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Rubbish. Like others have said, Nicki rides hard, very hard but not deliberately dirty what HanCOCK did on track in the heat of the moment was stupid but partly understandable. What he did the following day by making that blog post was petty, pathetic and disgusting... arguably bullying. HanCOCK lives up to his name, COCK.

Judging by his Twitter account, lots of sycophants will do! When he's back in Cardiff I hope speedway fans vocalise exactly what they think of him by loudly booing. And his fine for attacking Nicki was peanuts too. There was no 'bringing the sport into disrepute' charge for his subsequent website post about NIcki. Seems to me like Hancock can do exactly what he wants and the speedway authorities and press simply roll over.

Emil is a better rider than Bjerre and belongs in the GP. But Bjerre is absolutely right, Emil should be qualifying.

Been working away for a couple of days, what did I miss? Hancock, that sensitive soul, still pretending he wasn't in the right frame of mind which is why he pulled out?

Agreed. See my post on the previous page made overnight. He claims he pulled out for the safety of everyone, because he could not focus. Seems the sycophantic gullible on Twitter are buying that load of hogwash.

Wow... he's now saying he pulled out of the meeting for the safety of other riders (or at least that's my interpretation, I will read it again with fresh eyes in the morning).... someone take the man's spade away, he's digging himself one hell of a hole there.

Yes, but he then threw his toys out of the pram and chose not to race, so that needs to be punished. If he excluded himself from the meeting, really they should not have given him the platform to be presented with the trophy at the end in front of the crowd who paid to watch him race, not sulk.

It's a rarity, but it seems almost everybody on the forum that's commented is in agreement over Hancock and what happened yesterday. I had a good look around riders on Twitter and it's a shame they all seem to be congratulating Greg nobody is questioning what he did, which I find a real shame.

Finally people are seeing through that cheesy grin to see what kind of guy Hancock is.

Jacques, you are probably right there!

Hancock showed in the SWC that he does not care about fans, he just turns up and rides when he can be bothered.

Indeed. I have never ridden so can someone that is a former rider tell me, in this scenario is Greg saying it can only come loose when cornering? Otherwise is explanation does not make sense because if he was so worried, why was he going flat out mid track out on the straights and pulling a good few bike lengths clear each time.

Manipulating a race to help a friend/countryman or in this case Monster teammate is never acceptable. I would still say the same if Greg was helping Tai out tonight.

They didn't but the way Kelvin questioned the move during the race sort of suggested to me that Kelvin thought it was suspicious, which was enough for me to rewind and take a look. Not just today for me. Hancock's recent crimes against speedway are: - Today, manipulating the race. - World Cup, cheating British fans by pulling out of the Belle Vue meeting, after making no reference to that in the qualification. - His attack on Nicki by publishing a website statement attacking his character. Unprofessional at best!

I think that came last year! His attack of Nicki, not on track but the off-track website statement was pathetic and bullying. Tonight he went from winning the world title in one race, to colluding to cheat other riders in the following race. To be fair Kelvin called it 'strange' during the race, and was quickly critical. Pearson didn't try to defend Hancock (yes that's right folks, I am defending Pearson). I looked on Twitter and that total moron Havelock is now slating Nigel and Kelvin for judging Hancock. What saddens me is that Havelock can't see what Hancock did was wrong.

That's all I watch it for, first is first and everything else is irrelevant. If you say so! For most it's just a pointless meeting.

Long way for the speedway GP circuit to go for a pointless meeting. I don't think I have looked less forward to a GP in many a year.

Not alone with those naff tracks.

This seems about right!!!

What did I say about how you come across the other day.. patronising, another fine example. Just because you don't agree with GWR comment's about Woffy does not make the comments ridiculous.

I agree with the latter, Tai is getting worse. He was a good role model generally, but this year he seems to have gone backwards. I disagree with the former comment. Ward was a knob, is still a knob judging by some of his Twitter comments. Still time for him to change as he gets older, but right now I see no sign of the maturity coming with age so will most likely always be a knob.

Neither did I, but I did think Tai's subsequent comment was controversial and something any other media pundit would surely have picked up on, especially with them being UK team mates. .

I noticed they never picked up on or discussed Tai's comments in the GP about Freddie. Surely something worthy of discussion.

No. As it got worse then, track changed or just not being prepared? Only been 4 or 5 times in person, but always enjoyed and those seen on Sky been good too. But to be fair not seen much there over last year or so.

Spot on. If British Speedway had more tracks like Belle Vue and Kings Lynn then the sport would be far more enticing.