waiheke1

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.

agree, though the last signing will determine whether they are genuine play off contenders. But can't see why they are being written off, outside the pretty much unanimous top 4 pick (bv, kl, cov and poole) I think they are arguably the best of the rest . certainly look stronger than wolves and lakeside 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.

you'd just add an extra nominated heat 16 to overcome the latter issue.

Maybe The White Knight who rode for Sunderland...

that's us told then. Clearly olsen was well short of tge standard if the likes of hackett, Robson, matousek etc.or did ole refuse to give you an Autograph?

not true. The aces in the early 80s regularly had "assets" riding for other clubs - neil collins and dave bargh for example and I believe peter ravn was only loaned out to cradlet in 83.

currently he'd be top 50. Another title and I'd saythat would establish him with the two PCs as one of the top 3 all time brits, and top 20 of all time.

A few people refer to nicki pedersen by a rude name! and of couse the aptly named dick barrie could be the mc

no, just that he would have hydrated better

If the side ran out of riders, Rod Hunter could be called upon to capture some new additions...

Kelly and bobby got fined for being caught at heathrow in possession. darcy in aussie last summer. lee I believe had numerous possession/supply convictions. And gary and mark I believe both did prison time related to commercial quantity offences.

yep, criteria waa an "official" offence, though couldn't recall if s morans ban was for alcohol or weed. Agree Shirra a bettee ridee than gary, but wasn't sure he was "official", and maybe quantity to trump quality,

Matt FORD as promoter?

Nice list sid, but I reckon penhall and nicki p have to be in there. Call me a rabid agist, but it would be a couple of the oldies (milne, duggan, farndon or wilkinson) to miss out. Maybe 3 as I might be tempted to include michanek as well.

Steve Baker surely worth a squad place?

A team of riders who enjoyed aspects of the rasta belief system 1 s moran 2 k moran 3 d ward 4 g Havelock 5 m lee 6 b schwartz 7 g guglielmi mechanic: M courtney 7

I think this excercise has been done before. From memory consensus was that fundin may have won one or two more titles, briggo would have won the same or less, mauger 5-7 depending in if olsen could have pipped him in 71 or mich in 73. Ole would likely have won only 2 or 3. Of course for fundin to win more, it would for example mean the likes of craven, knutson or briggs would have won less. If knutson or craven wouldnt have won a gp series, does that show the world final was easier to win?as for the 15 world titles. At the start of the 81 seadon that list had only 5 from three riders, nine of ehom wiuld win a title agsin. Yhe current world top 25 have 8 or 9 between them (depends if you include gollob) ftom 4/5 world champs . I'd be surprised if they dont end up with at least 15 between them. Does that show more strengrh in depth now? yes to the first three without a doubt. Lee probably, perhaps around 16 just ahead of the likes of gollob michanek knutson

agree on the second paragraph, but disagree on thr first.from memory eric was 2nd in the bl averages in 82, over 10.5 in 83, had a blip with the tape touching rules in 84, but was then over 11 (2nd only to hans) in 85/86. He was excellent in the bl, though as you say not as consistent as hans but with the ability to raise his game in world final night (h2h record against hans in finals I believe was 7-3 in eric's favour). scwarz is an interesting one. I thought the same as you, that gps would have suited him. But when I did a statistical ranking system for each year in the 80s, I think he was only a top 10 rider once (1982). So tbh im not sure he would actually have qualified (and would never have got a wikd card ahead of the likes of sigalis or morans or even king), and if he had I don't think he wouldhave been ggood enough to finish top 8 and stay in. Purely speculative and in my opinion of course. of course in 81 they were still three years away from winning a medal in a world final. Who would have known at that point that they would win 7 titles, but penhall, lee carter knudsen would go on to win only one more between them? You are right thought they would have cleaned up in the gos, from 84-89 they would have finished 1st and 2nd every season. Pretty much as they did in finals, were it not for erics implosion in 86 and ef in 89.