Bryce

Well Vincent, since the huge majority of the people on the forum think your criticism of Middlo is unjustified, you'd best hope that we all stay. Otherwise you'll have a very small audience for your wind ups. Oh and BTW, I have never met anyone involved with Team GB other than as a fan on the terraces. They are not my mates, and I have no personal loyalty to them. I just think you're wrong about Middlo.

Great minds Dave!

In my opinion, Karlsson was always going to win that heat, and what Hans did didn't affect the result. Fair play to Sweden, they deserved their win. However, that does not mean that Hans' actions were acceptable in any way. His move in the race was just a silly thing to do, and then to compound matters he blatantly lied about it. Entirely because of Hans, the main talking point of what had been a wonderful tournament is whether or not race fixing is a part of speedway. For that alone, Hans should be ashamed. But so too should some of the posters who have gone way too far in terms of personal abuse. By all means be critical, but there is no call for threats or swearing. If we want to be taken seriously in our legitimate concerns about Andersen's actions and attitude, then we have to make our points in a reasoned and civilised way.

As I recall, the winter olympic gold winning curling team were all Scots. I was as delighted for them as I would have been any other British team. They seemed proud to be the British team. Unfortunately, there does seem to be a bit of a chip on the shoulder of some of our Celtic cousins in these areas. Witness the number of Scots that wanted anyone but England to win at Euro 2004. Yet I and most other English people happily cheer on the Scots in football events. It's such a shame that we can't all pull together as ONE nation.

i've yet to see anyone say Sweden didn't deserve their win. They surely did, and well done to them. The controversy is really about Andersen's tactics which have taken the discussion away from the racing. He was bang out of order, and not for the first time. It's just a shame that his actions have diminished what was a great world cup.

PK was flying all night and may well have won anyway, it's true. We'll never know if Scott could have caught PK. But we do know that Andersen made CERTAIN that he wouldn't. And for that he has to be condemned.

he allowed PK to beat him in the last heat decider. Than lied about what he did in the interview after. It was soo blatant, and he was so smug looking about it too. I think he just made himself hugely unpopular in this country. (Yes even more than he was)

just watching middlo's tears on the interview. The man gave his all. What 5 mins after the defeat you want him gone? That's really very low. I think he did a great job. Well done GB, great effort. Congrats to Sweden. Hans Andersen? What a muppet the man is.

Set your videos and record the repeat. Then show it every damn time anyone tells you speedway is boring. One of the best meetings I've seen in 30 years of following speedway. Awesome.

He certainly seemed to have a problem didn't he?

As posted on the official Poole site Sweden (red) Mikael Max Tony Rikardsson Antonio Lindback Andreas Jonsson Peter Karlsson Poland (blue) Greg Walasek Jarek Hampel Tomasz Gollob Janusz Kolodziej Krystof Kasprzak Czech Rep (white) Tomas Topinka Ales Dryml Bo Brhel Lukas Dryml Josef Franc Australia (yellow) Ryan Sullivan Steve Johnston Leigh Adams Jason Crump Craig Boyce Get those excel worksheets going folks

As posted on the official Poole site Sweden (red) Mikael Max Tony Rikardsson Antonio Lindback Andreas Jonsson Peter Karlsson Poland (blue) Greg Walasek Jarek Hampel Tomasz Gollob Janusz Kolodziej Krystof Kasprzak Czech Rep (white) Tomas Topinka Ales Dryml Bo Brhel Lukas Dryml Josef Franc Australia (yellow) Ryan Sullivan Steve Johnston Leigh Adams Jason Crump Craig Boyce Get those excel worksheets going folks

Yeah, let's have a Reaper love fest. Perhaps a group hug would warm his bitter and twisted heart.

Terrific effort by Scott I thought, given his physical state. The guy puts on a brave face, but the constant falls given the injuries he's carrying have got to hurt. He shouldn't feel too gutted; because whilst he was unlucky to miss out on the final, he was equally lucky to be in the semi following Andersen's EF.

Why would Sky want to see the matter dropped? They see the feud as great TV, so naturally they take every opportunity to stoke the fire of the issue. And of course Nicki rarely lets them down with his antics. Love him or hate him, the man is pure theatre.

speedway star has a full listing.

Congrats to Bjarne, Jarek and Trick. What an entertaining and suprising GP that was. More of the same in Cardiff please!

1 - A good case could be made for the ref to jump more than one way on this one. So probably all back in was the just decision. 2 - I agree, he got it right. 3 - Which then makes his choice NOT to exclude Nicki for the Hancock incident utterly beyond belief.

On it's way.

no problem. I'll mail you an excel spreadsheet. Can't take credit for creating it though. I found it through this forum. Sadly, i can't recall who did make it.

182 : number 10 is Kenny Carter, I think the number 9 is Jiri Stancl ?

Just goes to show the vagaries of speedway. Fully half of those reserves are currently injured. Combined with the unavailability of Joonas, the field is pretty thin.

Anyone remember Declan Eccles?

Alas not, though i'm keeping the name alive with my fantasy league side.

The guest rule is probably the one thing above all others that outsiders find bizarre about speedway. Restricting them has to be good. BUT. They really should have allowed a proper squad system to come into play. If the Elite League are using grading, then surely that makes squads much simpler to manage? 3 grade B riders on the books, and only 2 team berths for them. One misses out until another is dropped or injured. There are enough semi-committed riders out there to make it viable. Some would most likely welcome a less demanding schedule.