Stoke Potters

Stoke Potters
Club information
Track address	Loomer Road Stadium Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire ST5 7LB
Country	England
Founded	1929,
Team manager	Malcolm Vasey
League	National League
Website	Official site
Club facts
Colours	Red and White
Track size	312 meters
Track record time	59.1
Track record date	August 8, 1987
Track record holder	Andrew Silver
Current Team
Rider	CMA
Simon Lambert	{{{rider1cma}}}
Tony Atkin	{{{rider2cma}}}
Tim Webster	{{{rider3cma}}}
Gareth Isherwood	{{{rider4cma}}}
James Sarjeant	{{{rider5cma}}}
Jaimie Pickard	{{{rider6cma}}}
Ben Reade	{{{rider7cma}}}
Total	{{{totalcma}}}
Major team honours
National League Fours Champions National League Div 3 Champions	1990 1949

For the football club, see Stoke City F.C.

The Stoke Potters are a British Speedway team currently competing in the National League. The team races at Loomer Road Stadium.

In the late 1940s, early 1950s and the early 1960s, the club was based in Sun Street in Hanley, and were originally known as the Hanley Potters when crowds of over 12,000 were attracted but became the Stoke Potters when the five towns mereged to become Stoke. Hanley won the National League Division Three in 1949.

Th Sun Street track operated a few times before the war.

The Loomer Road track was home to Stoke from 1973 when they were known for one season as Chesterton Potters. In 1996 it was home to the Cradley Heath team displaced from their base at Dudley Wood Stadium, Cradley Heath

In December 2008 the Stoke Promoter, Dave Tattum, sanctioned a brand new, supporter based official website. www.potterspower.com was released to signal a new era for the Potters.

November 2010 saw a major decision taken by the Clubs Promotion. The team were to withdraw from Premier League racing to drop a division and compete in the National League, speedway's third tear. The club had struggled financially for the last couple of seasons and the move was made in order to stabalise finances and hopefully get on a sure footing to make a return to the Premier League in a couple of seasons or so.

2011 saw the Club top the National League Table by seven points. Injuries struck key riders and this affected their final matches in which they were beaten in the Play-Off semi finals by Mildenhall who also beat them in the Final of the National League Knockout Cup.

2010 Team

• Jason Bunyan
• Klaus Jakobsen
• Michał Rajkowski
• Hynek Stichauer
• Ricky Wells

• James Holder
• Taylor Poole
• Lubos Tomicek

2009 Team

• Lee Complin
• Jason Bunyan
• Tom P. Madsen
• Phil Morris

• Klaus Jakobsen
• Jesper Kristiansen

2008 Team

• Lee Complin
• Ben Barker
• Mark Burrows
• Andrew Moore
• Krister Jacobsen
• Klaus Jakobsen
• Jesper Kristiansen

Also Rode:

• Barrie Evans
• Emiliano Sanchez

2007 Team

• Claus Vissing
• Lee Complin
• Glenn Cunningham
• Rusty Harrison
• Barrie Evans
• Jamie Smith
• Ben Barker

Also Rode

• Robbie Kessler
• Paul Pickering
• Jack Hargreaves
• Garry Stead (Garry suffered horrific injuries in a crash at Somerset.)

2006 Team

• Paul Clews
• Michael Coles
• Robbie Kessler
• Mark Lemon
• Trent Leverington
• Alan Mogridge
• Barrie Evans
• Luke Priest
• Paul Thorp

Notable riders

• Peter Jarman
• John Fitzpatrick
• Ken Adams
• Ray Harris
• Les Jenkins
• Colin Pratt

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  Riders 1976

External links

• Potterspower website