MattK

They are definitely short on riders with top flight experience. Would be interesting to see how Gathercole and Sweetman go at world u21 level.

So no Holder or Batchelor next year then?

What is the age require for 2009's World U21s?

Thanks

Is this one leg only?

So let me get this right... If Nicki Pedersen phones me up and saying he's looking for a (32 year-old) protege, and he'll buy all my equipment for me and he'll teach me to ride and he can get me into the GP qualififers as he know the bloke that runs it and I ride in the GP qualifiers and I beat the likes of Adams, Crump and Gollob and the final is held on my home track that Nicki built in my back garden and I qualify into the GP. Could that be a possibility? Carlsberg don't make middle-aged-man-becomes-superstar-speedway-rider-overnight-fantasies, but if they did they'd be the best middle-aged-man-becomes-superstar-speedway-rider-overnight-fantasies in the World.

How can they bring Lee Richardson in as a replacement for Zabik in heat 9?

Obviously there's the individual World Championships (otherwise known as the Grand Prix), World/European U21, individual European Championship, European U19, Czech Golden Helmet (along with several other Golden Helmet events), each country has their own "final" i.e. British Final, Polish Final, Danish etc. as well Elite/Premier League Rider Championships and undoubtedly many more.

Having both qualification and nominations is frankly perverse. If they are to have nominations, then these should be used for riders who failed to qualify though exceptional cercumstances such as missing several GPs though injury or for riders like Holder who had two EFs in the qualification or Batchelor who missed a round though injury (these two are just examples, before people take offence at individual riders). The nominations should not be a Get-Out-of-Jail Free card for GP riders who don't take part in the qualifiers and then fail to make the top 8. The riders who have made it though the qualifiers have done so on merit. Ulamek, Walasek and Bjerre can only beat what's in front of them on the day and if Harris, Holta, Lindgren et al choose not to take part then it should be their loss.

If there was a one-off World Final, how often would it come to Britain? Once every four years, six years, eight years? Even less than that? I reckon we'd be lucky to see it once every eight to ten years.

They read it out at Swindon last night. No England line-up I'm afraid.

A question for oldies Was the old one-off World Final shown live on TV during the 70s, 80s and early 90s?

The Australian team for the Swindon test has been announced as: Troy Batchelor Cory Gathercole Chris Holder Robert Ksiezak Cameron Woodward Kozza Smith Richard Sweetman Looks pretty tasty.

Quite like to look of this. Let's hope they get the Swindon boys in for their "home" meeting - that should get the crowds out.

Pretty self explanatory really. Or do the rights not exist?

Nice idea, but assuming the top eight from the previous GP qualify straight into the GP and eight available spots were made available through the Friday meeting, how many riders do you think would "fancy their chances" - and what would be the standard of the field?

http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/ind...showtopic=42965

Do you know, thanks to extensive market research, that the reason people are not coming to speedway is the cost? If you cut the price to £5 a head, then the promoter will need to attract three times as many paying customers just to break even (at the gate). Where are these three times as many people going to come from? Are they sitting at home, wishing they could afford to go to speedway but can't? I don't believe they are to be honest. The other thing to consider is - can clubs actually handle three times as many people turning up? Where are they going to park? Where are they going to stand? I've been to a few exceptionally busy meetings (Swindon play-off final for example) and it was chaos.

How do you know the DVD on eBay (which is blanently copied off Sky) has the last four heats on it?

But I thought Sky+ was so easy to use even Ross Kemp's Nan's dog could use it?

Looking at those line-ups, I reckon we can win it.

What time does it start tonight?

I blame the designers for not making it symmetrical.

Totally agree. Stead and Allen had a job to do, regardless of whether they're riding in the next round or not. Lynch took a gamble with home track riders and it failed. Move on.

Last train from Cardiff to Swindon on a Saturday is 22:00 - so a total non-starter. Last train from Paddington to Swindon is 23:37 - so it would be cutting it fine trying to get from Wembley to Paddington if you stayed til the end (we left the stadium at about quarter to 11 on Saturday night), unless you left straight after the final heat.