cityrebel

Speedway should take a lead and delay the start of the season. The sport has the mentality of a non league football club. No one goes, so no one will be affected.

Maybe the powers that be should put back the start of the season by a month. If the epidemic intensifies, no one will be travelling anywhere.

Me too, it shows what a load of old fogies we are. I really enjoyed the 1987 two day final. You can't beat a long weekend in Amsterdam!

Right Steve, I've finally found my completed programme. Barney Kennett did score 7 and Kevin Brice 2. Kennett finished third in front of Brice in heat 7. Denzil Kent did take a tac sub ride in heat 10 and scored a total of 7 points.

I do, i went to the meeting. I will try and dig it out tomorrow.

Surely the season ticket price of £450 is an error. If you add up the 26 meetings it comes to £464, or does the deal include a free programme.

Wait for the dreaded curfew to kick in a few times. £22 will seem like daylight robbery.

Speedway is rapidly approaching the point of unaffordability for a lot of people. The sport desperately needs new punters, but who will pay those prices. For the first time in 50 years of watching speedway, i am considering my options. The sport offers such poor value for money, i struggle to see how much longer it can survive in its present form.

I went to two fog affected meetings at Arena Essex in the mid 1990's. One was called off at start time and the other only run, because Lew Stripp refereed it from the centre green due to the poor visability!

What a tragedy, a true entertainer. I was lucky enough to watch Danny ride on a regular basis for the Kent Kings.

As a kid i thought he was a right nutter, but looking back now, i reckon he was a just great wind up merchant.

No suprise there. Len wouldn't entertain it.

No different to the Weir really. The stadium was situated in quite a rural location. It's a concrete jungle now.

I'd be flabbergasted if Rye got a thousand people turn up for third tier racing. That would be a good crowd for championship level. If the revamped stadium does include speedway in it's plans, then surely professional racing must be the aim.

To make Rye House stadium fit to stage public events again is going to cost a lot of money. The old place looked a tip at December's Dragons meeting. I applaud anyone who is prepared to take the project on.

Too right. When i attended my first meeting as a kid way back in 1968, he was already promoting at Hackney and Rayleigh!

I'd be suprised if Len took another track on at his age. The old boy can't go on forever, can he?

Letting a team enter the league called 'Hackney' was a joke. You might as well of called them 'New Cross'. At least the likes of Boston and Cradley were actively trying to find land to build a new track.

Rob, we've lost so many 'friends' in the south east since i started going. Last time i looked it was pushing the 20 mark.

I would have thought it was essential for the likes of Oxford to run a side in the NDL. It might help in their fight to save Cowley stadium.

Nail on the head.

Maybe the jocks could enter a European 'super league', when they leave the union.

Not at all, I've been to over 100 meetings at Central Park, and I've seen some excellent racing. At NL level there is always a vast difference in the abilities of the riders on show. This does mean some races are always going to be processional.

I do mate, not all of them good. The dreaded GRA were largely responsible for wiping out speedway and dog racing in the London area.

I come from a dog racing and speedway family. My mum worked in the racing office at Wandsworth & Park Royal in the 1960's. I was Taken as a child to Stamford Bridge for the dogs, years before i went there for football. I worked for the GRA for 22 years, working mainly at Wimbledon, but also Catford, Harringay, Wembley & White City.