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Our other Global Superstar Mr. Richardson blames the track for his poor showing,its the worst he has ever ridden.

Ahh but Millards mate Kevin also has in his repartee,hard charger or a fine 2 & 8.

Ive a new favourite Millardism.After Jonsson was excluded for exceding 2min,Millard"a second is as good as a mile".

Great line up and if Hancock confirms them it should be a decent meeting.Meldrum was never a superstar rider but a very reliable 2nd string and a handy reserve,just hope the weather behaves its self. David got married yesterday in America so congratulations to him.

Time for the FIM,Ole Olsen and the GP organisation to look at referees and where they get them from.Second time at least this year we have had a referee that clearly isnt up to the job,Carfiff was the other.Id like to see one ref for all GPs,Tony Steele maybe,he at least as proved to of sound mind unlike him last night.

Announced tonight at Berwick the Willie Templeton had passed away this morning. R.I.P Willie.

If Nicholls mission of staying in the GPs is a failure then you would imagine he will need Swedish league racing more than they will need him and the same in Poland.Evidence so far would suggest its going to be touch and go.

You`re right in a way but the difference in this case is that Berwick only have 5 riders to choose from.Makovsky,Clews,Smith and Atkin,Magosi if the latter 2 are fit are all we have.Rymel is away riding in Czech Champs while Aarnio is away riding in Finnish Champs.But we deserve our chance to be there even if its not as strong a team as we would like.

Maybe we can put the 2 together for 1 night.Woffinden,Makovsky,Neath and Magosi (if fit) will do for me.

Fair play to Woffinden he did himself proud tonight unlike some of his more illustrious team mates.

Agree,Nermark is proving to be a real star of this world cup.

Seems Russia are on the up and up unlike GB who Woffinden apert look to be nose-diving into oblivion.

In an interview at the start Richardson said he hoped Woffinden would support him as one of the top riders. Oh Lee get real.

We werent good enough on monday and we arent good enough tonight.We are at the level we deserve,our riders arent good enough and no amount of excuses will make it any better.

Got to agree,why put our rider on a tactical when he is off the worst gate.Even if we dropped further behind it should have made sense to wait till we have the best gate. Lee Richardsons internatiomal career is over.

Dont give a monkeys anymore.We`ve got Georgie Thompson.

You must have been on here monday night then. Hopefully it will be a lot more positive and we qualify for saturday as right now I think thats the best we can hope for.

Maybe we should be realistic in our chances for thursday.As I see it we go into the meeting as 3rd favourites at best and that could be the best we can expect.On mondays evidence we are miles behind Sweden who I think will qualify no problem so its the Poles we must see as our main threat and man for man they look a better team.Failure to get to saturday would be a disapointment but not a shock. Im sure excuses will be thick on the ground but there must be a practise session before the meeting so set ups should be done then not after your 1st or 2nd ride.

Dont buy this slick track excuse that our riders seem to hide behind all the time.They have all raced at a level that a slick track should be easily overcome,please dont tell me that Coventry is grippy every week. Chances are we will have to race on a slick track thursday and maybe saturday so monday will have been useful practise but you can bet we will have another round of excuses from riders/management.

Was thinking the same last night,surely Jim Lynch talked to his riders before hand to see how they wanted the track then passed that onto whoever does the track at Coventry.You can bet that the track at Vojen on saturday will be suited towards the Danes.There may have been a stockcar meeting over the weekend at Brandon but even so I dont think its rocket science to get the track how our riders wanted it.Didnt Ermolenko say something about practise affecting track conditions. Think maybe we are giving our riders an easy excuse,the track was the same for everybody and with all our current or ex- Coventry riders they must have ridden Coventry when it was slick in the passed.No I think we just werent or arent good enough.

Oh god you`ve done it now.

Theres a number of threads opened since last night and if there was as much feeling from the riders as there has been on here then we wouldnt be far wromg.Surely the riders know they have screewed up,the good thing is they can put it right on thursday by at least getting through to saturday.

Agree,think it shows what a mess we are in when we are relying on a 17yr old to pull us out of the hole we find ourselves in after last night.Woffinden is a huge talent but its up to our experienced internatiomal riders to pull their fingers out.Nicholls,Harris and Richardson.Also I dont think Olly Allen did anything wrong last night but wheres the incentive when you know youre out next meeting.

Sweden will start as favourites on thursday so giving them 1 of the top 2 positionsthat leaves GB or Poland for 2nd spot.Dont see Russia getting through but could be spoilers,who ever gets least last places between GB and Poland will go through with Sweden. GB cant be that bad again can they ?.

Woffinden did well in the GB Final at Swindon but when you see the performance of the GB team last night you wonder just how good you had to be.The lad does have huge talent but lets not put this much pressure on young shoulders.Its up to Nicholls and Harris to stand up on thursday and be counted,they are ment to be our top two and in the GPs.Also Richardson who seems to talk a good race and can tell us why we arent doing very well.