Ghostwalker

does anyone know at what time the semi draws are supposed to be made?

what do "we" know about Team USA? Greg, hamill, Janniro?+2 others.

i think its always hard to defend your title. Not many people have done that through the years before not Loram, not Nicki not Crump, not Hancock or Billy Hamill. Its always a big pressure on these riders to perform good in the GP series and when you are the camp its alot of extra pressure and i would guess that its not easy to live up to all that pressure. Its still many races to go in the Gp series but i dont think that crump will be involved in the title fight. I do believe that he will be back on track next year and then be more hungry to re-claim the champ title.

Is this new from this season? from what i can remember last year it was most points after 5 heats. IMO its good though that the semi winners gets to choose first.

according to the swedish commentators they worked with the track all night to get it in a good shape. They also said that alot of the riders had complained on the track during the practice sesson. So i think that person was right but the organizers managed to fix it during the night.

hi sorry but you can find the same thing in this thread: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=35360

full results: http://www.piraterna.se/default.aspx?NodeId=276

Track reserves will be Jonas Davidsson and Sebastian Aldén

sporadic uppdates: http://www.corren.se/archive/2007/6/30/j9mmdymqah7ot8j.xml after 3 rounds: 1. M. Max 8p 2. Balinski, Bjerre, JBj 7p 3.T omasz Gapinski, Kauko Nieminen and Fredrik Lindgren 6p.

And I think you are wrong Ghostwalker then saying that you are not sure if the location is the biggest reason.. Ponder this: the old track Snälltorpet was lying a 5 mins walk from the centra of Eskilstuna and the track was easily reached for the most of Eskilstunas citizens with a nice walk or bicycle. From the other side of Eskilstuna you had to cycle for about max 15 mins to reach the track, you did not need a car to get there. Now: the track is 1.2 Swedish miles out from the central Eskilstuna and just a few bicycle, the majority goes with car and and a handful with the bustransfer. If you were thinking of walking, you shall count on approx 2hours at least one way. People arent walking that distance! Of course the location is a very valid reason that the attendance are that it is. Cheers Mikael <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Alright Mikael now im going to disagree with you again the 2003 season was the best season every according to the stats at smederna.nu this is top13: 1) 4207 2003 Smedstadion League Victory 2) 4047 2001 Snälltorpet 3) 3876 1974 Snälltorpet 4) 3733 2004 Smedstadion 5) 3718 1975 Snälltorpet 6) 3688 1973 Snälltorpet League Victory 7) 3568 2005 Smedstadion 8) 3534 1953 B-plan 9) 3500 1951 B-plan 10) 3500 1952 B-plan 11) 3202 2002 Smedstadion 12) 2931 1999 Snälltorpet if you look at this only 2001 and 1999 is the seasons of Snälltorpet the past 10 years that had attendances at todays level and 2001 was the last year with alot of extra arrangements (according to smederna.nu). So with this i claim that the location of the arena isnt the biggest reason for lower attendances

about tv coverage tv4 who was responsible for the broadcasts said that no one watched. This wasnt so surprising though since it wasnt live and and it was shown at a time when most people were at the arenas watching speedway. However according to a news article SVT (=Swedish BBC) might be interested in showing the play-offs. There were also claims that the interest for next years broadcast rights was quit big so hopefully we will have good coverage from next season. And NO AJ is not the big hope epspecially since there are speedway fans (including me) that doesnt like him or his style to always blame something else then himself when its not going well in the Gps. IMO AJ doesnt have what it takes to become a big star. I rather see that Antonio or JD and Fredrik Lindgren gets more attention.

well www.piraterna.se would be a good place to start. Im not 100% sure that they will have uppdates but we'll se. I also read that Pawl Hlib has pulled out from this meeting: http://www.speedwayworld.tv/en/news/a8056

NThe Promotions and releagtions are reglated in the rulkes for the speedway series system. last team in Elitserien is relegated to Allsvenskan and the bottom team in Allsvenskan is relegated to Division 1. In the oher direction the team that wins Division 1 is promoted to Allsvenskan and the team that wins the Allsvenskan playoffs ; teams 2 and 3 meet in a semi final and the winner meets team 1 in the final where the winner is promoted to Elitserien. I hope this was what you wanted to know.

