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I have to say that having cheered for Australia all night I was a bit disappointed with the way they manufactured their way to the Joker. That said we're talking about a sport that continually rewards crapness, so when winning is all that matters you have to expect competitors to use the rules to their advantage. It backfired in the end anyway, but I don't suppose they'll mind going to the race off.....

Just for a bit of clarification, I wasn't suggesting that Greg Hancock is my favourite rider, far from it in fact, but the point I was making was that if the guys I'm shouting for can't win then I'd always be happy for Greg to do well.

That's exactly what I thought! At least he got a free hat anyway.

You're brilliant value, you should come here more. I made the point that Holder wasn't at fault, which was entirely consistent with my opinion that no one was at fault, which if you missed it, I also wrote a few posts back. Anyway, considering you disregarded my opinion because I'm a Poole fan, (which incidentally killed any chance of any real debate) you seem to be going on about it a lot.

My point exactly Wow.

Why do I need to justify my position? I wasn't the one running my mouth off making spurious claims about who was at fault. It was a hard first bend, all four back would have been the correct decision.

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Nobody has considered that Holder might have been at fault because, clearly, he wasn't.

Would there ever be a more popular world champion than Greg if he can kick on for his second title this year?

Chris Holder Chris Harris Antonio Lindback Tomasz Gollob Aces & Pirates. Cheers,

Holder 8 Pedersen 9 Lindback 5 Gollob 10 Cheers

My suggestion of Wolverhampton was based solely on the track, which would, in my opinion at least, give some variety in track shape. I hadn't given any thought to anything so mundane as practicalities! As blazeaway says there are relatively few permanent tracks on the UK with the infra structure necessary to hold a GP, but there are a few and a second GP in this country could on be a good thing imo

As so many others have said, the racing at Prague is consistantly poor, perhaps it's time to take that venue off the calendar? Personally, I'd like to see another GP over here, perhaps at Wolverhampton, which would certainly pose a different challenge yo the riders!

That's a shame, he told me he thinks you're a real sweetie pie.

#5 Greg Hancock 8 #6 Chris Holder 8 #9 Andreas Jonsson 5 #14 Antonio Lindback 4

I think he's on here posting under the name of "phillips11"

No.

It's just as well Holder, Pedersen, Gollob & Harris are a bit handy on speedway bikes, they'd all be pretty hungry by now if they had to make a living from their acting skills!

#7 Kenneth Bjerre 8 #10 Nicki Pedersen 11 #11 Fredrik Lindgren 8 #14 Antonio Lindback 6 Cheers TNT

As long as he gets out of the gate he'll do a good job. Admittedly it's a few years back now, but when he was at Poole, if he got out in front he was ultra quick, but he wasn't so keen to mix it. With all due respect there's a world of difference between gating in the PL and the EL, so he should do fine, don't know what average he comes in on, but I'd have thought once he gets settled in he'll be good for 9-9.5

Gollob believing he's invincible when in fact he's just dangerous. Should be excluded from the whole meeting for that unnecessary and stupid move.

What useful purpose does it serve to make that little dig within 5 minutes of a ride being injured? Will anyone feel sorry for Poole? I couldn't care less frankly, but I certainly feel sorry for the family of the sort of loser who has to come and gloat on the internet when a speedway team loses the services of it's top riders due to injury.

I'd agree with that, he's the best current rider never to have won a world championship imo. Although frankly I'd settle for anybody other than Jason, Nicki or Greg, nothing at all against those three guys, but I think we're desperate for a new winner, off the top of my head, i think it was 2003 that we last had a fresh winner in Nicki, so we're crying out for a new world champ I reckon.

QUOTE (Rob B @ Apr 24 2010, 10:28 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Will have a look at the semis again, but it didn't calculate the count back rights, eg the 4 rides on 8 points, it had one with 1 win higher then those with 2 wins. It doesn't matter that it doesn't calculate the count backs, as you have to manually put the semi final riders in depending on their gate positions. I thought it worked really well.

Looks like it could be useful! Will interesting to see how well it works when the GP season starts!