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Kent Kings V Wimbledon, now 16/09/2013


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You are just getting on my t***s.Sorry. :D

 

Moobs squared. But I don't think you should be apologising. Maybe a challenge against Barking would have met with less resistance and be more apt!!!
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Scenario: press phone call by home team spokesman to newspaper in the area that might be interested in a Wimbledon speedway story.

Home team spokesman: "We are staging a challenge match against Wimbledon on Monday, August 12,"

Sports reporter: "I thought the speedway team folded in 2005?"

Home team spokesman: "This is a one-off challenge match against Wimbledon."

Sports reporter: "I see, Why have you chosen to race against Wimbledon - is there any purpose behind the fixture?"

Home team spokesman: "I don't see the purpose of your question."

Sports reporter: "In that case I don't think the match is of interest to us."

Burring sound as sports reporter hangs up his phone. Result, nobody in the Wimbledon area reads about the match in their local newspaper, hence "no bums from Plough Lane" on seats in the home team's stand for the match.

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Seems strange that a non-interesting Challenge (according to gusics) has so far had over 2,000 views (National League normally a lot less views than say Elite) with still 10 days to go before the meeting.I suggest there will be a better than normal crowd at the meeting - lets see. :D

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Seems strange that a non-interesting Challenge (according to gusics) has so far had over 2,000 views (National League normally a lot less views than say Elite) with still 10 days to go before the meeting.I suggest there will be a better than normal crowd at the meeting - lets see. :D

 

Please quote me where I have said this is a non-interesting Challenge? Far from it. I first attended Wimbledon in 1948 and have always had a affection for the club and its doings ever since.

Your comment is, I feel, trying to sidetrack what is a minor request - when the fixture was first thought of and - so we have been informed there was planning for the meeting - why is the reason for staging it shrouded in secrecy?

Have you yet tested how many actual Wimbledon supporters know of the event - certainly so far not through their local press which has not mentioned the match. :lol:

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I have literally no idea why 'gustix' thinks this meeting has been 'shrouded in secrecy' - it absolutely has NOT been!!!

 

Like most clubs we issue news via our official website and on there is where you'll find the full team (the Dons team that is...) announced over this weekend I believe.

 

FIVE out of the 7 rode either for the 2002-'05 Dons or were second halfers at Ploiugh Lane during that period.

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I have literally no idea why 'gustix' thinks this meeting has been 'shrouded in secrecy' - it absolutely has NOT been!!!

 

Like most clubs we issue news via our official website and on there is where you'll find the full team (the Dons team that is...) announced over this weekend I believe.

 

FIVE out of the 7 rode either for the 2002-'05 Dons or were second halfers at Ploiugh Lane during that period.

 

This is now getting a move in the right direction in regard to the team to represent Wimbledon. But still continuing to be unanswered or at least clarified is why was it decided to race a challenge match against Wimbledon? A fairly simple question but seemingly not providing a simple answer.

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I have literally no idea why 'gustix' thinks this meeting has been 'shrouded in secrecy' - it absolutely has NOT been!!!

 

Like most clubs we issue news via our official website and on there is where you'll find the full team (the Dons team that is...) announced over this weekend I believe.

 

FIVE out of the 7 rode either for the 2002-'05 Dons or were second halfers at Ploiugh Lane during that period.

 

With acknowledgments, this is now on the Kent Kings website. It does go some way to answering points that I have previously raised:

 

 

WIMBLEDON DONS TO BATTLE FOR JOHN CEARNS CUP

Looking slightly ahead; a team representing the Wimbledon Dons are set to battle it out for the John Cearns Cup on Monday 12th August at Central Park. The Dons were sadly forced out of their stadium after the 2005 season due to a high increase in rent from their landlords, a very sad end to the capital club steeped in history since the 1920’s.

The Kings chairman Roger Cearns has solid links with Wimbledon, his grand-father WJ Cearns built Wimbledon Stadium in 1928 while his father John was a director for 60 years from the early ‘30s to the 1990’s. With these firm links in mind a side comprising of five riders with links to the Dons contest the John Cearns Cup.

Chris Schramm (2003), Chris Mills (2002) and Andre Cross (2002-2004) all appeared in the famous Gold Star body colour at Plough Lane, while Aaron Baseby and Brendan Johnson both raced second half events during 2005. Ryan Terry-Daley was born in Hammersmith, but was brought up in New Zealand, a country with strong links for the Dons in years past. Team manager for the Dons is current Isle of Wight team manager and co-promoter Chris Hunt who was an ever present throughout 2002 and 2003.

The Dons body colours are being made especially for the event and they will all be signed by the riders and sold in the bar after the meeting with all the funds going towards the riders' equipment kitty.

WIMBLEDON DONS from: Andre Cross, Brendan Johnson, Aaron Baseby, Chris Schramm, Chris Mills, Ryan Terry-Daley, Shane Hazelden, Team manager: Chris Hunt

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::: Ryan Terry-Daley was born in Hammersmith, but was brought up in New Zealand, a country with strong links for the Dons in years past.

 

It's a tenuous link to qualify for a place in a Wimbledon team. It tends to remind me of an old Music Hall joke that featured a "a man on the Clapham Omnibus". But I can understand the rider's inclusion - there are very few riders now available from the Wimbledon Conference League days 2002-5 as has been explained on here by P1928.

What we need to do in the few days before the match, hopefully by then with any updates, is to analyse how many points we expect Kent Kings to win by.

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Personally I don't give a monkeys, whether the Wimbledon team is all riders who rode in the Dons colours,

I understand the team I suggested to Mr Cearns of:

Kevin and Neville Tatum,

Jamie and Jeremy Luckhurst,

Roger and Peter Johns,

and Moggo.

Were unavailable, so he went for different riders.

 

Basicily I think it's a fun idea, and as long as there is some decent riding on the evening, I don't mind.

 

It is fortunate I am able to attend this meeting. I for one as an old Wimbledon supporter will cheering for the Dons, whoever they may ride for usually.

 

Purpose of meeting!!! does it really matter and how many of the forumers, who have be bad mouthing the meeting intend to attend, even if there was a overpowering reason for the meeting. :unsure:

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Despite the negativity being shown at times, I'm really looking forward to the meeting despite the long journey from the other side of King's Lynn, and I don't give one iota who's riding, as long as Derek Barclay isn't riding, team managing, announcing, writing, editing or selling the programme, running the track shop, serving in the refreshment outlets, showing people to the seating areas, being an emergency paramedic or doctor. Oh, or timekeeper, Track Curator, Press Officer, Website manager, Track Photographer, Clerk of the Course, Pit Marshall, Start Marshall, Flag Marshall, Tractor or Grader Driver, Machine Examiner, Health & Safety Officer, Incident Recorder or assistant and car park attendant. DO THEY HAVE TOILET ATTENDANTS?? Can't wait..................COME ON YOU DONS!! Looking forward to seeing you really Parsloes 1928, as there are very few fixtures that would make me take up the challenge of the M11, M25 and M2, then those motorways in reverse order to back home again. Is a CM with Crayford in the pipeline at all :lol:

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What we need to do in the few days before the match, hopefully by then with any updates, is to analyse how many points we expect Kent Kings to win by.

Do we?? Really man??? Sorry but I have a life to lead so will let you entertain yourself with that one!!!!!!
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