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Not to mention that in both 2013 AND 2014 he only even got into the "Qualifier final" through the back door!!...ALL you stats show is that he is arguably the LUCKIEST and most underserved rider to have been in the actual GP's on a regular basis, ever!! Another season of GP embarrassments lay ahead for him, but hey, he's not going to worry about that whilst he's making money from it (and to be fair, who can blame him!)

TheReturn, on 30 Aug 2014 - 9:31 PM, said: Agreed totally. His main ability behind the microphone when things get a bit exciting is to make perfect monkey noises rather than actually COMMENTATE, which is what he is supposed to be doing and is travelling the world and making a good living out of doing. Continually spoils the racing be it Elite League or Grand Prix with his amateurish and pathetic "noises". Notice also that "TheReturns" post has now "disappeared"....I hope it hasn't been deleted by the "powers that be" under instructions from motor mouth himself or his agent!!? Truth hurts sometimes eh?

THIS is the key thing that should come out of all this. Its lucky that for several other riders that it hasn't been in place this season as there would be a few more others in Wards position now too!

Hope Emil gets a wild card next year if he wants to be back in the GP's. Looks like he's finally getting back to somewhere where he was as a rider a couple of years ago again now and I'd much rather see riders of his ability in the GP's all season than the likes of Harris!

Exactly!!..Been raining on and off for a while there this evening, rain is all around according to the commentators, so what do the promoters/organisers do?.....have a completely unnecessary break rather than getting on with the meeting and getting it finished!!....Once again, speedway promoters only caring about their pockets and not giving a stuff about the paying public (who they'd be lost without!) - pathetic.

Yes, I know that and YES, I know he is very knowledgeable of his specialist subjects, just that speedway most certainly wasn't one of them!!...

That's a good point and correct but it won't ever happen. The BSPA know that the main thing keeping professional league speedway going in this country is SKY and I don't think they would be too happy to have to cover Elite league matches each week when there were at least 5 British riders in each team and less foreign "stars"

Quite right too. The "new" commentator on Eurosport (who thankfully replaced that "Jack bloke" who made even Pearson sound good!) is a much better and more importantly PROFESSIONAL, commentator than the cretin Pearson. For example, when he's commentating on a rider passing someone for the lead, he raises his voice a little, instills some excitement and carries on describing what is happening (like a good commentator should do) rather than just resorting to making monkey noises and screams, that seems to be the standard childish response from Pearson. Thats the sort of thing you expect someone who's been dragged off the terraces and into the commentary booth at the last second and told to "have a go" at commentating, rather than what a so called professional commentator (sic) like Pearson should be doing.

Sadly ANOTHER meeting being dictated by the uneven starting gates!!.....Its about time someone started putting more emphasis on getting the starting gates as FAIR as possible for every meeting instead of worrying about how little shale they can get away with putting on the actual track!!

More like 6 rides!!!...he's a certainty for a tactical somewhere along the line

Bit of an embarrassment for the sport to see large parts of the stadium so empty for this blue riband event. Just shows that speedway perhaps ISN'T such a big thing in Poland after all, its really Mr Gollop that is the attraction, NOT the sport!

I don't think its the pressure that could/will stop Darcy becoming World Champion one day, i reckon that until he learns to GATE, then he will never do it. The majority of the GP tracks are set up slick (heaven knows why!!!!) for the gaters and if you miss it, then you more often than not, have no chance of getting to the front, no matter how good you are.

You've got to laugh really when you think of the utter and complete RUBBISH that was presented to the public ON the track last year (and to a lesser extent the year before) that people are still worried about the "off track" entertainment!!

Only need two words to describe that farce yesterday...."utter rubbish".

That was the best GP I think I can remember for many many years, won't see a better one all year and there was more action in every single race than there will be in the whole of the dreadful British GP (and several others) if its anywhere near as dire as last year!!

Harris once again is out of his depth. Every year in the GP's there's always one or two who are in it who shouldnt be and he's definitely the one for this season. Just how many "lucky chances" has he had to be in the GP's over the years? Such a shame to see the premier event in Speedway devalued with people like him in it every round (and I know he tries hard bless him, but he's just going to make a fool out of himself again like in 2012)

Grow up for goodnes sake!!... First Holder, now Emil, the only 2 who could have challenged Tai are now both out of the equation, so who on earth is there left to challenge him (unless Tai got injured too, which NO-ONE would want to see)? Some people can't see past the end of their own nose and would swear black is white until everyone else in the country said they were wrong (even then they'd struggle to believe it!). Well done to Tai who HAS been a revelation this season, but unfortunately for him, he now needs to do it again another year, otherwise people are always going to say that he only won it because of injuries to his only 2 rivals (rightly or wrongly).

Completely agree with that, it would totally ridiculous if that happened but would sadly sum up just how unprofessional and farcical speedway can be a lot of the time these days!

Awww bless them and to think they're doing it for the love of the sport and not earning a penny from it too!!.....For goodness sake, they are getting paid good money and travelling the world yet we should feel sorry for them for having to work for 3 1.2 hours NON STOP?!!...poor little darlings!. You (and them) should try getting a job in the real world and being out of the house for 12+ hours each day (and being paid fractions of what these 2 unprofessional "shouters" and "screamers" get) before you start feeling sorry for them! Professional commentators should "commentate", not resort to screaming "Woah" at the top of their voices every time 2 riders get near each other! Thats the sort of stuff that people dragged off the terraces at the last minute to commentate, would resort to yet these 2 have made their careers on it!.Did you ever here Dave Lanning screaming at the top of his voice "woah" once in his whole career, let alone at every time that 2 riders come within a few yards of each other? Sorry for the rant, but these 2 have wound me up for so long now, that stupid comments like "spare a thought for them" has triggered me off!

Not holding out much hope for this GP to be anything other than a boring procession and with Madsen, Covatti and Dryml all competing too, it could be argued that its probably the weakest line up in a GP ever, too! :(

An exciting and close finish yes, but the actual racing was pretty dire. Apart from some first bend "sort outs" there was virtually no passing at all for the remaining 3 3/4 laps of every race. Totally disgraceful for the Czechs to be in the final and for producing such a rubbish and non action track. Thank goodness the scores WERE close! WHY can't any country other than Poland see that if you actually put enough shale on the tracks, then you will get good racing and people who miss the gate still have a chance to overtake someone?

Oh my goodness!!! LOL You gotta love the naivety of some people, its almost sweet!!

Oh look, the first race about 15 mins after the programme start!! I thought you had to mess about and act stupdily wasting time and going completely over the top with hype and screaming track announcers for about 45 mins before you could possibly have the first race?! Oh no, that only ever happens in this country for some ridiculous reason!!

What a completely rubbish and ridiculously over drawn out (surprise surprise!!!) meeting. One decent battle for the lead in 20 races, forgone conclusion as far as the first 2 places were concerned well before the meeting started and delay after unneccesary delay in getting the meeting a) started and run. But hey!, its the British SWC World Cup event, so, just like the British GP, it HAS to be drawn out and drag on for ever, as its the law or so it seems! (and nothing whatsoever to do with the Promoters wanting to keep the crowd buying food and drinks whilst nothing is happening on the track, of course!)

Apologies for my ignorance. I was sure I had read somewhere that the Final was going back to the 5 team format again that it used to have a few years ago.