Well im not so sure that the location of Smedstadion is the biggest reason for decreasing spectator figures. Since its either 10-15 minutes by car from the major parts of the city/Municipality there is also special bus line that has 2 departues on match days. It has a quite reasonable price (20kr for each direction). Alos the 2003 season which was the 2nd year with the new arena show up some fantasic spectator draws with an avergae of 4200 and a pike at the home meeting against masarna where an amazing number of 8353 came to see the match. However one important thing that might affect the spector draws is that Smederna lost the Swedish team-final in 2003 despite being the best team during the season and i think that this still affects the number of spectators. IMO its the less good results that is the major reason but since Smederna now has performed a kind of generation change the "oldies" like Hamill and Nahlin and "semi-oldies" like Nicki P, JBJ and Scott N are gone. They are replaced by a young hungry team with alot of fighting spirit with riders Like Roo-boy, Miskowiak and Buczkowski together with polish stars Jagus and Kasprzak and Swedish riders Eric A, Linus Eklöf and Stefan "Ando" Andersson. This season with the help of a bit luck we might make it to top 6 and playoffs but next year (if we can keep the team intact) a place in the semi finals is definitely with in reach and i think if this team starts show good results the spectators will comeback.

No it doesnt work that way. A Team can pull out yes but if they want to continue the season after they will have to restart in the division 1 league. Then they will need to win the Div1 in the 1st season then the next season they will have to win the Allsvenskan play-offs to regain their place in Elitserien. The strength is sligthly better then regular Allsvenskan teams. They are a bit too good for allsvenskan but not good enough for Elitserien.

well they surely have some difficult time ahead of them. Poor results on track and poor results off track. The new stadium will if ever most likely not be ready until 2009 according to Tommy Rander due to appeals and that kind of stuff.

Well i think it is between "the same old guys" Nicki, Hans, Crump, Adams, Greg and Maybe Harris and Jagus. Jagus have done some practising during this week and hopefully he will back to his good season opening shape. My support goes to Jagus, Nicki, Antonio and Adams. Especially Jagus.

i think this with taking away bottled drinks is wrong. I mean they only do it because they want to sell more inside to a much higher price. I can understand if they take away alcohol but not non-alcoholic drinks.

i've added links to pictures from the meeting between Rospiggarna - Dackarna, from the meeting between Indianerna - Piraterna and from the meeting between Kaparna - Hammarby.

Sure i think the polish team is just as strong and the Swedish and Aussie team is only slightly weaker.

How about Troy Batchelor is he still Injured or is he not considered to be good enough? It will be tough for the Aussies but Adams, Sullivan and Schlein has been riding very well lately but its the no5 spot that is the weakness of this team.

Jagus is ok now. He will make comeback at Cardiff. If it had been necessary he could have been riding today but the decision was made that it would be better if he rested a few more days since we didnt except to win todays meeting anyway.

IMO its really a shame that they went with taking out Holta when Poland has such many other good riders like Jagus, Zabik, Kolodziej, Ulamek although the latter has been showing up a poor form. If I were the Swedish coach i would nominate this team: 1. A Jonsson 2. F. Lindgren 3. J. Davidsson 4. A.Lindbäck 5. T. H. Jonasson it wouldn't be a team for winning but a team for the future. I think that PK is a good rider but i think its time for him to step down and gice room for someone younger.

Todays Meetings in Swedish Elitserien. Round 9 of 18: Today's Meetings Meeting delayed to approx. 19.30. the reason for this appears to be that there are some problem with the fence. --------------- Rospiggarna - Dackarna pictures from the meeting: http://www.speedwayfoto.com/SpeedwayFoto20...0626/index.html ------------- Elit Vetlanda - Smederna This meeting is cancelled because of Rain The new date for this meeting is Thursday July 12th. at 19.00 CET. ------------- Kaparna - Hammarby This Meeting takes place on Smedernas hometrack Smedstadion (Swedish GP Track). pictures from this meeting: http://www.motorz.se/foto/07/070626_kaparna-bajen/ ---------------- MasarnaAvesta - Västervik --------------- Indianerna - Piraterna pictures from the meeting: http://www.oveandersson.se/indianernapiraterna070626/ ----------------- All Meetings to start at 19.00 CET

didn't he turn down his spot in the qualifiers?