TheReturn

A few seasons ago you had no speedway in Fester,.. at least you have some speedway now. Stop moaning.

Totally agree. Tonight is a prime example, the way he screamed and constantly sucked up about Ward was embarrassing and also disrespectful to the other riders. At one point he screamed Ward is all over Iversen, when in fact Iversen was a good 4 or 5 bike lengths clear by that point. Awful commentator, if Eurosport can do their own feed without Pearson, then Happy Days.

General feedback is that this was a fantastic and enjoyable GP. Whilst I appreciate that every track is different in shape and size, I hope that lessons have been learned in the preperation side so that the rest of the GPs the riders are given tracks which they can race on and if they want to, really go for it.

Excellent racing, and all those of us who felt Tai's pick fo rthe GPs was unwarrnated have been well and truly proved wrong, long may that contimnue for the rest of the season. Did he change his bike for the final? He had looked fast all night, until that final race when he seemed flat.

Won't be helped when Pearson keeps giving free plugs for the Speedway Star in the TV coverage. Perhaps did not matter when there was no rival for the Star, but if Inside Magazine becomes a real rival then it will matter.

Fully agreed. I am sure all sportsmen and women do now and again indulge in a wine or beer or two, but those with brains tend to do it behind closed doors. I think it also shows that Ward as got no chance of sorting himself out, when he is hanging around peers, including the sports World Champion acting this way. Which is a shame because Ward is so talented, but I can't see him lasting in the sport to the ages of messers Gollob, Crump and Hancock the way he is going on. Actually based off previous events, if this kind of night out becomes the norm, and upsets the wrong person when pissed he is going to get another pasting like he did at the end of last season, and god forbid what might happen next time.

Oh FFS, that is a pathetic and stupid post to make. Head in sand sydrome? The fact the pictures have surfaced mean the fact kids are in bed is irrevelant, because they will see their 'stars' and 'role models' getting wasted.

Read my post again. I am not saying either of them did!

Some of the Polish tracks are big and wide and allow for the throttle wide open, seem to be perfect tracks to me, yet always seem to produce great racing.

Do you not have kids then? Not worried about him being a role model? So if one of them knocked over and injured or killed a relative of yours, you would not care as long as they entertain on track?

Much like this post...

eeer, and inbetween races you want them to just stand their twiddling their thumbs? I quitre like it, his knowledge showed a line that I had not seen in the live action. Ok, perhaps he could point at the screen instead of the gadget, but the gadget is fine in my opinion

I assume so yep, I guess it's why Soccer Saturday points the camera to the pitchside reporter, rather than the field because of contractual reasons for showing the action.

Yep to be fair getting the updates from the other tracks is a great bonus, and I think with a little work could be really good feature, at the moment it is pretty much them just stating the scores. Not sure Ryan or Sam are ready for those roles yet. Chris is always very good at giving insight, and I think his technical bit with the TV and his hand held device is pretty good, when looking at lines. The same with Rosco tonight advising one of his riders to keep his body forward on the bike to give more control when it bucks up, this sort of technical input actually adds to the interest. Good example there of why you need a manager, or at least assistant manager that is a former rider to help the riders out.

I see you got another free advertising plug by your old mate on Sky last night.

Bit harsh, I always thought when in the mix, Harris always looked ok, but he was constantly hampered by being behind before the first bend.

I think my only criticism from Saturday I don't think is Eurosports graphics anyway, but the riders announcing their name in the graphics before each heat got very boring, very quickly. I think something like that is great to show with the vocal reading of the names pre meeting when listing the riders, but not during each heat.

To be fair Tai had a great first GP. Hard to tell though if this was a good race or not because it was pretty much those on gate one in red pretty much had it sewn up. But overall a great first GP for Tai,

For me it seemed to lack the 'passion' of other GPs, but I think maybe because it was early season and away from Europe maybe? Dunno, just guessing.

Because if Mr Charisma is so shouty and annoying you end up turning your TV over and miss the Speedway, your enjoyment is spoiled. At the last last nights shouty guy seemed to have some personality, and some how made it work. Johno is always good, he seems to spot things other ex riders dont.

Hopefully not Pearson, he was awful three or four seasons ago and remains awful this season. Still, as I won't be paying more money to watch speedway, guess I won't have to put up with him ruining my GP coverage, because I won't have any GP coverage for him to ruin this season then. I am gutted, in this difficult economic times I am not paying more to watch it on top of my existing Sky sports subsription. At least some of you will get to watch it though. But why is it when Millard makes mistakes he is called out, yet Pearson made a fair few SGP clangers, including missing the point when we had a new World Champ last season, and calling the wrong GP winner a couple of seasons prior. I am fairly sure there 'must' be better options, time speedway broadcasters explored some.

I never said it was.

Does not mean much that they are sticking by their quote, can still be misquote. Some crappy backwater local newspaper in North Wales misquoted me last week in a work related comment, and depsite pointing out the fact they had totally misquoted me they stand by their article. In my case, I am not losing much sleep over it, but I have filled a PCC complaint, not that those useless morons ever do much. But the point is, I can now easily believe how a newspaper can write total rubbish, and make it out to be total truth.

Well to be honest I am really pleased to read that, relieved in fact. It was a very silly thing to have said, and I am pleased he did not actually say it. Matt Fords response was actually very good by comparrison.

Been out busy living my life, earning a crust... so forgive me being late to the party. Now, back to what I posted, did was it an accurate quote?