uk_martin

Are you running a tour to Warsaw for the SGP there? If so, have you got an allocation of tickets for it? Can the web site be updated for 2015 please?

Amazing how quickly the cheap seats have sold out but how slowly the last remaining VIP seats are now selling. I wonder if the "sell out" has been engineered to "encourage" the sale of the last of the VIP seats before the cheap ones come back onto the market? What else does a "VIP" seat get you apart from admission and a decent view? Is any "hospitality" involved like at Cardiff?

All non-VIP tickets no longer available...and all in two days? Amazeballs.

Did anyone go on this tour? Is there any feedback on it?

Who is that then? Robert Lambert by any chance?

What did anyone really expect? As Falcon Hammer says, it's sad...but no doubt done "in the best interests of British speedway"... (in a pigs eye)

I hope that Robert Lambert can build a good career for himself despite not getting any help from the BSPA. Didn't I read somewhere in the past year that he feels more gratitude is owing by him to the German speedway authorities who have positively helped him in his fledgeling career than he does to the BSPA? Anyway, let's see how he compares in the long run with some of the riders of his age group about to spring onto the scene in Poland - http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/484882/oni-moga-kiedys-rzadzic-w-polskim-zuzlu

It was April before he was able to ride wasn't it? Kings Lynn got around the problem by not having a league fixture until he was of an age to ride for the team, with the early weeks of the season featuring an individual meeting and the challenge match with Falubaz Zielona Gora, and a raft of NL meetings. Crafty.

They may have sailed close to the wind once and got away with it. You have to remember that 2010 featured "decision makers" that weren't there at the Planning Permission negotiation stages, may not have been as fully aware of the restrictions, and probably didn't care about the long term consequences either.

Of course one of the main things about the FTD system is that it catches the best of the young talent between the devil and the deep blue. If a young rider fancies his chances with the big boys he gets no assistance, but he might earn decent money on a proper contract. Alternatively and like the mediocre but British riders he could get a cheap labour contract but a helping hand from the system. The reserve slots should be for u21's whether in the draft or not. KL should have been able to field Lambert (at whatever his GSA is) plus 1 FTD rider in the same way that Stal Gorzów can field Zmarzlik (Ave = 8ish) at reserve on a contract that pays the rider his true value until the rider is 21.

Good Friday and Sundays are options on the proviso that there is no more than one meeting a week. So basically there is flexibility about what day the meetings are staged but no more capacity for the number of fixtures.

Was he? My memory is that because he was under 16 at the start of the season he wasn't eligible for the draft. I may be wrong about that though.

That's what I was afraid of. Planning restrictions mean that there can only be one meeting a week of not more than 20-21 races, so double headers are out of the question in the event that there is a fixture backlog...so I hope that Cradley have a "location B" up their sleeve because the Brummies won't have. Leads you to wonder what the arrangement would be if either one team or the other has a run of bad luck with the weather. If it's the Brummies who have some rain-off's do they kick Cradley's fixtures off the calendar to get their own ones in, hoping that Cradley can fulfill them at Monmore Wood? Or will the Brummies have to play second fiddle if Cradley are heading to the play-off's and they need their fixtures to be squeezed in? Because with 27 weeks to get 27 meetings in, there is ZERO margin for error on the cancellation front without such a Plan B.

Not personally. You can either: 1. go to translate.google.com and enter the Polish URL into the box and it will translate the page for you OR 2. install the Chrome browser onto your computer which automatically translates foreign web pages for you. The problem with Polish as a language is that it is structured very differently to Greco-Roman languages like English, so there is plenty of room for misinterpretation, however you will get the gist of what's going on "in the round" from a Google translation, even if some of the fine detail leaves something to the imagination.

In other words "you're on your own Sunny Jim". Don't expect any help off the BSPA, the likes of which the PZM give to Bartosz Zmarzlik, but when the BSPA want you, then you'd better jump to their tune. Wil the BSPA be entering Lambert into the u21's or will he have to do that by himself? (or will the Germans help him out? lol) Can't wait for the day he's good enough to be entered into the SEC and the BSPA try to put a block on him like they did to Scott Nicholls.

