Mr Bee

Ah, the old you've never been on a bike argument. Classic. But wait, if they agree with you then they have a clue. People have different opinions. Get over it.

Yeah, it did liven it up. As you say, hard but fair.

Like I said, take the Aussie tinted specs off. Goodnight BFD.

I can't see what he did wrong either. Try taking your Aussie tinted specs off before you watch it next time. It's Speedway, not a knitting class. What's Laguta supposed to do, wave him by and watch him go?

Thanks DW.

So what you're telling us, is that when Rosco released the press statement on 30th June to say Hans was released, and we were sticking with Emil because he will become our asset, rather than having Hans who would only be on loan, he was wrong?

How do you know what he has or hasn't planned next season. Have you spoken to him about it? One of the reasons we have kept Emil instead of going with Hans once he returned from injury, is so that he becomes our asset.

Jan Staechmann has said on Twitter that he has a dislocated shoulder.

King Kenneth speed won't be happy tonight with that performance.

Thanks for links mateusz and brandonbee.

Has anyone got a link for the next meeting? Thanks

It costs £2.99. I've purchased it for my ipod touch but not had a real chance to sit and go through it yet today.

Suspected broken foot for Ben . Translated by my friend in Poland.

What a load of rubbish. Smol has been nominated for the wild card and he fully justifies his place in the re-run. And nobody who rides for Poole should ever be granted a wild card! EDIT: What gives big conk the right to be in it anyway? EDIT 2: Its a shame, because id like him if he didnt ride for Poole!!

What price for AJ to turn up next week!!

I think that you are spot on with that.

Surely the following Saturday is free so perhaps they could put the GP back a week!!!

And Hans. So the GP looks set to bugger up another Friday at Brandon!

Yes, silly me. I forgot Speedway doesn’t do anything logically does it? Constantly shoots itself in the foot time and time again. My idea would never work. I would like to see those 7 other Wild Cards "logically" picked on a years hard graft, performance related lets say. Again I use Holder as an example of why he should be picked for next year. He has put in solid years work with results to match. I haven’t got time to pick another 6 now, as I'm off out to watch a proper sport that does do things a bit more "logically".

If it gives the Italian Speedway fans a rider they can cheer on, then yes he deserves a go at it. He will never win it, but then Harris had a win last year and has done nothing since so who knows They see more of Franchetti than they do any of the other 15 riders on show, so its a name they recognise and it may put that few extra thousand on the gate that you don’t care about. Britain, Germany and Italy all need a home rider on show. IMO, I think not having a home rider in the GP's that are hosted by smaller Speedway nations would harm the crowd. But who knows. Maybe if they included Holder in the German GP at the expense of Martin, then they would attract a large portion of the 10,000 Poole faithful that attend Poole every week. Personally speaking, I would scrap the qualifying system to get into Speedway GP. At the moment we have six good GP riders, Nicki, Gollob, Adams, Greg, Hans and Crump. AJ occasionally pops his head in to see what’s going on......decides he isn’t interested after all and settles for 8 or 9 points. Then we have position number 8 that the also rans fight over. I would go with the top eight from the previous year and then pick the rest as Wild Cards for the following year. So in short, each GP is made up of the previous years eight, seven permanent Wild Cards and one host nation Wild Card. Most of the seven permanent Wild Cards would logically pick themselves, i.e. Holder who has performed well in all his domestic leagues and was robbed of his place in the Challenge last week because of a fall or engine failure I think in his qualifying round. No doubt he deserves a crack at it next year. If the British GP didn’t have a British rider next year, I would be interested to see what the crowd was like. I don’t think Nicholls or Harris deserve nomination for next years series, as neither have done anything to shout about this year. But Cardiff still needs a Brit to make up the crowd IMO. I have friends who make Cardiff the only Speedway event they attend all year. They are people that are not huge Speedway fans, but have come to recognise what a great day it is and more importantly come to cheer the British rider on at the end of it. If a Brit wasn’t in it they wouldn’t bother going. I bet that there are more people like that and I see no reason why that would be different in Germany or Italy. But then In your world, Speedway doesn’t need that extra few thousand does it?

Cant believe you even have to ask "why" the line "Not riders picked because it might put a few thousand extra on the gate" is stupid. So you would rather a Stadium be empty then, than have just one rider representing the nation that the GP is held in? You may as well not have a German Speedway GP if you don’t want that extra few thousand on the gate. Speedway is hardly a sport that can turn people away is it? We have had a wild card nomination for years, and I see no problem with a rider from the host nation taking part, no matter what his ability. If it puts bums on seats than that’s a good thing. You never know, there maybe the odd one or two Patriotic German fans cheering him on. Out of interest which part of Denmark are you from?

What a stupid post. So when we have no brits in it next year, who do you want as a wild card at Cardiff? An aussie, another Pole, a Dane, perhaps a Russian!!! Granted Martin isnt going to win the event, but maybe, just maybe, the German fans will want to cheer him on.

Spot on CB.

I can't see anyone from Norway

Cheers. That will give the Edinburgh fans a bit to cheer about then.