Mr Ore

Incredible gesture on your part. Definitely not to be sniffed at.

Correct; most of the track is still visible too, with cars parked on the first and second bends the last time I was there, but the terracing extended on the other bends covering a lot of the track. Always a great venue to see football at; never got home from there sober.

I'll see your Mariánské Lázně and from the opposite perspective I have seen football at FC Vilshofen sitting in the grandstand seats at the 4th bend exit of the starting straight and watching across the track. I am sure there was at least one other pitch, in addition to the railed off, floodlit main pitch, but around 60% of the centre green was covered by a tented village with some show or conference on at the same time, with hundreds if not thousands there. . Haven't seen live racing but videos show a very fast track with good racing. I've been to many foreign tracks with pitches in the centre including 1 current, Mureck and 3 former, Felixdorf, Natschbach-Loipersbach and the city centre track at Wiener-Neustadt in Austria, with the latter producing one of the best match races I have ever seen. Also GP tracks at Daugavpils and Krskro have produced excellent racing during my visits for domestic events, although both are wide enough to allow for passing. I have also seem senior soccer Sheffield FC, rugby league Sheffield Eagles and American football Steel City Giants at Owlerton , plus international show jumping and the track still produced great racing with full sized pitches, although astroturf mats were placed on the track at each of the corners to stop players tripping over the kerbs whilst taking corners in Sheffield FC games. I also saw football at Ashington FC's old ground but it must have been a very tight track as there was little space between the terraces and pitch. I assume this has been a problem here trying to get a decent track in the confines of an existing stadium

Many post on here about riders demands but exactly how much are we actually talking about in simple money terms?

Seems this is quite a common occurrence at speedway. The last time I was at Kings Lynn they announced a bank card had been found on the terracing. The owner was forming an orderly queue at the speedway office as we were leaving the stadium.

Sorry Steve, was still typing when you posted. Didn't mean to steal your thunder.

Seems that WML had several speedway related guests. I can remember Graham Drury on, what I assume was, a later edition. Emlyn Hughes was a panelist and it was a female presenter (still racking my brain to recall who) who said he would be impressed as Drury was a sportsman. Drury declared he was an ice speedway rider , turning on his fuel tap before the start of his first race. Hughes later presented a sports show featuring "real" ice speedway from Italy and seemingly knew far more about the sport then; aka had a good researcher feeding him the info.

The late Kevin Holden was one of the riders. Mike Reid referred to them having an item of equipment missing, from when he goes to speedway (so potentially another celebrity fan) , when they rode around the studio. Kevin advised it was the steel shoe and explained its use on the track.

Not the best example. The first match decided which of the 2 competing sides won the league title that season, a bit like it being a one off play off final . The Leicester match was a Midland Cup tie, which I don't believe was a major draw. As a stand alone therefore the Hull match would no doubt have pulled the same crowd, on its own with the second match being little more than an end of season challenge of little interest. . That said I have no issues with such fixtures and attended the double header at Sheffield last year (Edinburgh and Ipswich) (and a 400 mile round trip) which was brilliantly run and great VFM, much to the chagrin of the usual dissenters, who never had any intention of attending and wished it had been a failure to extend their moan fest. Considering the Ipswich fixture had only been rained off 4 days earlier the production of a totally new programme hadn't gone unnoticed either. .

Happy to be corrected, as I said I was very young at the time..

Although I would have been very young at the rime I remember two more recent presenters, Simon Groom definitely being one, having a race at Halifax. IIRC one of them won, as the juniors they were against either fell or efed.

Even more ironic that Ronnie is spelled T-E-R-R-Y in the particular article. Still when was accuracy a tool of the serial whingers on the BSF?

If Metropolitan Counties count, London Lions. If riders count, Denzil Kent, Dave Durham, Leon Flint and Chris "Greater" Manchester. Don't think anyone has mentioned Arena Essex yet either. Quite an obvious one really.

F^^k me. Surrey charge from £29 - £32 for the cheapest pre-booked seats at the Oval with a fiver extra to pay on the day, and better seats will cost much more. No OAP discount. As a comparison the cheapest seat for a 5 day test is £270 rising to £372 for the dearest, where the first three days are £100 each. One for the persistently moaning wrinklies on BSF to digest.

A little surprised that nobody in officialdom has posted here. Following Sunday's triple-header the Kestrels cannot be caught now so become the first Kent team (as per tannoy announcements) to win a league title since 1978. Not the greatest of meetings with the main interest seemingly being to see if Alex Spooner (a class above) could beat Paul Hurry's NL track record Although going close he failed, but regularly lowered the SDL record, on his way to a 27 point maximum, from his 9 rides.. Kent beat Exeter 24 - 12, Weymouth 25-11 and Isle of Wight 28 - 8. No away riders won a heat with Exeter's Adam Sheppard's three second places being the best.

