Steve Shovlar

Totally correct Shazzy. Middlo is a motivator who got more out of TeamGB than was in the tank. Now Jim Lynch is finding out just how tough it is. At the moment we won't even be riding on Thursday! Hone, Vega, and a load of others called for Middlo's head. Truth is he was our 6th rider and the reason we papered over the cracks for so long, which are now clearly evident.

Lynch should never, ever have picked Stead. Rubbish, rubbish effort. Kennett should have been in, anyone could have told him that.

Totally agree.

Perhaps and I hope so. First shots looked dreadful and a normal league gate.

Looks like a small crowd to me. That could be because team GB is more or less only Coventry riders, and Cov fans have vanished this season. Oh dear should have been at Poole or somewhere else other than Coventry.

Thought it was an entertaining meeting tonight leading all the way to the race off. Started very slowly but there were some very good heats.

Toby Jug is Sweden team manager????????? Suprised Lindback hasn't been picked/ not made himself available. Better than a couple of the Swedish team even with his current problems.

Or do what I do and wait until a week before the GP, then buy spares off Ebay for really cheap. I got two front row middle tier directly above the pits in M5 for £90. Ticket price was £76 each! Now THAT'S a saving!

I put a few through the Poltran.com translator and a few words kept popping up. Spectacles. Coins and change disgrace. One Pole we talk about at cardiff. etc etc etc. Seems his actions have crossed all speedway borders.

Agree completely. Why have no hopers tead and Allen? Makes no sense. get in Eddie and Tai and if we fail to qualify at least we have blooded two talents. With all the good will in the world Allen is not good enough. And on current for neither is Stead. BRING BACK MIDDLO.

The date is in. June 27th 2009. Tickets from £29. Get your hotel booked right now ( you might catch the hotel out!)

A shame though he didn't come up against his main rival on Saturday, Bjarne, who had already seen off Crump with relative ease when they met in the heats. Chances are if the ref hadn't intervened we would be celebrating Bjarne's first GP win of the season. Bjarne was leading his semi final and would have had pick of the gates in the final.

Considering I was in the front row I doubt it was me, although I was quite vocal on the refs decisions!

Todays Echo. British fans are 'disgrace' says Nicki By Phil Chard NICKI Pedersen has roundly condemned the British crowd's consistent loud frenzied booing of him at Cardiff as "disgraceful". The defending world champion also believes Bjarne Pedersen should not have been excluded from their controversial semi-final. Nicki felt all four riders back for first bend bunching would have been the right decision and he would have had no argument with that. But he also pointed out it was not his decision to exclude Bjarne, or Leigh Adams in heat 17, so the British supporters inside the Millennium Stadium should not have taken their frustration out on him by booing the wrong man. Nicki, who has a 10-point overall lead on British GP winner Jason Crump, said: "I felt very disappointed because of the way the British crowd booed me. "It doesn't affect me when I'm riding, but it just makes me feel even more fed up with British speedway." Pedersen, not riding in the Elite League this year after being dumped by Eastbourne and failing to find another track, added: "I think the fans' booing was disgraceful. "It if was me I would have had all four back in those incidents, but it's the ref's decision. "I'm very disappointed about the British fans and it makes me wonder whether I really want to ride in this country again. "It also makes me even more determined in my fight to win the World Championship this year." Pedersen, shown on Sky's live coverage screened inside the stadium clearly laughing about his semi-final reprieve while he was in the pits, continued: "The British fans are too focused on Chris Harris and Scott Nicholls. "They don't think it's the ref who is making the decisions. "I'm really happy I made the final, but I had four bad knocks and sustained a rib injury and took a heavy bang to my head." Pedersen, who eventually finished third despite falling in the final, added: "This meeting was a big blow to me and I hope it's the only one of the season. "You have to have one sooner or later, but the decisions didn't really go my way all the time in the first turn." PIRATES legend Craig Boyce believes his old adversary Nicki Pedersen was clearly to blame for his fall after tangling with Bjarne Pedersen on the first corner. Boyce, in Cardiff in his Australian team manager role, also feels there is a big question mark over the future of Marek Wojaczek as a Grand Prix referee. The former Poole star said: "As a Pirates supporter watching Bjarne who also helps do his engines, I couldn't believe he was excluded in the semi-final. "His bike was clearly half a length in front of the guy when the collision occurred. "I was standing on the outside of the track on the first corner, one of the best views of the incident in the stadium, and Nicki went into the back of him. "So how did the referee get to that decision? "It was clearly the wrong decision. It should have been at least all four back but really I think Nicki should have been excluded. "I can't understand how the ref could exclude Bjarne when he is clearly in front and had the line. "I think the FIM (speedway's world governing body) should take a seriously look at that ref and his future in the GP." Boyce had an on-track bust up with fellow hard man Nicki at Eastbourne last year.

