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Thanks to Sky for bringing us the meeting but......an evening of returning to the bad old days (only last year) by being clueless of riders already out of the semi-finals and unaware of those already qualified has just hilariously been topped by.......despite not riding in the meeting Artem Laguta in their overall standings has gone from 10 points to 30!!!

 

UPDATE

 

That last blooper might not have been Sky's as the new graphics they just put up has Laguta correct. Still quite unforgivable their earlier muddles though lol.

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BRILLIANT GREG!!

 

Ha Ha Pedersen, if you'd concentrated on racing rather than stopping others you would have won that one! Ha Ha! Keep it up for the rest of the series please!!

Nicki new coming from gate 1 that he was not gonna win it so he done the best thing by coming 2nd and stop the blue eyed sky sports star (chris Holder) from winning. I hear from his interview that the other blue eyed boy darcy ward got a mention.

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Do you think that on a world championship track the winner from the first few races should come out of just one gate the, that's more the moan than anything ......

 

Not at all, one would hope that an event of world championship quality would not only apply to the riders. All aspects of it should be at the highest level of their particular field and that includes the people involved in ensuring as near as can be done the four gates to be relatively level.

 

Anyway, i'm just glad to see that as i stated the good racing did indeed come along. An entertaining meeting overall in my eyes.

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Thanks to Sky for bringing us the meeting but......an evening of returning to the bad old days (only last year) by being clueless of riders already out of the semi-finals and unaware of those already qualified has just hilariously been topped by.......despite not riding in the meeting Artem Laguta in their overall standings has gone from 10 points to 30!!!

Harsh on Sky that. The graphic that showed Artem on 30 was the official SGP one rather than a Sky one.

 

Edit - I see you updated your post to recognise this fact while I was slowly typing on the phone :D

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Thanks to Sky for bringing us the meeting but......an evening of returning to the bad old days (only last year) by being clueless of riders already out of the semi-finals and unaware of those already qualified has just hilariously been topped by.......despite not riding in the meeting Artem Laguta in their overall standings has gone from 10 points to 30!!!

 

UPDATE

 

That last blooper might not have been Sky's as the new graphics they just put up has Laguta correct. Still quite unforgivable their earlier muddles though lol.

 

 

Harsh on Sky that. The graphic that showed Artem on 30 was the official SGP one rather than a Sky one.

 

Edit - I see you updated your post to recognise this fact while I was slowly typing on the phone :D

 

 

I did so within seconds of it appearing and came back to let you know but you're faster than you think, as after starting to type my reply i see you've also updated your post!

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Disgraceful Final decisions by the Referee. To start with the race should have been called back because ES go a flyer. Then NP once again pushing all the riders out wide. I think with GP's there are now such thing as first bend bunching as somebody has to be blamed for causing the stoppage. i would have thrown out NP

Nevertheless every body wants to see a final with all four riders

 

Nicki new coming from gate 1 that he was not gonna win it so he done the best thing by coming 2nd and stop the blue eyed sky sports star (chris Holder) from winning. I hear from his interview that the other blue eyed boy darcy ward got a mention.

 

As usual, NP is everybody's bad boy. But on both occasions it looked to me like Holder (who can do no wrong to Prattling Pearson and most on here) seemed to lean in on NP, so when NP stood his ground, not really moving off line Holder was forced wide, into Emil, who then lost it. I would have put all four back myself, but I find it amazing nobody as even considered Holder might have been the cause.

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Sky for bringing us the meeting but......an evening of returning to the bad old days (only last year) by being clueless of riders already out of the semi-finals and unaware of those already qualified

 

Had Pearson once again showing he does not have a clue after calling the wrong GP winner a couple of seasons ago, not understanding the meeting reserves can not take a replacement ride. It was pretty obvious really, as if the reserve won they would be in the final. Everyone says this guy has superb speedway knowledge, but he keeps calling lots of things wrong.

 

 

 

Tai should have been in the meeting..

 

Shame he never qualified then.

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poor old pearson saying that barker would be coming out in the semi final to replace bjerre ,err no he wont

 

Wish he'd focus on commentating rather then sublimely trying to sell speedway to the watching public. It's speedway, not WWF Nigel!

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Average sort of meeting IMO. A few decent races but this is supposedly a meeting with the top 16 riders in the world so why doesn't the racing reflect it?

As for the pathetic Sky team...keep Louis and Loram (well impressed with him he was far more articulate than I remember :wink: ) and dump the rest...too many mistakes from most and language mangling from Ermolenko/Tatum. Don't bother telling me to turn the sound off cos I like the sound of the bikes :P

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Wish he'd focus on commentating rather then sublimely trying to sell speedway to the watching public. It's speedway, not WWF Nigel!

 

Good point, most of his naff'ness is because he gets OTT trying to flog a dead horse by trying to claim a good race was a superb race, that a boring meeting is a great meeting.. he seems to assume his viewers are blind and not watching TV, he can get away with it on radio, not on TV. Stick to his job of commentating like most other sports commentators and he will only be half as awful as he usually is.

 

What really upset me this evening is when he shouted 'let the crowd' bring up Chris Harris I think it was when he won, rather than get to hear the air horns and the atmosphere, prattling Pearson ruined it by shouting 'woooooo'.

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Nobody has considered that Holder might have been at fault because, clearly, he wasn't.

 

Well I admit I would have liked to have seen an overhead angle for a better view, but considering your supporting a Poole race jacket, I will disregard your point of view as biased.

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What really upset me this evening is when he shouted 'let the crowd' bring up Chris Harris I think it was when he won, rather than get to hear the air horns and the atmosphere, prattling Pearson ruined it by shouting 'woooooo'.

 

Yeah noticed that one too! :rofl:

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