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Ha ha.....yes I can believe you are Joulupukki "Onko täällä kilttejä lapsia?"

If you believe the FIM have the will/power to revolutionise speedway because of 1 or 4 meetings per season you still believe in Santa

The trouble is the more countries you involve the more complicated it gets with riders riding for more than one club.Riders will only agree to less clubs if they are compensated for it.There is no way the FIM can come up with that sort of money.......so we are back to mickey mouse again

That is the thing.One day you are ill or signed off and the next day you aren't.We don't know for a fact Robert wasn't signed off or ill yesterday and is fit today......sometime there is an end to most sickness.We can think he has pulled a fast one or maybe Peterborough wanted him to,but we can't prove anything

He probably has to keep quiet until his contract has ended?!?

I find it odd,but this is not the first time.A few years back it seemed every Dane apart from one(might have been Bjerre or Iversen...the year Klindt + Hougaard made it into the Danish SWC team?)was having a slump in form all at the same time!!!!Very odd that it happened then and even odder it is happening again

Might be live updates here.At least the results will be posted,so you can see if he rode or not http://www.mcn-stralsund.de/cms/front_content.php?idcat=30&idart=87

He is scheduled to ride in Stralsund today.He didn't ride yesterday as far as I know

You forgot the bit about a jolly to Geneva where at the end they will all pat each other on the back and promise that lessons have been learnt............

That Müller always seemed to be topless when interviewed.............

A list is useless anyway without knowing if a track has the finances and will to host a GP.Norden is possibly the only one in Germany,but it is as we all know well off the beaten track and was near to financial ruin some years ago and is slowly climbing out of its problems and I doubt is thinking of anything so risky as a GP.Parchim made a big mistake in hosting a Longtrack GP which almost caused their collapse and are also slowly coming back from that period of hosting a LTGP and a Bundesliga winning speedway team.....

Germany will use Kevin Wölbert,Tobi Kroner and Rene Deddens.Smoli and Tobi Busch are riding on the same day in Landshut and Huckenbeck is out injured from those that rode in the Güstrow meeting

The trouble is,if they find Olsen guilty as charged who do they get in to replace him?Has anyone else much or any experience of building temp speedway track in the time given?And I don't mean dodgy indoor tracks like Neustadt/Dosse or Brighton........

I think it would only be described as mickey mouse if for instance Denmark couldn't use Nicki for some reason and brought in Andreas Jonsson or Greg Hancock,otherwise test meetings are much missed on the calendar.By me anyway.I was thinking of going to Denmark last weekend for the U21/U19 tests between Denmark-Sweden and Poland.And there were mutterings on the net about why Germany can't get some tests like this for the youngsters.The question of course is like always,who is going to finance them?But on the other hand you can look at it as investing in the future,rather than gaining financially at this moment in time.You see those countries who put these tests on at different levels happen to be those that are producing talent.Well leave Sweden out of that.........

Oh dear,that Jacques/mdmc person is on here talking to herself again,playing good cop,bad cop!!!!

I often choose the wrong word(s) myself,so no problem. Think it is important if someone is shocked about this,to point out there are many many important events that are professionally staged without hiccup with the aid of volunteers.That isn't an issue here.Like you say,the problem is the "professionals"

It hasn't "descended" into anything.It is important to point out that it doesn't matter to the quality of the product if some people aren't paid.What is important is those organising everyone and everything do their job properly.The problems all lie at the top,not the bottom of the ladder here

So are a lot of the staff at Windsow Castle etc at least some of the time,so it has been stated on the news

Doesn't always work like that though

Sort of puts into question the whole interview and his opinion just with those few words

I was there and saw him riding for GB in Teterow........

It hasn't been given much of an airing Phil,but I have aired it about 3 times at least on this thread,though up until now you are the only other person to bring it up.Well done.But like I mentioned right at the early stage...........lessons just haven't been learnt!!!!! And of course I mentioned that the one or at least one of the riders who didn't bother with the training actually won the meeting,if it has to be called that

The more he say's the worse he makes it all sound.............professional it isn't.They book a stadium with a large capacity,blow their own horn about it and then get caught out because the fans make noise!!!! Guess they were all expecting them to sit still as if the were in the Opera.And like I said before worse than this laughable situation with the noise,get caught with their pants down when things go ** up as if it has never happened to them before......amateur hour or 3

38 years ago today Josef died in Italy trying to qualify for the World Championship http://www.speedweek.com/speedway-racing/news/55339/Josef-Angermueller-starb-heute-vor-38-Jahren.html

Let's face it there have been plenty of meetings(and lower standard at that) held in far worse conditions than Warsaw.I remember a couple of league meetings from Belle Vue a few years ago when even the home riders couldn't cope or control their bikes in the bends.Gjedde and Hougaard I think were a couple.When they went into the corners it seemed pure luck where they would end up.I gave up watching Elite League at that stage...........