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Our Domestic speedway has prostituted itself so badly in recent years, sadly, to riders from foreign climes. I thought GB would probably finish 3rd anyway but for the likes of nicholls, harris and rico to be completely outridden by swedish trio of ljung, nermark and jonas sums it all up in a nutshell. Those 3 swedish lads rode as if theyre lives depended on it, ours quite frankly didnt. Keep wheeling out the well worn cliches about the track was 'slick and we dont like it', its all cobblers anyway . Middlo papered over the cracks in the english team for a good few yrs tbh. Dont get me wrong jim lynch has an imposible task, silk purse, sows ear variant but the selection of simon stead really was utterly incredible. One other thing why are the english lads machinery always seemingly miles down on power to our scandanavian counterparts ?

IMO the whole key to this meeting is how the track is prepared.. Whilst the danes are different class on all known form they , at times can be susceptible if its very grippy and holding. Also as orion rightly says they are in no massive need to win on the night with it being in the back yard thurs on a track they will absolutely love. I think they will probably win and win well but i wouldnt back them at 1-3

Nicki has this GP lark by the balls tbh, if he doesnt lead or is in any sort of questionable position he just slings the bike down and more often or not gets a re -run at worst. I am 100% convinced its the olsen influence, in truth, the blokes an utter pain in the arris. Nobody can condone the referree last night, maybe a trip to swansea docks was in order for him after the neeting to de-stress

people have to undestand that mondays nights win over 2 miles below world class teams and an injury ravaged yet game sweden was still a million miles behind, class wise to the competition last night. The most worrying thing about last night was the tuning/lack of set up in the english ranks,for the first 17 races it lookes as if we were riding 400cc machines to be honest. Forget the fact that kennett and stead were a bit outclassed,this had to be down to engine capabilitys on a fast track,lets face it,our tuning/engines were nowhere near fast enough

Dont get me wrong here,team GB were always rags of the field for me with 2 second strings in the team but it puts in perspective how far we are behind from the bike tuning point of view watching this meeting. How badly wrong have the lads set the bikes up or are they just completely outpowered by the other 3 sides. Nicholls,rico and harris aint that inferior to bjerre,holta and hampel so what is the main problem ?

May as well have the top 5 world teams on a big wide open longtrack arena and save the expense of 2 groups,that was nothing other than a total farce. 3 of the 8 nations entered couldnt win the conference league 4s ffs,totally pointless exercise.Typical stereotypical olsen garbage.

Typical stereotypical boring danish slick pish,oh and i smashed the winner too,WALOS...

I havent seen him pass one rider in about 5 years in england. He just passed 3 in one race ffs

I put a thread up like this 3 months,incredibly the bloke has got even worse since then,a truly diabolical commentator,anyone would be better.

i really like him as a ref,most of the riders seem to respect him,wouldnt have made any difference to zagar but he shouldnt have been excluded,feel sorry for hancock tho who always seems to get the rough edge of the stick.

It just goes to show how hard speedway is going to be for GB and the aussies in years to come. Sullivan adams louis toddy loram, these lads are all in the twilight of theyre careers really,australia could be a faded force by 2010.

At the end of the day TEAM GB were 20-1 outsiders of 4,they finished better than many predicted.Well done to all concerned.

Since when was ole olsen english

I am no fan of hans andersen but that exclusion tonight was nothing short of daylight robbery. Sometimes referees take a riders reputation into consideration before making a decision. the exclusion was a terrible refereeing decision.

Sunny now in basingstoke,mother nature has done a lovely job.

I hope there is a certain amount of shale on the track.Thje amount of rain we have had in 1/2 an hour was colossal.Should do the track the world of good..

luckily middlo HAS eventually read the form book,good luck chris..

I agree lupus,but apparently there were many chiefs and few indians with regard to reading thurs pm.

I wathed a poole dvd from 2 yrs ago,mark loram must be the easiest going rider in the world and even he got the raving needle to hans,who in his usual style rode up the inside of the corner and aimed the bike at mark. As scotty eloquently stated last night"he has got loads of previous for that",well said scott,you should have shaken him firmly by the throat.

For once i agree with delboy. It didnt help that the track was ripped to bits during practice,the trackstaff dont have enough time to do a proper job,being marshalled by olsen and sky as when they are allowed to water etc. However it was safe,nobody got injured and the 2 teams that looked favs to qualify both did so.Apparently it was 37 degs in the afternoon around the practice time,it will be a lot better on saturday,especially if ole denmark gets stuck on the motorway.

that match was raced on a wednesday after the bowser broke down.It was like the m4 motorway after ht 2,if its got any grip in it the danes will find a way to get beat.On paper tho they look a good thing to win tonight.

i thought that at first grachan,but he has always had boycies number round reading and look at the riders craig has beaten this year. Personally its a no brainer ,louis MUST replace stead,if middlo is a form book man he will make this correct change.

Credit to GB,i didnt give them any chance. Middlo knows the form book,if he reads it correctly there is NO CHANCE of stead riding on thursday,he is mediocre round reading to say the least.

No britpete,all bases covered,i wouldnt back gb at 100-1,i dont think they have a cat in hells chance to be perfectly honest,how ladbrokes went 3-1 poland for the heat on friday is beyond comprehension.

Apparenently ladbrokes were 3-1 poland,god knows how they came to that price in a 2 horse race.