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Yea all we need is for 3 crap teams like last night  to turn up instead of poland ,oz and denmark and  we got a great chance .

 

Get a grip .

 

 

 

The old adage of British sport is "magnificent in victory, glorious in defeat" - no matter what sport is involved.

 

There was little real class against GB (all English riders - why not England) at Coventry.

 

Tougher times lie ahead - then we may hear some wailing. :unsure:

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Excellant result,poor racing to begin with,with very little passing but as the meeting progressed the racing did get a little better

I agree totally with that.Some of the stuff one this thread about great meeting!!! B) I did say that would be peoples opinion.Unfortunately i got bored of it after 10 heats and stayed to watch another 5 and it did get better,but not enough for me to stay any longer.GB through,which is great.USA should be made to go through the qualis,like i said a few days ago.That is a disgrace that they field a team like that when others with similar or better have to qualify :angry:

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Great Night, Bad Planning

 

Why buy a ticket before the event, then have to stand in an enormous queue waiting for people in front to get tickets, surely they could have opened a gate for ticket holders away from the main entry point where tickets were on sale.

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Well What Can I Say, Well Done Lads You Did us proud, so glad we could be there, what an awesome night,all the best and fingers crossed for saturday, :)

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Well if they ride as well as they did last night, then we could win it couldnt we? anyone got an opionion?

 

I would say that success for GB would be finish in the top 3. Even so, although we had weak opposition we still looked determined and rode well. No reason why a rostrum place isn't possible even if it will take a very good performance.

 

Australia, in particular, have a few weak links in the side. Denmark look strong though, and Poland will be very hard to beat on their own tracks.

 

I reckon 1. Denmark 2. Poland 3. GB 4. Australia.

 

That is, of course, assuming Poland and Australia will get there. I'm rooting for Russia in the race-off!

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Steve

 

I actually thought that was the stronger of the semi finals...because all teams had riders that could win races and racers unlike Saturdays where the Finns were woeful leaving the other 3 to see who were the best gaters and unsurprisingly the Danes walked it..must have thought it was xmas

 

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Great Night, Bad Planning

 

Why buy a ticket before the event, then have to stand in an enormous queue waiting for people in front to get tickets, surely they could have opened a gate for ticket holders away from the main entry point where tickets were on sale.

 

There was.

 

Having said that I thought it was bad that there were no stewards to point that out to people.

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Just re-watched the meeting.

 

Janniro should never have been excluded for the crash with Darkin. Darkin leant on him then bottled it. Poor poor decision from the referee, which a few of us said was wrong at the time  :mad:

 

 

Still, the only thing funnier than whining aggrieved Americans is whining aggrieved Aussies! :D

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I thought it developed into a very good meeting after a few processional races at the start. Good crowd too. One in the eye for all you forum pessimists.

Task for today - write out 1,000 lines. I must not be such a pessimist. :D

Must admit Mr Shovlar and I were wrong (and others) but I'm quite happy to have been proved wrong and there was a brilliant crowd. Serves me right for leaving Leicester at my usual time for a league match so the car park was pretty chaotic when I eventually arrived at 6.50pm.

The queue to get in was horrendous but after failing to get in at my usual entrance (because Molly freaks out at turnstiles) I walked straight up to buy a ticket without joining the long queue. :shock: There was just one man in front of me. Heaven knows why others weren't going through this section and I fully expected to be pounced on for jumping the queue but nothing happened. Strange.

Just one thing that's bugging me at the moment - does anyone know the name of a Ford car beginning with T? :unsure: I noticed this one had the driver's window half down so reported it to the office and it was later mentioned over the tannoy.

I wrote the number plate down but thought I would remember what the car was. By the time I had got into the stadium I had completely forgotten. Nice car, probably a 2 litre and had an X at the end of the model name.

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