21st century heathen

They'll come good on the temp. tracks. ...and Crump will win as soon as I make someone else captain.

Wish I could sack the lot of them and start again!!

I'll be using it again. Very good, and thank you.

No change for me. I'll give Crump another chance as captain. Cheers Bert.

Admittedly I've only speed read the thread but I didn't see Cradley & Stoke Heathens 1996.

I'll definitely stick around to watch.

So you think you can inspire Gollob to take an interest in Cardiff, Copenhagen and Gelsenkirchen then? Lets hope for more performances like the one he gave in Prague last year. Even your favourite rider could have beaten him in Prague, and I don't mean Matt Davis.

It's not often I genuinely laugh out loud at a monitor, but that was one of them. I assume you meant twit?!! I suspect we'll be hearing from our Kitten a fair bit over the next few weeks. Enjoy it while it lasts mate because once we get to the temporary tracks it'll be a different story.

Personally, I genuinely believe he's the rider I see overtaken more often than any other rider. I'm not quite sad enough to keep a count, but at Monmore and Brandon I've seen him passed time and time again. In the GPs he's regularly beaten after making good starts. Having said that I will add that he was superb at Brandon a couple of weeks ago, but even then he allowed the very poor Simon Stead up the inside and had to re-pass him. I've no doubt he'll improve on that performance too. It was very poor, for whatever reason. *edit* grammar

Paying the price for backing the Brits already. Oh well, at least I didn't take a chance on Bjarne Pedersen.

Have you bothered to work out which points were won from the gate, and which from the back? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cracking racing up to the rain spoiling it. At least I got one of predictions right. B. Pedersen to be passed more than any other rider. The Brits need to learn to gate. On the pace but always chasing. Impressed by Gollob (although the gates suited him after the rain), Dryml and PUK. Adams the worst on the night as one expects rather more than that. I expect AJ and Hans to build on this and be strong all season.

Go to the GP section. Several have been posted there.

I think Crump will win it after a tight battle. N. Pedersen has a few things that may go against him in my opinion. It will be difficult to replicate the achievements of last season meaning he scores less. Crump will surely be better meaning he will be a lot closer to Pedersen. Andersen and Jonsson are ready to take the next step if they stay fit, and therefore could take points off him that they haven't previously. I also think Nicholls and Harris will be score more consistently. I expect Hancock, Holta and Gollob to slip away, and I think Adams has seen his best chance come and go. I don't think he'll do quite so well as AJ and Andersen steal points from him too. KK and Lindgren will have their moments and are possible finalists on home shale. Lindgren hasn't started the season too well, so I'm not expecting this weekend to be a highlight for him. PUK has been superb so far for Wolves and may surprise a few while he's riding on confidence. A potential good result here and there for him. Dryml will, largely, make up the numbers. That leaves just B. Pedersen (I think). He'll be overtaken more times than any other rider and end up somewhere in the mid-field.

Love this photo. ------------------------------------- Crump Adams Pedersen Nicholls

Well, this all started to mean too much as I devised various analyses. Potential improvement or even the decline of certain riders. Points potential at certain tracks, and points to cost ratio. In the end I my gut instinct gave me the same line-up twice so I'm going with that. Jason Crump © $50 Hans Andersen $40 Andreas Jonsson $40 Scott Nicholls $35 Chris Harris $35

If I only spend $100k can I have the other $100k back in cash? Good on ya for running this Bert. I'll get back to you with my team when I've crunched the numbers.

Hi Kev. There's plenty of info on him on the Cradley website. I can't copy it across as the site is copyright protected. Go to the main page, link on the left 'Riders A-Z'. He's listed under his real name. In brief it says he was born in Cardiff. He retired after the '74 season with Cradley. He now lives in Australia, and works as a school teacher. There is some more career info on there as well.

And he won the Intercontinental that never was. I can't believe I didn't think of him for this thread. We were talking about him a couple of weeks ago.

I'll do it with you Nikki... as long as you can promise to make it quick and easy. *edit* spacing

It's certainly a factor, but I would have thought that as a relatively expensive trip it would be one most people would be prepared to pay. Particularly as a one-off trip (rather than a repeat trip such as Cardiff or Prague). A GP in Russia is something that would interest me. I doubt anything else would ever tempt me to go there. Mostly because there are lots of places I'd like to go to for a variety of reasons, all of which 'out-rank' the reasons for going to Russia. I could do a couple of trips for the cost of going to Russia under any other circumstance than going to see speedway.

Jan O. Pedersen. I believe he was given 'the nod' to race again, but chose not to. He started '92 in superb form, but was injured in May. I remember reading that years later CVS saw Jan ride in Denmark in some sort of testimonial or demonstration race. He was, reportedly, so impressed by the way he (Jan O) rode that he was close to trying to tempt him over to cover for an injury crisis Wolves were facing. Whether or not he could have been world champion again is open to debate, but I'm sure we'll all agree that the league was robbed of one of its all-time great racers.

Must be 20/25 min on the tram so surely more than 40 mins walking?

The Halesowen News have launched a new poll. Would you like to see speedway up and running on land off Oldnall Road, Cradley? Please visit the link and vote 'yes'. http://www.halesowennews.co.uk/news/ The poll is on the 'editors choice' box in the middle of the page. Currenty 93.8% say yes.

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B0!!0X Can't do Prague. Date clash with someone at work that already has time booked off. Might just get a new job though. Ahhh good that includes us then. UKGBNI.