Mark

How do you know about his shoulder ? That could be 6 weeks out like darcy ward

I thought the track was poor, didn't give the riders the best option to show all there skills. It was too rutted after 10 heats foir them to race properly. All the riders "are men" to do what they do for a living. They don't need sorting out from the boys. The riders felt the track was poor. For our showpiece meeting it was a shame.

G the Bee But riders falling off due to hitting ruts happens all the time in speedway meetings week in, week out.. Sure, it's not ideal but it happens in speedway. Lindgren just got unlucky. Other riders in the other 22 heats rode through those ruts without any real issues other than a bit of lifting and bouncing about. If the track had been genuinely dangerous we would have seen more than that one incident. Cant agree. The British GP is our showpiece so the track should be spot on. The best surface to allow the best riders to perform to there best.

You make some good points but Freddie Lindgren may not agree that it wasn't dangerous. He went head first into the shale on the 3rd bend in the final. Others were bouncing around on the bike. That should not happen on a GP track where ticket prices in the decent seats was very high..

We have just got back home from Cardiff. Well below par meeting because of a very poor track. The ticket prices are high and the paying public deserve much better than that. The riders did well to complete 23 heats. Well done to them all. Saturday is lottery day and tthat was what racing was.. Emil was lucky to get to the final as Vaculik hit a rut in the semi final, Lindgren could have been badly hurt in his semi when hitting a rut and being catapulted into the ground. Riders struggled to ride around the bends in most heats. It was poor entertainment with very little passing. Love speedway but that was rubbish.

[GROUP 1 = Tai Woffinden (25) GROUP 2 = Chris Holder (25) GROUP 3 = Greg Hancock (25) GROUP 4 = Fredrik Lindgren (30) GROUP 5 = Krzysztof Kasprzak (25) THE FINAL 4 Emil Sayfutdinov 7 Tai Woffinden 12 Greg Hancock 20 Krzysztof Kasprzak

Scott Nicholls was 2nd in the British Final. Should that be the criteria for a wild card at Poole ?

It is a discussion forum so you're (not your) right on one point. My views were not directed at you personally, it was a general comment, and one I'm allowed on a forum. I suggest you try to avoid abuse in your (not you're) posts as it not neccessary.

Got to trap but Woffinden lucky in white to have out of form Dribble and Lindback inside him in Ht12.

10 races gone and not one winner from white or yellow

racing poor but crowd looks quite good, main stand looks nearly full.

Every time Cardiff comes around this discussion rears it's head. Who cares who sings a couple of songs before the meeting. Your going there for the speedway.

len Silvers report on the injury sounds better than expected. get well soon Jason

CZECH 9 Tai Woffinden 9 Greg Hancock 7 Niels K Iversen 6 Matej Zagar

so do I but Cook might prove us all wrong as he looks better than the rest with such limited experience.

you could be right but he is trying to qualify under his own steam this season.

Plenty. I'm not a big Harris fan, he has had plenty of chances, but has proved he can win a GP and was top 8. Cook has done nothing bar show promise, he was miles behind in the final last night. So you must be guessing he'll do as well as Bomber, that's all I'm trying to say. Harris could make a semi. No chance of Cook doing the same at this stage of his career.

what evidence do you have to back that comment up ? How many GP riders has he beaten consistently ?

With his excellent form he would surely get a GP wild card if he fell away later in the season or got a knock like Darcy Ward. He's proved he is worthy of a GP pick. The Swedish might be panicking as Lindgren, Lindback and AJ are struggling.

I like Scott Nicholls as he is a rider that always gives his all. I would have picked him to get the wild card based on last nights British Championship result as he beat Bomber in the final. That was a good system to reward performance on the track. But we now have new rules, Scott shows no ambition to get into the GP series. At least Bomber is showing the ambition to get into the GP series so he deserves the chance at Cardiff. His form on the continent is good so he will be more on the pace than riders like Lundstrom in Sweden. We dont have a young rider good enough to compete. Cook looks promising but maybe one year too early for him.

What a shambles. No wonder riders get fed up. Isn't it about time the sport was run properly, openly and with some integrity. It's so badly run no wonder it's going downhill fast.

This situation is stupid. The BPSA need to start supporting British riders and givie them some help instead of hindrance. If speedway in the UK wasn't going backwards quick enough we are now faced with going to the SWC without one of our top 4. That will hardly do crowd numbers a good turn at Kings Lynn and likely lead Team GB to get a thrashing at Kings Lynn and then Prague in the play off. Thats assuming we beat Latvia Is that was the BPSA want ? Hopefully some sence will prevail and the BPSA will sttart helping the riders and themselves.

thank you for the replies

I'm travelling to the Prague GP. Can anyone help with directions to the Marketa from the city centre Old Square by public transport. Does anyone know of a good bar near the Marketa to watch UK sport as there is a test match on TV during the day. thank you

broken shoulder blade which may need an op Nikki has broken bones in his hand