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Yes, saw the postings on Facebook this morning about the reserve list announcement and most comments appeared to be about Martin and in German. Without any smiley faces.

Well there seems an awful lot of Germans up in arms today because Smolinksi hasn't made it onto the reserves list either.

It goes way beyond round by round wildcards; which is what I was just discussing. No postings were or are ever to be needed here to ensure continued full time representation for GB in the series. The promoters know which side their bread is buttered. The reason why there will always be at least one GB rider as a permanent rider (even as a season long wildcard) is not just about Cardiff. It will matter for the TV contracts much more.

Utterly stupid point to try to make. There never has been nor will there ever be a year without at least one full permanent member of the series from GB.

Yes... Three of those we have not seen a SGP for years as they were not financially viable WITH or without wildcards; so hardly a strong argument for imposing them on the dozens and dozens of meetings that don't need them at all. Despite all the flim flam of the press conference I don't see it really happening that we end up with viable GPs n all these other places Discovery say. And Gorican ... Oh yes let's have a dead spot in every GP All year just so we can resurrect Zagar for one evening. Wonderful.I Tbh any country that 'needs' a wildcard to get a decent crowd is probably not worth having GP in any case.

It's difficult to argue against local wildcards when you get a star like Kubera turning up. But he is the real exception. And in the end, for all his efforts, it got him nowhere in regards of a permanent place. Because he is Polish. Most of the time they don't add anything to the meeting, they definitely don't add anything to the championship. And they rarely add to the the crowd as Most GPs are held in countries who already have permanent representation. Just dead space in the year long programme.

Terry Russell has taken on the guise of a total simpleton over this whole affair. Why?

Year in year out NP/KT as well as those in the studio bang on endlessly towards the end of the season about the importance in finishing in the top 6, or 8 as was.. Utter bullsh!t when every year the top 10 are pretty much nailed on. No jeopardy. No reason to do the qualifiers.

Speedway World Cup @Torun July 2023.

Worst pack of wildcard choices ever. Which is saying something. Looks like Discovery are starting off with a whimper just like BSI finished with. Next we will hear that Morris is staying on.

Tbh Tatum has to do some serious 'filling in' to cover for the general lack of action.

Discovery's best move would be to dump Morris.

New website is fimspeedway.com and already working. Anyone using the old url will be redirected to this after the handover.

You can say what you like. But it doesn't make you sound like anything BUT a miserble git, tbh

And yet again a rider goes for a win that CANNOT POSSIBLY win the points needed for the TEAM. Buggering up the opposition so the U21 rider had a chance of breaking through was the right way. Back to the same mistake made by team GB years ago.

After all the horse-sh!t spoken by Castagna over the last few years in the instigation of this event and his vacuous defence of all its manifest imperfections ... and then Italy cant even come up with an Under 21 rider tonight.

And so is the Clerk of the Course. It is his 'Clerk of the Course' qualification that he has that enables PM to do his job.

And Phil Morris is independent ???

That's pretty much the job description of every Clerk of the Course, present at every meeting.

It's on a night like this that I really miss the input from the late, Great Philip Rising. Offering a blanket defence of BSI and Castagna's every move to 'improve' international Speedway by abandoning the SWC for this bastardised hogwash.

Latvians must be easily aroused.

Doubling up is definitely 'an issue' for me. Funilly enough it does not (to my knowledge) affect my frequency of attendance, at the moment ... But it just thoroughly pisses me off, all the time, like toothache. Anything that consistently antagonises a lifelong supporter who is still attending MUST be a bad thing to be avoided ... In the end it will piss me off too much, I bet.

I was correcting the inaccuracy of another post not expressing anything about personal preferences for or against team racing.

Speedway was NOT invented as a team sport.

Weird argument. If 1974 had been exactly like 2021 then 1974 wouldn't have been the same as it was then ! No sh!t Sherlock !