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It was slightly strange if it is what we got in Germany through youtube....saw everything,but as soon as they interviewed a rider the sound went dead and we could hear the stadium announcer etc until they went back to the studio and all was ok again!!!! Great stuff though for free,so I am not complaining about not being able to hear riders going on about why they lst points or went well as it is all usually boring stuff.So no complaints from me.

For 99% of the population,no,but we are dealing with 'gustix' here who has a long history of not being able to understand the simplest of matters

Neither do Crystal Palace play near the old Palace that they took their name from.Neither do Millwall play in the area they took their name from or Arsenal either.....

I don't appear on the Wimbledon site or anywhere else as far as you are concerned as I and a number of others have blocked you.You even upset someone so much that they decided to start their own Wimbledon site which a number of us use John Hyam free

Think we want to keep this thread live and not let knobhead do his normal stuff unless it leads to another quick ban,then I am all for it

The things is i'd guess those people,the 16% were also complaining on days when speedway was run......so part of the 84% also.Which puts all their compaints even on days when speedway were run in question.Which imo greatly reduces this 84% as it has been shown that they will just complain without reason.Or do we think that these people have only complained on days when speedway wasn't run?Strange conclusion

In a way that especially with Bjarne and Klindt say's it all.Though I don't really think Klindt is on his way back as far as challenging for international honours.Kildemand,Madsen and even Liglad were just out of the scheme before Erik came along.Michelsen and Bech don't look like they are going to fullfill the early promise and after them who is there that Philip told us were coming on better than the others?They seem to have levelled off,just like Klindt and Hougaard did before In a much smaller way Austria mirrors this in that it seems the once promising Gappmaier has now made way for the once controversial entry into the U21 world final as he had been knocked out in a previous round,Fritz Wallner

Let's face it,outside of the GP riders there are very few who I would like to see in the GPs anyway.The general quality of speedway now is quite poor,or shall we say,the top boys have now quite a gap between themselves and the rest.I'd even say if you look at individual countries the standard in quite a lot has dropped considerably.Finland,Sweden and Germany have no new riders come on the scene in the past decade that can challenge for a place.Even the great new wave of Danes that Philip told us Erik Gundersen was training up have failed to arrive so far....and Austria have to turn back the years and call upon Fritz Wallner,who wasn't much cop a decade ago,so.

One disaster after another under Castagnas reign and I fear this won't be the last of them......

Would be something of a miracle if it was the same person then......as it is I think spiegal is a former team manager of Australia,so if he say's he is positive Jack is dead,then is there a need to question that?

Saw a little film and interview with Alcides Ghiggia(Uruguay) during the last world cup.He was the oldest living world cup winner at the time and scored the goal in the final to beat Brazil on their home ground http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/uruguay/10900135/World-Cup-2014-Meet-Uruguays-Alcides-Ghiggia-the-man-who-broke-Brazils-heart.html An interesting list of sporting centenarians. )https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_centenarians_(sportspeople) Not sure why the link doesn't work,but you have to click on the alternative given grrrr

Two of the German 1954 world cup winners are still alive,i think. Hans Schäfer born in 1927 and Horst Eckel born in 1932

You could make life easier and just believe me when I say something

I'll help you......and the (250) against his name might now make sense to you? http://www.speedway.org/liga2/2016/index.html

You seem to be interested enough to look at the results.....go back and see if Mads rode against the same 3 other riders in all his heats

Only a few days till Debrecen and who apart from Gleb whatshisfaceov will be up against Martin "born to ride,made to work" Smolinski?

Are you sure?I think they are having 250cc heats as well,as they have done for a few seasons.Maybe he is in those heats.If you look it is generally the same 4 riders against each other 3 or 4 times

Nearest track is a 45minute drive,but only has 3 meetings a year.For more I have to either drive 75 minutes to a track that hosts 2 meetings or I am driving 2 hours to the next tracks,one of which is in a different country

I'm not really sure what the scene was like in the early days.Most European countries had a popular dirt track scene back then.Look at Austria back even as recently as the 50s and they were getting 40,000 crowds.When we think of Austria now it is a backwater.And I just thought it interesting that the part of the country where speedway has a foothold in Italy i.e the north, is the part of the country where most emigrated to Argentina from A little bit I put on here about the early days in Italy http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=80998

Could it be the large European..... Italian,particularly north Italian population?I heard or read somewhere that in the early part of the last century the Italian agricultural workers used to work the crops in Italy part of the year and then go to Argentina when their crops were ready,moving back and forth during the seasons.Any new ideas in Europe at the time would have been taken over to Argentina.Argentina had a massive immigration from Europe,second only to the US at one stage.Uruguay is also similarly populated by mainly European ethnic groups,but in much smaller numbers and not sure they had the tooing and froing that Argentina had

Think most countries have different rules But to answer,i think in football rules differ as well,so no big thing.Just this week the german paper was going on about an English rule that was different to the german one of punishing people who dive to gain an advantage

This is a classic Guy starts a topic asking a somewhat sarcastic question-gets some great suggestions-man makes his excuses and leaves

Think you have to look past the name and see what sort o deal was and is made.Mentioned it on a previous thread about sponsorship,but a big name doesn't neccesarily mean a "big deal".Robert Barth was sponsored by Coca Cola I think and Tobi Kroner by McDonalds.Both had the logo prominently on their kevlars,but they were just local deals rather than with the national or international hq

Isn't he still doing 250cc? Down for the 250cc YGT this season and dwn for 250cc meet in Brokstedt on 1.05 and done a 250cc meet a week or so ago here

Didn't know that.Thought he would have a boutique like Peter Osgood did