frigbo

My online bet has not been refunded and is carried forward, guess the same applies.

Goodnight Speedway RIP. Put back 10 years tonight, the overall unprofessionalism of the 'sport' has come home to roost!!!!

An absolute legend!!

Probably Eric Hockaday. Cradley 43 Edinburgh 35

And who exactly would you have wanted through? They were the pick of the bunch, and if you think someone like Gjedde deserved a spot, well he was out of his depth yesterday and not worthy of a qualifying spot. same goes for BJ who made up the numbers. Only shocks were PK, Ulamek and L Dryml, and the later should hopefully get an automatic seed as he would have been there but for his injuries. PK also deserved a spot, and was favourite to win the meeting. Ulamek started brightly but faded, and all the others missed out because they were not good enough! Easy tiger , don't recall making any reference to Charlie deserving a spot at all. I just think these 6 will weaken the competition as a whole, mainly because riders of a better calibre will be dropping out of this years competition. I believe the qualification system needs looking at to ensure as near to the best riders in the world as possible participate in the GP's.

Must agree with ROG H, a pretty uninspiring set of qualifiers. well done to them anyhow, but can't see any enhancing the GP setup next year.

Sorry, can't find any reference to it in the Speedway Stars of that time

Grrr :twisted: don't get me started on that embarrassment Millard!

The School of English say's, you are a baffoon!!!

Steve Jones' post taking the P...That's P for...oops better not Had some good moments in the WC too mind you

Fair play Neil. Best Wishes for tonight, 100% commitment as shown in the last 2 Meetings is all anyone can ask. Well Done

The miracle worker who managed to pass someone on that excuse of a track was Renat Gafurov

I have mate, problem is the HTML course doesn't finish till October :roll: I'll probably do each year as i go from then, once i've got half an idea what i'm doing! Trawling through old Stars etc is keeping me busy enough till then mind you.

The best of luck with this project frigbo - any idea when it's going online? Gonna be quite a while Kev, i'm only up to August '69 in collating the info

No...but I'm sure I will now! Perhaps he's been taking lessons off Kelvin Tatum, master of the eeerrrr..ummms. Absolutely, No question!!

Rayleigh 42 Eastbourne 36 May 31 1969 Rayleigh Mike Gardner 11 Dingle Brown 9 Roger Wright 7 Laurie Etheridge 6 Geoff Maloney 6 Dennis Mannion 3 Terry Stone 0 Eastbourne Barry Crowson 12 Reg Trott 9 Dave Jessup 5 Derek Cook 4 Tony Hall 3 Joe Robson 2 Laurie Sims 1

Thanks to everyone for the help!! Looks like thats the fellow, he must have been standing in for the Crusaders on that night. Thanks again, i can move on to the other x thousands of riders i have to wade through now Cheers

Many thanks for your help. I'll have to see if the Speedway Star Track Review for that year shed's some light. I'll let you know if i find anything so you can update your site if necessary.

Well i thought it was funny if it's any consolation Well i

Can anyone help me out please. I'm working on a Website, which hopefully will include all riders who've appeared in British Speedway since 1965 (gulp!!). Can any of you Crusaders give me some 'gen on a P.Furniss who rode for you at Middlesbro on 3rd July 1969, as he doesn't appear on the Crusaders website anywhere?? Ta

Personally i'm too naffed off with the constant stupid rule changing to even bother!!

Gawd help us! Are they shipping Arlington en bloc to Denmark then

Sky are providing Speedway with more exposure than ever, those of you who are constantly whining about their coverage should cast your minds back 5 years. Speedway has no divine right to TV coverage and the fact Sky choose to put it on Extra is their right, we are a minority sport and it's only rarely that Sky treat it as so.

My prediction is procession!!

Ah! a cracking performance considering i could barely see straight!!