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Only THREE available Tuesdays (as the Olympique is on Tues. 16th.) And those three Tuesdays, of course, includes the 30th. October...: the penultimate day of the season and pushing the deadline to almost the limit... Well of course it has indeed been rained off. As posted yesterday coz both legs of the other P/O semi aren't now 'til next Tues. & Weds, the IoW second leg being now on the 9th. too hasn't in truth affected much the progress of the P/Os...

Yes, just seen Stoke play-off semi called off already... Always think it's odd when meetings get callkd off a whole day before they're due... The weather really ISN'T that predictable unless there was some other reason...: technical failure at the stadium or something. Wonder if this affects things that much in terms of progressing of the P/Os though, as the second leg (now first leg again!!) is at Monmore Green next Tuesday with the Loomer Rd. leg on the day after. So actually in real terms, the end of the semi is only one day later than it would've been. The issue is, though, IF Dudley stick to Tuesdays can't see how they can stage their (likely) leg of the Final before Oct. 30th..

Do you know wot - I've messed up which Greenwood is which all season!!!! Wouldn't mind but I've met Oliver several times (he's a terrific lad..) so you'd think I might be able to get it right!!! It's a real case on my part of not being able to see the Greenewoods for the trees!!!

He won't need special dispensation. Robert's dob is 5th April 1998 so he'll very handily be 15 as the 2013 NL season starts! What he won't be able to do though, is to ride in any higher division 'til 2014...

£1.50 for an 8 page prog sounds fine to me..! Well done to Oliver Greenwood. Oli's been a splendid rider in the Junior/Development Leagues this year... Wasn't really aware tht his namesake Daniel was competing much at this level - thought he'd moved onwards and upwards really but suppose that early season injury meant he took the DL route to getting back on track..

Are there people in Speedway who hate someone for being Australian..? I've certainly never encountered such a sentiment..!

I fundamentally disagree with your sarcasm. Back in 1975 a 16 year old went (after a handful of NNL meetings with Boston) into a top division side, King's Lynn. Within two years he was in a run off for third place in a World Final. It was Michael Lee of course... The mistake we've made in recent years (over the GP era in effect) is to hold back the ambitions of young British riders... If they're good enough; they're old enough.. And there's a strong argument to show that youngsters don't feel the pressure they do when a bit older...

No not the same thing - well certainly not in Mauger's day... Then we had a proper World Championship where young riders could break through and challenge (egs being of course Peter Collins and Michael Lee). Funny enough this year finally we have a final GP with it all up for grabs, though in this case the old WF atmosphere is just really shared by two (at a stretch three...) riders... But, still, an improvement on recent non-events. Let's see Chris win it and then have to tackle Darcy next year!

I've really got no idea what you mean.. Do you mean because he has a PERSONALITY and a laid back one at that, that this somehow means you (and others) shouldn't like him... Speedway is at a crossroads..: well the 'world championship' part of it... I'm astonished that so many want the old guard to just keep going for ever... The sport needs to move on and to me there's no contest. Holder wins and at last, at long last, the SGP can move on; one of Pedersen or Hancock wins, well then the last in the stadium best turn off the lights!

Of course and that was entirely correct. But someone then seems to have forgotten that when the double's not done the Shield is to be contested between the league champs (play off winners) and the KOC winners...!!

Well, I believe Dudley's original position in the 2011 Shield was as the 'next best team' of '10 when Buxton did the League & Cup Double (gosh, hard to believe the Hirtmen won the double that recently!!); so it seems weird to me that for the '12 comp it wasn't the Saints vs. the FTs. Don't tell me our beloved co-ordinator got a bit confused again..?!

prog is being officially re-printed so you don't need to...

My first season there was '69/'70...: won't have been 70p coz - blimey - it was pre-decimalisation!! I paid over £60 a couple of seasons back for the Arsenal Chelsea game (well 60 times 2 coz took the wife) and we lost 1-4...! Being more careful nowadays!!

Yes many thanks. Thought that was gonna be the answer though have to say a rather weird way of doing things... Normally these kind of comps are between winners of league and cup but there you go...!! Thanx again.

Quick question... This year back in April, the National Shield was contested between Mildenhall & Dudley... Mildenhall were in it, I assume, as 2011 KOC winners but why was the Shield vs. Dudley and not the '11 League Champs, Scunthorpe..?

Right, I have a list (not that big...) of riders I've seen over the years whose first names I have no record of... Might as well start with a real hard 'un. Saw him in the second haldf at Iwade in the short-lived BL Div 3 days of the Kent Crusaders...; rider's name M. Lancaster... Anyone know full name and any other details..?

AJ challenge match between the Young Hammers and the Eastbourne Eaglets is the opening action in Friday's Lee Richardson Memorial meeting at Lakeside. Teams line up as follows: Lakeside Young Hammers 1) Mark Baldock; 2) Adam Ellis; 3) Martin Pearce Eastbourne Eaglets 1) Niall Strudwick; 2) Connor Dugard; 3) Danno Verge This is a second leg: first leg at Arlington ended all square at 18-18 Am sure people will be arriving early for this big meeting. AJ action due on track at 6.45pm

Proud to say that there's an Anglian Junior challenge match preceeding the main action. Lee was a great advocate of this level of racing and an absolute inspiration to all of the riders appearing. It's a challenge match between the Young Hammers and the Eastbourne Eaglets. Teams line up as follows: Lakeside Young Hammers 1) Mark Baldock; 2) Adam Ellis; 3) Martin Pearce Eastbourne Eaglets 1) Niall Strudwick; 2) Connor Dugard; 3) Danno Verge Tapes up at 6.45pm

Well, yes that's right... Not on the Monday (15th.) coz that date is the EL Play Off Final date... Kinda means one of the Dudley home matches will HAVE surely to be on a 'non-Tuesday' (if you see wot I mean..!)?

So, the first attempt at a play off semi is rained off (what should've been Dudley's home match vs. Stoke tonight). As the Stoke leg's also on a Tuesday, - that's next Tuesday; if Dudley stick to normal race night the Dudley leg of this can't happen then until TWO weeks today on Oct. 9th. That would leave the two legs of a Final and two legs of the KOC Final (fairly likely to be two ties involving the same two sides, Dudley & Mildenhall) to fit in, in just over two weeks... I would think it would be prudent to try and rearrange this semi sooner than waiting 'til the 9th., else we may end up with huge anxieties over when/how to get these fixtures completed in time yet again...

Hmm, but when was the last time the rider finishing 9th. DIDN'T in any case get a pick for the next year!!??

Sissis also took part in and won the Arrow Engineering Junior Cup TT as part of the STUK meeting at King's Lynn in 2010. I was at that one - what I reckon was perhaps young Arthur's only competitive appearance at a British Speedway track...

Yes that's a double header as was Boston vs. Cleveland x 2 at the NA in '07... The question was (I think) about classifying a single match as TWO different fixtures... I suspect that's happened far less frequently...

Pork scratchings as well!!??

Ah okay, so Perry could possibly miss it... Are there not any Dudley riders who could miss a Sunday date..? And we don't yet know what date a home leg (if Mildenhall get there...) for a P/O final against Dudley (if THEY get there!!! ) will be, so much (nay nearly all...) of this thread is but speculation...