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Although I did see him ride, I would have loved to have seen Briggo in his Swindon years.

Lee is a tricky one. On form I'd say he was one of the best riders I ever saw, alongside Mauger and Nielsen. But this was short lived. Do you judge him on his top form or on his longevity? On his top form I'd put him as the best of the 5 (although I never saw Craven so would have to go on what I have read), but taking longevity into account he'd maybe be as low as fourth.

It actually works out exactly the same if you have an oap with you - £114. I was considering this until my son asked if his friend could come, thus solving the issue. So we bought a family ticket for 4 plus one oap ticket for £114 instead of 2 adults, 1 child and 1 oap for £114.

Cheers. A couple of weeks behind but still useful.

All I can see is Jason Doyle on 13.41 on the BSPA site. I can't see any current averages. Am I looking in the wrong place? I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that it is only the first 4 home and away meeting that are used. Surely it's just a cut off point. Where are people getting this idea from?

Ole Olsen 1975 Peter Collins 1976 Ole Olsen 1978 Bruce Penhall 1981 Egon Muller 1983 Erik Gundersen 1985 Hans Nielsen 1987? (Amsterdam) I'm getting confused with years now! Erik Gundersen in Vojens Per Jonsson in Bradford. I think that's it, or did Erik win 2 in Bradford?

Ronnie Moore is the one rider I have any doubt about at all. I might possibly have seen him ride in my early speedway years, but I'm pretty sure I never.

As long as watching Ove Fundin ride in a Golden Greats meeting counts, it's everyone from 1966 (Briggo) onwards, with the exception of Jerzy S.

Maybe the BSPA wouldn't allow it and that's one of the reasons he got fed up with them.

I must say this is not something that had occurred to me but let's see.

Pretty sure they will, although not 100% certain. I think it's just 4h 4a as the point when the new averages take effect, but all matches are counted. A more likely change would be Tungate for Gappmaier if it fits, but Adam needs to get a decent score next time out and get above Zak. The "Ellis at reserve is a good thing" theory looks out the window, though. No use having Zak in the top 5 as he won't score there.

I've had a go at the averages - using Speedway Updates and my own possible shortcomings! It should be correct give or take a point or ride here and there! Doyle - 107/43 x 4 = 9.95 Morris - 98/44 x 4 = 8.91 Bellego - 72/39 x 4 = 7.38 Gappmaier - (assessed?) 4.00 (or would this be based on PL average?) Zak - 31/38 x 4 = 3.65 Ellis - 32/36 x 4 = 3.56 Wilson-Dean - 20/28 x 4 = 2.86 Total = 40.31 Going on these figures (open to correction), there is a big danger that Zak will move up into the top 5 after the next meeting, which must put BWD's poistion in doubt. Also interesting that it's Ellis who has been getting flak online but he's nearly a point above Bradley. At the moment we are 1.69 short of 42, which isn't much.

I would guess he has been doing that - or at least someone has. The thing is, maybe he was going on Adam Ellis on a 3 average and the guy goes and scored 7 at King's Lynn so nothing can be certain.

The problem isn't GP riders, it's riders being in more than one British league. Rosco doesn't know what the averages will be becuase we haven't had all the meetings yet.

I know it seems a bit strange to some people, but as far as I'm concerned if Rory is British and now rides as British then he has every right to be there if he qualified.

Seery's Statistics. The teenage speedway supporter's bible!

Covers work. We've seen that at Swindon during a play-off semi-final where, apparently, there was one set of BSPA covers. Whatever happened to those? Swindon got to use these covers and Poole never - the result of which was Poole was called off and Swindon wasn't.

I think Darcy's crash, plus his own, affected him a great deal. It also seemed to have an effect on Troy Bachelor and Nick Morris but they seem back on it this year. Chris, though, was probably his closet friend.

And Martin Ashby in the 1975 British Final. One for me has to be Dave Jessup, who people often talk about as someone who could and should have been a World Champion but for me was always in the Wilson/Boocock/Ashby/Betts mould. Not that there's anything wrong with that of course, but many people elevate him higher than those.

I guess it depends if Rory has totally switched to GB. If so then I don't see why he shouldn't be in the meeting and be available for TeamGB. If he is still considering himself an Aussie and riding internationally as an Australian then I don't think he should. Is that because he is still available for Australia or because he just doesn't want to ride for anyone internationally? He may have just decided to settle in the UK and ride here domestically. I don't know.

I remember aa trip to Belle Vue and walking along the side of the stadium, and all but one of the houses to my left had been demolished to piles of rubble. The one remaining house had someone living in it.

Swindon's ham rolls in the main stand were nowhere near the Cheese and Onion rolls from the back straight! Heaps of raw onion in those crusty rolls I tells ya! Exeter - being over to lean over the fence as riders were coming towards you and looking into Ivan Mauger's eyes as he went past! Wimbledon - actual, proper toilets! And seeing the riders warming up in the car park as you drove in. Bristol - cars stopping on the Motorway hard shoulder to watch the racing. Riders going home due to the rough state of the sandy track. I also remember a uni-cyclist doing a lap of the track during an interval there. I only made one trip to Stoke, which was the day after Per Jonsson won the World Final in Bradford. I was amazed to find the cars parking on the bends. I remember chatting to a lady in the crowd and telling her I'd been to the World Final. She said she knew about it being on but had never heard of the lad that had won it.

If he's not injured, how can you have a 28 day injury replacement? That's a bit confusing!

I'm sure Zengota will be very popular at Poole. He was voted rider of the year at both Coventry and Swindon. A quality rider.

Release Adam on a 3 point average and he'll be straight into the Poole side, I'll bet.