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Cook isn't good enough at the level you need to get onto the podium at world cup level, Tai, Harris and Nicholls if they could get back to form they are capable of and Danny King are all better than Cook but we have never had any team since 2004 which is capable of winning. To me it wasn't the fact that Cook got beaten at Kings Lynn that was the problem but more the way he got beaten.

Middlo picked cook and cook failed.

Probably pick Nick Morris and then realise he isn't british anymore!

Now your asking him to multi task!!

Hope Rosco won't mind us criticising his every mistake and there are likely to be quite a few!

I agree an independant panel is needed as with all sport but the promoters always maintain it is unaffordable

How about the fact that Bridger wasn't riding in the meeting.

Blimey you must have long and hard about how to get a anti poole/Darcy comment on this thread, well done , great committment to your obsession

He didn't need either in the team.

Just pointing out that every sport panders to tv in some way and football create extra excitement and tension with a shoot out, the joker creates excitement and tension and a last heat decider. I didn't say i agreed with it just pointing out why it is here to stay.

The basics are not difficult to understand or the scoring system, the joker will remain as it creates excitement in a similar way to the penalty shoot out and if we didnt have football on tv there would be more matches replayed.

Other sports dont need to, speedway is a minority sport that needs tv more than most other sports

He should be sacked for not putting his best rider in the last heat

That as may be but I cant see them changing the rule anytime soon, its keeps teams close and the paying public interest is kept for longer and it is good for tv.

There seems to be people on here demeaning polands. achievement just because they used the rules to their advantage which denmark would have done had they been in the same position. While you may not agree with the joker rule it creates excitement just as a tac rule does in normal league racing.

Poland were the better team, when milik fell bjerre was last, he won the re-run, if milik didnt fall bjerre would be third at best with dudek winning, thats a 4 point turnaround lucky for bjerre unlucky for dudek and poland wouldnt have used the joker and kasprzak would have been third in his race instead of feigning a breakdown. Poland were the better team and deserved champs

Bjerre bottled it more, off gate 1 let kasprzak by him

If we had a referee who made a correct decision then poland wouldnt have had the chance to use the joker, kasprzak would have come third instead of feigning a breakdown and poland would still have won, the joker is there to compensate for crap decisions,if the czechs were in contention the decision may have been different.

People have to realise the joker like the double tac ride in the league is their to keep the meeting close, denmark. should have won but they lost not because of the joker but because nicki broke down, bjerre failed to beat kasprzak when he was off gate 1 and kasprzak gate4 and janowski beat iversen. Up to the joker demark had all the luck

Yes bjerre got lucky then poland got lucky with nicki breakdown and dudek barging doyley but heyho I had 400 at 6/4 so im not complaining!!

Funny how the best riders always wanted to ride for him, I remember crumpie saying the only person he wanted to ride for was middlo.

I think the poles will do it, they dont appear to have any weak links and dudek is going to be world champ one day

I didnt think we would win but without harris kill switch problem and tai coming last we could have been in a winning position going into the last four races, latvia obviously have some good young talent and fisher and wells upped their game from event2. The surprise element was woodward he rode out of his skin and greg was fantastic but overall luck didnt favour us. I felt all along the smoother style of danny king would be better than barker or bridger and sadly proved right. I actually thought lewis did ok but barkers only decent race was on harris's bike so why didnt we try that earlier.

I thought lukas dryml was injured, is he fully fit?

The way Pedersen and Hancock were riding and the fact that Harris hardly ever makes the gate, couldn't see any reason for thinking Harris would have won that race and there was absolutely no chance of us winning that meeting whatever the management team did. Don't know what you think of Mark Lemon letting Watt have four rides for one point!!