The Third Man

I see Ricky has been discharged from hospital today Earlier in the season when i asked if Sheffield were to hold a benefit meeting for him i was told it was on the agenda, but it seems to have gone quiet on that front. Anyone heard anything about such a meeting?

Great news about Andre, and a good meeting for TV

Why the medical team? i am a trainer for my sins, when i am going to a place i dont know i expect them to tell me what equipment i need at their venue, i do not just turn up and expect to have the right equipment, neither would i take responsibility if someone didnt tellme when i needed something different, and i didnt turn up with it and that led to the course being cancelled. i admit the communication needs to be two way, but unless i am told, i might not know what i have to ask for

thats OK then because it has happened to others, but not the same reason, its OK for fans to be out of pocket and people ask where are all the fans going

then the question is why wasnt the doctor informed of the equipment he required, and although he might only turn up 30 mins before hand, he must have checked his equipment before he set off, so once again why didnt he know what was required?

Sounds like a sunday league football team turning up without their kit i thought this was a professional sport, why was it only discovered "shortly" before the start time?

If the promoters dont realise how many fans are boycoting meetings already, i doubt if a few more fans doing it would bother them. most must be quite happy with whats going on as i dont see anything, except tinkering, being discussed on how to change things

What a farce this sport is, we get todays "cancellation" and then on TV yesterday we have the world cup with "jokers" being played. why would anyone but the die hards want to support this mess

Looks they managed it without my help afterall

so would have a rule where all four restart if someone has an EF?, and what about tape offences, or starting offences? after all no pair then is there

oops, only time will tell

like i already said Chris, i am not involved in speedway on a day to day basis, i go and watch when i can, or want to, but we heard this same statement so many times in the past, only for other teams to go out and sign someone, only time will tell if another team goes out and signs a rider in the next few days / weeks. dont mind admitting i was wrong if no other team signs anyone before we do it may be true in this case, only time will tell

to be honest, if i am one of the supporters who doesnt go anymore, why would i moan if there wasnt a team to support? after all i dont go, so i dont support a team

Sorry but i have a job that is nothing to do with speedway and dont get the time to look at riders, but i bet another team goes out and signs someone soon

Nice to see some things dont change. the old promotion always said there was never anyone available as well. so i expect no more team changes in the PL this season as there is no one available

deserved one, I thought the ref could award the heat in those circumstances, or is that just wishful thinking on my part

Yes but the southern ones are right dint he ride in international matches for Scotland or is my memory playing tricks

1968 my first year in speedway is when he rode for us Frank Varey finally had his number 1, think we finished 3rd or fourth our best league position he then went back to the inferior tigers and was replaced by Jim Airey, Sheffields best ever rider PS Only got back off holiday today, now see someone has put the correct year

yes so much interest in this, but the suns out on a thursday night, good chance of a win by the tigers tonight, unless its a draw of course

excellant at home as well as away, great to be able to go away and know a rider would be able to compete with the away teams best riders hi averages in 70 and 71 were amazing considering the amount of matches rode, was it 36 league meetings then?, and with the standard of riders in the league at that time thought the reason given at the time for not coming back was something to do with a business in Australia

As far as i am concerned the best Sheffield rider i have ever seen Consistant scorer home and away, always looking for his team mate, great rider real shame when he decided not to come back

Couldnt agree more, it is the simon stead show at the moment, tells the track graders what to do and then wins by miles, where was the help for poole and compton when he had the chance, why didnt he try and the slow douglas in second instead of flying away into the distance. if he doesnt want to ride as a team he should tell everyone that he is riding for himself and should certainly not be captain

Proctor confirmed, so is the rain i apologise for doubting them in my above post

so proctors not riding and we will have a NL guest in his place but if we announce it it will affect the crowd and as far as i can make out proctor had a visa to ride for wolves and somerset to ride for sheffield he needs a visa to ride for wolves and sheffield, so he has the right type of visa, but with the wrong team on it, may be it should have been for any team begining with S PS raining now and i still say that if the BSPA had refused to grant a facility for Saturday the situation would have been resolved Sheffield tried it on, the BSPA let them

wasnt saying the visa problem was the BSPAs fault, but the situation is. Sheffield should not have been allowed a facility on Saturday night, the fact the were is the BSPAs fault because they allowed it