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  1. Posted

    3 hours ago, Jaizer said:

    I'm not sure but I thought top 4 in state U21 final qualified nowadays. But as said earlier I wouldn't swear on it

    Last time I saw published requirements for visas the U21 titles weren't included. It was just top 4 in state or national title within the previous 2 years.

    However, if that IS still the requirement, Jacob qualifies as he has had a podium in a state title within the last couple of years.

  2. Posted

    16 minutes ago, Jaizer said:

    Brown and Pearson and maybe even Gilmore on scores look better prospects but they might be fixed up in Poland as Bowes and rew were in 2021 and hook was one willing to come? Hard to tell level given sedgeman won Victoria title pre Christmas but give the lad a chance before writing him off

    Pearson is signed up for the Leszno U24 squad. Not sure about Brown.

    Does Hook not require a visa to race here? That might be the difference, if he can race without one.

  3. Posted

    1 minute ago, ljriley90 said:

    Yeah obviously something amiss. Ive watched all the highlight reels on the french league and he looks good  what a shame  especially on that low an average too

    He looks really good on his home track in the French league but seems to struggle a bit when away.

    The difference between his home and away scores is quite large.

  6. Posted · Edited by HenryW

    If we are counting the UK nations separately, I think I have 21 for Edinburgh (22 if I cheat a little bit!)
     

    Argentina
    		Fernando Garcia
    Australia
    		Sam Masters
    Austria
    		Alfred Sitzwohl
    Czech Republic
    		Jiri Stancl Jnr
    Denmark
    		Frede Schott
    England Les Collins
    Estonia Rene Aas
    Finland
    		Kalle Katijisto
    Germany
    		Kevin Wolbert
    Hungary
    		Jozsef Tabaka
    Italy
    		Stefano Alfonso
    Netherlands
    		Theo Pijper
    New Zealand
    		Wayne Briggs
    Norway
    		Reidar Eide
    Poland
    		Dariusz Fliegert
    Scotland William Lawson
    South Africa
    		Byron Bekker
    Sweden
    		Tomas Jonasson
    USA
    		Mike Faria
    Wales
    		Glyn Taylor
    Zambia
    		James Hayhow
    Zimbabwe
    		Dave Steen
     
    EDIT 1 - Oops...Hit submit a bit quick there.

    The cheat one is Glyn Taylor as he really had Aussie nationality, but was born in Wales, as far as I know.

    Riders on the list were just randomly selected when multiple from the same nation had ridden. No suggestion that these were the best from each nation ;)

    I may have forgotten someone or got a Nationality wrong :D

    EDIT 2 - I forgot Rene Aas.

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  9. Posted

    11 hours ago, BassoontheGasso said:

    If our league is so crap and Poland is so great then why couldn't a team consisting of Poland's best junior and senior riders beat our severely weakened GB side at Glasgow.

    We didn't have Woffinden or the King of Ashfield in the side yet they still beat a quality Polish side containing Zmarzlik, Janowski, Kubera, Musielak, Miskowiak & Lampart

    Yet the BSF are so cocksure a crappy Grudziadz side for example could beat Premiership teams in Britain. 

    I suspect you are just trolling, but let's pretend you aren't.

    Did you actually watch this meeting? 

    If you did then you would know why they lost.

    I'm also not sure why Poland v GB is relevant when discussing the strength of leagues in these Nations as they aren't exclusively populated by home nation riders.

    You mention a weakened GB without Woffinden...who races Polish league but not British. Lambert and Bewley are now the same. So the GB team helps show the strength of the Polish league!!

    Grudziadz may look awful in the Polish league, but the likes of Pedersen, Pawlicki, Kasprzak and Jakobsen could certainly not be described as throttle jockeys, as you suggest the Poles are, and all have proven their abilities on GB tracks in the past.

    27 minutes ago, BassoontheGasso said:

    I'll happily answer because you cant answer my facts as they're not debatable.

    Only reason why two of them aren't here is because of the Polish restrictions. We don't need them anyway as they're easily replaced by like for like or better riders (Fricke for Bewley is a prime example)

    So Fricke, who is racing Polish lower league, is better than a rider that was at the top of the British league averages. OK. That's another interesting argument to prove the strength of the British League.

    I'm also not convinced you can blame the Polish rules. Both could have raced in the UK but chose the Swedish league which you completely dismissed...interesting again.

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  12. Posted

    6 hours ago, bluebee said:

    Just been passing the time watching some YouTube videos (thank you Clean Cut Sports!) and particularly enjoyed the precocious talents of a young Przemysław Pawlicki . The commentator observes that he was certainly a future world champion in the making. What happened to the exceptional Shamek? Why didn't he even make the GPs? I've looked of Wikipedia and it only goes up to 2010 in his case. I know his brother has been making a name for himself.

    He did.

    He was a permanent member of the GP series in 2018 having won the GP Challenge in 2017. Unfortunately he didn't have the best of seasons, ending in 14th place.

