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I took part in a postal game circa 1990 run by Edinburghs most eccentric supporter Geoff Chandler who ran meetings on a ZX computer and published a fanzine with results every fortnight. Crazy times!

Far more remunerative more likely !

Details of White City and Motherwell short seasons can be found at White City 1956 - https://scotopen.tripod.com/white-city-1956.html Motherwell 1958 - https://scotopen.tripod.com/motherwell-1958.html

We've gone for a strong top three and our reserves may well be among the highest average pairing in the league coming in at just under 7. This squeezes the second strings leaving very little to play with. It may well prove to have been a mistake going heavy on the top three - after all only two are needed for heat 15. Bailey in place of Flint would have left more for the second strings and given us a better balanced side. Bailey may well outscore Flint next year too!

Something I found in my files - a graph of senior teams over the last forty years. While my projection looks pessimistic given Oxford and Workington coming back, the trend is still downward.

And 1969?

Thanks Salty. Cradley United kept the Tigers, then of Coatbridge, off the bottom of the league, and provided us with what would turn out to be our last ever away win in the BL as we dropped down to the second tier for the following season. They were also our opponents on the one and only night Eton Muller rode for us at Coatbridge, so I have fond memories of your times as United.

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A great night at Old Meadowbank ! However Dennis Law was less than happy at the "keepy up" as he felt off would have been better to bang in a few more goals - think he was right.

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If you'd been at Edinburgh' s Old Meadowbank the previous year you would have got an appreciation of how good they were and how good their bikes were. July 31, 1966, not a great day in Scotland on a number of sporting fronts!

Thanks again Chunky. When I managed to read the programme for the meeting which was on the link BL65 posted, it seems it was a 10 heat individual with all riders getting 5 starts and that the pairs totals were totted up at the end. Possibly all meetings were run on this basis.

Thanks Chunky. I had the scorers for the meeting on June 19 but wasn't aware it was a pairs event. Interesting that my scorers show Sharples 13 and Robinson 8, suggesting they had five rides. Not sure what format was used . I have scorers for further meetings on June 22 , 26 and 29 but I have no idea at which track and whether they were pairs or individual meetings.

Anyone remember anything about Mike Parkers venture to the Italian Riviera. Mainly Newcastle second halfers who were out for three or four weeks and had to grade the track, act as pushers and starting marshal and also drive his midget cars. Around the time of the football World Cup in England so possibly not too many Brit holiday makers about at this time. Two tracks one at Rimini and the other at Casenaliga (?). Some suggestion of a further tour in September but dont think it happened.

Don't Lee and Ace get a discount?

Has it? While I don't doubt it will, it surely needs to be done/ratified at the forthcoming AGM.

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Don't Brits who are riding for Polish clubs have to go to the Friday practices too? Should we be trying to avoid riders who ride in Poland and go for Chris Harris and Claus Vissing etc.

Is Friday a problem for riders with Polish commitments, particularly when a restaging is required. Does this explain why it took so long to rearrange the rained off Glasgow v Oxford meeting

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Neil Middleditch classy as always.

Let's hope they all allow more time for their journey. Trains between London and Glasgow were only going as far as Preston yesterday. Numerous local suburban stations were flooded .

Seem to remember him writing in the programme, probably a couple of years ago, that he didn't make a change because he would have been criticised if it didn't work. Surely thats what the team managers job is all about. Update : it was the meeting v Scunthorpe June 2022, defending his decision not to replace Danyon Hume with Broc Nicol.

Didn't Glasgow do their best to ensure you won the meeting. Reid and McKinna both got excluded in the final heat - tapes and 2 minutes but Dixon fell and the Bears lost the meeting and the title. Turning point was probably in heat 11 when Geoff Powell knocked Jim Burdfield off when passing him. Was impressed with Burdfields restraint when protesting the decision in what would prove to be my last night in the box. Glasgow didn't want Ellesmere to win the title after they got the league points awarded on some technicality - track staff stopping a race rather than the referee or something like that!

Stop being so touchy