Mr. Clemens

I don't think I ever met Bryn but from what I know of him he was a noble gentleman

If you want from it what is in it you will love it. If you don't you won't

It should be open to all comers with 32 riders competing in the GP's riding 6 GPs each. 12 GPs altogether I call it has a I see it we all have our opinions

Maybe it's to deflect the conversation from the job in hand re Belle Vue and begin a debate about the Olympic stadium and the West Ham connection. You're right you can work it out if you really try.

The SGP is a closed shop peopled by the same tedious faces resulting in a tedious competition with few saving graces

Peter Karlsson would have been a top rider in any speedway era between 1928 and 2016

As Nicki is not available for castigation purposes Freddie Lindgren has been 'nominated' as 'rider replacement' till Nicki is fully fit and ready for castigation in next years GP.

Jerzy was a top man. Deserved to be World Champion. Ivan said he won it fair and square and many will tell you there is no greater authority than Ivan, when it comes to world championships and the winning of!!! Jerzy's problem was he won it but it was supposed to be Zenon who was expected to win it but he didn't, Jerzy did. As a result, Jerzy was expected to turn into the 'greatest rider that ever lived' to justify his status as a World Champion. No other rider was expected to turn into the greatest rider that ever lived to justify their status as World Champion, but Jerzy was because he shouldn't have won it in the first place. It's all a bit like voting for Brexit and justifying having done so, when you think about it, ain't ????

Was that bootleg liquor ????

Perhaps they realised it was going to be tedious and predictable and therefore didn't bother Stayed at home to watch Swedish Strictly Come Dancing with Tony Rickardsson

heat 16 Sweet move by Holder Happy birthday to him. Happy birthday to me

Tedious predictible thus far. One or two interesting races

Rock on Dukes !!!!!

'I get paid a lot of money.' !!!!!

Tommy's one of t'all time greats duck. Dunt really matter how many of you dislike him. Agreed SGP is a crock but twixt thee and me so is SWC

GPS are stale and tedious enough as it is with the same riders competing ad nausium. They need a variety of riders to maintain interest and refresh interest all the time. Already it's a 2 horse race twixt Hancock and Woffinden.

As GB Sweden and Australia can't raise a decent team between them of course you're right.

You've been giving all the reasons it will, all night, with all your insights and perceptive comments regarding British speedway which indicates there is no hope for British Speedway and ultimately one less nation for Poland to ride against. Simple really when you think about it ain't?

Don't worry it will

After giving it a great deal of thought I think that Robert 72 is in fact Tai Woffinden. Perhaps the reason he is no longer posting on here is because he is preparing to ride in the SWC. After the SWCF he will change this thread title to Should Tai Woffinden have ridden for Team GB? Thereby guaranteeing another 150 pages of scintillating, intriguing, intellectual, incisive discussion re TW/himself.

Maybe he his naturally arrogant, as a result perhaps pig ignorant, and after years of cleaning up his act and becoming a top class speedway rider, he is suddenly reverting to type because he no longer sees the need to act otherwise. I once asked my two kids not to swear in the house. They asked me why? I said 'out on the streets it can be a sewer, when you come into your home you can get away from the sewer. If you bring the sewer in to your home then there is no escape. I noticed after that neither of them swore in the house anymore.

What they could do to settle this question for all time and this is only a suggestion!! But what they could do, while they are holding the EU Referendum, they could put another tick box on the ballot paper which said Should Tai Woffinden ride for Team GB or should he be able to ride for any beresford he wants as a good European Australian. Remembering as you vote that Australia is now officially part of Europe visa vie the Eurovision song contest. That should settle it.

Surely the fact that Matt Ford has no sympathy - is irrelevant to the death of British Speedway, by definition. Most people don't have sympathy for organisations that bring about their own destruction.

I don't think anyone cares. I think, from reading the star, that everyone sees Poole winning the league as a foregone conclusion. I think this suits the other Elite League teams as they don't have to make the effort. As such, it renders the competition a waste of time and the result pointless.

