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Can someone who speaks Polish please have a look at the final paragraph here please? - http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/489109/trener-piotr-paluch-ocenia-mocne-sklady-torunia-i-leszna That sentence = "Competitions were to be held in English Poole , but organization of the event at this point was brought into question." does not bode well...OR it may just have been squirted out wrongly by Google...A spot of manual translation would give it the answer. Why does my heart dispair at the thought of an international competition falling apart as soon as it's passed into British hands to deal with? Wouldn't that just be typical? I just hope it's not as bad as it sounds.

Thanks guys for the translations Shame that the Polish Play-Off's final co-incides with the Czech Golden Helmet (again?)

There's a regular train service to Munich HBF if you are staying in the city. The train line runs close to the airport but there is no stop there. Munich Airport to/from Munich city is a 40min S-Bahn ride. The 317 bus does the route between Munich city and Landshut and DOES call in at the airport. BTW - correct pronounciation for the town is akin to Lands-hoot - NOT Land-Shut More options here - http://www.rome2rio.com/s/Munich-Airport-MUC-Germany/Landshut

What do you think "Back Office Staff Junior tournament" is likely to mean? What's IMEJ ? Thanks

I was told it's Les Rumsey - http://www.speedwayplus.com/les_rumsey.shtml Maybe I was told wrong...Blimey, they must 'av 'em young in that part of the world if it's a grandad / grandson thing...Still, same principle about no guarantees to greatness applies.

Corporates will do a think known as "due dilligance" and as soon as they see that the wool is being pulled over their eyes, they will pull out anyway. How can a "corporate" be expected to put their trust and money into something as blatantly dishonest as what is being made out? If you are up s**t creek, maybe your best bet is to admit it, and try to attract someone who can get you a paddle?

Welcome and good luck to Mr Banks Jr. It will be interesting to see how he and Ellis Perks at Cradley get on this year. Being the son of a former rider can be a good thing but as Liam Rumsey at Mildenhall has shown, it's no guarantee to greatness. Let's keep fingers crossed though that these riders adapt to the sport and make life interesting.

Has anyone got the "inside track" on what these 7 Polish National Team matches are that are in the PZM fixture list? If it's 7 test matches for the Poland team/squad then that'll be some going. I wonder who the opposition will be...and what sort of response the BSPA will give if invited to send a test team over. (NO, on second thoughtsl, I don't wonder what the BSPA response will be...got a feeling I know the answer to that ) Maybe (just thinking out loud now) OneSport are organising a big-style Poland v Rest of the World series? That could be interesting. Spread over the length of the season and across 7 venues in Poland, that would be either: 1. "very exciting" OR 2. "another Mickey Mouse event", depending of course how well disposed you are towards the Poles and how they go about promoting the sport. Be interesting to see more details about these matches as the news breaks.

Bearing in mind that with what's left to spend in the averages, the next signings will be 4, 5 or 6 point riders (or thereabouts) so how "fantastic" they will be will remain to be seen. If, who I've been given a "heads-up" for as our next signing, gets announced officially though, I think that the current "love" will be maintained for a while yet.

Were you in Prague last year when the Latvians wiped the floor with Team GB in the SWC? Forget Nicholls - he'll never ride for Team GB again Forget Bridger - he's "on a gap year" and may or may not ever return. Forget Cook - he can't afford to travel to tracks to represent Team GB (or at least he couldn't when asked to ride in the GB v Australia Test series in 2013) Which leaves Tai plus some elderly gentlemen who are "iinconsistent" at best at international level

I have no idea. Given up caring about the wizardry, sourcery and black magic that calculates these things. I just guess that if Phil Morris says it's 8.90 then he has his reasons for saying so.

Tell you what... let's have a real test to find out...one meeting at a British track of the BSPA's choice, the next at Daugavpils. Aggregate scores decide. Bearing in mind that Daugavpils is the only real track in Latvia, they've done miracles to get the national team to where they are. They have one track, we have threee leagues full of tracks. We have lots of tracks up and down the country and yet none of them can boast the accomplishment of Daugavpils. "Not invented here syndrome" all over again innit?

