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And don't forget Marketa Prague are in the Polish 2.Division

Press release from the 3 north east clubs.Here.Seems the only regs for team building are that one of the 6 riders must be a German U21.And it seems like 2 must be foreign,but no GP riders.Not so sure on the competition name though

No Kev.Think i read that Holsted will have their squad ready somewhere around the middle of feb.Maybe that is the date everything will be finalised. But part of the problem could be waiting for the Elite fixtures.Holstebro will have Bjarne as top rider,so can't ride on wednesdays.They need to find dates that won't clash with Poole fixtures.

Oh no!!!!Subedei has got Schumi now.He is slowly brainwashing the forum

Seen a press release from Saalfelden at they think the Penza meeting will be held in Blagowetschensk(sp?)

I don't want to sidetrack you in your debate but is there any evidence to suggest either the exposure from Sky has benefited British speedway or the GPs have benefited British speedway?.Sure some ex-fans have come back to the sport,but in large enough numbers to offset the fans who drift away.Seems from reading on here there are lots of people who only ever go to Cardiff and that is it

It's not easy to predict on form as most non-Russians have hardly had any meetings.Can we assume Bauer will be back to his top form?He said the poor performance in Russia was down to his leg support.He has a new one now and thinks that will make a big difference. I don't know the breakdown of qualifiers from each meeting,but will guess Östersund Ivanov Bros Zorn Bulankin Skabraut Penza Khomitsevitch Bros Aakko Arkhipov Serenius Laguta Inzell Bauer Krasnikov Bogdanov Svensson Tuinstra Just guessing that Penza has more qualifiers as it seems a stronger line-up.So reserves i guess,Flyktman +Simon Seems that the meeting in Saalfelden has now been moved to Östersund.Training 03.02.Meeting 04.02And looking on the Assen site it seems the line-ups have been juggled a bit as well.Franky is now in Inzell.So my qualification guesses are up the spout a bit

Fixtures at Vojens.Here.Seeems like no 80cc team this year Plus René Bach is named in the 500cc team Slangerups home fixtures(still waiting for the Superliga dates).Here And the Danish 80cc Final is in Skærbæk on 02.09

Yes.He has been riding for Daugavpils.Is Russian(i think from Vladivostok) but changed because of riding for Daugavpils.He has been riding for the past couple of years Ice speedway in Russia.I did think he was going for the Latvian nomination as soon as i saw he wasn't entered in the Russian Championship.I can see him qualifying,but he shouldn't bother the top riders results from season opener in Blago Krasnikov 55 I.Ivanov 50 V.Khomitsevitch 48 P.Tschajka 46 Baraboshkin 46 R.Akimenko 38 D.Khomitsevitch 34 Ivankov 25 Laguta 24 D.Ivanov 22 Kaminsky 21 Tschatchin 18 S.Akimenko 16 Logachev 12 V.Tschajka 11 Amazaspyan 5 A.Ivanov 2 or the Gladyshev memorial D.Ivanov 14+14=28 D.Khomitsevitch 13+14=27 P.Tschajka 14+11=25 M.Baraboshkin 10+10=20 D.Bulankin 11+7=18 I.Drozdov 8+11=18 J.Bazeev 8+10=18 G.Laguta 6+7=13 V.Lumpov 4+7=11 M.Zakharov 6+5=11 M.Bogdanov 7+3=10 E.Krysov5+3=8 S.Arkhipov 5+3=8 A.Samorodov 4+4=8 S.Baltachev 3+2=5 N.Kaminsky 0+5=5 J.Polikarpov 2+1+3

Well i have never been there.But at the local HSV stadium they have standing behind the goals(or maybe just one goal) for Bundesliga matches,but they put seats in that area for European matches.Being a modern stadium they have the flexibilty

Certainly looks like we now have Ice speedway weather in Southern Germany.As well as having it pretty cold in the North as well.Forecast looks cold for the next week also.I have seen a prediction of -15° for thursday night

Well why else would they choose him?Surely not because he was sat outside their offices for days on end begging and pleading to be included

Absolutely.BSI are in this mainly for the money.I doubt very much they care about the health and vitality of speedway in general.It matters to them only that enough interest and money is generated.So they are not looking for the top 15 or 16 ridersThey want the best package of riders.That is where Scott fits in as a vital part of their plan.We can support this or not.I choose not to.I would rather 16 qualified riders rather than a hand picked bunch + a couple of qualifiers

One must exist or they wouldn't have him in

I can see Eskilstuna getting a mention here

To a certain extent i agree with all 3 points I know from when i used to buy the fanzines that Millwall still have a good number of fans who reside just over on the wrong side of the river

That was why i said legendary Parsloes.Also the fact that hardly anyone has ever heard of the London side who played in one of the biggest stadium in the country.Plus you left out the Lions in your list of clubs there Most definitely in the same catchment area

