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Why do they tell these porkie pies when it's so easy to check the truth? Flight EZY8268/U28268 from Copenhagen to Gatwick landed 9 minutes ago, and you can easily see all the other scheduled flights between the UK and Denmark as they take off and land.

Really? Where does it say it's not regionalised? Just says all 7 teams are involved, and they'll race opponents over a 4-man 6-heat format. Doesn't say whether the opponents are every other team in the entire league, or just every other team in the regionalised group.

Maybe he means he missed out on the great toilet roll hoarding craze? Perhaps that's why he's having to "wind it back in".

No. You thought it was near Buxton. So "wind your neck back in" (Whatever that's supposed to mean).

What's Buxton got to do with it? Buxton is in the East Midlands, not a million miles from Stoke (And why we haven't got the Stoke and Buxton promotions working together running a combined team from Buxton, I don't know. But that's a different story). He's talking about a training track for Lancashire. (Lancashire runs from the Lake District down to the north of Manchester). As for not going down well with Belle Vue, I think they'd welcome a facility to train up North West kids, as they seem to be the one Premier League side interested in youngsters. If I were thinking of a training track in Lancs, The first thing I'd do is contact Belle Vue to get their input and help.

Belle Vue National Stadium run the No Limits training days, but I've always thought the NSS track is too big to learn on. You need to learn to turn a bike somewhere very tight like Buxton, Scunny training track, or the old Sheffield training track. A training track in South Lancashire close to Manchester might prove complementary to the NSS

Kean's brother?

Erm., No. If you know nothing you can't know something. Knowing nothing and knowing something are complete opposites.

He's British, and has never ridden here under a foreign licence, so of course he gets 2.5% discount off his average.

I haven't seen it, hence my use of the word "apparently". They usually make the rulebook downloadable from the SCB site at the start of the year (it's not there yet) but I assume officials have a copy of the book, and I've been told the idea for handicap racing in the NT isn't in the book, and has been binned. We shall see when it goes online.

Is it true, the idea of handicap racing in the 2020 National Trophy has now been binned? Apparently not in the new rulebook.

It was a record for the Ben Fund. They called themselves "The Rivals". The record was called "Speedway" with a B-side called "Hoskins Still Rides" It was Bert Harkins, Graeme Stapleton, Peter Collins, Jim McMillan, John Louis, Scott Autrey, Dag Lovaas, Nigel Boocock, Terry Betts, Pete Smith, Martin Ashby, Malcolm Brown, George Hunter

Decent enough nickname. Royals doesn't sound too silly, and ties in to the Kings name. "Kent Royals" is OK. However if the team had been in Sussex, there might have been some objections from the very top!

I'm sure you'll always be welcome as a contributing member of the "BFS"

Newcastle's loss is the National League's gain.

I'm very sceptical that this proposed new Premiership Development League will even happen, and if it starts I doubt it will see the season out. People underestimate the amount of work voluteers running MDSL teams put in. (e.g. Carmarthen at Stoke the last few years). Organising to get 4 riders around the country, for no money, for every fixture takes considerable dedication, and I can't imagine Premiership promoters being willing to put in that level of work to make it happen. Will Ipswich be able to find 4 young kids to travel up to Belle Vue, for no money, on a Monday night? Will Sheffield be able to find 4 young kids to travel down to Swindon, for no money, on a Thursday night? The Premiership promoters will feel they have enough to worry about with the Belle Vue v Ipswich, and Swindon v Sheffield PL matches, without having to worry about finding riders for a 2nd half junior league. The second half leagues we've had with the MDL and MDSL over the past 10 years or so have produced numerous young British riders. We need these competitions if we are to develop young British talent, but I fear the BSPA "Bull in a China Shop" approach for 2020 is a huge mistake. Their killing of the MDSL will deprive kids of track time. Of course if the new league does succeed, then young British kids attached to the PL teams will have got good track time from 12 matches (6 home, 6 away). But will that happen??? Check back in October.

Strange choice of gif image for a contract signing. It's from The Simpsons. A contract signed by Apu and Manjula when they sell their 8 children to Eddie Munster and Zoo owner Larry Kidkill to become acts in a circus freakshow. They have to steal the babies back, and the contract ends up being fulfilled by Homer Simpson riding round on a clown's bike. Prophetic?

Why on earth would I want to create a website listing the titles of a hundred or so speedway books? But since you felt the need to start a topic about a list of speedway books, I'd have expected it to include a lot more of the huge number of well known and popular books, and not just a tiny selection, containing mostly the lesser ones. It just seems pointless.

A very random list of an obscure small fraction of the books published about Speedway. I have dozens if not hundreds of better speedway books not on that list.

What is a waste of money is paying a fortune to riders, and then giving them a terrible track to perform on. Better track preparation is putting money to better use.

Not sure how you "flatten" a bowl already sunken into the ground. However I would imagine the most profitable use for Odsal now is to use it for landfill to fill it up to ground level.

Don't think it's the IP address that's the problem. Think it's more likely that the stipulation will be that you have to pay with a credit card registered to a postcode more than 50 miles away. So you'd have to find someone elsewhere in the country to pay for you. Having said that, what's to stop one person buying it and then streaming it to everyone else? The football Premier League and BT/Sky etc spend millions tracking down and closing illegal streaming services, and still it's very easy to find an illegal stream of any football match you want. What resources are the Edinburgh promotion going to have available to trace illegal steams?

19-year-old motocrosser from Berwick. A Berwick asset and a mate of Leon Flint I believe.

Correct. It's a rule that was voted in at the AGM. Not a bad idea, and certainly better than the 31 July or 31 August transfer deadlines we've had previously. At the start of the season no team can kick a rider out until they've ridden 6 matches. At the end of the season once you've completed 18 matches you have to stick with your team for the last 6 matches and play-offs. This is much fairer as all teams are working to the same deadline. With a cut-off at a specific date (31 July or 31 August) teams have done uneven numbers of meetings at that date, so they can fiddle their way round the rules. Of course there will still be ways to fiddle, but lessthan with a set-date deadline.

8.25 It put him 9th in the country behind Woffinden, NKI, Ward, Hancock, Lindgren, Zagar, Bjerre and Andersen.