His team riding with Jake Allen seems to be going well this year.!!

Really pleased for Danny a really nice guy i was surprised Kyle Newman did not qualify he has a poor record in the WC has only qualified once as a reserve for a British Final.As for the Final it will be very interesting how the bookies price the event up i think Lambert will be favourite with Bewley and Cook next best in the betting.

Spot on Norbold Stan beat Briggo in heat 5 on 15/07/69 ( Briggs scored 14)and i was mistaken about Brian Leonard beating Briggo it was in 1970 that i was thinking of that was when Peter Bradshaw and Olle Nygren got a 5.1 over Barry. Norbold any chance you could look up on your West Ham programme collection as i have a few with Leonard leading Briggo on the front cover it was a 1968 programmme but just wondered if the picture was definitely that year.

I was exactly the same Steve, three races that always stuck in my mind over the years was Bob Paulson beating Ivan in heat 1 at Hyde Rd Rolf Gramstad beating Ivan at the Abbey,and Carl Blackbird beating and having a good record against Hans at Cowley.

Did Stanley Stevens bring the house down once did he beat Ivan ? Can remember reading Brian Leonard beating Briggo once.

Fair comment Baldy everyone are entitled to there own opinion, my take on it is how can the fans ever get an affinity with a rider and team when there are numerous changes every year.

Total crap Cook was put in positions that he has never been put in before ok he come second best but he would of learned an awful lot.Mark can you remember Tai in his maiden GP season????? he was p.... poor but he learned and got stronger learning as he went along.