Parsloes 1928 nearly

Yes indeed so can I....

Over 25 matches for Hackney - including most of one season as effectively a full-time Hawk.. This this rules him out!!! Don't think there were such things as Testimonials in his day...

He actually repeated the error about qualifying for the semi when it WAS the semi FIVE times in the final two laps... Surely they have producers don't they Sky, who tell him to stop repeating this infantile error... My abiding thought on his performance though weren't on his gaffes but how disinterested he seemed in proceedings.. I don't watch the GPs much but was pleasantly surprised by the quality of racing and amount of passing; but Millard barely raised a moment of excitement at ANY point... Come on, hyperbole and hysteria maybe we don't want but a little bit of excitement in the voice at least might help..! Overall I'd say the WORST sports commentary performance I'd ever heard (apart from that daft bird allowed a couple of times to take a game on Match of the Day!! )

I see you've got the "Cubs" name in here, Phi...: cheeky!!!!

The ultimate surely HAS to be Ronnie Moore.. From, what, 1950-ish to 1972 and over here only ever a Wimbledon Don...!!

Interesting!! I agree that I don't see how a four-match stint (was that four in a row..??) can be classified as a 'guest'...? After all we've been 'allowed' to include the single matches for Hull & Coventry so Oxford deserves inclusion surely... What exactly is or was the 'rule' when defining an appearance from a rider from a lower division appearing for a higher division team..? To me that's never a 'Guest' appearance at least not in the sense of a 'like-for-like' within a division.. Certainly Mr. Oakes didn't use that classification in his books... But nowadays I notice this is used as an expression...

It is TWENTY-FIVE years since his track debut (for Scunny...) though, so 16's not so bad...!!!

Another club to be added to Buzz's list: as of last week, he's been a Weymouth rider - so that's club number 16!!!

No Marc Owen... That's a real shame...

It means now that officially there no longer is a World Championship just a GP circus/series and that spells to me the beginning of the end of the sport... When in God's name did this latest and most iniquitous yet change get sanctioned..??!!

I am absolutely delighted. Massive well done to Emil Sajfutdinov - I sincerely hope he can carry on and win the title.... BTW, as a matter of interest as there now appear to be NO British qualifying rounds for the GP series, exactly HOW is "the talent" among young Brits meant to get to the stage Master Sajfutdinov is now at..??

Many thanx to LisaCollette and Youngy for this! Can someone clarify.. By my reckoning both Bren and Kyle have been creditted with two points from their second rides - which seems to have been when they met each other in heat 8. Who did second place in that awarded race..??

That's tough news, Lloyd. Keep your chin up and all the best for a speedy recovery.. Regards to your Dad..: "The Master of Plough Lane"...

"Kingsbrook"..?? Why the idiot not Kingsmead..???!!!!

Disappointing that so few (why is this..? ) but then why not have more rounds...? Perhaps EVERY National League track to stage a round- as you say, can easily be part of a double header... And not just NL tracks, as many as can do so should stage a round.. Of course a danger that not all the youngsters could make every round so to decide the champion could be based on best eight or ten rounds (depending obviously on how many rounds actually raced...)... waiting to have my head bitten off BTW...

And a bit of a shame that they didn't just wait a week or so and the Football season would've been over...

Sounds good...!! Does anyone have a start time for this one..?? Surely it'll be in the afternoon rather than the evening will it not.??!!

I know what you mean. There was once a track (dogs & Speedway) just a mile or so from where I now live in Barking (was on Ripple Road in Dagenham...) and yet there is hardly any info. about the place and it simply doesn't register in any of the local histories written around here....

As always, shadders; as always!! Surprised to see Marc beaten in his final ride, though...: but having missed the gate he gave Nick Laurence a real race for his money and I think it's all invaluable experience.... It will be great when Marc turns 15 and becomes a Funky Fen Tiger!!!!

Yep - I had a nagging feeling it was Heath not Hurst... But I did have mega-mouth Billy in my ear rambling on about summat or another all meeting; so by the second half I could've been excused for hearing anything... And as you say, Morris was the faller in the first staging of heat two. To clarify, Ashley fell after young Adam had already fallen and cleared the track so the FT's '09 'mascot' was excluded from the restart for not being under power at the point the race was stopped...

Here goes...: Pocket Rockets 18 Marc Owen 3 3 2 8 Ben Morley F Withdrew inj. 0 Ashley Morris Fx 2 3 5 Michael Bovis 3 1* 1* 5+2 Mildenhall (what's the Academy side called..??!! ) 17 Liam Rumsey 1* F 1* 2+2 Nick Laurence 2 3 3 8 Sam Hurst 2 2 0 4 Adam Kirby Fx 1* 2 3+1 1) Owen; Laurence; Rumsey; Morley fell 61.6 [3-3] 2) [rerun] Bovis; Hurst; Bovis Fx; Kirby Ex. 68.5 [6-5] 3) Owen; Hurst; Kirby; Morley NS 61.2 [9-8] 4) [rerun] Laurence; Morris; Bovis; Rumsey fell 62.8 [12-11] 5) [rerun] Morris (off 15m handicap after tapes offence); Kirby; Rumsey 64.3 [15-14] 6) Laurence; Owen; Bovis; Hurst 63.1 [18-17] Double revenge in this one for RH...: with the Pockets winning and with the coffee vendor wiping out your prog., Phil!!! Brendon Freemantle fell in his second demo ride - so no time for that one... Not sure if Craig gave a time for his earlier impressive looking completed four laps...: if he did I didn't catch it...

That is so. Hope to get along and see Harland at Maidstone's meeting on Monday... Seems a little strange, though, that Harland was in the U-21s then if - as you say, correctly... - he's essentially not intending to ride Speedway this year. Especially when the likes of Aaron Baseby and Gary Cottham have been denied proper meeting places in the two semis...

Are we sure that the pub wasn't called the Speedway Hotel from the early '70s.. Coz when I was living in Leicester ('78-'81) I'm CERTAIN I went past this and noted the pub had a Speedway name... It MAY have had perhaps just the Speedway picture on the pub sign but there's no way I'd be remembering seeing this late '70s IF all traces of its incarnation as the 'Speedway Hotel' or 'Tavern'' had gone nearly ten years earlier....

Well done Harland...: not the win like last year but a pretty good effort... The question is: why no team place for you any where in '09 so far...??

Just checked in the 'Homes...' book and I was right about the pub... Used to see it on the way home on the bus from meetings at Blackbird Rd. The section of Melton Rd. where the Super track was, was opposite this pub (not easy to locate now as the PH changed its name...) and is now the site of allotments... Also near (I thought, but this only from memory...) a railway bridge..???