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If there is any passing tonight,fingers crossed it isn't on the inside eh?

Isn't it just the normal crowd for the Bank Holiday meeting,no matter whether it is a GP or not?Thought the bumper crowd was always around the 15-20,000 for years

I was very impressed with Fredriksen when i saw him last year.Really looks like a good prospect

An idea might be to print them off at least once a week,maybe every day and put the printed version in a pocket or one of those hip purses that some people carry round with them and jingo!!!! whenever anyone fancies just looking up spontaneously some averages,there they are.I mean the SS only comes out once a week,so if you are online every couple of days maybe it might be an idea and you are one step ahead of those people who just carry their copy of the star around with them all week long in case they need to know an average or two for some reason!!!!

Guess it is the same in Germany,at least in football.Which is why there are no Russian oligarchs or Arab sheiks owning any club.Think it must be different in Ice Hockey though as i am sure one guy owns both Berlin and Hamburg. On the speedway and numbers of riders,wasn't there a rule over the winter that helped protect places for swedish riders?Seem to remember some of the young Danes moaning that they hadn't got the team places they thought they were going to get

Very similar to how Danish clubs work and sports clubs in general in Germany and i guess many countries.This structure makes it fairly hard for any Sheik etc to take over a Bundesliga football club.This weekend there is a 'crisis' meeting for the Hamburg football club where a certain group want to 'take over' the club and make the football team seperate from all the other sports that it runs.It needs 75% of the votes to get into power,which makes any sort of takeover very hard. On the number of riders,i think Anders Michanek in Backtrack mentioned there were 300 riders(hope i am right,going from memory)when he was riding and it was down to about 100 or so when the article was done.So the decline has carried on.Remember watching Billy riding for Sweden U21s against Denmark U21 and that must have been 9 or 10 years ago,so it will be very hard for him to reach a decent level now i would imagine.Seen Berntzon + Engman during their 80cc career,which i have most of the top Swedes since Mellgren and Andersson.Last year at the Gold Trophy Final i saw Joel Kling,who was the only Swede to qualify.Hope to get to either or both the Euro 80cc finals and i think there is an 80cc test match against Denmark planned,so might get to see a few more.But i guess the Swedes have been waiting for about 10 years for another rider to come through into the top level.From that U21 meeting 9 or 10 years ago none really made any impression on top level speedway.The likes of Aldén,Eric Andersson,Ricky Kling etc.Then again the Danes didn't really fair much better although at one time it did look as if Hougaard,Klindt and Madsen might get up there.Think all of them at least made the Danish SWC team,but the next generation look like overtaking them

Regardless,each club must have someone who acts as 'boss' and goes to meetings to agree on rules for the season etc or are you saying that the rules are handed down to the clubs from Svemo without anyone having any input?Sure as hell can't have each community turning up to an annual gathering!!!! So the question still stands.Do the clubs work together or do they try to out fox each other.....

guess the last two letters refer to someone from Manchester?The first two could refer to something rude!!!!

Yes,but most of the passing was on the inside......which doesn't count

Personally i found the large green letters better.I knew from the size that it was something of importance and the colour green was reassuringly telling me subconciously to 'go' there.Now i found that innovative.But i am always worried about using a link with a red font, as i am sure thousands of others are ,as it is sort of warning me of using it and so i never click on links in red.Red font links are a no go for me i am afraid

Sound is ok on Eurosport in Germany

Weak answer Phil.Someone of Ole's experience should know at a glance what problems there would be with the shape even before the track is layed down.But certainly since the track has been there since November then Ole job should be to come up with solutions or what has all those decades of experience taught him?I am a fan of the GPs,but some of the things that are going on are really making me wonder if the fans are just being taken for a ride over and over again.Continual use of poor tracks and moving into places like Tampere and have big doubts about Riga as well.........it is no wonder fans lose enthusiasm

Taking into account there was almost as many at the embroidary exhibition at the Womens Institute and the Mosquito killing competition then the place would have been packed and people locked out if they didn't clash.Then again if Finland had have had a game today in the world Ice Hockey championships then the gate would have been about 1,257!!!!

At least Phil will be on here sometime over the next few days to tell us how much work has been made on improving the Marketa track

What we have at the moment is a long time manufacturer that was on the brink of closure,but is now at the moment saved.So that tells us there isn't much money in making speedway engines.What we have are speedway riders who spend quite a bit on engines,but also spend more maybe on getting those engines tuned.The people making money out of the sport are the top riders and the top tuners.It doesn't seem like the engine manufacturers are making much.So if you make engines cheaper will the manufacturers make more profit?Will the riders and promoters pocket the money saved or will the riders spend it on more tuning etc?

f-s-p has already stated that there is a basketball game on tonight somewhere in Finland........so that is where the missing thousands are

That wasn't a rule was it?It was a steady move for those who wanted.There were still riders riding uprights some years after the first laydowns came in.Phil wants a backward step to a simpler cheaper engine.Now who is going to choose that when there are faster choices on the market?So there would have to be a rule brought in.......

Recently at the local Bundesliga club the long time physio died.Now the guy was a legend at the club working with players going back to long time friend kevin Keegan.The club announced they were asking for donations for a statue outside the ground in his memory.Now this is a club dealing with millions of euros and he had close relationships with players who were millionaires.I am sure that in closed circles a request could have been made and more than enough would be raised for a decent memorial.But it is a club and it is probably right to ask the fans and let them feel a part of this,no matter how small the donation. There are lots of cases of one parent having to find work in another country and leave the family behind for years.In this case i don't really see his need to leave the family behind.He does have the choice to go back to them and won't i guess really be financially that badly off and in reality his career won't really suffer from a season out of the EL/PL.But it isn't really anyones prpblem if donations are asked for and given.Mountain out of a molehill,comes to mind.And after making a statement and defending the opinion two or three times it becomes pointless and obsessive to carry on over 10 or 20 posts!!!

Bet one of the Lahti brothers is kicking himself now!!!

It can't be.I posted the good news that Jawa,after a few years of difficulty and the worry of closure have been saved.The opposite would be Phil wanting the factory closed and no more engines being produced.As long as they are developing new engines then there is a chance Phils utopian idea might come to fruition.If they close then there is no chance is there?

Would Scottish riders come in on a high asessed average as foreigners?Guess it isn't a big problem as there aren't many or any to be assesed

Also wonder if there is some bias within the German team.We have had 5 riders used in two meetings,but strangely the actual German Champ hasn't been picked!!!!

From what was said on Eurosport last night Jawa is on the way back.Klaus Lausch is heading a team on developing a new engine that will give GM competition.From what was said it will be far more advanced than what GM have at the moment.So it looks like Phils wishes might come true

Got to agree.Good advert for the sport and for German speedway as well.Härtel looks very promising and not sure what the criticism of Smoli was from some riders on twitter,but some could take a lead from him.Nice shot of his out among the crowd shaking hands,talking to people and having his photo taken.Germany a bit unlucky not to make the semi as they twice made the gate and once at least it was dubiously called back. Had the feeling Norbert the commentator was slightly peeved with Egon Müllers commentary and kept cutting him short and going off in another direction.Kept saying it was a sell out 12,000 crowd,which would be excellent if true.Otherwise congrats to all for a great nights entertainment

If i go to Teterow and i am pretty keen,then i will give a tenner to Adam or someone else in the team.Promise King's Lynn aren't doing it for charity are they?BSI aren't doing it for charity are they?And it isn't up to either to fund youth development at this level,it is up to the BSPA