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I was at the NZ v Australia meeting.A few years later and you could have had a decent Denmark team and also the USA.Nowadays it is hard to get any decent teams apart from Denmark and Poland.You could possibly get a great Russian team,but half wouldn't turn up...........

The life of most Glaswegian kids back then

Interesting because when I first went to football in 1973(Tottenham) it cost me 25p for league matches!!!!!

If that is double the normal attendance then it might make a difference of say 100 on each meeting over a season which could well help a team break even or make money.But then the way to go is to do an Ice Hockey style play-off and have 4 or 5 meetings to really get the crowds in???? Probably not

All those tears cried after they didn't make the European Football Finals

He mentioned Brisbane in his last post.I just guessed(maybe wrong)that was the place where he was living

In their defence,i must say that,at least in the modern stadia such as Parken and even the Veltins arena(I was lucky to go to the first one )it is a great atmosphere and a very slick run show.Not quite the same in Vojens........

The Olympique always seemed to have one or two riders that didn't ride in the UK who caused a bit of excitement.Think Wölbert would have been 1 in this line-up.That seemed to be missing this year from what I saw.Peter Karger is hardly a decent up and coming youngster,which tells a tale in itself

Like I mentioned on another thread,there doesn't seem to be much promotion of the GPs etc to the general public.It is more a "you scratch my back and i'll scratch yours" approach by putting ads in the speedway mag(s) preaching to the converted and the speedway journos don't write negative things about the guys at BSI/IMG.As I said this is probably their approach with the Rallycross world championship that they run as I have seen no publicity at all( a slight lie,as I did see a poster a couple of years back at a petrol station),so I assume they have just put out a few posters and an ad or two in the motorcar race mags

That is what I thought "New Science" was trying to say.It wasn't like a temp track that was built from scratch over some other surface.The base of the track and presumably the drainage was still there

Doesn't always help.....as it happens the Stock car Challenge was yet again held in the Veltins Arena yesterday.Pity speedway couldn't do what Stock Cars has managed for a decade.Just look at the entertainment and the crowd!!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5GhKm3FdSI Wasn't the basis of the track there and just needed the corners done and the obvious track work of course?

Hmmm,the only place I could say had plenty of ads was Prague.Copenhagen I didn't see anything and in Vojens I saw a couple of posters in the town itself,but nothing outside on the roads or towns approaching and Gelsenkirchen/Dortmund was also free of any ads. Guess it might be left to the local promoter as it doesn't seem to be a BSI/IMG forte.IMG have taken over the running of the Rallycross World Championships.One of the main tracks is just outside Hamburg(Buxtehude) and do you know what,i never knew that the IMG run and Monster Energy sponsored meetings had taken place.Saw nothing advertising the weekend,even though I might well have gone if I had seen anything,and saw bo results either.Nothing on the streets,nothing in the papers and nothing on tv.But strangely we do get regular updates about Buxtehude womens handball team.............

I hope you mention speedway and not just pre-fabs and such like

It is still there,although a bit hard to see through the haze,so I am told

There was a time not so long ago when a man in the know was also talking about the possibility of Malaysia and some other Asian country being on the 'fly away' schedule!!!!!

Sour puss and grumpy face

Yes as you say it all depends on a large amount of luck.Ice Hockey and speedway are living in different worlds and I am a fan of both.But Ice Hockey thrives(if you can say that,as it seems even in the Uk some teams are struggling)in modern indoor stadia where everything is very comfortable with good seating and viewing,decent restaurants and food/drink outlets and importantly decent toilet facilities and usually a good sound system.Speedway isn't like that.Plus Ice Hockey generally has a season long of league games(now they have started a Champions League,but the UK teams play little part in that) with little else interspersed.Speedway isn't like that. 10 years ago in Germany we used to get an U21 meeting in the morning and a Bundesliga meeting in the afternoon.That ended and a couple of years ago I said how much I enjoyed those days.A rider said the track for the second meeting was very bad.Now while I think it might be possible to run two meetings in one day(not so sure about 4 meetings in one weekend)I doubt the riders would be willing to do it.Junior riders are much more willing.They often have two 80cc meetings in one day in Denmark and I think even maybe 4 or so over a weekend.But try getting senior riders to do it is another matter.There was the case of the junior riders doing their races last season at teterow,but the senior riders refused to go out on the track.......

From what I gather there are 8 teams in the league.All teams are in the quarter finals,then they have semi finals and a final.So they have 8 teams with 8 loads of fans with 7 games over a weekend.Don't think that is possible in speedway at one track.The comp is in April and indoors.Now have an end of season fiesta for speedway and it is in end of Sept or October.Who thinks standing outside for hours on end at that time of year in all sorts of weather is some sort of sporting bonanza? Must have looked at old info.It is now 4 games http://www.eliteleague.co.uk/playoff-finals-weekend--p195911

Thing is it seems Ice Hockey can involve a number of teams and have a good number of games over a weekend.You know one big difference is that in a Hockey game in the break a machine goes over the ice and it is as good as new and they are ready for the next part and I bet after one game they might have a 15 minute or more break where the crowd can refresh themselves and the ice is as good as new for the next game.And you can do that ad infinitum over a long weekend and you are sure of the games going on whatever the weather.In speedway it is just different.............

He is talking about a "repeat" from 1974........think that counts as a Whoosh!!!!!

More bad news for Lübeck Airport.Insolvent....... http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Flughafen-Luebeck-meldet-erneut-Insolvenz-an,flughafen988.html

It has been debated quite a bit in Germany that a lot of the players don't sing the anthem.Özil is one often mentioned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqF_NmhxHdA

I do from memory think Eddie had the best,the second best,the third best and the fifth best BL average of all the Poles in that period.Zenon was of course the rider with the 4th best....... Do hope he gets back to full health.He was without dispute a great rider

Remember him only as a ref,but like you say Norbold without his like,speedway couldn't exist R.I.P

They are getting harder to find on the streets of Hamburg,now all the refugees go around collecting them