The White Knight Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 For how much longer is our International Speedway Team going to be known by that bloody awful name TeamGB? Talk about stating the bloody obvious: i) It is a Team. ii) It is Great Britain. Why the hell can we not just call our International Team 'GREAT BRITAIN' so that we can have some pride in both the Team and our Country. But PLEASE not the obnoxious TeamGB - it is an abomination!!!!! I would also ask for a big Union Flag on the racejacket - but I have little doubt that would be going too far. http://speedwayplus.com/FreddieWilliams.shtml Link taken from SpeedwayPlus website. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruiser McHuge Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 There are loads of sports that now call themselves Team GB or Team England...it's probably come across from America , it sounds American ......but it also sounds awful......I will always say Great Britain or England or whatever country is represented....I'll never ever say Team anything ! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weatherwatcher Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 It is Great Britain, we all know that it is a team. As for using the big Union Jack on the race suits, it is probablly politically incorrect to use our flag, which so many of us are proud of in case it upsets someone. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ch958 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 You're leaning against an open door here TWK - its an embarrasing attempt to be trendy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehone Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 England 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 I'm not too sure what's worse. The Great Britain team of yesteryear which was 75% Antipodean, or the current TeamGB which is 100% English. Can't we enter the SWC as England?. We are not Great Britain or TeamGB in the Commonwealth Games, so I see no objection to racing under the England banner with a Cross of St. George proudly worn. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCookster Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 For how much longer is our International Speedway Team going to be known by that bloody awful name TeamGB? Talk about stating the bloody obvious: i) It is a Team. ii) It is Great Britain. Why the hell can we not just call our International Team 'GREAT BRITAIN' so that we can have some pride in both the Team and our Country. But PLEASE not the obnoxious TeamGB - it is an abomination!!!!! I would also ask for a big Union Flag on the racejacket - but I have little doubt that would be going too far. http://speedwayplus.com/FreddieWilliams.shtml Link taken from SpeedwayPlus website. Let's start a Team BSF campaign to have it abolished! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Sign me up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 It won't really matter cos Team Denmark or Team Poland will win it!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
customhouseregular Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Maybe not if Russia track Sayfutdinov and the Lagutas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Maybe not if Russia track Sayfutdinov and the Lagutas. If they don't want to ride for Russia we could put them in,like we did with Schlein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldace Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 England I presume you would like the 1984 world pairs champions referred to as Manchester then as thats where the winning team came from. This has been gone over dozens of times. It is great britain because it is the representative team of the acu who represent 2 and 3 wheel motorsport in great britain at the fim, it is irrelevent that the team at the moment all hail from england 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iris123 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 It is funny though when a commentator spontaneously calls them England.Think it might be Tatum that regularly does????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Don't think it matters a fig personally. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triple.H. Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 You're on a Roll 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waiheke1 Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 When did the team change from being called England to GB? I remember in the 80s it was "England" though confusingly they wore the union jack from 81 or 82 onwards? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BWitcher Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 Don't think it matters a fig personally. Exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruiser McHuge Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 When did the team change from being called England to GB? I remember in the 80s it was "England" though confusingly they wore the union jack from 81 or 82 onwards? It did used to be England in the 80's that's for sure....no idea when it changed but it's correct to be called Great Britain because that's what it is...as for the Union Jack , well that's what we used to do....England football fans always flew the Union Jack, the England 1982 World Cup football song was " we are Ron's 22 hear the roar of the red white and blue".........I don't think anybody flew or wore the St George flag......I think it wasn't until Euro 96 football that people actually started flying the red and white St George flag instead of the Union flag Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Posted May 19, 2015 Report Share Posted May 19, 2015 We were England in the 2000 WTC and Team GB in the 2001 WC, so I guess something happened in between! I'll continue calling us England until a Welshman or a Scot forces their way into the squad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) Can't we enter the SWC as England?. No, because our representative federation is not just for England in speedway. We are not Great Britain or TeamGB in the Commonwealth Games Because it's a different sport and there are separate federations for each constituent country in the Commonwealth Games, and there quite a lot of other non-sovereign territories represented in that as well. We don't enter the Olympics as 'England'. As for using the big Union Jack on the race suits, it is probablly politically incorrect to use our flag, which so many of us are proud of in case it upsets someone. Well the speedway team actually represents Great Britain, not the United Kingdom, so strictly speaking the diagonal red cross should be removed from the Union Flag as that represents Northern Ireland. Edited May 20, 2015 by Humphrey Appleby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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