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I dnt know, his post on the Echo was ok...

wonder what the nz state champs are? North and south island? Or if they are provinicial champs, being our closest thing to states (not that we have such champs to my knowledge). But id say the standard to come top 4 in manawatu or northland may not be too high!

I'd also add that my view is perhaps somewhat colored by watching mostly at hyde rd, where eric was the most feared visiting rider (bar kc). Hans really only became dominant around hyde rd a little later, around the time he waa dominant on each and every track.

Not sure I agree grachan. Up to 80 hans was clearly ahead. but eric was far better than hans in 81 and arguably 82 as well. 83 hans probably regained the lead, and was certainly one of the favourites for that final. But eric won the blrc that year, and you had to be quality to do that - id day they were the top two riders in the world. 84 the favourite was prob Shaun moran followed by hans then eric. a long winded way of me saying I think both were picked as potential future world champs, though I doubt anyone foresaw how dominant they woulf be, albeit helped by thelloss to the sport of penhall sigalos lee carter and the lifestyle choices of the morans.

Yeah definitely you not being a twitter subscriber will be the reason the echo can't take down your post...

Allright, who has posted as middlo on twitter whingeing about the lack of a decision. I mean noone could be that thick...could they?

This x a million! Brilliant whoever posted them

wait til you see the new belle vue track which is designed to be exactly four hsndlebar widths wide...

I can see how "as soon as a decision is made it will be announced" can be taken as referring specifically to the darcy case. I bet most times when they make a decision they have to do twenty starjumps, seven laps round the field and then wait for the next full moon before they can make the announcement.

that's hardly unusual, there would be plenty of brits living in nz and aussie that have to do the same in reverse.I always fly to the uk and europe on my british passport, anywhere else on my kiwi.

lucky there are no wacko cults in the states that blow things isn't it! I bet waco, oklahoma etc. were all cunning jihadi plots

top notch journalism that! Tbf you can see why some poole fans think darcy is hard done by when they read bollocks like thst in the local paper.

I agree with your point, but in 81 most would have stil rated hans and eric ahead of knudsen. But equally many would have tipped carter to be world champ before any of the danes. tatum I dont think was ever really considered a future world champ, and the same could be said of handberg, louis and arguably even king. but go back 5 years, who would have tipped tai to become world champ before emil and darcy.

I may well be an idiot, but you sir have a defective irony detector.

you can't say that. Everyone who said it wasn't going to be built in time said it because they hoped it would fail and couldn't wait to gloat.

yep, that's why he had the 10 year break from cricket!

penhall had 4 years out of the sport, came back to ride in the peter collins farewell meeting and beat pc 3-0 in times only a couple of seconds slower thsn the times a world class field were doing.in a different sport, jeff wilson had 10 years away fom cricket, returned and played well enough to regain his place in the black caps. so darcy could no doubt do the same, so long as it wasnt four years spent boozing. but in reality he should be back racing later this year or worst case beginning of 2016.

The comments on his feed just keep getting better...

Surely how much over the limit he was should be a factor. If I get pulled over and am fractionally over the limit I will get a fine. If I am massively over I will face criminal charges. Plenty of examples on sports disciplinary processes where the same type ofoffence will have different penalties depending on severity. either way a punishment is needed, but I would have thought how far over should be a factor in the "sentencing." if fim reduced dudeks ban, would wada have the right to appeal this?

why do you think he should get a longer ban than Danno, who was allegedly visibly drunk? Essentially you are saying 16 months plus another 12 months suspended. too harsh imho.

no cribb

Ivan Manger?

You just have to see how much sympathy he got on his twitter feed when he advised them there wasnt going to be a same day decision. That said I wonder whether ward simply mis-understood something that was said about the timing of the decision?

Slightly worrying is that darcy seemed to think he would get a verdict on the day. You would have thought his legal team should have at least set his expectations appropriately at that stage.

TWK - I don't believe you are a racist. And I understand your position and concerns as explained above, which are consistent with your previous posts. BUT you're post re: Romanians and Bulgarians was truly awful, I don't think there is any "perhaps" about it.