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Craven (based on what I've read) Collins Lee Woffinden Loram

http://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/1148/arnold-haley

Briggs Fundin Mauger Olsen Michanek Collins Lee Muller Gundersen Nielsen Jonsson Pwdersen Jan Havelock Ermolenko Rickardsson Hamill Hancock Crump Loram Pedersen Nicki Gollob Holder Woffinden

He had a big pile-up with Per Jonsson and Jan Andersson in the opening meeting of 1988 against Getingarna. He broke a wrist and dislocated a shoulder, it definitely made him a more circumspect rider from then on,

Jimmy was pretty raw when he first came over and was edge-of-the-seat stuff. He did become pretty dull from the late eighties onwards and was pretty reliant on his gating. He was also somewhat embarrassing to watch at Exeter (bar one standout meeting)

Why would riders care if the team wins or loses? They'll all be off to ride for a different one the next day anyway.

Nutshell

Steve Roberts and moxey63 sum up my view nicely and encapsulates one of the main reasons I too stopped going after 30+ years. It, along with a small doubling-up for squad riders, was always a necessary evil in certain circumstances but the whole sport in the UK has become transfixed with what the riders want to the exclusion of anything else.

Absolutely spot on. It's just become a circus with the same riders rocking up in different team suits. It's no longer a team sport representative of the towns and cities the clubs are suppossed to represent. The riders have way too much power and the sport serves them before it's lifeblood; the fans.

I don't think it does - the "if permitted by Art 18.10" statement points to otherwise and muddies the waters.

You can't run even a vaguely professional sport on one-off agreements. It's supposed to be a level playing field for all clubs. Just when I get an inkling to give the sport another go, something ridiculous always comes along and reminds me why I shouldn't. The sport is an utter farce...

Even if it does turn out to be FIM affiliated, people are still ignoring the "if permitted by Art 18.10" statement.

But 18.10.1 then refers to "if permitted by Art 18.10" - therefore the definitive answer is in ART 18.10. That says R/R only for 2-5. Oh, and of course the small matter that 18.10.1 is nullified by the fact it isn'ta FIM meeting Hougaard is at. it's nonsense!

So you're suggesting the ART 18.10 element only applied to the choice of R/R in this instance - looking at ART 18.10, only reserves (obviously) can't be covered by R/R anyway and a guest is permitted in this circumstance only, for a team position that is normally only covered by R/R? If so, that rule is incredibly clumsily worded and has been mis-interpreted by a large proportion of fans And it isn't a FIM meeting anyway, it'll be DMU - confused?!!!

if permited by ART 18.10 is the key bit surely?

These are Colin's BL era stats: http://wwosbackup.proboards.com/thread/2198/colin-pratt These would indicate he was a bit better than suggested on this thread.

Chris Slabon Gary Ford

No, scaphoid apparently.Out for a month or so.

Another Hancock at Peterborough moment for Lynch. Useless team manager.

Absolute shambles already. What is the point of clubs naming a 1-7. Might as well pick 14 random riders a couple of days before each meeting.

Tatum the better speedway rider by quite a distance.

Agreed, the only top-flight seasons I've really enjoyed since 1984 were those with one big league.

Well according to an article in an old Speedway Star he did.

Had a brother called Peter who also rode.

Dreadful team. Lebedevs won't be around much and no top end strength. Another one to go in the bottom-end mix with Somerset and Swindon.