The Doctor...

Oh here we go again - Rob you DID NOT race a speedway bike, you pootled around - you would have been better off focussing your efforts on something to make a career of. Clearly you've not got a lot of your plate these days with all the posts you make on here.

Steve Brandon is from New Zealand so why is that a disgrace ?

Exactly - bit a daft thing to do, but nowadays can you really ever avoid a result of something big ?

Happens on many different programmes tho so hardly new is it ? Not quite sure i could watch a cup semi in full after the event either, but each to their own.

Mentioned several times since he started waffling about it about 6 months ago.

Irrelevant i imagine. The comment was aimed at Rob who is now trying to sidetrack. Quite why you're piping up now on his behalf is a little bizarre even for you. Either you've served yet another ban, or your mental health section has expired meaning you're allowed back on a computer. Either way, stop trolling.

I was never interested in the slightest in riding, so your comment is rather pointless there. I'm no keyboard warrior Rob, i'd be quite happy to discuss this in person if this thread drags on until the time i hopefully pop up to Coventry for the last time. You've avoided an answer again anyway by the way, but you obviously know that...

What is your "fair share" then 2 point wonder ?? So how much have you given ? I trust you'll answer the same question you asked of others. Looking back at your results on track you probably owe us all something for having to put up with you sliding off on every bend and make us late home.

Exactly. I'm sure Rob will confirm his greatest scalp, but thinking back to those days, i would imagine his win, if he even had any, would have been maybe in a race that ended with 2 finishers or less...and to be honest, i imagine his opponent would have been pushing his bike home aswell. Anyway, no doubt Rob will educate us all soon enough.

Rob, you barely qualify as being referred to as a "rider" anyway surely ? 10 meetings, over 4 years with an average that even Justin Elkins would have laughed at does not make you some kind of font of knowledge about all things racing... How many did you actually win Rob ? I'm guessing looking at your average, perhaps one ? Coventry junior when they had 6 race meetings. One proper meeting. Then was a joke for Sheffield. Now changing tyres for kwik fit or someone in Nuneaton or the like.. In Ipswich terms, he made Craig Hyde look like Tomasz Gollob

Can i ask what your career average was in speedway Robert ?

Sorry that's simply not true, at least in the top flight - a good friend of mine had a career in the premier league, playing for my team Arsenal among others in the top flight and he most certainly does NOT get in free in the normal sense at any of his clubs. If he's requested by the club to do some corporate, ex player / commentary stuff he of course gets in free, but ad-hoc, he most certainly does not. Same happens all round the country. Anyway, off to work..

As has already been pointed out, you are more than a little wrong there. By your deductions, who on earth did you think was second ?

My first meeting was Reading Kings Lynn in the Gold Cup - have the programme somewhere but cant remember much about Lorams score - think i remember the red leathers tho..

Todd was far and away my favourite rider over the years - he was Readings new reserve on my very first trip to speedway and he had absolutely storming meetings literally from the word go at Smallmead. I would agree in some part about the Oxford years tho as i spent many nights up there watching him no doubt along with you - but then that was the time post serious injury, which in my eyes, was a slightly different Todd than the early 90s on. A very no risks model of the original i would say.. He did have a fair bit more bite in the early years tho i think, which just disappeared after he came back from the injuries. Sadly i'd say that his memories to a lot of fans would have been the less action packed Todd in his latter years where he was often passed by more risk taking riders, almost content to get through the meeting unscathed. But for me, he was an absolute hero and even now is still my favourite rider over the years. It was an absolute pleasure watching him. Just up after a nightshift, and i'd love to type more but i'm knackered - anyway, cheers..

Exactly.. and its not like we're giving his home address out or anything are we ? He has boasted about how his comments on the bsf should be taken with some kind of gravitas because he was a rider, but in real terms, he was a poor mans Ben Shields.

I know i'm being lazy by not googling this, but how easy it to get to the track from the station ? I fancy a trip up there this season some time.. Cheers Tom

Maybe so, but more to the point, can those of us who watched you attempt to ride, ever forget how utter utter dog.shiite you were at the sport we all love ?

That's SCB's site he made.. Cracking site

Poorly written, with a picture of what looks like Alan Whicker, and another pic where you are peering beady eyed thru a camera looking like someone who could be on a special register.

What has Steve's riding career got to do with this ? And frankly, having another re-hashing of your cv is utterly irrelevant yet again. You seem to always speak as if we should coo at what you've supposedly done in your career - you do realise that its not that good don't you ? No wonder so many people across the speedway world consider you a buffoon.

Excuse me ? That was a genuine response. If you read my earlier post i'm from near Winkfield hence my asking Arnie for more info.

Blimey, never knew any of that.

Morning Arnie.. Winkfield as in Winkfield Row ? I'm from Wokingham and never knew there was anything over in Winkfield. I personally would like to be back at a couple of meetings - Reading - on any race night, no matter how crappy the opposition. Poole - v Cradley, i think was maybe late 90s or 91 - Jason Crump was pootling around in the second half as a junior and was terrible. I was with my late Dad and we had a cracking night. New Cross in the late 40s would have been nice aswell. Screw the racing, finding Gustix and giving him a good hiding would have been a nice night out.

Good work Wackie.. What has happened on the Carmarthen front this week shows what can be done about the first footsteps in getting speedway back to Reading.