Thanks. The guy should fall on his sword and jump before he is pushed.

Hi Mateuz, is there any talk on Polish speedway forums about this ref's performance last night, or is it just British fans moaning?

What a crock of cr@p. Adams and B Pedersen did absolutely nothing wrong. They were both victim of a ref who wanted to go down in the hall of fame as the most inept referee ever to grace the GP stage.

Manker.

I thought the music a mixed bag. Thought it was very cheesy at times. The usual Brit themes like Land of hope and glory were OK but I didn't like Copenhagen and Wizard of Aus etc. More thought required here. Just pump up the British boys and to hell with the rest? Just have rousing British classical music. Adds a touch of class. Didn't like that England football song at all with Motson sampled. The less said about the w@nker song the better.

I would like to know what the thoughts are from the POlish members of this forum. Is he rated highly in Poland? Is he normally so bad? Does he seek fame? What is he like in normal Polish league meetings? Just curious.

Of course it wasn't capacity! How can it be with empty seats? The BBC website says 45,000 were there. Guess we will have the official atendance in the next day. I thought it was a bigger crowd than last year. The reason the pubs were not as crowded as last year is simple. It was pi%%ing down last year and everyone stayed inside the pubs to keep dry. this year it was lovely and the streets were very busy. My ears are still rining though. Wished they had opened the roof a bit more to let the noise out!

NP didn't help his cause at all by waving and smirking to the crowd. It incensed them. If had had any sense at the time he woould have kept his head low but baited them by waving after getting through to the final, fully in the knowledge it was strirring them up. The ref made the bad calls, not NP, buut the crowd see NP as the villian as he was the one to gain from the bad calls.

After a nights sleep time to take stock with a clear head. THE REF WAS A COMPLETE TOSSER. He ruined what is the showpiece Speedway GP. When Adams got excluded I was gobsmaked. I couldn't believe the ref could make such a terrible decision, especialy as he had the added bonus of TV angles. It was a clear case of all 4 back. I felt sorry for Adams who had I thought been very hard done by. the fact that it cost him a place in the semis doubly made it a bad call. Yet worse was to come. In the first semi, Bjarne, who had shown at last what he was capable of on the world stage, blasted again from the tape to lead going into the first bend. NP tried to come across, didn't make it and bailed out. Bye bye Nicki. But no. The thoughts of the terrible Adams decision came back to my mind. Surely the ref wouldn't make the same mistake again, would he? He surely didn't beieve that two wrongs don't make a right, does he? Yes he does. Because he excluded Bjarne when he did absolutely nothing wrong. Bjarne was devistated. He was in the form to win the GP, is desperate for points, and this dickhead referee robbed him of his chance of glory. Everyone in the stadium called it. All 4 back, or NP out as the cause of the stoppage. Except the ref. I really hope the referee is removed from the GP roster so he can never ruin what is the jewel in the GP crown.

The crowdf last year was easily the biggest ever seen at cardiff for the GP. They were quoting 40,000 + ;ast year, and this time around are saying 45,000 +. If the prediction they are making becomes reality, it will be the biggest crowd. We'll see soon enough.

Over 45,000 is the estimate of tomorrows crowd in Cardiff. Lets hope it is as every year the crowd seems to have increased. See you all there!