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  1. Posted

    I dont think some people realise just how lucky they are to have a promoter in which they have he tries his hardest and always puts on a show.He produces a great track he tries to track an entertaining team yet there are still some that grumble sometimes i wonder does he sometimes feel like jacking it all in.I hope next year they track a entertaining team also they deserve and get a Semi Final of the WC again as the track is superb and will produce a great night's racing.

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  4. Posted

    Very Strong, Really??? have a re think, its ok but Howarth won't ride anywhere apart from Sheffield, Auty getting worse year on year, Allen lot to prove in this league still at small tight away tracks, rest are only average

    Auty the last six weeks has really picked up ask people who saw him at Belle Vue if he is still capable or not.
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  6. Posted

    2018:

     

    Musielak, Bellego and Morris full assets.

    Doyle to miss British Speedway all together.

    Grajczonek and Batchelor return to the Abbey.Ellis returns to Poole.

    Zach returns after promising spell before injury in 2017.

    Kerr or Davey - Kerr

     

     

    1. David Bellego 7.80

    2. Josh Grajczonek 7.15

    3. Troy Batchelor 7.49

    4. Tobiasz Musielak 7.42

    5. Nick Morris 8.84

    6. Lewis Kerr 2.50

    7. Zach Wajknecht 3.51

     

    44.71

    Bellego, Morris, Wajknecht i think will all return the rest is all up in the air for me i would not be keen on that line up.

  7. Posted · Edited by Sidney the robin

    The reason he's getting knocked is because to many people bigged him up to be the next British superstar.

     

    They're all extremely disappointed that this season he really hasn't stepped it up to expectations.

     

    My expectations I believe are far more realistic and I just don't see him becoming any better than he is already.

    He's quite frankly has been less than average against top riders, to the point of being completely uncompetitive against them.

    The World Cup 2 years running really should have opened pwoples eyes but they're still so blinded with pipe dreams.

    He is a talent and you obviously dont rate him you have made that clear anough which is fair anough but i believe he can push on he has showed me glimpses of real quality.Also as others have said he is still only 19 and i put him at least on par with Kurtz and better than Holder but those two have stole a march on him for a contract in Poland.All is not lost it is down to Robert now but all Lynn fans should want him to be part of Lynn's history he should stay there and push on i hope he does it i enjoy watching him ride.
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  8. Posted

    For me Josh Auty was the rider of the night ,despite being knocked off by a crazy aussie .He would have qualified for the race off if he had not suffered a engine failure.A great night for Josh he never gives up i miss him riding for Sheffield he was great to watch round there .But a great meeting last night well done Fast Freddie .

    I am a big fan of Auty and i hope now he can get a place in the Prem in 2018.Belle Vue could be a great home track for him remember him riding very well in the 2016 British Final whatever he scores he races and gives everything that is all we can ask.

  9. Posted

    I know who'd I'd like to see in a scunny racejacket next season (providing the average limit is 46) (averages based on this weeks speedway star, so could be wrong)

    1. Steve Worrall (9.26)

    2. Jake Allen (6.08)

    3. Thomas Jorgensen (7.22)

    4. Josh Auty (7.44)

    5. Nick Morris (9.07)

    6. Fritz Wallner (3.76) (Would he have to come back on a 4?)

    7. Jack P Blackburn (2.67)

    TOTAL - 45.5

     

    On paper, it looks like a team that would entertain, do well home and away and potentially make the play offs

    Could many teams afford the wages of that line up? great line up though.

  11. Posted · Edited by Sidney the robin

    That really is so true. I've actually had a couple of private conversations (via this forum and on FB) with him, and said that he has so much to offer, but that a lot of the stuff he comes up with does him no favours.

    Sidney: I am not on edge at all - I just wanted him to answer the bloody question! I have no idea why he is so evasive. I know I can be long-winded at times, but it is because I like to use logic and reason to substantiate my point of view. I loved that recent thread you started about Carter, Simmons, Morton, Louis, and Wilson, and I loved the way there were a bunch of people producing achievements and stats to substantiate their own personal view. He can't - or WON'T do that...

    Steve

    Point taken Steve and i totally understand your point of view, you are one of quite a FEW on here that i really enjoy reading there input you can learn a bit and the threads are very enjoyable hope i did not offend with my comment.😀

  13. Posted

    Nope. This was the post Eric and Jan o era and they finished runners up

    England came 4th though!

    It's just symptomatic of the poster in question that he riles even mild mannered posters like Chunky and Dave Allen etc. the bloke is a troll but I'm sure someone will arrive on their white steed shortly to his defence...

