Lake Bodom Comet Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 Whats the latest news on team line-up and format?? Danke sehn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted March 9, 2010 Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 Have a butchers here Bundesliga As far as i know,Tobi Kroner has still to decide who to ride for.Most others are in place Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lake Bodom Comet Posted March 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 9, 2010 Cheers Iris! Excellent site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchesterpaul Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 Whats the latest news on team line-up and format?? It's great to see Germany taking steps to have a proper league competition. However, i'm very puzzled as to the very odd looking set of fixtures and as to how they are chosen. There are 6 teams, yet not only do they not meet each other home and away (as in the most accepted sense of sports leagues across the planet) but they don't meet all of the teams! How are the fixtures drawn up? do they change each year regarding match-ups? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted March 11, 2010 Report Share Posted March 11, 2010 (edited) It's great to see Germany taking steps to have a proper league competition. However, i'm very puzzled as to the very odd looking set of fixtures and as to how they are chosen. There are 6 teams, yet not only do they not meet each other home and away (as in the most accepted sense of sports leagues across the planet) but they don't meet all of the teams! How are the fixtures drawn up? do they change each year regarding match-ups? They/We had a "proper" league last year.Well the year before there was a mini league in north east Germany with 3 teams who met each other home and away.But last year was the first team v team Bundesliga.As there was 5 teams all teams rode once aginst the other.This year with 6 teams it was proposed that it would be run as two mini leagues of 3 teams and the top in each league would meet in the final.Not sure why that idea was scrapped,but this new system wasn't met with a great deal of approval.Can't seek out all the items of criticism,but here is one slightly critical one Bundesliga system.No local derbies!!! Edited March 11, 2010 by iris123 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manchesterpaul Posted March 13, 2010 Report Share Posted March 13, 2010 They/We had a "proper" league last year........this new system wasn't met with a great deal of approval.Can't seek out all the items of criticism,but here is one slightly critical one Bundesliga system.No local derbies!!! Just read that, oh well! best wishes for the competition anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bavarian Posted March 14, 2010 Report Share Posted March 14, 2010 It has been a huge step for the German clubs to accept the team versus team formula last year. Clubs were used to stage only one Bundesliga meeting under the old 4-team-system for over 30 years, and most of the speedway clubs in Germany usually don't stage much more than one, two or three meetings per year. They were not prepared to run a season with much more home meetings. Last year with five teams it was easy to agree to a round robin tournament with each club have two home and two away meetings. This year with six teams it wouldn't work anymore, as some would have three home and two away meetings, and other the other way round. So it was agreed to keep last year's system with 2H/2A and make a draw as to who meets home, away or not at all. The only pity was that the luck of teh draw resulted in close local rivals Gustrow and Stralsund not being drawn together. They still have a chance to meet in the play-off finals, though. And this then on a home-and-away basis over two legs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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