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I am all for that deal

How dare you laugh!!!! Did we laugh when we heard year after year that the Prague track would be better next time?Did we laugh when BSI said they were taking the sport to big new cities like,........ well Teterow? Did we laugh when they said the track in Finland looked good?Did we laugh when they told us the shale was stored scientifically? Did we laugh when they told us the poor attendance at Bydgoszcz was down to a womens basketball game?Did we laugh at the on track-off track farce at that big city stadium in Poland last year? How jolly well dare you!!!!

Is it going to be a case of batten down the hatches and just try to get through without too many losses? Not only do we have the Euro Football finals in june/july,but the Olympics in august and now NASA are predicting terrible weather for april + may!!!! At least march should be relatively mild,so a good start at least to the season

New horizons for the FIM World Speedway League We are only 9 weeks away from the FIM World Speedway League, which will be held in Berlin. It is going to be a historical event, because it is the last time when the champion teams will meet in a European country, as from the next year the competition will go to new horizons and open a new exciting era in speedway. - “In next years the FIM World Speedway League will take place in March and it will be always outside Europe.” - sai...d the President of PZM and Vice-President of the FIM, Andrzej Witkowski for Tygodnik Żużlowy. It has been said that the FIM World Speedway League 2017 will take place somewhere in Middle East/Gulf area. “Qatar? It is possible.” - said Witkowski and emphasised that the clubs don't have to worry about expenses, because each team will receive from the promotor of the FIM WSL €10,000 as travelling costs and the prize money. The prize amount for first place will be €35.000, second place will be €18,000, third place will be €13.000 and the fourth place will be €9.000. From 2018 the prize amounts will increase. Now the FIM World Speedway League is held as a one final event per year, but it can change in the future. “There will be 6 teams competing. I don't rule that it will be also a qualification system, but it will take place in Europe.” - said the Vice-President of the FIM. - “Of course we have to stay within the limits of rationality. We know how some of the SWC rounds look like, where the competing teams consist of “old dogs” and bring nothing new.” www.fimworldspeedwayleague.com

I guess it isn't the best stadium or in the best situation.Not really what you would expect for something like the WSL is it???? Though in fairness to Team Player Management,it is Wolfslake that have been using the 'Berlin' handle for years....Olching is about the same distance from Munich and has the advantage that it is linked at least by the S-Bahn,but I haven't seen them use Munich-Olching at all......

Yes I know.Rugby is the town and not the sport

Surely it is only a mickey mouse event if they call it the World BSPA League Final forum held in London(well rugby actually)

You have just gotta send that to the Guardian

Looks better on the cv to have held a WSL in Berlin rather than going to prospective clients and saying they have held the WSL in Wolfslake or King's Lynn etc "King's Lynn!!!! That is only slighty better than holding the Stock Car World Final in Ipswich ffs!!" The Promotion are looking to put on a shuttle from Berlin Spandau to the stadium,but need to know how many are interested in this If you are please contact them at sportleiter@speedwayteamwolfslake.de Usefull as the stadium is out in the sticks

Bit of film with some action and an interview with Boris.Also to be seen is Igor Plechanov and the recent 75th anniversary for Gab Kadyrov with Nikolai Krasnikov in attendance http://www.allufa.ru/news/sport/ushel-iz-zhizni-legendarnyy-motogonshchik-boris-samorodov/ The funeral for Boris will take place tomorrow

Wasn't Samorodov out of the series after his first heat at Plough Lane in 1965.Might have even been his first heat in the UK that year as he doesn't seem to have been in any challenge meetings either,although it was a while back when I looked this up and might have missed a meeting or two R.I.P

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Individual_Speedway_Junior_European_Championship But no saying this is the definitive answer.I know on speedway.org they have Nielsen on 10pts...... Wiki also has Hans finishing 5th on his profile,i see.Both Hans and the Lonigo club are on Facebook.Maybe contacting them will provide the answer,although I think the FIM should have all official results on their site,to stop any confusion as we have seen with the recent topic about the 1957 world final......

Bank holiday in Germany and probably a good empty spot for tv and the riders

They wanted to do a commemoration tour through Europe to Berlin last year to mark the anniversary of the end of WW2 and had trouble I think in Poland and were stopped from entering Germany.Some turned back at the airport if I remember rightly.Obviously now Poland isn't really on the ice speedway map,but I guess there could be trouble if Myshkovets wants to parade around with a flag or race jacket in Berlin or Inzell

I did just see something about there being no interest from tv in showing the series.I would think that the total lack of a challenge to the Russians makes it uninteresting to any tv companies.And I do have some worries with the Night Wolves getting involved in the sport,even though my friend in Ufa tells me they are good people.I just can't believe Russians as a people feel comfortable going to a sporting event and being spoon fed war propaganda.I know I would feell very uncomfortable alone,let alone if I took my kids along

Can't disagree with any of that.Fact is that in the past we did have one or two who could compete with and challenge the Russians.Now the gap is too big and like you say the sport is shrinking.....even it seems in its stronghold of Russia.Pity,as it is a great sport at its best,but now looks very much on the decline and the lack of challenge to the Russians only speeds that up

Rather poor from the western European riders and really apart from the Russians beating each other there were very few surprises.You could almost guess the outcome of most heats before they were run.Franky beating Nikolai being one of the few surprises.......at least Ledström and whatshisname from Austria have come through to beat the likes of Günther grumpyface Bauer

To be honest as a true professional sportsperson hoping to reach the pinnacle of their chosen sport they shouldn't just be employing a trainer,but very important in speedway I think is a sports psychologist as well as one or two others in their 'team'.In the old days this could have been done at their home team track,but nowadays is pretty well impossible for any team to do as 'their' riders are hardly at 'home',so it is up to the individual rider to get the right people around him.Any ex rider who just happens to offer his services probably isn't the right way to go about things

John Davis + Eddie Kennett

Think quite a lot of riders head for Gorican eary in the year as the weather is better than Poland or Germany.But you often get riders putting in some training in Germany as well as France.Also what Russell Paine was hoping to set up with his planned track in Spain...... I'd also say going 'away' as a group helps to bond a team feeling,which is something often seen in other countries teams,but lacking in ours.I watched a film a few years ago about bagpipers of all things and one of the guys was an ex-army bagpiper nd said to function properly as a team you have to get to know the others inside and out and bond.

It is a great idea.Years late,but at least they are now doing something positive.Give them all necessary experience on a different type of track.As I mentioned on here before,when I asked a manager of a foreign team why they never pick British riders the answer was they don't have the experience of the foreign tracks.......this should now change

Yes,i saw the bereavement notice from his wife and children the same day I found his song on youtube.Sad all these years after the thread was started.I feel sure he would have known of and probably met Gene Tella Bio's of the Killmeyer brothers and other Austrian riders here http://www.reisemosaik.at/Oldtimer/Personen/Rennfahrer_Sandbahn.html

Why not try the stadium?There is never really that many people on the Thursday even when it was free to get in......

Blimey how long are you lot going to grizzle about this?Haven't you got something better to do with your time?

Seems Karl was the original speedway pop star.Had a no.1 hit in Austria with this.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXTKP3uuW0