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Then again i got to thinking and wondered if this guy was a bit different.I thought about foreign people looking on youtube at clips of Mick Channon saying "Line-acre" and telling their mates how to pronounce it,as they heard it from an english commentator

I would also add Andrew Silver,at least in his NL days.And it thought the trio of Roger Johns,Mike Ferreira and jamie Luckhurst were pretty entertaining at Plough Lane

Good man,Sid.Just wonder if Henryk came over earlier in his career whether he would have done better or maybe the British tracks were too different for him Don't think i saw Hack at all,Wassermann only once i think and lets face it Plough Lane was a lot different to most continental tracks.Riss was a very good rider indeed.

Exactly.And all i was doing was pointing that out.No big deal and nothing to get upset about

Henryk doesn't really fit into the unknown category in the title.He was in a few Individual and Team World Finals before he signed for Reading.Was really past his best by then,but is an absolute legend in Bydgoszcz.One of my friends from Bydgoszcz has Henryk as his all time favourite rider.

Ronnie Moore,Peter Collins,Nicki Pedersen and that great all rounder Egon Müller,currently working on his next cd.......

Your comments have nothing to do with learning anything from the past.Just trying to dig up some dirt and as Gemini said,has absolutely nothing to do with todays situation

I was of course going by the continental way of saying Jan anyway.Jan Steachmann is also spoken as yan,rather than the British style Jan,short for Janet etc

Well at least people didn't think this way when a German rider(Smolinski) signed for Coventry.......If we always hark back,we never move forward

Remember years ago asking a Polish woman who i worked with how you pronounce the name and am fairly sure she pronounced it along the lines of Jan-sash Right at the beginning here you hear the commentator say his name twice and it sounds like Jan-sash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7G16hwlTvUg

Previous thread has a bit more detail and a few comments by our old mate speedyguy http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=37077

True enough.I had him down as a Monberg

Maybe he did,but Hoskins only mentions an Egyptian fakir in his book

Has any rider with the Jensen surname really impressed? Finn Rune actually came over with a decent reputation i think and was Danish Junior and then European Junior Champ

Livestream from Steingaden should be here in 25 minutes https://www.periscope.tv/harmjanzinger

But then again,you don't add up the figures and have to pay the bills,so i guess have less idea of the results than those that do

Surely if it was the case that at the end the total crowd figures were noticeably down on the previous seasons without playoffs then they would be scrapped double quick?No sport just keeps playoffs because of the fun of it.By keeping them there must be a feeling it is better than what went before

Indeed.I think Ice Hockey is another sport that favours playoffs after a qualifying league competition.Stanley Cup and the German Ice Hockey Bundesliga etc.And if you look at this truly international competition,the league is just the lead up to the play-offs.sadly the German federation turned down the idea of having a team based in Hamburg in this league featuring teams from Latvia,Croatia,Finland,China,Slovakia,Minsk and Russia http://en.khl.ru/clubs/

Just a no-goer to enter the Polish leagues as you have to enter at the bottom,like Prague,Debrecen and Daugavpils did and you are not allowed into the top league,like Daugavpils aren't Good idea to get other teams over,although i guess it is hard to get ull strength teams over once the seasons have all started.But the Sedish and even Polish leagues start a bit after the UK,so should be ok for pre-season friendlies.The Czech touring teams back in the 70s used to be one of the season highlights in the second division

You seem to miss the point here.Sure Gerhard is running a business and has a vested interest in the success of his engines.But speedway bikes can't run without engines.They can run without being tuned up so often.The tuners i would think are the ones who are somewhat superficial and have the vested interest. Not putting them down as Ash put some good points across.But costs need to be cut and Gerhard is trying to help in this matter It seems Egon Müller has given up his work on the electric engine,but really that does seem the way forward.Governments and local authorities will only get tougher on emissions in the future.If they are ging to take on the road users then i think it only reasonable that they will also at some stage clamp down on entertainment/sport use

Credit where credit is due,the old boy did post a link a few months back http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=83021

All seems a bit rich coming from someone who seemed to make it his task to bring low standard foreigners into the country Each to their own i guess One of my favourites from Kelvin Lapworth http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=72386&hl=swart

There is the grass track at Teterow that has left and right turns and they have to have a different footrest set up.Simon Wigg and Kelvin Tatum were very successful there

Finns are probably banned.Do what most are doing and get a Swedish pass.Your mate Timo picked his up today,so ask him to book for you

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