BluPanther Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Apologies for my ignorance. I was sure I had read somewhere that the Final was going back to the 5 team format again that it used to have a few years ago. No worries, however you are right, the final will be predictable line up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickthemuppet Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Phil What I'm saying, is that recorded highlights - as proved today - allows a recorded meeting to be over within 2 hours (just burned today's onto DVD and it was 1 hour 54), whereas tomorrow will pan out about 3 to 3-and-half hours. Speedway meetings need to be more snappy.. we have got homes to go to, you know! Â Think Eurpsport got it just right today... a glimpse at the pre-meeting parade, then straight on with the racing. Usually, when it's live, the build up lasts anything upto half an hour, and that's too much. I would think thay 95% of people would want to see a live match. What's the point of seeing recorded meetings especially if you already know the result. What sort of attraction of any sport would there be if if they were all recorded 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyretrax Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Jeezus! You just watched the whole of a speedway meeting from Poland as live......with some fine racing and certainly not as bad as some were predicting, in fact some good racing........and you choose to moan about the quality of the commentary (not the words, but the SOUND quality!!). Just what do some of you posters expect?? You won't be happy until some technology is able to present the event in your front room, together with a free beer and a taxi to take you to bed afterwards! Â It was supposed to be a joke, sorry if you didn't find it funny. Commentary didn't bother me, I quite like them. Nigel's sound was O.K. but Kelvin sounded a bit tinny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I would think thay 95% of people would want to see a live match. What's the point of seeing recorded meetings especially if you already know the result. What sort of attraction of any sport would there be if if they were all recorded Titanic,the film.Wonder why millions went to see that knowing how it would finish? Â Maybe there is some attraction in seeing just how a team....Russia,GB or whoever sank 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moxey63 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 (edited) I would think thay 95% of people would want to see a live match. What's the point of seeing recorded meetings especially if you already know the result. What sort of attraction of any sport would there be if if they were all recorded  I watched today's meeting, which was recorded and a couple of hours out of date from being live, and I enjoyed it. I didn't know the result, to be honest, but it wouldn't put me off if I had. I would still have watched it. Don't mind watching speedway that's been recorded, whether from hours ago or years ago. Can't understand your point, to be honest. You are saying... If you don't see a meeting live, and get to find the result, you wouldn't watch it later on if there was chance... it would be pointless? It's like saying, Speedway Star should not carry match details from the week before, as they'd have already taken place and the people that were interested would have seen them live. Edited July 14, 2013 by moxey63 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheReturn Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I would think thay 95% of people would want to see a live match. What's the point of seeing recorded meetings especially if you already know the result. What sort of attraction of any sport would there be if if they were all recorded  On a busy Summers Day like today I was out on my bike, I never planned to watch live, but came back and sat down on the sofa with my recovery drinks with the recording and watched as if it was live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILIPRISING Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Phil What I'm saying, is that recorded highlights - as proved today - allows a recorded meeting to be over within 2 hours (just burned today's onto DVD and it was 1 hour 54), whereas tomorrow will pan out about 3 to 3-and-half hours. Speedway meetings need to be more snappy.. we have got homes to go to, you know! Â Think Eurpsport got it just right today... a glimpse at the pre-meeting parade, then straight on with the racing. Usually, when it's live, the build up lasts anything upto half an hour, and that's too much. Â WE are doing GPs in three hours max including parade, draws, etc. SWC has only 20 races so should be considerably less. Have to accept that TV companies need ad breaks... that's the world we live in. We go straight from the parade to the first race at GPs. Heat 1 usually off at 07.12pm. Last race usually around 9.35pm unless there are major hold-ups. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Smith Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 That had to be one of the worst World Cup meetings I've seen in a while. