mikebv

Well Done Germany!!!!!

Great ride from Denmark... From the first turn where they deliberately blocked Hausl doing his usual creep around the kerb..

The more time you spend on the track, pointing and waving to the blokes in the tractors... The more times you get seen on the telly....

"We need more water on the track".....

To be fair.... To the casual observer watching Speedway on TV, Kelv could tell them anything and they will still be none the wiser as to how accurate the information he is telling them is... It's only us fans of the sport that spot the mistakes... His enthusiasm for the sport will be the main trait picked up by those watching who know nothing about Speedway...

Telling the rider he has 60 seconds when he just has got in the pits... Yet spending ages track grading.....

Great ride from Dan T then.... Spent 3 laps stone last, miles behind.... Then suddenly got 2nd.....

He probably thought he would easily beat Blodorn....

Looks "Fu**ing Perfect" to me..... Maybe it means something different in the Seychelles.....?

The scarf would need to be longer than Doctor Who's!!!

The "nu age" fans in the sanitised world of modern football lap them up......

The whole sport is based on what individual promoters want to do... They even pick their divisions to race in, even if clearly too strong, or nowhere near strong enough, for that particular league.. For a pro sport, there are simply too many people who see it as an expensive hobby, rather than a business, so therefore, because they spend so much for hardly any material financial reward, or even local public awareness of any "success" they may get, they make up rules to circumnavigate what a "normal proper pro sport" would allow, thus driving a coach and horses through the sports credibility... It is quite a ludicrous situation that people willing to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds then devalue the very competitions they want to win, however, you, can see why they want to win them, regardless of their stature, when they spend hundreds of thousands of pounds!! I cannot think of another pro team sport in the UK with such a small following, small financial reward, a lack of sponsors from "outside" the sport, and such a small amount of public recognition, both locally and nationally.. (And definitely no other team sport has such an incredible operating model)... It is truly ironic that the very people who "save the sport" by spending so much, (who all love speedway and are well meaning), are the very people that prevent growth, and higher finanical rewards for success, due to the way they run things... When all are focused in what is good for UK Speedway, and not necessarily what is ideal for themselves, the sport may have a chance of moving forwards... Seven figure costs are met by the promoters each season as a collective, on riders alone, so surely now is the time to get that huge, (and for such a small sport a truly incredible outlay), to work for the sports' growth?

But! But! But!.... Just think of the massive publicity and financial rewards on offer for winning the NDL!!!! ... Absolute crackers isn't it? Someone really needs to save this sport, and whoever it is, needs to start with saving the promoters from themselves...

Many a great Sunday afternoon spent out there in the country... Hopefully more of the same next season...

The "British Lions" had loads of non British players. And English Cricket? Literally dozens of West Indian and South African born players who qualified through residency... And the likes of Andy Caddick and Ben Stokes being from New Zealand.