Tracy Bird

Yes 3 ageing heat leaders and journeymen second strings terry tulloch excepted, yes Sampson as he was then would have been a hell of a improvement,made it worse that mal corradine had his best ever season at middlesborough that year,it was a very poor season,only kept off the bottom because of scunthorpes problems that year.

No the old one next door

Remember that meeting,was that the meeting when the track resembled Weymouth beach?i remember the seyco championship in 1977 when mal corradine stalked him for 3 laps before passing Sampson on his way to winning the meeting,we should have signed Sampson when Eastbourne moved up

I wonder now iversens season is all but over in Poland will he be signed by one busters teams before the deadline?

Up to the mid seventies all commonwealth riders rode in the British world championship rounds

Couldn't, agree more, while I'm sad that Valentin has packed in, he was slowly getting there but Henry has struggled since his injury and Kurtz apart from the odd ride has been woeful, he,s even struggled in heat 8 more often than not, I'm surprised he,s lasted so long.

Atkins has asked to stand down now.Rode his last match last night at Eastbourne,he has struggled since his injury.

And James Shane’s

Josh Pickering is out injured with a broken shoulder blade, don,t think he,ll be riding for a while ?

Remember Geoff mudge passing the great man in a world championship qr at Poole in 1969 and Reidar eide and John langfield getting a 5-1 over him in 1971 , apart from these he was virtually unbeatable at Poole,even Simmons at his best always got beaten, he broke the track record in 1975 with Simmons up his exhaust pipe,it wasn't,t till his latter hull days that he became beatable.

You missed pete smith who had over a 9 point average in 1969 a lot more than some mentioned

Jim McMillan got 2 rides as a reserve in 1972 at wembley

Goog allen

Thomas pettersson,kjell gimre,lars Inge hultberg,Erik tilgaard,Einar egedius gotfred andreasen Henryk glucklich,jerzy trzeszkowski

Remembering Vic Harding today left us 39 years ago 8/6/1979

Mark sawyer

Heat 1 Nigel couzens was not excluded,perhaps late or machinery not ready Heat 9 john Wilson excluded tapes Heat 13 dave Gifford excluded tapes

Mark dekok,Bruce spargo,Greg joint,Chris Martin all appeared for Weymouth.

The swede that rode at the world team cup final was lars ake Andersson. I would put jack white who rode against English test teams in Australia in the late 60s, far as I remember never rode over here and Laurie hodgson who was coming over here but had a bad crash and was wheelchair bound

Remembering Vic Harding today taken from us 38 years ago today

Hard to believe it is 40 years ago today that Kevin Holden was taken from us,a night we will never forget. RIP kevin

Poole v Coatbridge April 1968, odd fossengens debut for Poole, I prefer Somerset now , elite league does nothing for me now

I'm in Manchester staying opposite the track and it's been raining non stop until a hour ago no English track could withstand that much rain

dudek and janowski riding for their Swedish teams tonight in a dead rubber so it can,t be that important