Parsloes 1928 nearly

As Roger Cearns himself was recently quoted in the Star, the plan is still to hold open meetings at Central Park later this year. Whether logistically this will end up being possible (covenant issue, which he did also refer to in Peter Oakes small article and of course building the sound barrier etc.)I couldn't rightly say. In terms of club and track names, Bryn is correct that the name 'Sittingbourne Speedway club' belongs to Mr. Arnold at Iwade. There's been much debate on this on the BSF but I can tell you that those planning Speedway at Central Park have NO intention of calling that new club 'Sittingbourne'. 'Kent' is a far likelier name.

Excellent news - let's hope so...

Well indeed, what I said about the Baseby bros also applies to another rider I know well and have maximum time for in Garry... If ONLY league Speedway could've carried on at Iwade....

100% agree... Aaron (and of course Mark) are huge losses from the NL as things stand...

Other option couuld be Taffy Owen.. RH was non-league at the time wasn't it so did it attract league riders..?

Ah, of course that's right... Can't you get the stadium to make sure there's a space for you by that back wall..? After all you're one oif the longest serving supporters and they should be supportive to those who need wheel chair access... That would be an okay place to park though your car wash expenses will rise coz you get covered in dust there!!!

Cheers for the tip off... I often park there and come in the pits entrance... One time got stuck in the ref's box chatting long after the meeting, realised where the car was and paniced like crazy.. That night though it wasn't locked up but seemds attitudes have changed...

Hmm, second halves still very much part the present day at RH...

Hmm, maybe not... but if YOU can detect on here, a posting started by Steve Evans and one where he has clearly posted that his team were going to be at Stoke on 16 April but have moved it to Workington, any indication that in fact a 'different' Dream Team (sic) ARE going to be at Loomer Rd. that evening (other than Malc's assertion that this is the case ) you're a better man than me Gunga Din

Blimey - I didn't know that... Over this I am now very confused.....

Fixtures in Star this week and on the BSPA site show the Team USA match at Stoke as still on for April 16th...

Anyone know WHY Northside is missing from the roster this year..?

Thanx for this Mike. Competing in six and winning FIVE consecutive State championships at such a junior age range (under 16) can't surely have ever been done before by anyone... Amazing...

When Boastie was around it WAS the olden days!!

I can only recall seeing the Fen Tigers once at Arena in 'third division' action: in '96 of course. A classic 38-40 win to the visitors who featured none other than my good pals Boastie and Dean Garrod in their line-up!! Oh and Boastie won the hyperbolic 'Ace of Arena' crown in the second half!!

BTW, Plough Lane was (actually still is! ) in SW17... SW19 is where they bash balls about with bits of wood...: something I'm sure you'd like to do to me hence the rash offer of buying you loads of beer..!!

Btw, definition of word "seems" is: "it appears; it is understood as true; it is said" And you'd just mentioned you'd "seen how the Hawks home meetings will be split" AND you then go on to argue over a number of postings about how bad this is... I'm something of a loss to understand how we were, in fact, meant to think that what you were saying was possibly not the case at all... Or did you just have a change of heart when Phil pointed out that Mildenhall (a QUARTER therefore of all the proper stand-alones in any case) WEREN'T riding at Lakeside but were at Rye!!

Oh okay...! I shall treat with caution any words of concern you post in the future...: presuming that actually you didn't mean them!!! BTW if you want lessons in memory, consult Mr. SCB - he's a regular circus act!!

Drinking alcohol never caused Bryn any problems!! Just me having a go at him all the time...!! Suppose I'll be buying him loads more beers this season!!

Are you 'aving a laff! You most certainly DID state this, prompting the whole of this recent 'mini-debate'...: or have you simply forgotten the following posting!!!!

Hmm, well it was RocketBen1 who made the statement about the fixtures being divided this way...: did wonder where he'd got this from but seemingly he was wrong in any case! And of course Phil you're right, it would've certainly had made sense for the Fen Tigers to have ridden one of the fixtures at Lakeside...

But there's nothing intrinsically second rate about the 'second sides'... And surely you can see the commercial merit in concentrating the stand-alones where a potentially newer NL audience may be more attracted to see them..? BTW not seen it mentioned elsewhere on here but just saw it on the Stoke site that it's the Potters who are first of the stand-alones to take on the Hawks - at Lakeside (sorry, Ben!) on Good Friday afternoon!

I agree 100%. And of course it ISN'T called the National Development League: this is just a strange line hidden away in the Rule book which certain individuals on here latch onto to make their 'point'. In all branding and other official documentation (like the fixtures!) it's called the National League!!

Many thanx. Have to say that Tom Brown came up on the rails there... Didn't have him on my radar!! And Luke more appearances than David Mason...? That would surprise me too.... Mark Thompson was high on the appearance list too but I suppose the past two years have seen Thommo overhauled...

This way of dividing the fixtures though makes a lot of sense.. For the Lakeside fans this is all new stuff and it'll be far more attractive to potential punters IMHO, to be seeing the 'stand-alones' coming than what might be (if a tad unfairly) be seen as the 'second' sides of PL teams... Which brings me back to the point I've made many times, why don't more (all...?) of those second sides use a 'stand-alone' type name...? (Bournemouth riding at Poole is the recent example of where this did happen...) Might just in one extent be semantics, but it sure as heck would make the third tier look more interesting and more a separate entity...