iris123 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 (edited) Latest news is that the Superliga for 2007 is cancelled.It seems the various clubs involved had differing opinions on how they wanted the league to be run.Some wanting to stay with the team v team format and others wanting to revert to the 4tt.No compromise could be found and so the DMU has called the league off for next season Edited December 8, 2006 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PanthersChamp06 Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Thats terrible news, whats all the Danish Fans going to do? Danish League IMO was going places and now this happens. Im gutted really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverstam Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Is this final? Or more like a threat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I think this is final.There have been a lot of behind the scenes discussions.Probably lots of threats and tantrums.Seems no-one wants to give in. One group want to have a number of home meetings as they have good crowds,while the other camp only want a couple of meetings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 I think this is final.There have been a lot of behind the scenes discussions.Probably lots of threats and tantrums.Seems no-one wants to give in. One group want to have a number of home meetings as they have good crowds,while the other camp only want a couple of meetings. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Real shame this. How are young Danes going to get team experience when they have nowhere to go after 16 years old and the smaller engines. There must be a quick compromise even in an even shorter season. A program of challenges and individual meetings will only satisfy some of the teams. What happens to the DMU and the collective assets of all the clubs. Bad times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 Well i am sure this will not affect the 1.Division,Tsunami.So the youngsters will still have those meetings on a saturday,i think.Maybe like you say some challenges can be arranged.Holsted did have a meeting against a Polish junior side this season.Something along those lines,maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarabanko Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Sad for the sport, it needs contunity. Danish Speedway has for long been on the slope and has been that since the days of Erik G, Jan O, Tommy K and Hans N just to name a few. 4 team matches is not good, but then I speak with Sweden in mind were we often enjoys brilliant 2 team matches. 4 team matches do we race on 80cc and some Junior 500 meetings but not in Division 1, Allsvenskan nor Elitserien. The tense, the athmosphere will never reach the same as in Elitserien, Allsvenskan or Division 1. I dont have a solution, but I belive in contunity, a match between two teams must have a test period of 2 - 4 years to reach a conclusion. / Mikael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mateusz Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Latest news is that the Superliga for 2007 is cancelled.It seems the various clubs involved had differing opinions on how they wanted the league to be run.Some wanting to stay with the team v team format and others wanting to revert to the 4tt.No compromise could be found and so the DMU has called the league off for next season <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sounds like our Polish mess a bit. Fortunately arguable things are not so import to close the league (yet..?). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 Yes Mateusz,speedway gets itself in a mess.Even in Germany there is a big mess.One league has been scrapped and now the arguments are going on about the remaining one.A few teams(those who want a number of foreign riders)have or are threatening to pull out.In 2005 i thought the Bundesliga was great.There was no limit on the foreign riders and although not top stars,it was great to see riders like Slabon,Jacek Rempala,Stuart Robson,Steffen Andersson,etc.Then last year they put a 2 rider limit per team on foreigners plus the reserve had to be a German U21.This was ok in theory,but there just isn't enough good German riders.Now they have limited it to just 1 foreign rider!The result is that some teams just are not interested.At the moment i think just 5,maybe 6.Most of the teams here in the North,Teterow,Stralsund,Wolfslake are not going to run in the league,i think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slav Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 according to Polish portals it hasn't been decided whether the Danish league will be cancelled, I believe it won't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 I think the decision is final.Even now i have seen on Kenneth Hansens website sad news that because of this decision he won't be able to take part in Danish speedway leagues.He might lose sponsors as well.Maybe one of our Dansih members can confirm,but it looks like the Polish site has this wrong and there will be no Superliga.On the DMU site it states that the Saturday 1.Division will be the top league next season Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter S. Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 The league is off. The official press release from DMU was issued friday. For us, in the clubs who has run Supeliga meetings for many years its a very frustrating situation. Im in charge of club sponsorships in Slangerup. The last coupple of years we have made around GBP 30.000,- pr. year which has gone directly to rider payments. I have no clue how to confront our sponsors with regards to 2007, the risk is that we have to start over from nothing when/if we run top speedway again. In rough numbers I calculate the costs for Danish speedway as follows : Loss of entrance revenue, net, 12 matches as 2006 40.000 Loss of 60% of club sponsor revenue, 4 clubs 70.000 Loss of "league name" sponsors 15.000 Loss of riders sponsors, est. 50.000 Total £ 175.000 Furthermore this will ofcourse also affect the riders. Our established international riders will survive without problems, except for the fact that their Danish sponsors wont see them as much. But the young guns will lose a significant pecentage of their income and will find it even harder to collect sponsorships. This could mean that riders like Nicolai Klindt, Leon Madsen etc. would be more tempted to move to UK. See you Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter S. Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 (edited) Yore faster than me Doug. I probably started typing 10 minutes before you ! Edited December 10, 2006 by Peter S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mckenna Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 what will the riders do who rode in the danish leagues? Which other countries apart from sweden, uk and poland have major leagues? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slav Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 what will the riders do who rode in the danish leagues? Which other countries apart from sweden, uk and poland have major leagues? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Russia, Czech Rep and there is something in Germany. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f-s-p Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 what will the riders do who rode in the danish leagues? Which other countries apart from sweden, uk and poland have major leagues? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I never thought the Danish league as one of the big one's. Attendances around 500-1000, no brits riding, mostly danes, poles, occasional swede... No matter how important for the danish youngsters, has it really been one of the big ones during this millenium (thats how long I've been REALLY following the sport). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treborbee Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 (edited) I think the danish league has been the hardest league after UK, Sweden, and the top 2 leagues in Poland, so my guess is the 5th hardest league in the world. Has mainly been the top danish riders and some danish under 20 riders plus a lot of poles from walasek, Zabik, Hlib to riders not even worth seeing! other than that there have been a few swedes and germans plus Chris Harris did a few meetings there last year, and according to his mechanic, he had a contract with a club there for next year, and was hoping to do all meetings! Must be tough on all the danish riders, if they cant ride in the 1. div, then they wont be able to ride in Denmark at all, and may risk to loose all or most of their sponsership. Edit: 15-20 years ago all the top riders were riding in Denmark and i guess it was the strongest league after our Elite League Edited December 10, 2006 by treborbee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoTigers Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Just heard on the news tonight that they are opening up the negotiations again and will try and find a solution. I always thought it was a little early to just call the whole thing off completely. Especially Brovst would really suffer from the cancelation as they are the only Superliga team who doesn't already have a team in the 1st division. I don't have as good insider intell as I used to and after reading several press releases and announcements from riders, managers etc. I'm still a bit confused as to who wants to do what and why it is so hard to find a compromise. Apparently the main issues are about how many teams should be in the league and if it should be 2 or 4 team meetings. This year the Superliga did 2 team meetings but that is the first time they have ever done that and the lower leagues still had 4 team meetings. I just hope they come up with a solution somehow. If they don't there have been talks about the 4 teams who were in the Superliga this year, starting a new private league. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted December 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Oh,i hope this works out ok!My chances of seeing some decent team speedway was looking bleak.But first i have heard there is a chance of a little "breakeaway" team v team competition here in Germany,between 3 clubs that have pulled out of the Bundesliga and now this Fingers crossed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverstam Posted January 9, 2007 Report Share Posted January 9, 2007 The Superliga is saved! http://www.kunsport.dk/artikelvisning_moto...AjrDcmntId=2605 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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