PotteringAround

In this week's Star John Campbell says he's confident this year's team "can surprise a few this year, and pick up some positive results" To make that claim he must surely know who the No.1 is, so why hasn't it been announced?

I think we all did. And didn't we have a wall chart where we could fill in the world cup results and write the teams into the next round? But Spain 1982 was 40 years ago. We had 3 TV channels.... No internet..... No mobile phones.... No ipads.... No computers. Once again Speedway is trying to live 40 years in the past.

Dragging the sport kicking and screaming into the 1970s

You're probably best asking Mattie Bates if you want to know about his grandad.

Maybe there's a virus on your computer? First you leak your private photos and mucky Cheryl thoughts on twitter.... And then an identical post has appeared on here from you 5 times in a row. (But no doubt you'll deny doing it).

To be honest, I'd be disappointed. I've always preferred Nadine Coyle to Cheryl.

He'll be starting one of those threads: "Does anyone remember Doris Sidebottom, the New Cross Start Tart of 1946?" Before returning an hour later to provide all the juicy details.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks

It's getting more suspicious

I bet Cheryl Cole hasn't forgotten it.

This seems to be a clue to the account owner. Does anyone recognise this dodgy-looking, Cheryl-obsessed stalker? https://mobile.twitter.com/gustixspeedyguy/status/814646902256009216

The problem is, neither have you.

There are some details of Leicester Super on this little-known, obscure, and badly-written website https://national-speedway-museum.co.uk/leicester super.html

What about Leicester Super? Wasn't that about 100 yards longer than Crewe?

Was that the poster advert for Lucozade? Seen mainly pasted on bus shelters?

If we're thinking of the same advert, I definitely remember a Mars advert ( I think late 70s), involving speedway. I think there was a series of adverts on the "work, rest and play" theme, showing someone doing their day job and then enjoying some kind of sport in the evening. All I can remember of the speedway one was the bloke stood on the terraces eating a Mars bar as the bikes raced into the first turn, and he says "I hope Pete wins tonight".

They actually haven't changed any rule about nomad clubs. It's always been the case that someone trying to bring back a defunct club can run in the junior leagues as a nomad club, and it still is. However in the past the SCB didn't really make any enquiries as to what attempts are being made to bring a club back. So if you just said "I'm trying to bring back Harringay", they'd probably let you run a junior league team. In the last few years they've tightened up the checks. So now if you say I'm trying to bring back Harringay and want to run a team in the Southern Development league, the SCB would be asking where the land in Harringay for this new track is. If you've got a genuine plan to have a new track in place in the next year or two, they'll let you run a nomad team in the meantime. Their reasoning is that they are getting rid of people on "an ego trip" who want to just "play at managing a speedway team", but have no real ambition to actually bring that club back.

No. But Plymouth have broken the embargo and released their fixtures before the official release

You'll see your pair in 5 of the 15 heats. In the old BLRC you only saw your rider in 5 of the 20 heats. But they still packed 25,000 into Hyde Road to see the 16 best riders in the league. With only 6 Premiership teams, you can hardly have a 6 rider BLRC. This is the best way to have the best riders in the league all in a meeting together. If they get it right and make sure every team sends their top 2 to every round, it could be a success... but there's always that word "IF". Really they should be launching this as a big series and have a big headline sponsor. I hope they get it right because it could be very good... but equally, they could get it very wrong.

I'm sure Speedway will always bounce back. It's a bit like a petulant troll having a strop, hiding all its posts, and quitting forever... only to reappear a week later.

First I didn't say it was twitter. Second, my post on 9 January said the rumours that Woffinden was coming to Belle Vue were wrong. I've consistently said this right up to and including today. Never contradicted anything. However people who fell for the wind-up weeks ago, and were still falling for it today, do seem to be changing their minds and contradicting themselves now.

You continually tweeting he's coming to Belle Vue doesn't mean it was correct, and it won't change the fact that he isn't. Woffinden told Belle Vue at the SON that he'd like to come to the NSS, and it's the only track in Britain he'd ride for. At the same time, Robert Lambert also said he'd like to ride for Belle Vue. Lambert was never an option with Poland & Sweden in the offing, but they did have a brief chat with Woffy at the SON. At that time Oxford were thinking of going Premiership and were sniffing round a few possible No.1s including Max Fricke.... Within a week of the SON, it was clear that Woffy wasn't logistically possible, and Belle Vue quickly signed Fricke by the Peter Craven meeting the following week.

Told you all on Jan 9th the Woffinden thing was a cheeky wind-up. It still is.

Can't imagine Mulford wanting to make a 800 mile roundtrip to a weekend track, when he could be cleaning up in the local weekend grasstrack meetings.

Have Edinburgh forgotten that they have an NDL team? Danny Phillips, Tom Woolley and George Rothery haven't been signed anywhere else, so it seems a near certainly that they're back. Would expect the Millars back too, so why can't they name those 5? They need a heat leader, and Willie Lawson would fit the bill. Alternatively maybe Benji Compton? Either of those would leave room for a sub 5.00-pointer like Josh Embleton. What's taking so long?