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You are telling me that Simon Stead will Challenge the likes of Lee Richardson, Jason Lyons etc better than Dean Barker would at this precise moment in time??? Fair enough in Years to come - but why not wait untill then, instead of putting a wild card in who will most likely turn up and get two lasts (unless theres an exclusion or ef). Not even the biggest Simon Stead fan if being honest will admitt he has a better chance of doing well than Dean Barker!! I think you'll find Simon comes into the will improve section!! Deano (as good a season as he's having) doesn't fit into either

I can see the benefits of putting young riders with potential in to give them a taster for years to come, after all England wants future World Champions and to achieve that these boys need every bit of experience they can get (although i don't think either Howe or Stead will ever achieve that accolade), i see no benefit in putting in riders who are neither going to improve, or challenge the top men in the event. In my opinion messrs Barker, Stonehewer, Screen, Havelock etc all fall into that category.

Managed to get some late scoops in O'Neills at the end of the road. Opern till 1am if i remember rightly, it was a bit fuzzy though!!

Looks like a poor decision to leave Chris Harris out to me. IMO he is far more deserving of a place than Simon Stead on this years form. The other choice is difficult as there is a big gap from Loram at number 3 to the next bunch of English riders. The likes of Screen, Havvy and Stoney have had they're day and the younger lads (of which we have quite a decent bunch at the mo) are quite ready yet. Therefore i suppose Howe is as good a choice as any. early baths for the pair of them though i suspect

Rudy only rode for Wimbledon (77-81) and had a bad smash in 79 i think. He was a very tall rider who averaged around 5.5 in the top league in his career, as Dekker said he ended up on Swindon's list but never rode. Other Tulip ticklers were Piet Seur and Frits Koppe who rode for King's Lynn and weren't much cop. Also Henk Bangma who rode for Exeter before badly smashing his leg in his first ride at Peterboro for Swindon.

Pic 3 John Hammond Pic 4, 5 and 21 Mike Barkaway pic 18 - Graeme Smith Pic 73 - Ivan Mauger Pic 88 - Trevor Hedge, Jim Tebby, JohnBishop (with tache), ? and Cyril Maidment Pic 89 - Ian Turner, Barry Crowson, Clive Featherby, Bob Humphreys and Kelvin Mullarkey. At front is Alan Littlechild and Terry Betts. Pic 90 - Reg Luckhurst, Trevor Hedge, Cyril Brine?, Cyril Maidment, ?, Gary Everett. front is Jim Tebby. Pic 99 - FRONT Dave Jessup and Richard May., BACK Geoff Ambrose, ?, Mick Bell.

Had a tidy sum on Adams at 14/1 Also a wee saver on Gollob at 7's Will Leigh flatter to deceive again?? Wheaty here we come!!

Is the bloke on the right in pic 4 Charlie Benham??

He certainly did, this man was God when i was about 5!!

Prime candidates for the best ever Div2 side definately, but Cradley '83 will take some beating for BEST EVER

Surprise,surprise!! Same teams in the Final's for the 3rd time on the trot

hey, good game.... I'll go next shall I? Mike Spink? next? Graham Clifton?

I thought it was 14 but you may be right. Whichever it was, hardly any other member of the Swindon team beat a Cradley rider all night. Now if there was a topic on the best one man team ever...... You're spot on it was 14. Crump 15 Andersson 6 Busk 5 Holloway 2 Bishop 1 Yeates 0 Sorensen 0

Ooooooh it's close!!!!

Without doubt the best team I've ever seen too, and probably ever will. Phil Crump scored a maximum against them though! Very true, trouble was the rest got 13 between them if i remember rightly!!

Thank you ML After all this is a Speedway Discussion Forum In my defence here, this was the point I was trying to make :!: apologies for not wording it better No probs Shazzy, sorry if i was a bit spikey in my response!

Einar Kyllingstad's 15point max for KL at Blunsdon in circa '86 Never did anything before or after but was absolutely brilliant that day!

But thats all they expected from him so i dont class it as a failure. That is very true but did Crumpie really need to scratch around for half a dozen points when 9+ was his norm at his best?? People new to the game would have thought Crumpie only an adequate rider and not the legend he is!

Didnt think he did that badly, he came back 6 years after he retired and scored a 6+ average in the BL Bob Kilby in 83 was pretty bad if you ask me. Thing is Crumpie in his pomp wpuldn't have even sniffed at a 6 point average. Killer in '83 did struggle badly and seeing Ashby not only at reserve but for Reading as well was a travesty!!

Thank you ML After all this is a Speedway Discussion Forum and we're not commenting on people in a personal manner.

oh please!!! Who mentioned anything about slating???

We all know that some riders love the game and find it hard to let it go. Who are those riders that have either kept racing too long and been a pale shadow of their former selves, or have made ill-advised comebacks?? Phil Crump for Swindon in '92 and Eric Boocock at Halifax in '83 are two that spring readily to mind, who do you recall???

Think you're getting mixed up with Brian Mckeown

Afraid so, there is a thread open in the Speedway General Discussion section with memories etc.

Zetters, i was amazed to here of the passing of Anders Eriksson. Do you know what happened??