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#HullNeedsSpeedway Missing in action since September 2005.
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Joined February 2012
𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐠 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐲 turns 43 today. Enjoy your day Craig, Happy Birthday mate. 💙👍🏻. #HullNeedsSpeedway
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RT @dave_cardboard: 50 years ago yesterday @HullVikings were defeated at home 35-43 to Newport Wasps, ably led by Boulevard specialist Phil….
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The Boulevard Stadium, Hull. Where the world’s best rode! 🐐. Wednesday nights. 💙. #HullNeedsSpeedway
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Looking the absolute business Siggy. 👍🏻💙. P.s would really love to find those leathers. Please get in touch if anyone can help. #HullNeedsSpeedway
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ability but stamina for he rode in five of the last eight races. Vikings had no answer to Crump with his powerful four-valve engine who finished with a paid maximum. #HullNeedsSpeedway.
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As it turned out, this was a vital heat for the Vikings, for had they pulled off another 5-1, they might easily have gone on to win the match. For the Vikings, only McMillan and Owen offered any real threat to Newport, and teenager Owen showed that not only has he tremendous.
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Bob Coles’s challenge. This they would have done had Owen not forced his way past Amundson on the fourth bend, with just over a lap to go, for in doing so he pushed his team mate out and left a gap for Cole’s to come through and split the Vikings’ pair.
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have gone 10-2 ahead for Kym Amundson and Joe Owen looked all set for another 5-1 when, for some unknown reason, Owen had to take the lead. With Jim Tenby out of the race having lost his clutch at the start, Vikings got themselves into a 5-1 position and only had to stave off.
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Street and Herne’s exclusions gave Vikings a tremendous opportunity to get a firm grip of the match from the start, and they did with Jimmy McMillan and Bobby Beaton producing a 5-1. Although Vikings increased their lead to 9-3 with a 4-2 success in the second race, they should.
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and Phil Herne, being excluded for tape breaking. Then, in what turned out to be a farcical opening to the match, it took 12min and four attempts to start the first heat, and just over an hour to complete the first half of the match.
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Vikings again failed to stamp their authority on the meeting at the gate, and that, plus too many mechanical failures and the inability of certain riders to team ride, lost them the match. The match started in an amazing way with both Newport’s opening two riders, Neil Street
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OTD 50 years ago - in a meeting scattered with incidents and disappointments, Hull Vikings slumped to their fifth and heaviest British league home defeat, when they went down 43-35 to Newport at the Boulevard, and once again, it was mainly Vikings’ own failings which cost them.
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RT @dave_cardboard: 50 years ago @HullVikings came second in a 4 team tournament at Bradford. The second division team also beat Sheffield….
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A disastrous meeting for Mitch Graham, he was excluded under the two minutes in his first ride and then retired in all three of his other rides with bike problems. #HullNeedsSpeedway
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OTD 50 years ago - the Vikings competed in a Four Team Tournament challenge at Bradford and finished runners up with 23 points behind winners Bradford on 32. Top scorer for the Vikings was Jimmy McMillan on 11, dropping just one point to Sheffield’s Doug Wyer.
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RT @staechmanager: @HullVikings I remember that well Matt, Bradford were so good that year. PS: The fence certainly wasn't collapsible - ce….
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