Ghostwalker

yes its beeing discussed here http://www.speedway-...dpost&p=1788113

i really hope Svemo can see now that there is a need for Allsvenskan. as you mentioned Solkatterna have had huge problems this season and i don't know hat will happen with Valsarna or Västervik in Elitserien. Both Valsarna and Västervik have or have had financial problems this season so they are bot quite uncertain. Then today news were released that Piraterna have to take huge loans to pay for their expenses. From Div1 Smederna have already decided to be in Allsvenskan next season i don't know about Gnistorna i hope that they will follow Smederna to Allsvenskan. The difference between Smederna and Gnistorna is that while Smederna have used their own riders Gnistorna have shared several of their riders with Örnarna and Lejonen. Since Svemo want to remove the partner team system and replace it with an individual guest rider system i think that Gnistorna might have some problems with finding enough riders. Both Hammarby and Örnarna have expressed there wish/aim to be in Elitserien. So a possible (if its likely or not i don't know) scenario is that Valsarna and Västervik are demoted while Hammrby and Örnarna are promoted. Its starting to become quite a rush now for Svemo to take a decision about next seasons league system since all teams entry notifications have to be ready at November 1st instead of December 31st as it have been earlier. I think that is one of the worst decisions Svemo has taken the past years because it will leave to little amount of times for teams to find sponsors and riders they should rather have put it somewhere in the late winter like the end of February or something like that Then i would like to see: That they kept the current series system with automatically promotion and demotion between all three league with promotion being dependent on fianaces. That they lowered that average cap to 40.00 and added a total cap for the entire squad that should be at maybe 50.00 That they changed the rules for how averages work.Currently teams like Vetlanda can put riders like THJ in a Div1/Allsvenskan team to have that rider lower his average to get a lower Elitserien average. All division averages should only be based on the riders performances in that particular division regardless in which division the riders is registered in. Standardized contracts and salaries. Meaning that a riders salaries is based upon a coefficient at Svemo. Like Svemo would decided about a base value for riders with an average of 2.00 and then calculate the other riders salaries with a simple formula like (y * x = z) where y is the average, x is the value and z is the points money. I don't know if it would work but at least that would mean that clubs could stop the bidding every year and some of the best riders would have to find a new team meaning that the series would hopefully be a bit more even.

Rospiggarna have decided to step down to Allsvenskan from Elitserien One of their board members,Göran Lindblom, says that Rospiggarna neither can or want to be apart of Elitserien under the current circumstances he also says that he finds the entire system sick. So yesterday evening the board took a unanimously decision to step down one notch to Allsvenskan. This means that Rospiggarna who won the playoffs as newcomers in 1995 and during the 14 following seasons they won the gold another three times 1997, 2001 & 2002. Göran Lindblom continues and says that the y have several reasons for their decision. They have had problems with decreasing attendance levels and sponsors incomes so they don't want to risk the clubs existence by staying in Elitserien and by that risking to send the club into bankruptcy. Göran also says that Rospiggarna will do a break even financial results this year and that it is not an immediate financial crisis. All riders and contractors have been paid. So in general it is all about that we don't want to gamble with another season in Elitserien and hope that it would work out alright. The current season have costed Rospiggarna about 4 million Swedish Kronor (approx £356'000GBP) and to take a step down would means that they would at least lower their cost with 50% Göran says. http://norrteljetidning.se/sport/speedway/1.942565-rospiggarna-lamnar-elitserien

two allsvenskan meetings tonight: Hammarby Griparna: http://www.speedway.nu/2010/reportNY.asp?Alls2.BA Masarna -Solkatterna http://www.speedway.nu/2010/reportNY.asp?Alls2.CD

i agree its not Smederna's fault but i think its good for the league that Smederna (and i hope Gnistorna) moves to Allsvenskan. It was a beautiful and a very cold evening, only +10 Celsius (50F) when we left the stadium. I have no news regarding David Rohlén.