    His average in the Ekstraliga last year was just marginally lower than his brother's. They have both failed to consistently deliver on their undoubted talent.

  13. Posted · Edited by HenryW

    1 hour ago, Humphrey Appleby said:

    Under the old 13-heat format, the line-ups for Heats 12 and 13 were naturally more balanced even if you arranged Nos 1, 3, 5 and 4 in different way, based on how things would need to be for the initial heats - 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11.

    With the 15-heat format, Heats 8 and 14 were designed to be weaker heats for the second strings and reserves, based on the fact that you'll usually want one of your strongest riders at No. 5 as that position is paired with a reserve three times. The 15-heat format is a bit of a kludge really, even though the traditional 13-heat format had its quirks. 

    I've always found it strange that, in a league that has team building so tightly dictated by "averages", the race format gives such wildly different standards of opposition to riders based on which number they are racing at.

    So many riders left with "unrealistic" (both too high and too low) averages based on them being essentially out of position in a team's line up.

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  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, JohnHyam said:

    That altrcaon happened during the supposed massive FACEBOOK failure. I posted not knowing about the supposed massive FACEBOOK failure. Or is the too much for you o understand?

    Based on the time stamps of the relevant messages, you had posted to the speedway friends group complaining about problems, THEN came on here and said that everything is business as usual, in reply to someone saying that there were issues...

    That timing just seemed strange to me.

  16. Posted

    3 minutes ago, JohnHyam said:

    Well I visit some 10 FACEBOOK groups - including the multi-membership SPEEDWAY FRIENDS (more members than the BSF) and it's very much 'business as usual'.

    "No problems" and "Business as usual", yet I see this post :rofl:

     

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  17. Posted

    2 hours ago, Diamonds85 said:

    I thought if a rider rode in the Ekstraliga they could only ride in one other league not including their home nation. So Nicki could do Poland, Britain and Denmark, as he is Danish... I'm sure I read that somewhere...

    That was their initial ruling in 2019, with it going to only one other league from 2020.

    Danes do not have to race in the Danish league, but Nicki has some high value sponsors linked to being with Holsted, so it's unlikely he'd stop racing there.

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  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, 89buttons said:

    https://youtu.be/vLY2F8uze0A
     

    the better than lego quote is from an Aussie sportsman being interviewed back in the 90’s - became a bit of a cult phrase Aussies have used when interviewed after winning sporting events - along with drinking champagne from their shoes. Believe doyle made the quote when he won the world title haha

    Maybe not ALL Australians, is it not just the Newcastle ones ;)

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  22. Posted

    4 hours ago, old bob at herne bay said:

    Only "person of colour" in speedway (I think that is the preferred term now) I remember, was the late Paul Muchene who rode at Arena Essex.

    Really?
    You seem to have missed Antonio Lindback starting racing in the early 2000's and going on to appear in the Speedway GP series in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020...
    Also, not sure about the "person of colour" categorisation...I might be out of touch with preferred terms....Would that include the crowd favourite at the Speedway of Nations this year, Philip Hellström Bängs?

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  23. Posted · Edited by HenryW

    On 8/12/2021 at 5:00 PM, bluejam said:

    Very surprised that no one has mentioned Tony Rickardsson so far on this thread:o

    And, unless I missed something, only ONE person has picked him since your comment months ago.
    I know that the thread is about "favourite" rather than best, but it's hard to work out how someone as amazing as Tony was on a bike didn't get more picks. For me, he had it all...He could gate with the best, but he could also make some amazing passes when he failed to gate and, possibly more important for a thread like this, had a good bit of personality which you would have thought would have got him into more top 5's than he apparently did!
    He'd definitely be in mine (he says hoping that he didn't post something before without him).
    Rickardsson, Gundersen, Protasiewicz, Pedersen and Penhall.

  24. Posted

    11 hours ago, SlicktrackSandy said:

    You have a point there , but at present they do pretty well in attracting a few really good partnerships which are crucial to the club's health.  If they were ever to move to within the Edinburgh City boundaries, for whatever reason, it is highly likely that sponsorships/partnerships would be likely to increase significantly.   It is 25 years since Monarchs were actually based in the City and a lot of things have changed since then as we are all aware.

    I've definitely got a lot fatter, seen my hairline recede frighteningly far and what is left of it has gone much more grey than I would have hoped for 25 years ago :unsure:
    On the speedway side, I think that the Edinburgh promotion need a lot of respect for keeping things going after Powderhall was lost, and the fans need a lot of respect for the amount of money that they have contributed to keeping the sport going.
    Sadly, it seems unlikely that the Edinburgh council will ever welcome the sport back into the City boundaries, but I can keep hoping...I currently live within relatively easy walking distance of all of the venues that used to host league speedway in Edinburgh...and it's sad that the team are currently racing so far from the City.

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