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  1. Posted · Edited by iris123

    4 hours ago, arnieg said:

    The years he chose to miss were when he was mid 20s. Many top riders peak over 30 these days (Vaculik, Lindgren, Madsen), so he could be at his peak now, or may not even have reached it.

    I'd like to see his Polish averages. Swedish as well. 

    But for me, if we just look at Emil and not 'Many top riders', he does seem to have peaked fairly early in his career. Knocks taken a toll ? Family life ? Who knows, and i am willing to be proven wrong, but his GP successes seem to be a distant memory really. He could have an indian summer of course, it just seems unlikely now. And i say that with disappointment, because he was great early on and i thught a certain first Russian world champ

    I see out of his 7 GP wins, 6 came before his break from the GPs, and only 1 since he came back

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  2. Posted

    1 hour ago, Pinny said:

    I really don't have much issue with the GP challenge riders getting in. Its the wild cards that get me. The challenge has always had weaker riders getting in most years, its the way it is.

    Huckenbeck and Lebedevs should be nowhere near the series. No where good enough.

    If they want to nail the sport in Germany and Latvia, then maybe put on decent events with top class racing. Far more likely to bring in natives rather than them watching an off the pace Huckenbeck and out of control Lebedevs.

    I agree with many who have stated that special spark of the GP series has faded now. There is absolutely nothing inspiring about the upcoming series.

    Also, as much as I love the city of Cardiff and the stadium is superb, what is the point in holding the event there with 20000ish fans? Looks awful on tv. Should be moved to Belle Vue for sure.

    I just guess it is the hope of getting a tv deal for Germany, and maybe some sponsorship and exposure, and i am sure they will say in the hope of building the sport.

    Trouble is Teterow is a stinker of a track. So the home GP won't particularly attract much, unless Huckenbeck gets into the final. The other problem really is even if he was a GP standard rider, he isn't a very publicity friendly sort of person. Not the out going sort like Egon Müller of Smolinski

    So although i can understand to a degree, what they are trying to do. I don't think it will have much success

  3. Posted · Edited by iris123

    23 minutes ago, chunky said:

    As it did in the old World Final days...

    Perhaps the answer would be to have the SGP Challenge run as a series also?

    I do think that would be a better option than a one off. Maybe 3 meetings. Two at least. Just because one track can suit a rider more than another. The problem particular to speedway

    That is in an ideal world though. It might well be they have enough problems finding one track a season........

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  4. Posted · Edited by iris123

    14 minutes ago, chunky said:

    Oh yeah, I remember Bast complaining about the weather - and the whole experience, actually. Sad when you learn that the rest of the world isn't like Southern California...

    I was at Plough Lane that night.

    It wasn't for him. Ok, not everyone enjoys their visits to a country

    When i first came here i just seemed to talk to people who always said....London ? It's very foggy and the food is terrible

    I hadn't seen much fog since the 60s and i happen to like the food. It might not have the repuatation of Italian food etc. But then neither does German

    Luckily enough i have since met plent of people who love the UK and must admit haven't heard the foggy comment for over a decade or so.....:D

  5. Posted

    The part about the weather being awful in the UK i think has accompanied most reports about Basts visit for the world championship. I can't remember what it was like, although i did see him practice at Plough Lane before the White City meeting, which i was also at. I just guess if there was practice after a meeting at Wimbledon then the wethaer couldn't have been too bad. But London isn't California. I just guess that the part about the weather came from Mike himself, and he wasn't too happy about the whole thing

    The bit about Australia........:blink:

  6. Posted

    10 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

    The Gp qualifiers were very lopsided need to seed it better.

    Don't they just allocate spots to Federations, and they select the riders for the meetings ? I seem to remember Wölbert complaining about always being selected for long journeys, whereas other riders (Smolinski) seemed to always get selected for easier meetings

  7. Posted · Edited by iris123

    I do seem to recall one or two years when a decent dane was dropped for the sake of another lesser rider from another nation.....this was over a decade ago. It happened then and it will happen again. I was also present when Lubod Tomicek failed by the skin of his teeth to qualify from Vojens

    There will always be moans and groans with wild card picks or riders who have managed to qualify

    But it has always been and always will be that decisions made for money will happen in our sport. It happens in most sports, even and especially so in football, which is bathing in money, but still can't get enough. I remember one disgusted Danish fan saying to me that Iversen is only in because of his sponsor........

  8. Posted · Edited by iris123

    28 minutes ago, TTT said:

    That's the definition of WOKE, Riders being picked on Nationality to make the field more diverse rather than picking out the best riders.

    GP's are now worse than ever before, May as well give Zmarzlik the title now considering the FIM are too cowardly to give him proper competition because of what happened the last time he faced real competition (Laguta WC)

    It's not woke is it ? It is commercial. The GP system has been like that since before 'woke' was thought up by those that can't get to grips with how the world works

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  10. Posted · Edited by iris123

    10 minutes ago, Lioness said:

    Love how up bums himself up about his involvement of Bristol speedway as being 'most successful speedway track of the modern era'

    Didnt Bristol close in the 70's?  As in 50 years ago?  Guess I can claim to be 'young' then by his standards lol

    Young maybe, but not a modern girl :D

    You still use a broom to play curling !!!

