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AGM Agenda 1. Apologies 2. Minutes of last meeting 3. Assessed averages for foreign deckchairs 4. Relocating of deckchairs 5. Allocation of lifeboats 6. Abandon ship

Yes there is an agenda that is currently circulating. By an large agenda's aren't particularly revealing so even if we could see it I doubt we'd feel much better informed.

'Beg, Steal or Borrow' rather apt anthem for speedway promoters. PS Lynn Paul's sister was in my class at school!

2002 - Pat Bliss was Reading's away team manager (Nick Dyer did the home matches)

Last night's Glasgow v Sheffield match was one of the most gripping matches of the season - and I was 'only' experiencing it via the updates. That should remind us all how great the service is.

Possibly the week's least unexpected news.

Agreed, but I think the other key principle is to maximise the average of your nos. 1,2 & 6 as they are the riders who get extra rides. So with a 42.50 limit the optimum lineup is something like: 9.00, 8.50, 6.00, 5.50, 5.50, 5.00, 3.00. Then just find the riders on bargain averages (oh and the money to pay for them!)

Would the answer to miadfa8's question be BSI? Would be interesting to know figures for Go speed too.

Monetary policy is not the responsibility of the Chancellor, it rests with the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee. http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetarypolicy/Pages/qe/qe_faqs.aspx

Can't see anything in the regulations to that effect

Not always. Kenny Bjerre being the most obvious recent example

Fairly sure Ben Shields rode on Swedish licence, not sure about Adam.

A 1984 Reading programme has a Rivets fixtures list which gives 3 July for Weymouth v Reading. If so then it would have been the second half of the Weymouth v Stoke meeting. I'm now looking out for the programme for that meeting to see if that hypothesis is correct.

Somebody did: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80529 oh! It was me!

According to the highly unreliable metric of facebook followers: https://www.facebook.com/481042952054722/photos/a.481042995388051.1073741826.481042952054722/672086182950397/?type=3&theater Hardly surprising the top 12 are all Polish, although how the no 13 team gets a polish flag beside it's name I don't know. Top 7 1 Zielona Gora 2 Stal Gorzow 3 Unia Leszno 4 Torun 5 Czestochowa (top team not in Polish Extraliga) 6 Unia Tarnow 7 Sparta Wroclaw Top GB Teams 13 Poole 15 Glasgow 16 Belle Vue 17 Wolves 23 Leicester 26 Hull (!!) 27 Newcastle 29 Lakeside 31 King's Lynn 34 Peterborough (Lowest EL track Swindon @ 61; Top NL track Cradley @ no 70) Top 5 Other Nations 20 Lonigo 24 Ventura (looks suspicious as this track only stages a handful of meetings) 25 Vetlanda 28 Dackarna 30 Fast Fridays (Auburn) Top 5 Southern Hemisphere 57 Canterbury (NZ|) 58 Pinjar Park (Aus) 74 Oreti Park (NZ) 83 Bellocq (Arg) 85 Mildura (Aus)

Yes - because it has happened before. Bernt Persson and Bengt Jansson both abandoned their teams mid season when the pound collapsed in 1976.

He's not without a team. He rides for King's Lynn (ocassionally). Most importantly, he is in their named 7.

Champion still going https://www.speedwaybikes.com/res2016_e/Champion-160904.htm But no sign of Tuff since 2014

Woryna? Wozniak surely?

Paul Starke is fourth in the Leicester averages and that after riding in the top five for most of the year. He was competitive in the British Final so hardly out of place in this field.

Presumably because he is in King's Lynn's named seven.

Happy to oblige: Memorial Rinat Mardanshin Oktyabrsky, September 24, 2016 1. Ilya Chalov (Balakovo) (3 3 3 2 3) 14 2. Renat Gafurov (Togliatti) (3 3 2 3 2) 13 3. Kirill Tsukanov (Balakovo) 3 1 3 0 3) 10 4. Mikhail Litvinov (Togliatti) (2 2 2 1 3) 10 5. Oleg Beschastnov (Balakovo) (2 2 1 2 3) 10 6. Alexei Guzaev (Oktyabrsky) (1 3 2 3 0) 9 7. Marat Gatiyatov (Oktyabrsky) (1 3 1 1 2) 8 8. Ivan Bolshakov (Togliatti) (0 2 3 0 2) 7 9. Arslan Fayzulin (Oktyabrsky) (r 2 1 3 1) 7 10. Vladimir Morozov (Balakovo) (1 1 1 3 1) 7 11. Sergey Darkin (Togliatti) (fx 1 2 2 2) 7 12. Vyacheslav Monakhov (Togliatti) (2 0 3 1 fx) 6 13. Semen Zuev (Togliatti) (3 0 0 2 0) 5 14. Maksim Sosnov (Balakovo) (1 2 0 0 0) 3 15. Alexander Khasanov (Oktyabrsky) (0 1 1 1 fx) 3 16. Nikita Zubarev (Oktyabrsky) (fx 0 0 1 0) 1

Wuffy started his career at Pinjar Park so Rye House and Wolverhampton were big tracks to him!

Dates back to the introduction of speedway in the UK. The sport arrived from Australia in 1928, the same time as greyhound racing from the USA. As a result 80-90% of speedway tracks were shared use with greyhounds and they often took the Saturday slot (Sunday's were not available due to religious based restrictions on commercial activity).

Brilliant finish from Fricke there