What's the cut-off date for when all the league fixtures in the NL have to be run by? Just wondering as there are 27 weeks between 1st April and mid-Sept, which I'm guessing will be about the date of the cut-off, with 20 league meetings between the 2 teams plus 6 National Trophy plus a Golden Hammer meeting to fit in...it had best not rain, had it? Do Cradley have a fall-back position of filling in a "missing week" in the Wolverhampton fixture list and riding their rain-off rearranged fixtures at Monmore Wood?

Fair enough. Original post corrected. Thanks for the info. The GB list now looks like this: Blackbird L - 21/02/87 - 28 Lambert S - 21/02/89 - 26 Wright C - 26/10/88 - 26 Rose L - 05/09/89 - 25 Kerr L - 25/03/90 - 25 Auty - 09/09/90 - 24 Birks A - 19/10/90 - 24 Starke P - 18/11/90 - 24 Worrall S - 23/09/91 - 23 Newman K - 14/12/91 - 23 Sarjeant J - 16/11/93 - 21 Garrity J - 09/11/93 - 21 Jacobs J - 14/08/93 - 21 Nielsen S - 31/10/94 - 20 Bates J - 01/02/96 - 19 Ellis A - 21/03/96 - 19 Any idea why Robert Lambert isn't being given any assistance in his formative years? Don't tell me "he's too good"? Surely if Bartosz Zmarzlik, a GP winner, can be helped in his development by retaining a junior spot in Polish speedway, the British authorities can do something for one of the few brights hopes that we have for the long term in this country?

http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/484128/kenneth-bjerre-takze-rezygnuje-z-elite-league

http://www.speedwayresults.com/rider.php?name=Lewis&surname=Rose

Can someone please check to see if these dates of birth of the bright young things that will make up the FTR are correct, and if I've calculated their ages (as at 1st April 2015 - to pick a common date for all) correctly too please? Dates of birth sourced from www.speedwayresults.com Blackbird L - 21/02/87 - 28 Lambert S - 21/02/89 - 26 Wright C - 26/10/88 - 26 Rose L - 05/09/89 - 25 Kerr L - 25/03/90 - 25 Auty - 09/09/90 - 24 Birks A - 19/10/90 - 24 Starke P - 18/11/90 - 24 Worrall S - 23/09/91 - 23 Newman K - 14/12/91 - 23 Sarjeant J - 16/11/93 - 21 Garrity J - 09/11/93 - 21 Jacobs J - 14/08/93 - 21 Nielsen S - 31/10/94 - 20 Bates J - 01/02/96 - 19 Ellis A - 21/03/96 - 19 If I'm right, we only have two teenagers (because Robert Lambert doesn't seem to count in the minds of the BSPA, does he?) - OK, three then, in the EL. What's the DOB / Age cut off point for admission into the FIM World u21 Championships? How many of the GB riders will qualify? Now compare the British riders with the bright young things in Poland: Musielak T - 18/08/93 - 21 Wozniak S - 06/05/93 - 21 Pawlicki Pi - 30/11/94 - 20 Strzelec A - 15/03/94 - 20 Cyfer A - 21/05/95 - 19 Pieszczek K - 23/09/95 - 19 Przedpelski P - 23/06/95 - 19 Zmarzlik B - 12/04/95 - 19 Kaczmarek D - 02/06/97 - 17 I daren't start with the bright young things coming out of Denmark and Sweden. One has to ask, in reality, why are the BSPA not looking at more teenagers and not so many people in their mid-20's, who let's face it, will never represent the country at international level. If they haven't made it yet they never will. Resources should be focussed at the much younger riders if Team GB will ever be able to compete effectively again.

It's one in the eye for the BSPA who stated that the EL was ready to welcome GP riders back to these shores. With Iversen having doubts about returning to the EL, and Darcy no longer being a GP rider, how many top GP riders will the EL end up having in the end?

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. ???

Thank you to Islander for the correction.

The point I was making is that in the opening post all the teams are written out in team colours EXCEPT Birmingham who are in yellow and blue.

Hoe ironic that in a formier communist block country, the solution to the problem is seen as the removal of the free market modus operendi and replacing it with a centrally planned one.