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Lakeside Young Hammers' final AJL match of the season home to Rye House Pocket Rockets this Friday (31/8). 7pm start time (BEFORE the main Lakeside vs. Poole EL match). Teams are (NB. in alpha NOT riding order): Young Hammers: Mark Baldock; Jack Kingston; Martin Pearce Pocket Rockets: Connor Coles; Bradley Tokeley; Danno Verge

Lakeside Young Hammers' final AJL match of the season home to Rye House Pocket Rockets this Friday (31/8). 7pm start time (BEFORE the main Lakeside vs. Poole EL match). Teams are (NB. in alpha NOT riding order): Young Hammers: Mark Baldock; Jack Kingston; Martin Pearce Pocket Rockets: Connor Coles; Bradley Tokeley; Danno Verge

Er, that wasn't my point. The posting was nothing to do with RH. He posted a purely negative comment about another NL club (Dudley) - bad enough that anyone wants to make such an inane comment but especially so in the case of someone who admits to have no interest in the NL: why make such a spurious posting..?

Hmm, so why post this then?:

I understand that 'the Man Mountain' has to date (I think one match remaining...) dropped just a solitary point in this year's AJL...!

Mate, I really don't know. Tbh I've been entirely focussed on the AJL this year and - to my shame - have actually only attended one NL match all season ; actually, knowing your now Scunny Saints connection, I'd have asked you that question...!!

Well I guess that's why the four fixtures are scheduled in this order as for IoW and Stoke that play off deadline IS important but far less so one assumes for RH & Buxton...

Am sure it's likely to be changed due to the number of meetings this season lost to rain but when was/is the NL 'cut-off' date for the play offs..? Certainly some of these are bound to be after that date...

Er yes, i think we've established the second halfer that day at King's Lynn WAS the Barnsley-born Peter E. Smith...

Andy Galvin....

I KNEW we could rely on you to solve the mystery!!!! Cheers!

It's been pointed out that actually this may have been Jamie Moohan... And as he's a Kiwi too that makes more sense... Am disappointed with my good mate Craig...: if he'd come up with a nickname for Jamie I'd not have misheard... ! After all, IF it is Woolen something sheep or wool related (perhaps 'Jumper' to show how fast he was from the gate..?) or something bovine if it IS Moohan...!!

Funny enough i was at that one too - that also was a good meeting. Good entertainment at RH this year!

Glad to see such words of praise from firestone1 and refreshing to hear them. Indeed tonight's meeting was an absolute cracker. Certainly the best meeting I've seen anywhere this season and one of the best i can recall at RH for many a moon. Monday night crowd held up well too. The Comets did well after a bad start and in truth they certainly could've won this match. Got to be highly unusual in a side which saw, by the end, FOUR riders (out of six) scoring paid nine or higher yet when the T/R came it went to a man who totalled just one point at the meeting's end. The reason really was an accident of timing and very much affected by the new rule about no T/R from heat 12 on... Hindsight's a great thing and in truth Lawson looked okay in patches and at first lead his T/R race but seemed his machine was very down on power. Roynon & Garrity were both superb - Garrity at RH is now firmly in the bracket of a rider it's literally worth the admission alone to see..! And yes, I DID pay to get in!!!! A milestone meeting for me as a spectator, as it marked the 40th. anniversary of my first Speedway meeting (at Canterbury in '72) and with a full second half this was like a throwback to those days. With a junior match and appearances from some tasty new young Aussies this was simply excellent entertainment and superb v-f-m. Well done to all at RH for putting on such good value Speedway this season.. Really showing what can be done! Oh and it's purely selfish on my part coz I'd go every meeting IF it was a week night track, but more Monday night meetings PLEASE! Details of the junior match & other races here: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=71107&pid=2162309&st=0entry2162309

