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Chris Manchester Ron Preston David Blackburn Bernie Leigh Garry Middleton Declan Eccles Robin Adlington No 8 Trevor Oldham Steve

We forgot Merv Salt and Stan Pepper. Should be in for a good "season"... Steve

Better than the GP lineups today... Steve

Good call. Steve

My parents knew Viv pretty well, but I never did. Of course, he was a fixture at Plough Lane for virtually the whole time I was going... Just wonder how many of the people I knew are still alive; sad, but it's a long time ago now... Steve

We're friends on FB, and I showed him a footy pic of Viv I found, as a REALLY young man. Martin had never seen it before. Steve

Plough Lane, when I was three weeks old... Steve Iris : So, Martin is your cousin?

Ian Williams deserves a mention, I feel... Steve

Dammit! And Norman D. Hunter... Steve

Bobby Schwartz, Terry Betts, Martin Ashby, Mitch Shirra, Bengt Jansson... Steve

Bruce Penhall Erik Gundersen Greg Hancock Anders Michanek Jan O Pedersen Billy Hamill Simon Wigg Not a bad team, eh? Steve

Rick France Eric French Geoff Lyon Le Robert Craven Lens Williams John Board-eaux Di-Jon Erskine Steve

No place for Reidar Eide, Jimmy Gooch, or Gote Nordin? Steve

Probably Jancarz, Kitchen, and Norman Hunter... Steve

And what about Vic Duggan for Wimbledon? Or Nordin and Harrfeldt? Your memory must be really fading... How about dem Bees? Hans Nielsen Ole Olsen Nigel Boocock Tom Farndon Jack Young Greg Hancock Jack Parker No room at the inn for Hamill, Tatum, Knudsen, Shirra, Mountford, Case, McKinlay, Harris, Nicholls... Steve

You mean you left out World Champions Williams, and Van Praag, and World No 2's Jansson, Kennett, Green, Lamoreaux, Plech, Wigg, Jessup, and Harrfeldt? No place for Croombs, Nordin, Biggs, Case, Lofqvist, Wiltshire, Tauser, Mardon, Lawson, Haigh, Kennett, Charles, How, Tommy,.. ? I really don't know how you came up with your list, norbold... Steve

Of course, but look at the reasons. In Norway the minimum age limit for racing is - or was - something like 18, or perhaps even older.. Back in the day, that wasn't that much of a problem, but it is now, giving everyone else a few years head start. That particularly applies to the Danish, and obviously, Olsen was singlehandedly the driving force behind Denmark's rise to glory. Even though there were only ever a small handful of world-class New Zealanders, there was an incredible conveyor belt of very capable Kiwis coming in to British speedway during the late 60's and early 70's. I know things go in cycles, as in any sport, but Norway and New Zealand are two of the most extreme cases, along with the Americans now... Steve

Strange, isn't it? Forty-something years ago, we could rattle off any number of Norwegian riders. And now? Back then, you could add in Ed Stangeland, Per Aulie, Jonny Faafeng, Henry Harrfeldt, Einar Egedius, Jon Odegaard... Steve Edit : Plus Kjell Gimre and Svein Kaasa...

Never heard such a load of complete rubbish in my life ,, practise before the world final ? . when was that because I went to quite few and never heard of any practise . You can't have been around for too long, then. Wembley always held an official practice a couple of days before the final, and the newspaper preview of the final would always include photos from the practice. Steve

Don't forget, "The Complete History of the British League" is not 100% accurate either! There are a couple of odd seasons missing (Wimbledon 1974 is one), and they have at least one wrong average (it was either Boocock or McKinlay they have as dropping (I think) only three points in the season - 65 or 66). Steve

Don't know the name "M. Harris" at all, and certainly don't recall him riding for us. What I would suspect is that he was a Hackney junior we borrowed for the night. Steve

I'd love to remove it from the list, but do you honestly see a future there? Who knows, there might be more by the start of the season... Steve

Belle Vue (Hyde Rd) Berwick (Berrington Lough) Bradford Canterbury Cradley Heath Crayford Exeter Glasgow (Shawfield) Hackney Halifax Hull (Boulevard) Leicester (Blackbird Rd) Long Eaton Mildenhall Milton Keynes (Elfield Park) Milton Keynes (Groveway) Oxford Reading (Smallmead) Wembley West Ham White City (London) Wimbledon What I will say is this; this is a bloody depressing thread... Steve

Leicester Lion is correct; it is indeed Otto Walker. Steve

It was Mick Hooker, and he also made contributions to "Speedway Scene" by Mike Patrick. Steve