Mike.Butler

+ tactical injuries...

have you looked amongst the parcels your wife has been ordering from amazon, play.com, e-bay etc? thats where I invariably find mine

Chris Manchester...

Stoke (amongst others) should be told they must only run official fixtures until they are completed. An incomplete league table is a stain on our sport...the view above that it cost them too much money to run is an acceptable excuse is pitiful.

not in my book he didn't. I haven't seen a dead heat (except on the tele) for 20 years

if two riders want the same number will there be a run-off? or a game of bingo perhaps..

besides, how many heats did Tai ride in to secure the title..at least 5 heats per GP (barring injury) + additional semis/finals.... Did anyone win the title having been seeded to the world final? if not, i'd guess someone has ridden just 10 heats including one qualifier. If so they could be regarded as the quickest world champion...depends how you look at it... .

well we don't want any of that 'team orders' funny business anyway...

not quite. it's a pretty different technique to play (especially attacking shots) where achieving any sort of topspin with merely pimples is hard work...

during the 80's i used to ring the results line from 10.00 (from work on evening shift)...i always wonder what response I would get from replying to ads in progs of that era....for instance who now occupies the old Speedway Star office in Cuffley?

given the delay in the announcement of a new sky speedway deal, it seems this current rally may have to last a while yet. So, like Wimbledon where they reduced the court speed, why can't they look at the TT playing surface? After all we wouldn't ask Murray to play with a wooden racket would we?.. I may be wrong but can't see this lasting past March when the 7 days a week elite league deal will kick it off the schedules.

table tennis sold its soul to television 15 years aso when the traditional game of up to 21 pts was replaced by games to just 11 (to give more big points)...bats if you ask me and now its 'ping pong' which is back to bats with no sponge...so they've sold their rubber soul...

maybe handicapping in heats involving reserves is what's being considered? I wouldn't go to watch if so though

yep, mine arrived on time..I have enjoyed the best of british series...it's refreshing to get the inside view on past glories...

was arena-essex the only hyphenated club we've ever had?

love to see a Peterborough NL side..there's still time

i would rather have watched x-factor...but luckily i didn't have the tele on!

well, i suppose actually riding 15 meetings does give one a more informed opinion than others who have never ridden.....even if it might offend..i think this is a broad enough church...

talk about stoking the fire....

I like the fact that they race on a Saturday night...

why don't Dudley move there to help out? oh no. maybe not.

i particularly like Red Leicester cheese on crackers

and Benbecula and Bute are next in line..

please let it happen

i spent the first part of a night with Malcolm on the sleeper from St.Austell. Seemed to know what he was talking about.admittedly quite a while ago..