    Everyone has a good side look for the positive's eaces 1"
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  17. Posted

    Do you think that all facts should be considered when seeking to substantiate your own personal feelings by NOT responding to a simple and perfectly justified question asked by another forum member?

     

    Or do you feel that you, - as an individual - are qualified to issue statements with having to respond? Of course, you have a marked tendency to pick and choose what criteria you use - or ignore - when you feel fit, and I am sure I m not the only one who has noticed the hypocrisy in much of what you write.

     

    For instance, you freely admit that that you are still interested in the "history" of the sport, although I am not sure of the historical period of which you speak. Very recently, you stated on this forum that post-70's speedway was "meaningless" to you. If that is the case, how are you such an expert on Gary Havelock and Tai Woffinden?

     

    Likewise, if post-70's speedway was "meaningless:, why did you take it upon yourself to change the guidelines of a Facebook speedway speedway group? The owner of the group clearly stated that the timeline to be considered was pre-1990, yet you you started posting post-1990 items, and "justified" that by issuing statements that the group had been founded a couple of years previously, and should therefore now be including items up to 1992! Then again, you posted a photo to the group of an adult Jason Crump, believing it to be from the 1980's...

     

    All very interesting when these items are from a time period which for you, was "meaningless"... It just makes it worse when you feel that you are above answering a straightforward question from waihekeaces1.

     

    Steve

    Chunky you sound on edge chill out,it is

    just a thread it is not life or death.!!!!

  19. Posted · Edited by Sidney the robin

    Sid how do you rate Sanders and Phil Crump when both were at their peak?

     

    Personally I thought that Crump was a better league man and Sanders the international version. Billy seemed to loose his way when he moved away from Ipswich but came back stronger when he returned to 'The Witches'.

     

    Phil I felt was consistently better in the British League but despite his third place in Poland in 1976 he generally disappointed in World Finals and appearances (three ?). He was awesome around Cowley during the seventies but my best memory of Sanders at Oxford was riding thru' the tapes in disgust for being excluded for an infringement!

    Steve similar to yourself with Hans i saw alot of Crump senior he was an awesome rider but i felt after his crash with Ashby at Sheffield he was not quite the same 1982 as a example.It seems silly but he was good anough to win that final but he rode terribly and it was a trend of his in alot of the big meetings.I still believe to this day if he had put the Streety conversersion away he could of been WC so if you look at his record now it really does him a disservice really pleased i watched him regular though a real pleasure.I would say in 75/76 Crump was in the top six riders in the World Mauger,Olsen Michanek,P.C, Crump,T.Jansson.Sanders i was a big fan of and i know they had a few spats over the years both hard but fair men but Bill and Crumpy got on well and had total respect for each others ability.Sanders i felt before his death was at his peak really had got some consistency he had a great riding style and i believe if he had been in a series format that would of suited him as well.

    You could equally argue that mayve Briggs, Moore, Craven, Knutson were not "that" good, and around that time in reality there was not great speedway rider, just a lot of good ones? This is a fun argument :D I say argument but I think we agree. You can only compare people to their peers and riders of their day, its impossible to compare riders unless their careers overlap and even then it's difficult if one is just started as one ends.

     

    Greg Hanocks wins/career for me show how good TRick and Crump where though for this reason, he won a title before they got going (I know TRick had won one at that point) and won a few after TRick and Crump were gone but what did he do while they were around? Throw in Nicki over the same period and it was only when he had suffered a few injuries Greg got going again. So while Greg with 4 titles is one of the greats, Crump and TRick were something else.

    What I was of Hans, looking at the stas etc. clearly a damn good rider but I'm not convinced he'd have won as many title in another era. He lacks that big occasion mentality and others who had it would have chewed him up and spat him out.

     

     

    How funny you should post this after my response to you last post!

     

    I actually believe Hans got stronger mentally as he got older something Carter could never do he never put the past behind him.Erik could of destroyed many riders mentally by having that hoodoo over them but Hans Conquered that and went on and won four titles and it would of been more titles in a series format.I have total confidence that Nielsen would of been brilliant in any era and for me in my roll of honour list rate him higher than Rick( was not a fan) Hancock Pedersen,and any rider about now Nielsen is a top 5 rider of all time for me i never realised that at the time.
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  20. Posted

    Hi Sid...it's all subjective I know but Hans was registering a high BL average back in the late seventies and early eighties and was more than a match for the riders you list during that period.

