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Post by schumi on Feb 14, 2009 22:52:30 GMT
Barry Thomas rode for Hackney between 1970 and 1989. Now, genghis said Ronnie Genz rode for 14 seasons, and that was a club record, so I assume Thommo beat it with his 20. Has there been anyone who's ridden for a team for longer since?
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Post by admin on Feb 14, 2009 23:03:45 GMT
Not this country, but Andrzej Huszcza joined the Zielona Gora club in 1974 and rode for them until the end of the 2005 season, which is a little bit more than thirty years. After leaving Zielona Gora following the 2005 season, the remarkable Huszcza had a couple of seasons with Poznan before retiring. He was 50-years-old when he retired ahead of the 2008 season.
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And the Barry Thomas statistic is misleading, since he spent a couple of seasons with Crayford in the early 1980s and was only Hackney's No 8.
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Post by schumi on Feb 14, 2009 23:16:01 GMT
Is there anything you don't know?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 1:26:24 GMT
Dave Mullet rode 18 seasons for Reading, although his first apperances were as a no.8.
Reading had a good record of club loyal servants. During my years watching Reading the following riders celebrated testimonials at Smallmead.
Bernie Leigh
Jan Andersson
Jem Doncaster
Phil Morris
Dave Mullet x 2
Tony Olsson
Dave Steen
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Post by admin on Feb 15, 2009 2:50:58 GMT
Again, not British, but what about Henrik Gustafsson at Indianerna Kumla? I believe he joined Indianerna in 1986 and rode for the club until the end of the 2008 season. That's twenty-three seasons, by my reckoning.
But I think the Poles take some beating in the club loyalty stakes; "steady" Edward Jancarz had a little over twenty years with Gorzow (1965-1986), Wieslaw Jagus has been with Torun since he started in 1992 so that's seventeen seasons, Tomasz Gollob was with Bydgoszcz for a lot of years before moving to Tarnow ahead of the 2004 season and even Krzystzof Kasprzak, at just 24-years-of-age, is heading for his ninth season with Leszno in 2009.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2009 3:46:08 GMT
After last night, I feel that the place to learn about speedway issues is right here on your forum, so I'll ask the question....
Do you know how long Jerzy Szczakiel raced for Opole?
I have only ever seen him being referred to as an Opole rider, but I dunno whether he had a long career with Opole after his amazing victory in 1973, or whether he moved on from Opole, or even if he moved away from the sport while still relatively young....
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Post by admin on Feb 15, 2009 15:38:02 GMT
Jerzy Szczakiel spent his whole career with Opole. I believe he started out in 1967 with Opole and retired from riding in 1980 (a back injury caused his retirement), whereafter he became manager of the Opole team.
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