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Oh dear, I give up. All the best Rob

Because keeping a match close away from home, in a sport where home advantage is large, deserves a reward. All the best Rob

Not the same as the Joker. Look at what DRS stands for and you'll find out why. DRS is there to reduce the handicap on the car behind, not give them an unfair advantage, as the Joker does. All the best Rob

Apologies for the cross-boarding posting, but I want to make sure that fans from all three leagues have a chance to see the below. It will take around 5 minutes of your time. Here are step-by-step instructions to register an objecton to the council's Preferred Option to build houses on the site of Oxford Stadium. There are later planning stages BUT the more opposition shown at this stage, the more chance of the plans being thrown out at this stage. * Go to this link: http://consultation.oxford.gov.uk/consult.ti/sitesandhousing/respondByQuestionnaireLogin * Register on the site * You will then get a conformation email to verify your account. Click on the link that verifies your account * You will then be taken back to the questionnaire site where you can then log on * Fill in the questionnaire. You don't have to fill in all the questions, you can press "next" until you get to question 14 * Once at question 14, enter in the box "Site 141 - Oxford Stadium" and write why the stadium should remain and not be re-developed! * Confirm your answers * You should then get an email to say thanks for taking part. Please put aside 5 minutes to do this today, since the deadline is midnight tonight (Friday). Thanks very much. All the best Rob See http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=65192&st=30

Apologies for the cross-boarding posting, but I want to make sure that fans from all three leagues have a chance to see the below. It will take around 5 minutes of your time. Here are step-by-step instructions to register an objecton to the council's Preferred Option to build houses on the site of Oxford Stadium. There are later planning stages BUT the more opposition shown at this stage, the more chance of the plans being thrown out at this stage. * Go to this link: http://consultation.oxford.gov.uk/consult.ti/sitesandhousing/respondByQuestionnaireLogin * Register on the site * You will then get a conformation email to verify your account. Click on the link that verifies your account * You will then be taken back to the questionnaire site where you can then log on * Fill in the questionnaire. You don't have to fill in all the questions, you can press "next" until you get to question 14 * Once at question 14, enter in the box "Site 141 - Oxford Stadium" and write why the stadium should remain and not be re-developed! * Confirm your answers * You should then get an email to say thanks for taking part. Please put aside 5 minutes to do this today, since the deadline is midnight tonight (Friday). Thanks very much. All the best Rob See http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=65192&st=30

Apologies for the cross-boarding posting, but I want to make sure that fans from all three leagues have a chance to see the below. It will take around 5 minutes of your time. Here are step-by-step instructions to register an objecton to the council's Preferred Option to build houses on the site of Oxford Stadium. There are later planning stages BUT the more opposition shown at this stage, the more chance of the plans being thrown out at this stage. * Go to this link: http://consultation.oxford.gov.uk/consult.ti/sitesandhousing/respondByQuestionnaireLogin * Register on the site * You will then get a conformation email to verify your account. Click on the link that verifies your account * You will then be taken back to the questionnaire site where you can then log on * Fill in the questionnaire. You don't have to fill in all the questions, you can press "next" until you get to question 14 * Once at question 14, enter in the box "Site 141 - Oxford Stadium" and write why the stadium should remain and not be re-developed! * Confirm your answers * You should then get an email to say thanks for taking part. Please put aside 5 minutes to do this today, since the deadline is midnight tonight (Friday). Thanks very much. All the best Rob See http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=65192&st=30

We'll claim that one then. We'll also claim the World Championship successes of Lionel Van Praag, Bluey Wilkinson, Jack Young, Ronnie Moore, Barry Briggs and Ivan Mauger. All the best Rob

Interesting. And it begs one more question: when Australia won the World Team Cup in 1976 and New Zealand in 1979, were they actually the "Great Britain" team? All the best Rob

HenryW, an interesting question. Even though the team were known as England for years, the official name was Great Britain. But it does beg the question what the Scotland team were officially called? Does it mean that there were actually two Great Britain sides in the competition? One for Humphrey to investigate. All the best Rob

Does cricket or any other sport have a "double points" rule, though? I could be wrong, but I can't think of any other sport which does this? What's wrong with just having tactical subs to keep the score close? If there has to be a double points rule, then at least there should be a 15m handicap at the start or something along those lines, so that the competitor has to earn the extra points. Double points from the gate just holds up the whole event to ridicule (as it does with domestic speedway in this country). Is it a World Championship event or a circus? EDIT: As for the Poles, they might have had a problem if the 2009 final happened in reverse, i.e. they were the beat team on the day, but ended second due to an extra two points being given to one of their opponents. All the best Rob

The team has always been called Great Britain, according to FIM documentation. All the best Rob

Do you honestly like the joker rule? Surely that part is broken. Apart from that, I agree that the current format works. I would like see team riding. Maybe the World Cup is not the event for that, but rather the return of more test matches (one test match per Elite League track would be good - taking on the Aussies, Swedes and Danes in three-match rubbers). All the best Rob

It's the same competition, just rebranded that's all. One sucession of wins not mentioned so far is ours - the British team won in 1971/72/73/74/75. How times have changed. All the best Rib

It was a very good meeting, but the best? Come on now, what about e.g. the 2006 Polish GP at Bydgoszcz? Or the 2004 World Cup race-off or 2007 World Cup Final? Or the 2006 Elite League play-off final. Seems you have the Sky TV mentaility of calling the most recent the best All the best Rob

I've been using Gambo's racecards, but thanks to everyone who has been producing these. All the best Rob

Absolutely no way. A team which loses at home deserves no points. All the best Rob

Well done Chris Harris & Ben Barker, for mixing it. All the best Rob

Yes, there would have been a run-off for third; don't believe everything that is said on the Sky coverage. Would have been Lukas Dryml v Roman Povazhny in all probability. Lukas would won either won or fallen off. I still don't understand why Woffinden wasn't instructed to stay behind Topinka. All the best Rob

Run-off. All the best Rob

Hatcham, Gafurov had already been used as a joker in Heat 19. As SCB has explained, this was a mistake (and, for once, I'm in agreement with Shawn ). All the best Rob

Indeed they did. And the Brits should have made them pay for their error, but we let them off the hook. All the best Rob

The Danes were perpetual winners in the 1980s and more than once, they threw a race in a World Pairs semi-final, to get one of their lead competitors out of the final. It's called tactical nous. All the best Rob

There's no limit, excpet each rider can only take one joker or T/S ride each. All the best Rob

Such is the attitude of losers. If you want to win, you do whatever you have to, to win. We made a mistake in Heat 25 tonight, Woffinden should have stayed behind Topinka. Or had a pretend engine failure on the final bend. We don't need the Russians in the race-off, it's a hard enough meeting already. All the best Rob

He's value for money, though, isn't he? Still not sure how he got excluded for Chris Harris falling off his, in Kelv's words, motorbike. Just noticed that tonight: Ben Barker - scored 6 out of a possible 9 Scott Nicholls - scored 6 out of a possible 18 All the best Rob