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starman2006 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 What are you wittering on about now. I was laughing at the predicament of Pearson and Tatum. Â Might ask you the same question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 It was all so much better on Sky.No riders dropped out and rarely were they injured  ...and the Czechs were never seeded Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BluPanther Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I would think thay 95% of people would want to see a live match. What's the point of seeing recorded meetings especially if you already know the result. What sort of attraction of any sport would there be if if they were all recorded What are the viewing figures for Match of the Day I wonder ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Compare this meeting to last years Event 1 Â Day meetings are always garbage! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Watt is garbage. Â Picked ahead of Sullivan in last 2 world cups and now ahead of Dakota North. Davey Watt that elite league heat leader or Dakota North just about good enough to be an elite reserve and a premier league second string. what a prick you are 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Davey Watt that elite league heat leader or Dakota North just about good enough to be an elite reserve and a premier league second string. what a prick you are  I don't know if you noticed but the Elite League isn't exactly a baramoter for success. Look at Kings Lynn's reserve Lebedev who can't buy a point in the UK yet look at how he rode tonight.  UK tracks are small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickthemuppet Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 What are the viewing figures for Match of the Day I wonder ??? Probably about 20% would watch MOTD if it had been shown earlier live on BBC or ITV live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Science Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 I think that the 3 "qualifying!!" meetings we are faced with in the next few days are going to show that the time has now come for this "format" to be re-vamped somehow. Its obvious who the 4 finalists are going to be (Poland, Australia, Denmark and UK) and quite frankly the events this week are purely a money making exercise for the Speedway authorities. One of the suggestions I could make to make the qualifiers a bit more interesting would instead of "jokes" like Latvia being involved, is to have a "Rest of The World" team, which would at least slightly make it a bit more competitive. Bring on the Final next week and get these 3 "practice" meetings out of the way. Apart from seeding the hosts to the final the format is near spot on,its only the injuries and disputes with governing bodies that has watered the product down to what we see this year.Full strength teams on good racing circuits with 2 qualifying from the race off always makes this one of the best events of the speedway season.This year i have real sympathy with the organisers especially witnessing that crowd for event 1,thought tracks in Poland were desperate for these events,someone should tell the Polish fans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LagutaRacingFan Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 The local fans wanted to see Emil and Grigory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebrum Posted July 14, 2013 Report Share Posted July 14, 2013 Decent meeting with some decent races, Seemed to run through much better with the time lag difference. Fair play to the Latvians, think they made everyone sit up and take notice. However if Russia had been at `full` strength then Latvia would probably have come last. They have some good uns coming thru, hope we get to see Bogdanovs in the EL this year (at wolves would be nice please!) Unfortunately the Aussies are just too weak to make it past Thursday. Ward gave it his all but went missing when the double points were on. Â Poland, as professional as you like. Â Such a shame that Russia have got themselves into a great position in the World ranking and now will have to go back to qualifying again! There federation should hang its head in shame for not looking after their top boys. And we think the BSPA is bad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJJ Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 Could be time to bring in some younger talent into the Australian Team, with an eye to the future. It is hard to make a choice with so many with so little between them. Losing Jason Crump and Chris Holder within a year is a massive hit. If I was Kelvin, I might even say "I'm gutted!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T.N.T. Posted July 15, 2013 Report Share Posted July 15, 2013 No suprise to see Poland sail through and quite frankly Patryk Dudek coming in to replace Gollob actually made them stronger in my opinion and they are the team to beat without doubt. Â Would have loved to have seen a full Russian team taking them on as Emil, Grigory and Artem are top class and at present Artem is on fire and with Kudrayshov they would have had four riders al capble of scoring. Expected Borodulin to be their top man in this but wasn't to be. Â Latvia picked up some good points thanks to Russia's missing stars and Australia's injuries and Bogdanovs was always going to be their star man but Lebedevs is a talent and Puodzuks has improved a lot since riding over here but cant see them doing anything than fourth in the play off. Â Â Czech Republic and Poland now through and Denmark likely to join them making the play off a real tough meeting and hopefully Team GB can beat the Aussies in that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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