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There's an e-mail address on the website https://classicspeedwayvideos.com/

And some simply realised that there was more to life than speedway [Ian Dury helpfully provided a list of popular alternatives]

And yet they ran twice a week (Tuesday and Wednesday) a couple of times last year and there is nothing to preclude moving their race night to Thursdays.

Great final race and a truly dominant performance from Cierniak. A good night's speedway that seemed unlikely after the near two hour delay.

Heeps is an odd one, he's up slightly but that hides a massive 2 point improvement at home and a 1 1/2 point drop away. Still a match winner at Berwick though in heats 7 & 8.

Not sure who you mean, but I'd guess someone like Ben Trigger (who won a meeting in Belgium last season), or Sam Hagon (who I saw in the Golden Ribbon at Pardubice last year). And I'd reiterate that they almost certainly benefitted from their experiences. What would improve matters would be a Championship set up that made it easier for the likes of Trigger and Hagon to step up from the NDL.

All tournaments are invented. Riding abroad broadens a rider's experience and is generally beneficial.

In number yes, but the intrepid visitors fro Plymouth a few weeks ago were making more noise than your lot were for most of the evening. But hey it's just one match and over the course of the season I'd still put my money on Poole to take the title. Three away wins in a fortnight, top of the league, victory over fiercest rivals - these are pretty much regular events for you guys at Poole but for Oxford's fans who didn't see a wheel turned in 15 long years it is a joyful thing of unimaginable proportion. Sometimes it isn't about you.

Not a chance, it'll either be food poisoning or kidnapped by aliens.

Although in a rematch Oxford would be at full strength (only 4 out of r/r last night)

For once I think you are wrong! Let's assume 3 teams (or even 4) are much better than the rest and equally good. Then team that comes top gets to meet 5th and 6th. Chances of reaching final 90%. Chances of winning final 50%. Overall chance of winning 45% Now for teams finishing 2nd and 3rd let's say chances of winning group are 40% (and for team 4, 20%). Then team finishing second in league only has 20% (40% x 50%) chance of winning title even though they only finished behind top team by a single race point So that single race point difference has reduced the second place team's chance of winning the league from 45% to 20%. That is a big difference

But the play-off system makes coming top very important. Whoever comes top only has to beat 5th and 6th place teams to get the final (assuming they make the logical choice), whereas the runners up end up in a 'group of death'. (So if Poole don't come top they would have to beat Glasgow and Redcar to get to the final)

And yet your captain won the toss and chose to take it I ht 1, thereby gifting gates 1 & 3 to the Cheetahs in heat 15.

And a heat leader for Grudziadz at that

I would award that title to Lewis Kerr tonight.

Beginning to show some promise at Somerset in 2019 then lost two years thanks to covid in 2020 and a broken leg (and I think a second injury later in the season when attempting a comeback) in 2021. That"s a lot of ground to make up. Very popular at Cowley, and interestingly, given the circumstances of his departure, much love shown for him at Plymouth the previous evening.

And I hardly think throwing about homophobic insults reflects well on you or the team you support.

Turns out it isn't. But you do have to go back quite a bit http://www.gbspeedway.com/2015/meeting.php?mc1=s&mc2=rc&mc3=pf&mc4=x&comp=ELb&meeting=1253

Not even his first this year. (10 April v Belle Vue)

Oh you cynic.

Well I sort of enjoyed Kelvin telling us about the exciting racing, just a shame it was never on screen.

Then Henry Atkins, paid 19 from two away matches in the last week is well up for it.

Hagon is three years older and has at least two years more experience. Boughen certainly has something, almost as good as Kyle Bickley was at the same age.

OK then name a rider aged 18 or under who is currently better. Despite him being only 16 there are only three riders in the under 19 final with higher averages, and all [the Thompsons and Mulford] are 19 this year.

I agree, but hey I was only standing next to you.