Bears more than a passing resemblance to Stadium MK too. Maybe Torquay will be followng the real Wimbledon to Bucks.

Easter Trophy at Kent tonight. Another con; it's not even Easter.

Whoa, steady on. You don't know me either yet, because I sat in the most expensive seats I must be a dishonest and unfriendly snob. You feel it not at all disgraceful to insult me and those around simply because of your irrational pseudo lower socio group persecution ideology, when it was clear to anyone with an IQ higher than an amoeba that another poster was simply having a leg pull with an associate. We were all there as speedway fans and I personally dined with 15 people from the smelly seats before the meeting, without the need to have a tetanus jab this morning, exchanging texts and Facebook messages with them before, during and after the meeting. We also stood in line with the hundreds queuing for the busses back to the park and ride and deigned to actually speak with some of them, even though we knew there was nowhere to wash our hands afterwards until the first services. Danger obviously is my middle name. No, really it is. My parents weren't very good when it came to choosing names; just ask my brother Chisel Trousers Ore. Why is it that the BSF attracts so many miserable old (FrddieEriksen)ers who always seek to find something to moan about? We had a brilliant meeting, full of action, excitement, incident, atmosphere and bon hommie, blatantly enjoyed by all there and those watching on BT Sport, yet there are always several who otherwise won't be happy.unless they can't find anything to whinge about. Fortunately you made an offer to Mr Plinge asking what you personally must be. Sadly my sarcasm juices would enter overdrive to benefit from entering such an opening, so I'll rein the irony in. . Chill out my friend and, to show that we "snobs" are decent folk and not at all unfriendly I accept, in advance your sincerest apologies, which you as.a decent human being are already composing, for insulting me and those other unknown parties around our very expensive seats. Good man. Anyhow Kent v Birmingham tonight in the Easter Trophy tonight. Hope we have loads of guests and rider replacemen to encourage erudite debate afterwards. Anyone know where the dearest seats there are? T

A pathetically bland statement immediately overtaken by a reporr of last night's meetng at the top of their news thread..Hmm. Although I worked a year in Birmingham and attended every home match, and several away during that time, I am certainly not a fan but I trust that apologies are forthcoming from certain alleged Brummie fans for the abuse hurled at Jayne Moss in support of him, and the results of his actions. .Maybe I am just farting against thunder with that desire though.

Another thread rapdly going off topic. The original poster feels that speedway is declining becaise he/she hasn't got a favourite rider. Unlike some of the rubbish we get, this seems to have been a considered and very scientific assessment of the curent problems. Although he presently doesn't have a club, because of his efforts last year, Jan Graversen is my current favourite. Rather than all this arguing shouldn't we all be having a favourite rider to get the sport back on track (see what I did there?). I have noticed that, since having a favourite, the sport is noticeably improving, so come on get a favourite and make the sport great again..

Interview with Steady on Radio Sheffield this afternoon. As usual he came across brilliantly, although some of the questions would make Lorraine Kelly seem like the ultimate investigative journalist. Hope you make a mint tomorrow Simon.

It could but as Kim has stated he is owed money from 3 clubs over the two countries this would indicate a max of 2 in one country. (And that may be Sweden). I had incorrectly read the three different currencie as being what was owed in those countries, and not the equivelent values in each. My aim was to redress some of the ill informed insults Damian faced in last years play off final by drawing attention to his ongoing credibility and business acumen which should be respected. Having said that Duggo is also not one to renege on his liabilities

Reads to me that he is owed money from each of those years in either England and/or Sweden. As he is not owed anything by Leicester it suggests the sterling debt is from 15 and 16 and at least part of the Swedish sum was due last season, but not by Vargana. He is therfore owed sterling from his time at Lakeside, whether it was from one or two seasons. Respect again to Damien Bates.. Disrepect to the others.

Surely the important thing in all this is that the SRBF does not lose out . I am sure that there are no BSF posters who are unable to attend now who will not be paying the same sum into the fund. Nobody in the wonderful speedway family can be that narrow minded. There is no reason if you can't (or won't now) attend this meeting for contributions still not to be made. At least the petrol companies will then be the only losers.

This will no doubt be the O2 which is still going strong staging concerts, sporting events and exhibitions plus a plethora of restaurants, bars and lecture theatres. I get weekly invitations to events there; today being advised that tickets are now on sale for a World Championship boxing event in a couple of months. Been to God knows how many gigs there, used various restauarnts and had a workshop with Penn and Teller in one of the smaller theatres. I appreciate that you can no longer go up an escalator into a giant's ring piece, but your observation is at best ill informed. Having witnessed the numerous failures of privatisation in selliing off key public services, this is one case where the privtae sector has actually come good with a thriving leisure complex, with tens of thousands attending every day.