Good to see Iwade still going

Maybe old age is playing tricks with me. I've found this record of Tom Perry appearing for the Brummies at Stoke...but I could have sworn it was earlier than this when he first rode... still, no matter. http://www.speedwayresults.com/result.php?type=273&season=2010

...a match for Bryant & May to put into one of their matchboxes. That's a team for those who can't see beyond the end of next week. It's only my opinion, but I think we ought to realise that the team for the present won't win anything, so needs to be sidelined in favour of "fast tracking" the next generation. Yes we'll be beaten in everything that we enter for a couple of years, but our Chelsea Pensioner team gets handsomly beaten anyway. We need to build for 3 or 4 years down the road, and that process has to start somewhere.

I think that the top 7 British riders would struggle in a "test match" against the top 7 Latvians. GB has 2 decent spearhead riders, but behind them likes so much either mediocrity and/or inexperience. Can't do anything about mediocrity but you can do something about inexperience. Problem is that SCB/BSPA refuse to do so.

From http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/488487/pzm-opublikowal-kalendarz-sportu-zuzlowego-sezon-ruszy-26-marca (and subject to correct translation and someone making head or tail of what the Polish National Team Match ** is all about) 28 (Friday) - the final of the Junior League of IM - unconfirmed location 29 (Saturday) - Polish Grand Prix in Gorzow 30 (Sunday) - Polish national team match (reserve date for all leagues provided that in the case of having to play the superior league match ASN does not appoint to match the Polish National Team players appearing in the game supervisor) 30 (Sunday) - the final of the Silver Helmet - Pila This has the potential makings of a great long weekend away.

http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/488487/pzm-opublikowal-kalendarz-sportu-zuzlowego-sezon-ruszy-26-marca Can someone please do a better job than Google on translating please?? What is IMSJ, MDMP, DMSJ, IMP MIMP etc etc. What's this examination of the license "Y" all about? Wonder what sort of National Team matches these are in the calendar.

Not the 9.34 that is quoted on the first page. That means that there's another 0.44 of spending power left for the remaining signings too.

Correct - in the past tense. Came third in a semi-final beating Germany (good job there wasn't a penalty shoot-out wasn't it?) and only out-scoring Germany and Finland out of the 8 teams in the semi-finals. Not what I would call "doing quite well" or anything to be satisfied about unless it was a stepping stone in a long-term process...SO why is there is no news about an entry into the 2015 competition? From reading the International section of BSF it looks like the BSPA are entering no-one into the SEC, no-one into the Best Pairs, and only one rider into the u21's. Nothing has been said about an entry into the u21 SWC.

Congratulations, that't the right answer...and don't worry, you're not on your own. I've not seen anyone else who's advcocated "a Barry Urn" type of person to head up the sport, to have the answers to those questions either.

Good to know. The thing is, that I for one (and I doubt if I'm on my own), without having slaved through books and books of statistics haven't have come across many of the names in the NL (some fast trackers aside) so a helping hand on who are the good who are the bad and who are the ugly is appreciated.

Some questions about Barry Hearne... 1. Do you really think he would want anything to do with this sport? Really? 2. Who would appoint him? Can you really see the BSPA turkeys voting for Christmas? 3. Who would pay him? (and how much would he need to make it worth getting out of bed for?) 4. With reference to the last question, wouldn't those who paid the piper, not call the tune? 5. Suppose he takes the sport in a direction YOU don't like...then what? Who get's rid of him?

Be real. We got to the final because Australia coq'd up big style. They lost it rather than GB winning it. So why don't the BSPA / SCB enter a u21 team into the FIM u21 SWC? - or is that because apart from Adam Ellis and Rob Lambert, we don't have any worthy riders under the age of 21? The resf of our "young hopefuls" in the fast track system are over 21 and as old as 28.

Can someone remind me. Was it Tom Perry that got a guest appearance for the Brummies, away at Stoke, back in 2008? Probably in the same meeting that Mattia Carpanese threw his hands up in surrender? If so, welcome back to where you started Tom. Again??? Now that would be a shock won't it? The team that bought us cheque book speedway in the 1970's still winning everything at all costs. Plus ca change...