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is Kemp able to guest, away from his Mildy fixtures?

ironic seeing as Ronnie Russell was the promoter that fought and won to allow foreign riders in the National League (div 2) which has been the cause of much of today's problems

those comments were wrong i reckon

Somerset definitely threw the meeting tonight, not putting Doyle in heat 15!!! Shovlar style of thinking

with all the abuse he gets, who knows ....

my pictures from the GP https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_womble/albums/72157696981691202

my pictures from British GP, Cardiff 21.07.18 https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_womble/albums/72157696981691202

the decline started in this country when Ronnie Russell was allowed to sign foreign (non-Commonwealth) riders in the old NL.

don't worry, been seeing Max FRICKE called Max FRISKE consistently for long enough

looked really good in the U21 Final at KL a couple of years ago

contact Jan Staechmann, he has all the MBI stuff

will end up like Coventry, pikeys in there to trash the place

total loss systems straight onto the track were banned, that's why we had to get oil catchers. track curators all knew the oil helped bind the surface but health and safety and environment rules stopped oil from being used.

i'm hoping BOTH Cook & Lambert get permanent wildcards for next year, both deserving i think. Robert is on a mission at the moment, totally on fire wherever he rides, and Cook going so close to qualifying automatically will help him. Cook has invested so much into the series this year it would be a shame to not get the chance to build on that next year with the experience of a year in the series behind him.

Kyle will be fine

were you there?

no dust at Kings Lynn last night, and it was hot and sunny there

Kings Lynn were doing 'hot laps' at the start of the season

parade was terrible from my point of view, had no idea where any of the riders were except for Garrity who was right behind us. referee, please retire him off. i enjoyed the racing the crowd was the worry in my opinion, seemed noticeably down on previous years, and there was definitely quite a number of Polish supporters missing from previous years. maybe the fact they have 3 'home' GP's has made them stay away?

which is exactly why i tell people that nowadays Rye House had to be slick, no room for anything else

if everything that people know about the goings on in the sport came out, there would be no speedway

definitely coming down to a "survival of the fittest" scenario. maybe the decisions over the next few months will see that the clubs that survive week by week are forced into closing or running at a NL level, and hoping that the stronger ones become stronger to form that one league that hopefully can then build. i'm not sure, i'm thinking the damage has already been done and ideas for having stronger clubs will be hit too hard by supporters not playing ball

speedway had been in decline for many years before Sky came in, but there was a massive opportunity to showcase the sport and sell it to a big sponsor, but i wonder if the desire was there once the ££££ signs were seen. I think too many in charge rested on their laurels and just took everything for granted, and that includes both supporters and income, which is always a bad way to do things. Having some financial backing should have been the start to clubs being able to speculate and actually try pushing the sport to a wider audience, promote in other words! it seems the money was used to help create the monster we have now, with seemingly no way to turn things around, Sky aren't going to do it all over again and give another go

who signed, can't get on the page

i don't think it's just down to the cost of a large screen, i'm guessing because it's in a stadium there would be some sort of further license to actually show the football