RobMcCaffery

Quest is wide open - showing a complete run of 'Salvage Hunters' all day. That could just be a 'fix' for UK viewers since I'm unsure if Quest is carried in other European nations.

Eurosport have two live events tomorrow afternoon so TV coverage might have to wait for the evening slot allocated to highlights of the event plus last week's SEC. The Polish version of the ELRC is also scheduled for tomorrow so that's going to be affected.

Always a great guy to interview. A fine rider gone far too soon.

Or maybe Ron was trying to reverse the ruin that Silver lefyt behind then? Ron's only fault was to keep trying. A decent genuine guy who really does not deserve what he gets on here. I've known plenty of reptiles and idiots in the sport and he certainly wasn't one.

Please please please can people keep their politics to themselves in a sports forum!

Wonderful to get away from the stresses of the EL desperately trying to find a way to survive and to see riders for whom riding for their teams mattered rather than it being just a way to make some extra cash or putting in a few 'skids' before heading abroad for the real money, to use their best bikes and put in some real effort. Some like names, I like speedway and that was an excellent example of speedway as it should be with only the exceptional circumstance of Simon Stead being blocked from riding by the SWC preventing both teams turning-up in full. No compromises, no contrived formula seeding or protecting riders out of their depth, just team speedway as it should be and something that those fools who think only the top riders are worth turning up for are denying themselves from seeing. It's their loss and if they think people respect them or are in awe of them for that silly stance they're deluded. As for the fool trying to insult the PL by wittering on about empty terraces closed due to the death of 96 people just up the road, sometimes words just cannot convey enough contempt. Relieved to hear both riders aren't as badly hurt as was feared.

Looking forward to my second meeting at the EWR, if only to listen-in on Rob Godfrey's conversation with the referee ;-) "If Jim says it's am unsatisfactory start, it's an unsatisfactory start...." No shorts - I can be cruel but never inhumane.

It will always be Rayleigh, not the finest track, not the finest stadium, but it was home and still badly missed 40 years on.

Post removed due to unacceptable behaviour on another thread Why should I try to help people here given what you get in return?. Sorry folks but I won't be pushed around. Totally disillusioned with this forum where the idiots are protected.

As ever the voice of reason Paulco. Damn - I was planning to visit Armadale in May - thank goodness only a couple of Monarchs know me these days ;-) It would have been so very different if King's Lynn hadn't moved in the opposite direction - and you don't have Hackney to embarrass these days ;-) Surely you could have a good row with Rye House....

Thousands of supporters enjoy PL racing every year. It takes more than names to make a race.

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Fair and reasoned points but In disagree regarding jealousy - that's just a lame 'cover all' excuse by the irritations. Of course any success attracts a some jealousy but, like the other points covered it is a matter of degree. Yes, all of the criticisms of Poole could be levied against other promotions through the years but never to this degree. The events at Swindon and Belle Vue blatantly defrauded the public and it incenses me to see people make mealy-mouthed excuses for both, or resorting to the thuggish defence of 'prove it'. The quoted examples of manipulation were minor compared to multiple 'engine failures'. We all have seen 4-2s turn into 3-3s to prevent the opposition using a tactical in the next race for example. It's a heck of a difference between that and riders repeatedly pulling out of races due to 'engine failures'. If I'd been at the Abbey that night I'd have demanded a refund - and not from the home promotion. Belle Vue had no control of that league meeting - they had lost that by their own lame attempt at manipulation earlier in the season in calling the original match off. I find it beyond credibility that the disgrace at Belle Vue would have happened had Poole not needed their three points. Whether Poole were directly involved or not the way in which that farce was prolonged just long enough for them to get what they wanted was deplorable. People paid good money to watch that meeting. What about the paying public? I'd have said a call to Trading Standards wasn't far short of the mark. I have never seen such a concentration of questionable behaviour at one track/promotion. Of course little can be proved, even if people were brave enough to want to, given the backlash it could create for the sport as a whole, but the 'aroma' is pretty pervasive. Yes we've always had questionable situations but never such a concentration. To have these idiots gloating as if they're some kind of superior form of life is disgusting. I despise sneering and I despise gloating. Now, respecting the fact that this is a Somerset thread I am dismayed to see one of the irritants stupidly spreading this malaise into the Premier League which while having had its share of skullduggery and unpleasantness over the years has always managed to rise above it. I don't like to see it spreading to a league which in its various forms since I first met it as British League Division II on 1971 has given me such joy over the years. We don't need it and a decent set-up like Somerset certainly doesn't. It's a shame that certain Poole elements have attached themselves to it. I expect it will only be while the Rebels are winning however.

Given Starman's normal level of postings it's very unlikely. As for the 'water off a duck's back' cliche (couldn't they come up with something original just for once?), where there's no sense you don't expect sensitivity.... It's a bit much expecting them to understand, to be honest. It's just sad the poison's being spread to a lovely set-up like Somerset.

Over the years I have seen many teams rise to dominance in the sport, Belle Vue, Ipswich, Coventry, Cradley Heath, and others. I have never known such dislike shown to them as that shown to Poole. It's notv about the winning - someone has to, but it's the way in which that success ha\s been achieved. I'm not jealous of a team involved in the farcical match at Swindon when Poole blatantly threw races to keep their averages down. I'm certainly not jealous of a team involved in the disgrace at Belle Vue last year. I'm not jealous of the constant manipulation and constant protestations of innocence. I'm not jealous of a team whose previous good name is regularly dragged through the mud by the stupidity of two of its supporters. I'm certainly not jealous of idiots who jeer and snipe at others about how successful they are and how everybody hates them because they're jealous. No the word isn't jealousy, it's pity, It's such a shame that one is now importing his ignorance into the Premier League and poisoning a rather enjoyable level of speedway. Hopefully if the wins disappear so will he. It really isn't fair on a great club like Somerset that this individual should attach himself to it.

We haven't had an empire for half a century. We do however still run far more speedway meetings a year than any country on Earth. Sorry to interrupt your rant with a fact, but there you go.

Sadly Jamie was carrying a head injury from his time at Ipswich, the effects of which weren't recognised until quite some time after. So many careers have been halted not just by the injury itself but by the after-effects, physical and mental. After making a packet buying and selling cars he's now into professionally photographing gorgeous women. "Oh where did it all go wrong Mr.Luckhurst??"

Most reasonably intelligent people, if interested in finding books on Ipswich Speedway would look on a bookseller's website - there's a really good one called Amazon. Alternatively they would look on Google. Instead you lazily asked others to do the work for you. Are you surprised at the reaction? Now, clearly you're not 'special needs', just another lazy, foul-mouthed idiot. I'm afraid we've already got our quota filled so you'll haver to apply elsewhere.

There are in fact two types of people: 1-Those who divide people into two types 2-Those who don't.

Well, I'm quite fond of Europe, especially the pointy bits.

Didn't say SA was excluded from the Commonwealth for being a republic - it was for being an oppressive rogue state practising institutionalised racism.... Where would you prefer it to be?

I have no problem with Europeans Ian - had less problems over the years than with Aussies to be honest. Europe's a big place and a lot of people. I need to know a few million more before I can get a representative sample to make a proper judgement though. I do prefer to judge people as individuals, even those from Dorset. Can we stick to speedway please? There's nothing more likely to poison a good discussion than politics (and religion - but let's not drag Rayleigh Rockets into the conversation....)

Re-admitted after the fall of the white minority government and apartheid.

They'll be wearing numbers and helmet colours if that's a help.....

Wash your mouth out