westhamboy66

Actually Sverre Harrfeldt is the greatest rider to come out of Norway

Great post

Good post Robbie. Yes proper qualification would give more credability to the GP series. Although I am more of a traditionalist I love the GP's but there are simply too many picks for whoever the TV Company wants. One wildcard max. That way if there were an injury to one of the top riders as with Billy Hammill then common sense would prevail. Emil would get the pick this year and that seems fair to me.

Couple of things Rye House have used saturday Afternoon before ...Saturday June 12th against Newcastle so you are wrong there. As far as running on Saturday before the Newport meeting on the sunday. 28 heats would have been ridden leaving the track with a hell of a lot of work needing to be done. A limited amount could have been done saturday evening but with sundays start time an enforced one at 1PM there would have been no time to carry out track prep on sunday morning. Rye House is now just across the river to a residential area from whom I am sure there would have been complaints had there been a couple of tractors circling the track at 7 AM on a sunday morning. It's far to easy to target Rye House for the shortcomings of how a league and it's events are run.

Sorry but what do you expect them to do. The position they are in was due to the weather originally. Now due to their success against Kings Lynn they have their own fixtures to fulfill. From where I see it they have very little option but to go with this weekend for the Newport meeting as time is running out. Surprised that the stand alones as you put it didn't rush in with offers to re stage the 4TT. It's a poorly run league whose rules seem to change by the minute and worse still has forgotten it's real reason for being there.

Always a welcome visitor to Rye House. i would have loved to have seen him have a full season al NL level for the cobras very exciting rider with a never give up attitude. If he is about to pack it in then good luck in the future and he will be missed

Forgive me if I'm wrong but is it not the referee's responsibility to put the two minute warning on rather than the clerk of the course. Tape infringements and all four back when no one has fallen is wrecking the sport. Even NL riders now return to the pits for a spoonfull of fuel and a fan for the clutch. Had the ref immediately put on the two minute warning after each aborted race there would have been one less thing for the Rye knockers to shout about. 4 hrs is a disgrace but lump all the blame onto Len Silver is pretty stupid. By the way Len silver would like everyone to comb the dust out of their hair and return it in a first class enevlope as it is needed for our next 5 hr epic double header on saturday against newport. Still at least i can look forward to great Elite racing tonight from the exciting Lakeside track where the dirt is 6 inches deep with no dust to be found anywhere. Never a delay between races to be had there!

Decent GP hope they hold one there next year as it would be very tempting. They kept on talking about a unique surface but it seemed a lot like Terenzano that i went to last year. Yes idiot ref Gollob got lucky and Jonsson didn't two poor decisions. Not a Fan of Chris Harris but he was clearly the best rider on show and deserved another GP win. Fair play to the boy he was magnificent and I hope he maintains this form and doesn't have to rely on another wildcard.

Well he is charging a score for the meeting itself and considering that is the same cost as the "Elite" (yeh right) Pairs the night before the cost is about right, but the fact of his charging a fiver for the practice is disgraceful. I normally stick up for him in most things but charging anything at all is pathetic. On this he should hang his head in shame. I sincerely hope nobody turns up to pay the fiver

As I'm going to Rye I have the same problem. Say's a lot about sky's attitude towards speedway. I can understand it's tough especially when there is other live sport on such as the ever popular 20/20 finals on lve but why on earth does sky feel the need to relegate speedway to the red button when there is recorded wrestling on for God's sake.

Have you ever been to East London? Canary Wharf for instance. Be more respectful to to people who are the salt of the earth. Whats the matter with you?

What is Upton Park? The Boleyn Ground is where West Ham Umited play sadly few actually know that. Upton Park is an areaof East London with a post code of E6 E13 and E7 thus owned by no one. Predominantly now Asian it is a pretty run down area. The Football Ground called The Boleyn Ground was once owned by the Catholic Church but is now wholly owned by West Ham United FC. As a piece of commercial land it is worth very little. The running track is the main stumbling block preventing West Ham moving in to Stratfod but the word is that they will do so with the running track being covered with seats during games. However Seb Coe would undoubtabely stick his nose in if he felt some greasy motorbike types wanted to use his track and there sadly lies the problem. The area isn't anymore of a Sh**hole than Cardiff and I think it's an insult to the local populatiion for someone to say it is. Why speedway would want to go there when Cardiff can't be filled I don't know. Many better sites around for an English GP but Mr BSI clearly isn't interested