Scunthorpe Amateur Meeting 6/12/15 Responding once more to Richard’s cry for help, I found myself on the well trodden road to the Eddie Wright Stadium at Scunthorpe. The days previous to Sunday 6th had been wet, windy and cold. The weather forecast said it would be fine and dry on Sunday. You wouldn’t have thought so driving along the M1 and the M180. Strong winds were blowing and heavy rain falling. The guy on the radio said ‘it will clear up in the afternoon and the sun will shine, in certain areas.’ I thought, ‘I hope you’re right mate, it doesn’t look promising to me. It had stopped raining when I arrived at 10:15. Richard was in a bit of a flap as the starting gate magneto wouldn’t allow them to use the tapes. I grabbed my red flag and chair placing it in the sea of mud that still filled the area around the third bend. A fellow lady flag waver commented on the efforts made to get the tapes to work. I said, ‘they don’t really need them, the riders have come to race and I think they can manage to do that without tapes.’ Finally, Richard obviously came to the same conclusion himself and gave it up as a bad job. Later I found out that Richard couldn’t get into the storeroom to get the equipment he needed to get the tapes to work. Rob, that’s Mr. Godfrey to you, was at a christening and didn’t arrive till later on, during the meeting. Richard said, ‘I can’t kick the door in can I’? I said ‘well actually you could, if you really wanted to.’ The racing started at 11:10 am, only 10 minutes later than the scheduled start. It had been fine when I arrived but was overcast. As soon as the racing started a deep black cloud formed overhead and it began to rain. A couple of races had already taken place when the rain fell heavily. I expected the racing would be stopped for 15 minutes while the shower passed. You expect these things when you are ‘elderly and infirm’, don’t you? But no the racing carried on. When riders come out in those conditions, it proves how dedicated they are to their racing. Young kids racing round, not just pottering around, but getting right into what they were doing despite the rain. I often wonder while watching them race, how many people, who have influence in the sport, take notice of the efforts these kids put in to what they are doing. I know they take note at Scunny, which is the reason they do these meetings. I was particularly impressed by Bailey Fellows, who had a very neat and relaxed style of riding. The way he put his left leg out reminded me of pictures I have seen of an old world champion, who put his leg out in exactly the same way. Another rider, who I also thought had a good relaxed style was a ‘flat track’ rider on bike 79, I think is called Storm Stacey. I said to the photographer that I would like to see how he goes on a 500 speedway bike. Kyle Bickley and Kean Dicken also looked good all day, except for engine trouble in what I think was the last race for Kean. I noted that despite the intermittent rainfall , there weren’t that many falls, on a tricky wet track. There was one fall out on the first bend that turned out to be Bailey Fellows, who ended up spending a night in hospital. The word is, from his father, I presume, saying ‘Nothing broken just battered bruised and a nice headache’, and he will be ‘back riding soon.’ I hope he is as it was a pleasure to watch him ride. There was another fall of note involving the erstwhile Richard, always wanting to keep things moving. This incident involved Lewis Millar, who was riding in the same races as Kyle Bickley and Kean Dicken. Lewis had come out and his bike stopped. He got off the bike and proceeded to run with it to start it again. I was going to go and assist him but saw Richard running up behind him to assist. It’s just a pity Lewis didn’t realise he was there. He was in the process of begining to push the bike forward. Richard arrived at the bike and gave extra thrust forward. Lewis tripped over and wrenched his shoulder in the process and needed medical attention. Previously I noted Lewis had a Scotland flag on his leathers. I thought, ‘I hope he’s not come all the way from Scotland to get pushed over by Richard’!!!! Turns out he came from Glasgow, a long way to come, to get ‘the push’ from Richard, don’t you think? You couldn’t predict it, but it happened. Lewis and his father took it all good naturedly which was all to their credit. Despite the wind, the rain and the cold, racing began at 11:10 all of it ‘done and dusted’ by 2pm. 45 races in three hours, all of it going like clockwork. All of it a testimonial to those who make it happen and the dedicated young riders and their families. All in all it was another good day out, as it always is. I look forward to the ‘Christmas Do’ on 27/12/15.