Post Olympics fare at Rye House on Monday night: Resullt and scorers from MDL match at Rye House Stadium, Monday 13/8: Milton Keynes Knights 20 (Conor Dwyer 3; Adam Sheppard 3; Oliver Greenwood 9 [M]; Brad Tokley 5+1) Stoke Spitfires 14 (Shaun Tedman 8; Simon Pearce 1+1; Danno Verge 5) [MDL] 1) Tedham; Sheppard; Dwyer EF; Pearce Exc 2M 63.9 [2-3] 2) (rerun) Greenwood; Verge; Tedham; Tokley 61.0 [5-6] 3) Stopped/awarded: Tokley; Verge; Pearce; Dwyer fell no time [8-9] 4) Greenwood; Tedham; Sheppard; Verge 61.2 [12-11] 5) Dwyer;Tedham; Sheppard Exc. left track; Pearce EF 63.1 [15-13] 6) Greenwood; Tokley; Verge; Pearce 61.0 [20-16] In the end a comfortable win for the MK Knights - indeed had Conor not had both an EF and a fall when leading they'd have wrapped it up sooner. Just a three-man Stoke Spitfires outfit always up against it, especially with Simon having machinery and injury probs. Oliver was again a class apart and really at this level looks nigh on unbeatable around RH at least.. Tough on Adam - who was running third in heat 5 only to shed his chain on the straight yards from the line. He did coast home but at the moment of the chain snapping he had unintentionally been thrown off track literally... A bit harsh to exclude him for that I felt.. Also some other junior races/appearances: from Aussies all i think..? Harvey Horwood did two four laps from the gate timed at 59.9 & 60.5 Two races between Shaun Mason and Jamie Woolen - both won by Woolen in times of 60.3 & 60.1 Anyone know any more details of these three riders..?

Er, and indeed WAS. Result and scorers on another post

Am I right in thinking that the return fixture (ie Mk vs Spitfires) is scheduled for this evening at Rye House..?

I saw him ride for Sweden against England in a Division 2 level international (remember them!) at Eastbourne in September 1973! Considering the other riders were called Nilsson, Enecrona, Hellsen, Selmosson, Salomonsson and Claesson, plain Smith stood out as rather unusual!! But then later in August 1976 at my first ever visit to Saddlebow, a rider appeared in the second half called Peter E. Smith. Again NOT the famous Poole one (though as the Pirates were the Stars' opponents in the main meeting THAT Pete Smith had ridden). Question is was this Peter E. Smith, the Swedish rider or someone else completely..?!

btw, MDL rider Tom Woolley could end the year as a WORLD CHAMPION..! Tom is currently leading the overall rankings in the inaugural Flattrack FIM World Championship after second places in Prague and at Montegiorgio in Italy. Next round is over in the home of Flattrack, the USA at Auburn, Cal. Good luck to Tom!!

Result and full heat details from Friday & Saturday's Young Hammers' matches (a win and a draw) are over in the AJL Fixtures and Results thread!

Not an AJ League match but a Challenge match - so details here in fixtures/results section: Eastbourne Eaglets 18 ( Nick Laurence 7; Connor Dugard 4+3; Niall Strudwick 6; Adam Briggs 1+1) Lakeside YHs (Mark Baldock 9 [M]; Simon Pearce 0; Jack Kingston 7; Adam Sheppard 2) Heat Results: 1) Baldock, Laurence, Dugard, Pearce [3-3] 64.4 2) Kingston, Strudwick, Sheppard, Briggs [5-7] 3) Kingston, Laurence, Briggs, Pearce [8-10] 63.5 4) Baldock, Strudwick, Dugard, Sheppard [11-13] 64.4 5) Laurence, Dugard, Kingston, Pearce [16-14] 64.8 6) Baldock, Strudwick, Sheppard, Briggs [18-18] 64.4

Result tonight from Lakeside Young Hammers 13 (Mark Baldock 4; Jack Kingston 9 [M]; Simon Pearce 0) Ipswich Junior Witches 11 (Joe Graver 9; Tyler Govier 0 {NS}; Martin Knuckey 2+1) Heat details: 1) Kingston; Graver; Baldock; Knuckey (f.rem.); Govier NS [4-2] 2) Kingston; Graver; Knuckey; Pearce [7-5] 3) Graver; Baldock; Knuckey; Pearce (fell) [9-9] 4) Kingston; Graver; Baldock; Knuckey [13-11] NB. Tyler made it to the tapes for heat 1 but then blew his engine

Brought up on the (basically) Long Tracks of France, Adam was always going to find Smallbrook to his liking. But then again he won his first meeting over here on a tiddler at Arlington!!

Fixture tomorrow (Friday 3./8) at Lakeside: Young Hammers vs. Ipswich Junior Witches Team line-ups (three rider teams only for this match) are [NB. teams in alpha NOT riding order] Young Hammers: Mark Baldock; Jack Kingston; Simon Pearce Junior Witches: Tyler Govier; Joe Graver; Martin Knuckey Please note also, this match goes ahead BEFORE the EL match with tapes up for heat one promptly at 7pm

What a FANTASTIC performance from Adam Ellis - the lad has won his first EVER Speedway meeting in the UK, the U-16s at Eastbourne; followed that up by winning the next round at Scunny too; and here in only his second ever NL match, scores paid ten...! Simply brilliant,, well done mate.