     

    Although his Individual World Championship record was still in its infancy during that period (he first qualified for the World Final in 1980) he progressively improved his standing and the 1983 World Final was the turning point. He had the beating of Egon Mulller when they met during the meeting until a snapped chain stopped him in his tracks...otherwise he would have ended up on the rostrum ahead of the likes of Sigalos (a favourite to win in some people's eyes that year), Carter (who never looked liked winning that afternoon) and possibly Lee and/or Sanders. Can't remember the exact scores now...memory and all that...but Hans would have finished on twelve (?)

     

    Purely academic but I think Hans (and later Erik...who had a storming 1981 Final) would have more than held their own whoever the opposition.

     

    Billy Sanders was an enigma when it came to World Finals. I think his best finishes were in 1979 (third) and 1983 (second). However he had a poor 1984 Final (I was there) when Hans and Erik really began to dominate.

     

    An interesting debate nevertheless but one shouldn't forget Shawn Moran during the early middle eighties and Tommy Knudsen who was there or thereabouts based on his league and international form.

    Carter i believe was very very unlucky in 82 the poor rule in place cost him the title 83 i think on most tracks all over the world Lee would of took all the beating.Going back to Norden i was there Muller i think would of beaten Nielsen at any time but in there meeting he only needed a second place also Sanders before his death was flying at his peak for me he would of been a threat in the late 80s.
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  21. Posted · Edited by Sidney the robin

    Always interesting comparing eras but I think Hans and Erik would have risen to the challenge whoever may have been around during the eighties.

     

    Regarding Carter he had three chances after Los Angeles to make an impression but after riding at Norden in 1983 (I was there and he was never really in with a shout of the title) injuries curtailed his later efforts. I personally felt his crash in 1985 at the Inter-Continental Final (?) was of his on doing due to over riding - John Davis has commented on the incident in an interview he gave some years ago in 'Backtrack' who was taken out by Carter and thus ruined his own chances of progressing.

     

    I was never a fan of Hans Steve, but for three seasons myself Hagonshocker and others went to Oxford nearly everyweek then i got to realise just how good a rider he was he was a great team rider to,He was good with the likes of Rasmussen,Lausch,Dugard,Sorensen( brought him on) Butler ect) my point is would Hans/Erik have won seven titles between them with a peak Lee,Carter,Sanders,Sigalos,Penhall around very hypophetical i know but worth a thought.
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  22. Posted

    I first started watching him when I was 14, he was pure and utter class on a motorbike and was the best starter for in the sport by the proverbial mile.

    Ultra professional with immaculate machinery, just didn't have any weak points at all.

    Lucky to meet him several times and was always the perfect gentleman with supporters when I saw him.

    For all that he achieved he was never a bighead, he had time for his team mates and as you said a superb starter never reared up ever and he could pass if need be.For me he had everything but the greatest thing for me was that when he first came over he failed but he never gave up believed in himself and regrouped and the rest is history great rider and man.Also it is lovely that Mirac, Briggo, Ivan were all close got on well that is very unique in the dog/eat world of sport they all had total respect for each other and those three are all in a top 15 ever.

    Was Briggs better than Olsen? Knutson better than Michsnek? Craven better than PC? Boocock better than Simmons? Or were those riders more successful because they weren't up against Mauger.

    I'd say there's much more of a case that Eric and Hans had things easier as they picked up titles in an era shorn of the riders who should have been their top rivals (penhall sigalos carter lee sanders all lost prematurely, and you could arguably add Kelly Moran to that list as a rider who for other reasons wasn't the title contender he could have been).

    Was so surprised "waihe read up that Briggo in 1967 was a red hot favourite...??? i thought his real peak was the 50s and early 60s .Great point about Hans/Erik would they have dominated if the others had not fell by the wayside also do you think if a peak/Fit Carter would have made the final would he have been favourite to win at Bradford in 85.?

  25. Posted

    Get out of bed the wrong side, Sidney? A light-hearted remark about how many autographs of one rider you need, and off you go on one! Calm down, calm down!

    Anyway, you're wrong, Sidney - what I said was that in my opinion Ole Olsen rode for himself and could never be considered a team player in the mould of a Nigel Boocock or a Chris Harris

    Yes, I saw him team ride, particularly mini-Ole Alf Busk, but I still stick by my original comment, which you deviously - or erroneously - misquoted

     

    That's naughty, Sidney - and the word is "have", not "of"

    Not taking the pee at all, see my correct quote which did not refer to being able to team ride

    Maybe i overeacted so i opologise for that Midland but people who get Autographs dont just get it once do they?? Also you are so wrong about Olsen as a team rider superb i will name them all again who benefited by riding with him.Stancl,Moleneax,Busk,Miller,Guglielmi,Nicholaisen, Shirra,Knudsen ask Gary Newbon who was on central sport if he was a team rider or not.!!!!!!
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