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The trouble is who has the right to call a meeting off?If it really is the riders then we are in big trouble. There is hardly ever in most of these situations just the one view.Riders have different opinions and often it is the one(s) who shout loudest that hold sway.Warsaw a couple of years ago was chaotic and a few years back a Danish world championship quali at Esbjerg was called off on the saturday(the day i travelled up)quite rightly as it was raining heavily.So they set about running it the next day and after about 6 heats the 'riders' decided the track wasn't good enough and had it called off again.The problem lways will be that the riders who had a bad heat or two will be in a negative mind set and could also be suspected of wanting a new start so they can have a clean sheet again.The riders who done well will probably want the meeting to go on.Jesper Monberg did come out afterwards and state that he thought the meeting should have carried on and he was partly at fault for not standing up and being more vocal for tht viewpoint....... In the end though the ref should be the one and if he say's the meeting goes on and riders drop out then they must face a ban.Fairly lengthy one imo

Already been done on another thread here and caused a bit of an argument!!! But there is no link on your thread either Looks like the original post has been deleted after the tiff,but someone managed to copy it before.......with links to 2 different articles http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80644&page=64

Not telling us you went and googled 'Walter Plinge'???

First time i have seen a Leicester meeting ,thanks to youtube My thoughts.Not such a great meeting as some were going on about.That is what made me watch in the first place.The last heat was super though As for Riss being excluded,i think it was unfair.Morris seemed to ride the same line in two different heats and in one it was a great pass by Danny King squeezing round him.Didn't like that move going to the lne by Bjerre.For me he should have been excluded

I am surprised nobody has mentioned what i think is one f the major problems facing speedways future.That of the decline in numbers of youngsters taking up the sport In Denmark the number of under 16 riders seems to have dropped by about 50% over the past few years.In Germany we have just had the German U21 Final and only 14 riders competed.One heat only had 2 riders and when one had mechanical problems it was left with one rider going round on his own.A terrible situation...About a decade ago there were qualification rounds both north and south.I remember in some of the northern rounds there were so many riders that they had to hold a pre meeting qualification to get the numers down to just 16. If this decline carries on then most of the other problems facing the sport will be irrelevant.......

Good call.He used to train on ice in the winter,so was used to tricky surfaces

The old Belle Vue team with Peter Collins and i think Chris Morton had a reputation of not liking wet conditions and got into trouble at least once.Then again PC rode on the very edge,so if conditions weren't great he was probably in more danger than most

I have checked the stats on your comparison and shown that you seem to be wrong with Scotland and Finland.Is that clear enough?There is no "huge difference in attitude".Is that clear enough?Ok i can understand you don't like those stats,but that is what UNESCO have come up with....not me

You compared hours of PE in schools in Scotland and Finland and stated that shows a "huge difference in attitude".Only the stats show Scotland does more time doing PE than Finland.........

Well not taking stewmac's word for it,i did check the stats and guess what he seems to be wrong again and my Finnish friend f-s-p is about right According to UNESCO stats England and also Scotland have more time doing PE in primary schools.According to the stats 120 mins per week whereas Finland only average about 88 mins a week!!!Ok it does state that this is allocated time and in some schools it could be as low as 60 mins.But the Finnish stats also say there is a range from 75 min to 90 mins.But it seems we are doing quite well.Ireland who do have some success at sprts only manage 59 minutes whilst France do a whopping 220 minutes per week!!!! Now show me how France are twice as good as England or GB.Ok they might be twice as good as Scotland granted,but Hungary do more sports than Germany and are they better at sport? Or is this theory bull? http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0022/002293/229335e.pdf

Yes i have seen the lolly pops.But i have it from someone who was at the jury meeting that the ref explained the reason why he stopped the race......

Seems from the explanation i have recieved the ref does have the choice to stop the race if he thinks the rider crossing the white line could possibly influence the result of the race.I guess if he carries on he might get in the way of someone else etc before he realises he is excluded and leaves the track!!!This is why Krister Gardel decided to stop the heat both times.No mistake from the start marshall etc

Then it is all strange,but if you look at where speedway portal is based it is like the Doctor mentioned in a suburb of Poole and the guy does also seem to do the Isle of Wight website.So all points to speedway portal the BSF member probably being also Byron Sparrow.I guess it is up to TWK or scarletrider to make contact and sort this out

Thanks.At least i wasn't dreaming.But then it is a major cock up if the start marshall made the same mistake twice!!! That is why i thought maybe a new rule or a strange interpretation

I was wondering about that,but didn't it happen in two seperate heats?Or is my memory going....

Agreed.I have asked an FIM official about this and wait an answer.But i am pretty sure i have seen a couple of ice racers excluded for crossing the inside line,but the race hasn't been stopped and restarted

See i am not the only one questioning the ref here.A couple on the German forum have asked the same question....always seem to recall the start marshall at Wimbledon had an exclusion flag and held that out with the riders helmet colour together to show someone had been excluded as the race carried on

Hoping to make it up to Holsted on the 29th for the Danish U21 final

Thanks Doctor.Then it seems one of our members 'Speedway portal' is the person??? Seem to remember he was doing some speedway video site or something to do with kodi? http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=83557&hl=speedwayportal

But strangely their links on the Sunderland site lead to nowhere.Do you think maybe if someone has just copied the site and put it online that all the links will be dead?Do they have t do a bit more work to make those links 'live'?Strange thoughMaybe the person hasn't got around to checking the links?

I did check a number of the speedway links and a couple related to the webdesigners,Madweb i think they are called and all links seem to be dead and lead nowhere............

Todays SEC meeting from Güstrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ1g-yVeyb0 engish commentary but from ht 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAQLeyAzb9M

Russia really have had no end of problems over the years,going back to the days when Greg wanted to become a Latvian because of some dispute or other with the Russian federation.And i thought at the time they put in a protest about him getting the wirldcard for the Latvian GP.Hardly ever seem to be able to put out their best team and now it looks like that chances has gone for the time being.......

I get the feeling everyone sits around the table at the Committee meetings with a loaded pistol aimed at their own foot.........

England obviously with a team of ex private schoolboys just won another trophy in football.Two in the last few weeks