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Oxford's team manager has already been announced - it's Colin Meredith. All the best Rob

Oh dear All the best Rob

Arnie - I also remember his non-appearance for Swindon at Oxford All the best Rob

Frigbo, but when the going gets tough, the tough... er... lose at home to Northwich Victoria. All the best Rob

How come then Scott Nicholls is currently 16th in the standings, despite Jarek Hampel having rode in one less meeting. All the best Rob

No, the meeting reserves would have done much, much better than that. I wonder if the "I love Scottie" supporters are still advocating him being seeded into the series again in 2010, because he's got about as much chance qualifying for 2010 as the useless Oxford United FC winning the Champions League. All the best Rob

Great news is that the Oxford Mail gave us the back page today, and Gary Patchett was on Radio Oxford yesterday and is again on Saturday I believe. All the best Rob

Buzz also did a four-match stint for Oxford in 1997. These are often put down as guest appearences, but I don't believe they were. All the best Rob

That's great - gives plenty of time to lure people along. All the best Rob

Midland Robin - great news. Adam Skornicki was highly popular at Oxford in 2006 - I'm sure you remember him heading home Leigh Adams in a last-heat decider at Cowley All the best Rob

And he's already 15! I was very impressed by him yesterday. Get him into the Devils line-up before someone else grabs him!! All the best Rob

Phil, I agree - an enjoyable meeting... despite some poor refereeing. Heat 12 should have been much sooner after Jack Butler fell, by the time it was stopped Josh Dingle was almost up with him again, it could have been nasty. Then we had a 12-year-old kid being excluded for being lapped (a little discretion here surely ), and Morris's penalty in the final when I didn't see any movement in the third start. Graham Flint should not be allowed to referee any of the further rounds - he lacks the common sense necessary to take charge of one of these meetings. Some great talent on display, with two of the lads in the 250cc section going around faster than Heat 2 of the National League meeting!! And Ashley Morris was the third fastest rider on display all afternoon, behind only Jerran Hart and Byron Bekker. He will make a highly exciting addition to Scunny's NL line-up after he celebrates his 15th birthday next week. All the best Rob

Iris - we agree. Any translation is acceptable, but Sayfutdinov is the one preferred by the rider and the one set to become commonplace. But Mateusz's assertion that "both versions are correct but only these two ones" is plain wrong. All the best Rob

Nonsense. Any translation from the Russian alphabet into ours is acceptable. You can't say certain translations are correct and others are not. It doesn't work like that. All the best Rob

The correct way of spelling his name is in Russian and they have a different alphabet to ours. Therefore, both translations into our alphabet are acceptable. All the best Rob

Oh dear, this is embarrassing http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/2009/04/...astapi-harrisa/ All the best Rob

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Snyper - you do realise that Fisher isn't there, don't you? All the best Rob

I think we can already add: 2009: Failed Surely he can't be seeded again? All the best Rob

Scott Nicholls' GP record: 2001: Finished in top 6 of GP challenge and qualified for 2002 GP 2002: Failed, but seeded into following year's competition 2003: Qualified for 2004 series 2004: Failed, but seeded into following year's competition 2005: Failed, but seeded into following year's competition 2006: Failed, but seeded into following year's competition 2007: Qualified for 2008 series after knocking off Chris Harris in run-off 2008: Failed, but seeded into following year's competition It's not impresive reading is it? All the best Rob

Pete, My team is: 2 Jason CRUMP AUSTRALIA £50,000 (Captain) 3 Tomasz Gollob POLAND £45,000 7 Andreas JONSSON SWEDEN £35,000 8 Rune HOLTA **NORWAY** £35,000 15 Emil SATSUMANOV RUSSIA £25,000 All the best Rob

A VERY rough example All the best Rob

Yes, the result of the 2000 World Team Cup was somewhat controversial and after that a 4-team, 24-heat format involving pairs was quietly dropped. A PROPER World Team Cup would only involve two teams in each meeting. Two groups of four, with Group A & B matches (two each) taking place on alternate. Schedule could be: Day 1 - Thursday - Group A matches x 2 Day 2 - Friday - Group B matches x 2 Day 3 - Saturday - Group A matches x 2 Day 4 - Sunday - Group B matches x 2 Day 5 - Monday - Group A matches x 2 Day 6 - Tuesday - Group B matches x 2 (Restaging date for all group matches is the following day) Day 8 - Thursday - SF1 - winner Group A v runner-up Group B Day 9 - Friday - SF2 - winner Group B v runner-up Group A (Restaging date for semis is Day 10 - Saturday) Day 11 - Sunday - the final (Restaging date Day 12 - Monday) Prospective groups Group A - Denmark, Australia, England, Czech Republic. Group B - Poland, Sweden, USA, Russia. All the best Rob

TNT, you are hopless at times - you've got different countries riding in a different number of heats. 27 x 2 / 4 = 13.5, which is not a whole number. All the best Rob

Under-19 team championship? What a load of rot - yet another pointless competition to take riders away from the leagues who pay them their wages. All the best Rob