Update on a couple of signings. Matze Schultz has signed for Diedenbergen.Roberto Haupt for Güstrow Brokstedt J.Kylmäkorpi(Fin)Heard Joonas will not ride this season N.Klingberg(Sw) N.Klindt(Dk) H.Bager(Dk) M.Kröger S.Katt J.Tebbe R.Stanek S.Petersen T.Kröger Diedenbergen N.Magosi(Hun) M.Schultz T.Stange L.Kasperek(Pl rides on German pass) M.Limberger D.Kreklow R.Deddens T.Gävert Güstrow P.Hlib(Pl) T.Johansson(Sw) P.Hougaard(Dk) R.Baumann R.Haupt S.Mell E.Pudel S.Bromberg D.Rath E.Janoschka Landshut C.Hefenbrock P.Rudolph J.Kugelmann R.Speiser S.Schützbach P.Bauer M.Kammermeier S.Mack Neuenknick R.Okoniewski(Pl) L.Jankowski(Pl) K.Wölbert T.Busch M.Sekula(Pl on German pass) M.Bartz D.Möller P.Döllmann R.Swoboda Olching M.Smolinski T.Kroner F.Facher S.Kasper H-J.Müller M.Betz M.Helfer D.Helfer Pfaffenhofen M.Hauzinger(A) M.Dilger R.Weis M.Hertrich(! making a comeback) C.Demmel T.Schmidt(Pl on German pass) M.Müller M.Eibl F.Winklhofer

Round 4-Ufa Ufa 28 D.Bulankin -2,3,2,2,2,3=14 I.Drozdov -r=0 N.Krasnikov -3,2,3,3,3=14 Kamensk 27 I.Ivanov -2,3,2,1=8 D.Khomitsevitch -2,2,3,2=9 V.Khomitsevitch -3,3,3,1=10 Blagovetschensk 20 P.Tschajka -1,3,2,2,1,0=9 M.Baraboshkin -0,1,3,3,3,1=11 Sterlitamak 16+3 V.Tschapalo -2,0=2 A.Samorodov -0,0,0,3=3+3 I.Kononov -3,1,2,1,2,2=11 Lukhovitsy 16+2 A.Zenin -1,0,1,1,0,3=6+2 S.Makarov -3,2,3,0,2,0=10 Novosibirisk 11 K.Ovdin -0,0,0,0,1,2=3 S.Karaschentsev -1,1,1,1,3,1=8 Saransk 8 Y.Kryskin -0,0,1,0,2,1=4 A.Abroskin -0=0 J.Bazeev -2,1,0,1,0=4 Table Ufa 30(112) Kamensk 26(102) Blago 18(68) Saransk 15(65) Sterlitamak 12(59) Lukhovitsy 10(57) Novosibirisk 5(30)

Ah,but this one is far better.In colour and has the classic 60s music and commentary that is so typicallly British

Maybe Mike is the real Red Ott,seeing as he lived in communist East Germany

round 3 Ufa Ufa 28 D.Bulankin -1,2,3,2,2,2=12 N.Krasnikov -3,3,1,3,3,3=16 Kamensk 22+3 I.Ivanov -0,2,2,3,0=7 D.Ivanov -1,3,1=5 V.Khomitsevitch -2,3,3,2=10+3 Blagovetschensk 22 +0 P.Tschajka -0,2,1,2,0,1=6 M.Baraboshkin -1,3,3,3,3,3=16+0 Saransk 17 Y.Kryskin -1,2,0,0,0,1=4 J.Bazeev -3,3,2,1,1,3=13 Lukhovitsy 17 A.Zenin -2,0,0,0,1,0=3 S.Makarov -3,2,2,3,2,2=14 Sterlitamak 14 V.Tschapalo -0,2=2 A.Samorodov -2,1,1,2,0=6 I.Kononov -0,0,1,2,3=6 Novosibirisk 6 C.Ovdin -0,1,1,0,1,1=4 M.Korchemaha -1=1 S.Karashentsev -0,0,1,0,0=1 from MFR site

Looking on the Assen site,it looks like the meeting at Penza might be moved a week later and to Sterlitamak

Well they must have been bloody optimistic.Reading a bit on the net the automated hare thing came to Britain from the US in 1926.In 1927 40 odd stadiums were built.Maybe or probably(i don't know)not all by the GRA.I would imagine as well that at the time the building of Custom House was started speedway was virtually unknown.Certainly couldn't have known how big a success it would be.Maybe that is why a football club was formed as well.Trying to get as many uses out of the stadium as possible.I would guess speedway wasn't in the initial plans for the stadium

Fair enough.But it leaves itself open for someone like Vic Dawe to come along later and put in a reference to Mr Hoskins again or Isambard Kingdom Brunel Just imagined for something like that it would have to be checked before posted. Anyone know much anything about Jimmy Baxter? And the history of the GRA?How did they become so powerful,opening up massive stadiums like this.I mean it must have been only rivalled by Wembley at the time.In the south at least