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Knowing Speedway it was probably decided by alphabetical order!

That may be so, all i'm saying is from what i saw (albeit one meeting) i wasn't massively impressed, he scored 6 from 5. On checking the programme, he's actually 21. I think you're getting confused with Emil Saijfutdinov

Saw Ivanov ride at Tarnow a couple of weeks ago. Looked competent but no world beater IMO

Don't think so. I'm pretty sure Stuart Mountford was Australian.

Pete Bailey was killed in 1974 in a car accident just outside Brandon Stadium if i remember rightly. He was an ex Ipswich and Birmingham rider.

Ron Mountford passed away in 1993. Rick France is still about

Swindon v Exeter Swindon Frank Smart 8 Neil Collins 10 Olli Allen 4+1 Paul Fry 15 Claus Kristensen 3 Nathan Murray 8+2 R/R Martin Dixon Exeter Mark Simmonds 3 Graeme Gordon 6 Roger Lobb 2+1 Michael Coles 15 Chris Harris 3 Bobby Eldridge 1+1 Brent Werner 12+1

AJ was certainly getting quite a bit of stick following Ljung's crash. I got the impression that the atmosphere was much more akin to Football than what we are used to at our Speedway Meetings. Very big riot police with balaclavas, shields and batons said it all really.

I'm amazed you thought this wasn't a particularly good match. I've been on a Stag weekend in Poland last weekend and this was my first sample of Polish League Action. I thought it was an excellent match and miles better than any British EL meeting i've seen this year. Regarding the crowd, there didn't seem that many from Bydgoszcz there. It was hard to put a figure on it but i know Swindon would gratefully take half that crowd every week!

Spot on Nope, his win in '79 was his last.

He scored 4 in a 46-31 League defeat in 1978.

That's great. many thanks!!!!

Am doing so wherever possible

That's exactly what i'm collating from '65 onwards

I'm up to June 2004 from 1965, League Matches only. I've spoken(well e-mail) to Adam J, he can do the Web side of things (it was getting cumbersome with my pigeon HTML). Hope to be finished my bit by mid May.

1 Crump 2 N Pedersen 3 Jonsson 4 Adams 5 Andersen 6 Zagar 7 Hancock 8 Nicholls 9 Hampel 10 B.Pedersen 11 Gollob 12 Holta 13 Lindback 14 Jagus 15 Harris

Edinburgh and Barrow are round the other way. Edinburgh '77 and Barrow '78.

BOBBY DUNCAN Stoke(87,88),Newcastle(87) ENG BORN 16.12.1970. He scored 1 point for Newcastle at Mildenhall on May 10th '87. The circumstances of why remain a bit of a mystery.

5 mins 16 secs till about 6:20. I'm sure Gary is the rider in yellow. He's at the back so only features at the start of the race.

Graham, There's some action from the 1st Leg of the Midland Cup Final v Oxford in '75 on one of the disks you kindly sent me. It would be about a week(at most) before he was killed in the 2nd leg. I'm sure Gary features in one of the races partnering George Hunter. Unfortunately i don't have the technology to put it on line.

June 9th i believe.

Ari Kopingham (as Clive Fisher called him), dreadfully inconsistent for Swindon. Fond memories of the "Bo(Petersen) and Arrow(Koponen)" pairing at 5 and 4. Ari's finest moment was clinching a 40-38 win at Coventry in '84 with a last heat win, an 11 point haul and the Track Record to boot.

December 11th 1947.

Apparently the track was frozen.

Not in the League mate. I think they were League Cup matches