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Have to agree with Steve in that it would be easier to name the not so friendly riders. But we don’t want to start any negativity and quite frankly I can’t think of any The one who sticks in my mind and I have mentioned it a couple of times was Bob Paulson, who was both friendly and mental in a crazy way. Out of the blue whilst waiting in the pits with a friend started calling me the wizard. I wasn’t quite sure what was going on, but he signed my book to ‘the wizard’ and I still have that somewhere around !!

These line-ups really are underwhelming !!!

I think so, in the same way Colin Goody is the same rider as Colin Gooddy or Mike Broadbank and Mike Broadbanks are the same rider

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Farndon Maybe he posted it here because the highlight of Farndons short career was winning the Star Trophy At Wembley in 1933...,,

Teams announced for the Landshut meeting on the Landshut fb page. Germany with Huckenbeck, Smoli and Härtel as U21 rider Poland with Jankowski, Zmarzlik and Smektala (U21) Sweden with Lindgren, Ljung and Hjelmland (U21)

Exactly. Surely at the start of the season the level of shale should be checked to see if new stuff is needed? I actually mean before the season starts rather than after some practice sessions and a couple of meetings!! And surely every track has a ton of shale or so in stock

Have the tables turned now ? Years ago the Polish clubs had the upper hand and could dictate to the riders. The only one I know who was having none of it was Hauzinger, who would race in the Danish 1 division instead of turning up for practice. He told me they wouldn't stop him earning money on a Saturday, although quite what he could earn on a Saturday in Denmark couldn't have been too much !! But he was hardly a start anywhere apart from in Austria Now it seems there is a complete lack of riders available for all the clubs. They are signing up foreign riders of fairly average quality and so a decent rider knows he has an advantage and will be valuable on the market. Some like Cook(at home) and maybe now Bewley are trying to take advantage?

His average was lower than both though. Or are you saying just at Arlington he was better or more exciting or something?

Thomsen,Andersen,Bjarne, Bech, Jakobsen Kildwmand and Liglad are nominated. No idea who rides where

After yesterday’s Danish quali the following are in the GP qualis A. Thomsen H.Andersen K.Bjerre M. Bech M. Michelsen N.K. Iversen wildcard guess Bjarne and Frederik Jakobsen didn’t want to enter, as they finished higher than some. They have been nominated for the Euro Championship though Missed the fact that Puk got a wildcard,so Jakobsen maybe had no choice

What is more amazing is those old riders done it all and still had time to down 7 pints of ale before,during or after every meeting. Not like the lilly livered health freaks of today

No but didn’t look further than the Outrup site. Thought it usually goes on placings in last years Danish Final plus.... so for me, likely to be much better than Robert Lambert plus the usual line up at Güstrow, although Riss and Lakhbaum would be good to see Found this, but obviously including Nicki so a bit out of date http://www.speedway-forum.de/index.php?thread/15525-dsl-labberfred-2019/&pageNo=17

http://www.outrup-speedway.dk/#toggle-id-2-closed Big news is Nicki has decided not to enter. But great line up. Was thinking of going to Güstrow for the Easter Cup, but the Outrup line- up will be far better, so possible change of mind

The discussion has been done to death, but as you say there are national qualification meetings. Denmark host their meeting in a few days at Outrup. Just the British have done away with them. It was their decision, not the FIM and it is a decision probably more to do with hardly anyone wanting to host a Conference Standard quali and all the other meetings on the way....they just lost money the same as test meetings. If promoters thought there was a demand they would host such meetings I would guess And big news is that Nicki P has decided not to enter the Danish quali for the GP’s

Not only that, but he finished 8th in the world final. If he finished 8th in a GP series he would automatically be in the next season. All this talk of Jack Young is bunkum!!!

I don't understand your reasoning. Under todays system Jack Young might well have been nominated if he done well in the Aussie Championships or whatever the Australian federation consider for the qualifiers.It has nothing to do with which league he rides in I do agree a rider who has a great season would have to wait for the next year if he wasn't already in. But I don't think the strength of the old was that any rider, no matter what level had a chance to enter

Yes there is a long list of riders who made it onto the rostrum,sometimes a couple of times,but never made that final step to world champ

Not a suggestion of something illegal, surely ? I personally wouldn’t put too much importance in Tai passing Nicki

I understand that. Even riders like Kevin Wölbert have gone through the Polish junior meetings and eventually it is certain 1 or 2 will make the grade The trouble is, in the meantime fans get short changed because even in one heat there is big gap in ability. And no less important is the danger to other riders. I can understand it in Germany, it is a bit of a shock to see this in Poland

Honestly wonder what is happening to speedway even in Poland now.Teams seem to be built around maybe 3 top riders and then they have very little.So they might be able to keep the scores close,but realistically have no chance of winning away. Some of these riders are very poor.Just watched the first two heats of the tarnow meeting and a youngster just piled into Gafurov and then in the next heat another guy was wobbling around and then crashed into the air fence whilst at the back......A real lack of riders around is showing through now

Saw him a few times, but not really a rider that sticks in the memory for anything apart from his membership of ‘rider who’s name is often mis-spelt’ group

Der Hammer, Wittstock. Unfortunate camera position. Egon Müller commentating by the start gate

Jedd has been on a 500cc longer than that? He rode last year in Güstrow on the 18.05.2018.That is almost a year ago and surely he didn't make his debut in that meeting? Jedd List AUS (0,0,1,1,0)-2 Keynan Rew AUS Leon Arnheim Lukas Baumann Lukas Fienhage Michael Härtel Daniel Spiller Ethan Spiller Emil Breum DEN Mads Hansen DEN Martin S. Hansen DEN Nick Säyriö FIN Lasse Fredriksen NOR Damian Stalkowski POL Roman Lakhbaum RUS Viktor Trofimov UKR

Seeing as he has made some contacts and done a few meetings on the continent in previous years,he might do a few meetings there to keep going ?

Compelling question obviously is, is the track photographer an improvement on last season ?