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Yeah Man!!!

Thats really bad news :x Doug was a great announcer, he always credit to a rider who had had a great race from either the Dukes or who was ever visiting, which some of the new breed find hard to do. Sad loss to speedway.

Yeah get Ole out and someone in who will at least listen to the riders to see what they want, as it is them who provide us with the racing not a bloke it a body warmer. :x Always thought Olsen was a bit of a Chesney Hawkes

The boys rode great last nite, really glad Havvy was in the points and was honest about his performance in the first round meeting. Only down side was I missed it live so watched it on Sky at 11:30, totally knacked now as didn't get to bed until after 2:00am as couldn't turm off the TV, now ½ asleep at work

No mention of Deano's movement at the start of each race he was in though

According to http://www.crash.net/news_detail.asp?champ...0&language_id=1 the team is:- Scotty Nicholls Lee Richardson Dean Barker Gary Havelock One from Bomber, Shaggy, Stoney, David Norris & Stuart Robson States that he will take possibly six riders, I'd take Bomber and Stonet myself.

Danny Bird, you must be joking, maybe in a years time, he lags behind Steady, Bomber etc at a higher level. Don't ruin his confidence be sending him to Denmark and him scoring chuff all, like he did tonight, he looked more like a conference rider not being able to cope with a tight track, a year away from IOW would do him good.

Like you said Phil Mark should have gone through the right channels, but like you said Olsen & Benfield are gonna listen to nobody, it'll take a rider to get really hurt for them to change their minds

Lets hope Mr Olsen and Benfield take note when an ex world champ is prepared to say change the format then something must be wrong.

I have tried to book online but it says that you can only book 330 days in advance??!! Did everyone who has booked use the blower instead??

Must admit it looks a tad suspect :x

Just seen an ad in this weeks Speedway Star stating that the new range of GP merchandise is on sale through the official website, is it just me or can nobody else find a link to anything to do with the new stuff?? The site has a new front page but sod all mention of merchandise , just wanted to get mine in before Cardiff .

Think it has to be when Bradford won the KO Cup Final at Arena Essex (92 or 93) when we had a Premier League reserve guest for us at a track he had never ridden, teh perosn concerned was Paul Pickering who scored something like paid 14 form 7 rides and wrapped up the cup again for the Dukes as we went down there with only a couple of point lead.

Booked in at the Cardiff Copthorne. Managed to get if for ½ price on the RAC website compared to booking it direct :D

Yeah Shoddy 5 out of 7 isn't to bad to agree on. Had to be really biased though and make 'em all Bradford riders, so even though I thought riders like Shawn & Kelly Moran, Sam Ermolenko, Erik Gundersen were all top riders, not weraing the Dukes race jacket went against them

1. Kenny Carter - First proper hero from the 1st time seen at the Shay 2. Joe Screen - Can make the bike go anywhere he wants on track 3. Gary Havelock - Outstanding rider prior to back injury 4. Neil Evitts - Kept the Dukes together in '86 after KC's demise 5. Simon Wigg - True gent always knew who paid his wages 6. Marvyn Cox - The rider that turend Bradford into a winning side 7. Sean Wilson - Every team needs a Sean!!!

Throu my door when I got home today. Time to countdown :!:

There is a book out at the moment about Shawn & Kelly Moran. This was knicked from the write up off www.sheffieldspeedway.com THE MORAN BROTHERS by Brian Burford. £14.99 (including postage in U.K.) from Brian Burford, 18 Ermin Close, Baydon, Marlborough, Wiltshire, SN8 2JQ Please make cheques payable to Brian Burford. Shawn and Kelly Moran - American speedway legends, brothers good enough to take on the world at their sport, immensely talented, awe-inspiring to watch zipping around the track, all-round nice guys who knew how to race and how to party - this is their story. Brian Burford's well researched and entertainingly written chronicle of the careers of Shooey and The Jelly Man will have those who saw them race recalling many memories and those that didn't wondering how the Californian siblings could do what they did on and off track. Starting with Shawn and Kelly's formative years on motorcycles in the late 1960s, Brian's book covers their entire careers from the early days finding their speedway feet on the resurgent hotbed of American speedway in California in the early 1970s through to their very successful years in British speedway through the 1980s and 1990s. This book tells it all, and tells it well. Interspersed with many anecdotes and recollections of people such as Billy Hamill, Ivan Mauger, Barry Briggs and others, follow not only the Morans' many years in speedway but also the potted history of American speedway in general that runs alongside the main story. Read how Kelly took a while to come to terms with roundabouts, why Shawn was once David East, the truth about the infamous aftermath of the 1990 World Final, why Kelly went back to racing in the States for three years in his prime, how he was tempted back to team up with his little brother at Sheffield and later Belle Vue - not forgetting their success at World level. Kelly making his world final debut while still in his teens and Shawn winning the world longtrack championship whilst riding with a broken leg and even having a crack at being a pop star. Such was Shawn and Kelly's profile and popularity that, years before Team Exide, they enjoyed the groundbreaking STP sponsorship You'll have to read the book for many more tales of just what huge talents the Morans were and their incredible lust for life on and off-track. An essential read about two charismatic Californians who thrilled countless thousands through their careers and blazed the trail later followed by the Hancocks, Hamills, Ermolenkos and Correys. The Morans were unique talents, the likes of which speedway may never see again and their story is one that any speedway fan will find enthralling.

At the end of the day this is a 'SPEEDWAY FORUM' so why not just talk about KC's speedway career and not his private life which should be left alone.