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  11. Posted

    I did meet and talk to Barney once at Vojens when Eddie was riding in the U21s. Dave was also there, but was busy looking after Eddie. Found Barney to be a very nice guy and we talked about Gordon. Barney said he was very active, very fit. The way things go sometimes I guess

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  13. Posted

    7 hours ago, fatface said:

    A further thought...when he dropped into the National League in 1985, that coincided with the NL actually becoming a more entertaining league than the BL. Much more teams, less predictable, it's own stars and their own big occasions like the NLRC, Fours and Pairs packing them in. Gordon Kennett was probably the biggest NL star of that era.

    Was the years that really got me back into the sport after a few away. Great days, lots of young and old talent combined.

    Wasn't really a big Kennett fan, but I did respect him and especially his Oxford, White City days and he was great to watch at Eastbourne

    RIP

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  15. Posted

    In the news today, is one such person who just might have seen Farndon and some of the other pre war greats. Remembering how popular the sport was and the chances that people born then in the area might have gone to one of the many stadiums

    Daisy Moore is a true South London lady – born in St Thomas’ Hospital on September 19, 1928.

     

    She can still, on the 75th anniversary of VE Day, recall what happened on May 8, 1945 when the Second World War ended, and the party in Wedgewood House, across Kennington Road from what had 10 years before become the Imperial War Museum.

     

    “It was a terrific celebration,” she said. “We had a big bonfire in the middle of the square near Wedgewood House.

     

    “Everyone was throwing out their furniture that they didn’t want, on to the fire. It was one big party with Americans, Canadians and Australian soldiers – as well as the Brits here from wherever. It was like a knees-up all night. Terrific.”

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  16. Posted

    On 2/20/2020 at 5:38 PM, Guest said:

    You tell me! You asked if there was a book on Cyril Roger and I resided. I also pointed out there were not so far as I kew books on other New Cross greats (two world champions) Jack Milne and Lionel Van Praag. Conversely, I don't think having a book written about a rider elevates him in any way to a status of greatness. As an immediate post-war New Cross supporter I don't recall much mention of Tom Farndon and he only seemingly came into the limelight for the brief period when an annual memorial meeting was held. I would emphasise also that I personally respect his memory but not to the realms of adulation.

    This was one such post

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  17. Posted

    15 hours ago, Split said:

    I might not be old enough to have had the privilege of seeing the great Tom Farndon ride but anybody who stood on the terraces at New Cross in the 60's like I did would have spoken to many people who did. "Who was this Farndon bloke they keep on about,"  I asked myself, "was he that good?" Now I know, yes, he was that good!

    ." 

    You obviously stood next to different folk to old gusto, who I am sure stated on here that in the 40s and 50s nobody mentioned Farndon. 

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  18. Posted

    Go on then. To prove you are not bashing a straw man, you just have to quote one poster who thinks they live in the society you were describing and no government tells them what to do. I bet you can't B)

     Your chance to impress the world you ain't as silly as you look 

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  19. Posted

    11 minutes ago, iris123 said:

    Go and look up  straw man argument. It will explain what you are doing. Making up something that nobody has said or believes, to win an argument only you are having

    And then resorting to abuse, because you know you have been exposed. So you don't pay tax or get an MOT in your world !:rofl: You don't pay for petrol ? Or at least not the price set by OPEC, the government and the petrol company ?

     

  20. Posted

    Just exposing y:rofl:our utter nonsense again

    What people believe they live in a country where the government don't tell them what to do to an extent ? 

    I haven't met anyone who thinks they can just travel without a passport, and drive a car without a licence or wear a seat belt or just turn up at a hospital for an operation without paying into the system or work without paying tax .

    You just copy ideas from wacko groups without even thinking about it. Show us a YouTube video that tells us all this. Or maybe you can define this so called free society where I can just turn up for a football or speedway meeting without paying ? 

  25. Posted

    8 hours ago, DazS said:

    what do you think the wild fires in California and Maui and Canada are about + others.  clue it isn't global warming 

     

    4 hours ago, iris123 said:

    Some will never believe the truth, because they are being played by bots :rolleyes:

    Maui County is suing energy firm Hawaiian Electric, saying it failed to turn off electric equipment before wildfires started on the island.

    In California, power lines have been blamed for half of the state's most destructive wildfires.

     

    4 hours ago, DazS said:

    oh so they new the wild fires were going to start.:rofl:

     

    4 hours ago, iris123 said:

    No, they knew from weather reports that storms were coming, and it is advisable to turn off electric equipment or it might cause a wildfire :rofl:

    Try and educate yourself before posting. It helps. Not that much can help you out of your conspiracy trap nowB)

     

    4 hours ago, DazS said:

    . you never answer a question, ill see what you come back with.:rofl:

    :D:D A quick recap of how it happened

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