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Just seen a snapchat of the track sent by Nikolaj. The dirt looks about 2 foot deep... Oh dear!!!

Sounds like they both got off lightly.

Not gonna bother

If anyone deserved a testimonial it was Kelvin Mullarkey. Makes me laugh when I see riders like Kasprazak earning a lucrative pay day

I remember Kelvin coming out of retirement to help out an injury ravaged Rockets side in the late 80's when he would've been in his late 30's... Hughie Saunders must've been mid 30's when he called it a day

Must've been the one I was at where Branford won after Garrity went through the card in the heats. They must have an army of helpers putting the covers over the dog track after the hounds have finished.

Monmore Stadium hosts greyhounds on Monday afternoons which would finish around 6pm. Not much time to sort the track out and put the covers down

British prisons are full of people who say they didn't do it

I'll be up for this. Not expecting much after a difficult weekend at Edinburgh and Berwick. I suspect the Rye team will just wanna get home in one piece. Expect a decent home win by 18-20 points.

Sadly I only caught his last season with us in 1985, when he partnered Andrew Silver at number 2. Went to his testimonial and saw the great Hans Nielsen for the one and only time. Hmmm.. Come to think of it I think it may have been 1986, maybe it was Kelvin Mullarkeys testimonial in '85 and Garrads last season was '86. My programmes are stored away somewhere!! The Mel Taylor story is a strange one. Expected so much, but delivered so little. I don't think breaking his arm helped. Am I right in saying he came to Rye when Barry Klatt became joint promoter with big Ron?

That's the guy I was thinking about.

It's my go too comment to B4E whenever I want to end a speedway argument. I'll never forget the away meeting at Exeter. It was their final league match and penultimate meeting before they sadly demolished the County Ground stadium. We were on the Western Tour in September, towards the end of the campaign and I was texting to the Speedway Updates site. We'd always been pathetic there, but this time we absolutely murdered em! Have a guess who the updater was!

Why whip yourselves up into a frenzy, only to be let down at the end?Don't you remember 2005?

Yeah, but you'll still be a million miles away from winning it

You're a million miles from winning anything

I think he was one of the last of the Rayleigh riders that moved up to Rye in 1974

Len Silver changed the Rockets race day to Sunday a couple of years ago to avoid clashing with the X Factor on a Saturday evening. He has history.

A bit before my time. Only started going in 1985. The 2005 Rockets side was something special, but they were different times. One question I always wanted to ask. Why did Karl Fiala retire so early, mid 20's I believe? It's a lot tougher to bring through young local talent now. The equipment is way to expensive these days

He won't wanna lose to his son again. Last time must've been embarrassing

Free pies?

There's no doubt Tungate caused Auty to fall. I'm pretty sure he meant to show him his back wheel. I can't believe he meant Auty to fall though. Only a mad man would deliberately use his bike to injure another rider

I'll never forget his guest appearance for us at Ipswich. Four starts and I don't think he completed half a dozen laps in total

The Raiders are hot at the moment, Kent are not. Off the back of the demolition of Mildenhall at West Row on Sunday, no wonder the Kent promotion don't fancy it

You will have the rare sight of Alex Edberg completing all of his heats

Oh, they'll get round alright, just a lot slower than your riders