regarding the medics, since a few weeks, Smederna have their own ambulance and medics which is cheaper then renting an ambulance from Landstinget however you won't have the same standard as a regular ambulance. The private ambulance also aren't allowed to transport patients more then to get them off the track. I agree on that this meeting as most of the other this season for Smederna, were boring. It is not fun to seea meeting ending with 72-24, Smederna only lost 8p and 2 of them after a "mechanical failure" for Henrik Karlsson in heat 13. Anyway it was very nice to that over 1000 people had decided to watch the meeting at the track. That is almost as much as Valsarna's lowest attendance and they are an Elitserien team. Next year Smederna will ride in Allsvenskan (if there'll be any Allsvenskan next season) and that is a much tougher league but i think they will do ok if Smederna can manage to keep all riders and maybe bring in 1 or 2 new riders. for those of you who turned it off before the end did miss two things 1: this 2: a small but nice firework

Dackarna wins the seriesm with Vetlanda second. Indianerna takes the 6th and final playoff spot.

yes that is correct http://www.elitvetlanda.nu/index.php?page=page&id=114

Nice to see Greg speak Swedish he is good at it too!

the weather is good and the track is said to have managed the rain pretty well. A picture from the track: http://gpbloggen.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/bild-080.jpg

i am not so sure that we will see Greg in next years GP series if he misses out on top 8. he will be in the same situation as Leigh Adams were in a year ago and he once said in an interview (2 years ago) , on a reply about when to quit, that he will do so when he wakes up in the morning and no longer feels that it is fun and when he no longer can keep up with the best.

for Swedish viewers: live from 12.00 at svtplay.se or from 13.00 in svt2.

Masarnas annual invitation meeting Avesta Masters, for current or former riders of masarna, will be held on September 8th this year. some of the participants this year are: Leigh Adams Antonio Lindbäck Eric Andersson Maksim Bogdanovs Linus Sundström. For the complete list see this link (pdf reader required).

yeah Swedish TV also says its off http://gpbloggen.wordpress.com/

i have taken a quick look at the teams websites but i haven't found any notes about it.

the Stadium is only 5 years old so its probably a really good stadium. Anyway The CRoatian GP is delayed to 20.00 Local time (8pm CEST/ 7pm BST). http://speedwaygp.com/en/newsdetail/a1841

i agree with your post but it seems like Woffy and Team Great Britain international doesn't agree with you http://speedwaygp.com/en/newsdetail/a1840?SID=3c68b5e6296c836f5b841542e2f87882 Personally i would of course like as many swedes as possible in the series but not if they're constantly going to trail at the back.

weather radar from Croatia: http://vrijeme.hr/aktpod_e.php?id=bradar&param=stat Gorican is in the northeast corner.

it is raining very heavy in Gorican according to SVT's commentators; http://gpbloggen.wordpress.com/. It has been raining on and off all day and the track is NOT covered so it doesn't look good. Video from the track: http://videos.videopress.com/Zzf4FxcN/gorican_fmt1.ogv

Micke, imo its a very good service especially for those who are unable to see the meetings live at the stadium, like racers, brandonbee, davidba and many others. I have seen i think 2 meetings live at the stadium this year and a bunch of streamed meetings although they quite frequently have freezed. I don't know what hardware setup you use but hosting video streaming can be quite CPU/RAM intensive so perhaps that might be one of the factors that contributes to the freezing? I do know that Eskilstuna Motorstadion got MAN broadband installed when the track became a GP track.

sorry i did look at your standings table

well i think Vetlanda should be able to take a comfortable home win especially since neither of the teams have anything to ride for. Vetlanda is also a very strong home team so i predict a score around 52-44 <-> 55-41 for Elit Vetlanda.

nr 7= Paul Mårtensson according to http://www.speedway.nu/2010/VisaNY.asp?div1.DJ

a very quick recovery from Jagus, he was "sick" with the flu yesterday but seems able to ride tonight...

THG have 3 loaned riders nr 7is Jacek Basinski who ridea for Smederna usually and nr 2 and nr 4.