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But there has been no redeclaration so questionable relevance.

From Oxford programme 17.08.22 under my name: The arrival of the Edinburgh Monarchs at Sandy Lane reminds me of one of my most epic journeys in search of speedway action. The year 1983, my destination Powderhall greyhound stadium, one of my all time favourite speedway venues. Our great adventure took us to Edinburgh by train. Leaving Leicester at 8am, five of us travelled via Birmingham New Street to Edinburgh Waverley. Unfortunately as the journey progressed it became increasingly obvious that we were in for a wet day. On arriving in Scotland's capital we stopped at a 'greasy spoon'; Bob got a tin lid in his portion of baked beans - slightly disturbing! Having established that the meeting was indeed off we decided to trudge through the rain to Powderhall. On the way we bumped into a car of Leicester fans, and briefly retired to a pub. Continuing on to Powderhall we were rewarded with the sight of a back-straight under water and an invitation to the Monarchs Supporters Club post-match disco (which had been brought forward in the absence of a meeting). I remember being told by Brett Saunders that we were mad to travel all the way to Scotland for a challenge match. When a speedway rider says you are mad it's time to doubt your sanity! The overnight return trip was a noisy one as we shared the train with hordes of Scottish rugby fans heading towards Cardiff Arms Park for a five nations match (note: not the Principality Stadium for a six nations match). After spending the early hours of the morning on New Street station we finally arrived back in Leicester at 8am on Saturday. So at a cost of £14 (£28 for Tony who was too old for a young persons railcard) we had 'enjoyed' the pleasures of a Monarchs disco, an eventful journey and the camaraderie created by our shared experience It originally appeared on speedwayplus website over a decade ago.

Because speedway evolved, just like most sports. Can you say when baseball was invented? [Answer - it certainly wasn't at Cooperstown] Personally in the absence of doing the primary research it is largely a matter of evaluating the evidence and it's sources. For example people tend to under estimate how unreliable personal memory is, and over rely on something if it is printed in a nicely bound book with high production values. I go with 7 April 1928 because I trust Norman to have made these fine judgements.

Six rain-offs in a row!

Josh Auty was the last genuine 10 year man

But walks back to pits

Surely the 1968 expansion principally came about because speedway was then profitable and existing promoters wanted to open more tracks and make more money. Anything else was a coincidental by-product.

The one's that stopped Norway's Rune Holta riding for Poland

Covenant's tend to be unenforceable over time, and if still operative the cost of releasing them is trivial compared with the sums to be gained from developing a site.

I think people are overlooking the fact that we've had the best part of three weeks of almost daily rain and that the ground is sodden. That is ultimately more significant than whether we get 3 or 6mm of rain this evening. Conditions have not been conducive to drying out the track so with the best will in the world this has looked to be in doubt for some time. After all a day of blazing sun wasn't enough to save Redcar yesterday.

Light rain overnight (also a fair amount of rain on Sat night). Still raining now. Odd shower for most of today then light rain returning around 6pm

Berkshire to Redcar (via Manchester) for me. 660 miles, 11 hours drive round trip!

The customer is often wrong. It is just bad business practice to be caught acknowledging it.

And in case anyone else wants to read them here's the link http://www.scbgb.co.uk/download.php?view.10304

How did I miss that? But only since 6 March

Boughen, Perry and James to up their starting averages by 10 points between them, leaving Spencer and Foord as reserves on 5+ averages.

So here we are, March 17, two days after the season's notional start and still no sign of the 2023 rule book. Good to see the Speedway authorities getting their house in order.

It'll only need a couple of Ht 13/15 results along the lines of: Sayfutdinov, Bewley, Doyle or Sayfutdinov, Pedersen, Doyle to do that

We've all seen Heeps get round

A mere 36 seasons for Vetlanda! [1964-1999] Quite an achievement

I'd say the exact opposite. I'd much rather go to Birmingham v (say) Redcar - match that could go either way; than Poole v Berwick ( which looks like a home banker). As a rule home defeats are not good for business. While the Brummie team looks weak away, it might just be competitive at home.

Also Bo Jansson and Kenneth Nystrom. Then post 95 we had Jonas Davidsson, Anders Henriksson, Per Wester Plus a couple of near misses (e.g. Peter Karlsson)

1 Anders Michanek 2 Per Jonsson 3 Jan Andersson 4 Tony Olsson 5 Pierre Brannefors 6 Bengt Jansson ... anyone spotting a theme here?

Are Birmiingham not VAT registered?

But the frequency with which they change (and having different rules for different leagues) doesn't help.