Again what a load of tosh. Easy FREE Parking pat on the back for that Improving facilities that rival most if not all EL tracks Good crowd and I got in without any sort of queue Decent track Excellent racing from wherever you viewed it Great team spirit driven performance All round the best night of speedway for me since we had victory snatched from us by Sweden at Poole. Pat on the back for All concerned at KL Pat on the back for Rob Lyons to swallow his pride after last year Pat on the back for the riders Great support great night shame about the negative comments when someone stands by what they have said even when proved wrong on all accounts. Perhaps Steve would have been happier with an Aussie win poor crowd rubbish track etc!

Absolute drivel Decent track Decent facilities Nice to be able to watch speedway from any vantage point rather than one straight ala Wolverhampton Bele Vue etc As for a venue that will offer Team GB an easier passage ...There aint one. Plus historically progressing via the race off offers a better chance of success. Fair Play to Buster to get the place more attractive to hold this sort of event and i say this as a Rye Supporter who has no connection to Kings Lynn. There are other tracks that I would rather watch this meeting at but sadly neither Wolverhampton or poole come anywhere close

John Cook Bobby Ott Tony Clarke Garry Hay John Langfield Dave Lanning

Having been there when the place is full for an FA Cup Final and The playoffs there is no way there was anywhere near 40000 there. I reckon the Times is bang on with 32000. Apart from Gollob the "passing" was due to rider errors and always with one wheel over the white line. Pretty poor and not sure what Rickardsson, Adams and Ermolenko were getting so excited about. If the crowds continue to shrink at their current rates we'll be back at Brandon or Peterborough.

Common sense being spoken

What an idiot, Front row tickets pathetic comments. Had you been standing in front of me you would have done it for one race only. I pay money in an all seater stadium to do just that. If you must act like an idiot buy a back row ticket and thus not ruin anyone else's day

What do you mean NOW. Where have you been for the last five years? Head buried in sand until it affects your club? Hopefully we'll (Cobras) now go on to win the NL whatever way we can. Then all three leagues will have Champions that are in the same boat just to keep the leagues in equilibrium.

Developing future riders needs to be done probably from ten years old. Trying to do something with a seventeen year old is too late. There are only a handful of promoters who give any kids a chance and are happier to bring over a foreigner mainly due to pressure from the fans of those clubs.

Glad to see you had a good time Bertie. Glad to see you were impressed (another thread) with the British riders efforts at singing, not to mention their riding Not sure about the need to insult Servicemen and women that serve the country and give potentially give their lives for people like you Take a tip and go and watch snooker or bowls next year if you hated it all so much

Quite right Patriotism isn't measured by how well you sing a song. Outdated boring rubbish song anyway.As far as how they performed I thought had it been more of a racetrack Nicholls and Harris would have done better. Tai was encouraging as even when he is last he's in touch all the time and when he gates he tends to win. No I don't think they should be bashed

I always buy in advance but did whince at the cost of delivery for the tickets. I suppose it's whatever you are comfortable with but with the free seating arrangements (sorry i mean sit where you like no numbers) we got there about an hour and a half before the start. Not sure if you are driving but the stadium is visible from the motorway...well its right next to the motorway actually. Again not sure of how much time you have but don't forget that within a couple of hours drive of Terenzano is Venice Verona Lake garda and the beach all situated in magnificent country side. Word of warning take your comets jacket as it got a bit nippy late on! Do this GP and I'm sure you will be glad you did

Have to say that this was my favourite GP last year.We stayed in Verona which was about 2 hours from the stadium. A great place to visit for the day. We drove to Italy via Austria and made a week of it. Loved the Italian's laid back attitude to putting the event on and was great to watch it without any drunks falling over which has become the norm in Denmark. Civilized speedway and I am sure you will enjoy it. We are driving again and stay in the Lake Garda area Cant remember the exact price but tickets easily available at the Arena for unreserved seating that is of a temporary nature. Nothing at all in the local town of Terenzano but Udine is quite big and i suppose 20 mins away