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Joe Screen I don't think those saying it's crap are blaming Jim.

No way should Stead be in.

The lady speaks sense. Stead? No way. His average at home this year with bonus points is 7.48 (bear in mind you score 5 by beating reserves riding at number 5). Olly Allen is far superior at Coventry for a start and he has some bottle, something you need in SWC's and GP's. I'd go with Star Ladys suggestion of the obvious top 3. Then I'd go with Woffinden and Kennett. James Wright is not good enough at Coventry in the league and doesn't yet have the pedigree to step up (ok, Kennett did it last year some how and fair play to him) so I'd go with the guys who have shown they can do it at Coventry. Ed seems to have learnt the place now and Tai won heat 15 for Sheffield here earlier in the season. Id' have Bridger ahead of Wright TBH, on the proviso he messes about again, gets in the papers for the wrong things again and he'll never ride in the SWC again (until another manager comes along and has other ideas). For God sake make sure there are loads of young Brits in the pits! The Aussies do it, make sure every rider who was in the Under 21 final gets an invite.

7 minute walk? 7 minute run! There's enough on street parking around walkabout, it may mean doing a dozen laps of walkabout in the car but you'll get a space, eventually. It's where I park when I go into Newport (because I'm too tight to pay for a car park). There should be places (how much you looking to spend? I know of some higher prices hotels that have places, we're talking £100 for the night, give or take a little). Then just get a train from town. Only about £3.60 return. Then another £1.20ish for a bus into town. I know of a Roman Lodge in Caerleon (Newport) but not sure of one in Cardiff and google on bring up the Caerleon one. They claim to be 20 minutes from the Millennium Stadium on some websites but it's nearer 30-35. Probably can be done by the bus/train idea in 45 minutes max. Probably need to get a taxi back in the night from the train station though. this is the one I'm on about, ignore that it says Cardiff, it's most certainly not.

In Nigel defence. Which rider was happier in the scheme of things after the final? Rune who scored 17 or Freddie who had 22? Bomber proved last year, winner a GP while bloody great means little (he did score the most point too so maybe not the best example), you have to score point over the course of a season. Holta will never amount to more than a GP rider who once won a GP, Freddie will one day win a GP and possibly even a World title. Holta won the GP but is still 9th, Freddie top scored and is 3rd over all, who's happier? I guess Rune is pretty pleased as he has a 1 in 4 (less realistically, you have to fancy one of the top boys to win one of the super prix GP's and beat him in the super prix race) chance of $200,000 In respect of the over all championship, Freddie won last week. Just a shame the farce of a final and they way the point works will how Rune as the winner

Have have stayed in apartments when I have been. I guess it only works out good value if there a reasonable sized group of you. Far more choice though. Both times we have stayed a 5 minute walk (when drunk) from the main square just past Tescos (a great supermarket, bottles of beer for 10p, amazing)

Have flown with BMI to Prague twice now. Once to/from Cardiff and once to/from Brum (as we will do this year) and have no major complains complaints (a small gripe about changing a flight but nothing too bad). Never use Easy Jet but quite frankly that programme they used to have on the tele following them around put me off them.

Just watch out for the hordes of people who want to hit you

Just look for a bunch of freaks and misfits, avoid them and cme and say hi to us normal people Or just walk up to someone outside the POW and aks "are you on the BSF?", if you get an odd look pretend to be drunk, if not, you've found us (or someone else equally as lost). There many worse places to stay. It's less than 15 minutes on the bus too I'm guessing, even if the bus stops at every stop. Once you're at the bus station you're a 2 minute walk from Burger King, a further 2 minute walk fomr the POW which has a handily places bookies in the outside corner and then a 2 minute walk to the stadium. Perfect and for those that don't ahve tickets, you wlak past a ticket office on your way from the POW to the stadium any way. 6 weeks left Anyone want to go to the PL Pairs at Somerset from Cardiff? If so, let me know here

We should start a club, "We were stupid enough to trust the Brits in the GP game, DOH!"

He's from Ukraine I think. Sandie, I believe Billy is doing a Sam Ermolenko, he's making sure the Americans qualify for the SWc proper so that the yougnsters get a chance in a proper full on SWC meeting. Billy did say he was going to help the kids didn't he? So it makes sense I guess, provided they qualify I hope so as that way Ricky Wells may get a chance and we can all see if he's as good as he's being built up to be.

As someone who has watched a lot of Bomber racing, myself and other haver agreed he is probably one of the fastest rider in the World on lap 4, but it take shim so long to build up any speed. It's exciting and great to watch but won't win him any World Championships. In the last 2 weeks for Coventry, Bomber has made some awesome starts but, as he did last night, he has been rolling. I guess he has little to lose, he gets flier and leads, or he misses it and is where he would be if he made a normal Bomber start. Simon Stead?! If he is the answer, we're up rubbish creek without a paddle! Then as much as I love Olly, really? Good rider but never a GP rider. David Howe is a better call that Olly and you have not listed him, not that I think he's got it in him either. Not sure King has it in him either and Boxall has missed the boat IMO, may make a decent EL rider but not a top GP rider. Of that lot, Bomber has half a chance, Kennett could do it and if Bridge knuckles down he has the ability. I'd say Woffinden has a far greater chance than the lot of them and we may even get a shock rider, lets be honest, how many times throughout his career was Bomber touted as a GP rider? Not really during his CL/PL days and his first full year in the EL was pitiful. So maybe we'll get another rider sneak up from no where.

Referee also messed up Hans' first heat, he went over the white line on bend 2. He should have been excluded. it may be irrelevant now but what if eh had been tied on points and results with someone for the semis? He may have got the advantage despite the fact he should have had an exclusion and lost out.

Referee messed up. Rules state that if a rider causes an another rider is unable to continue, if no other rider has finished the heat it has to be re-run, when Crumpy was judged to have knocked off Nicki (Nicki rode into Crump IMO) no rider had crossed the line to semi 2 should have been re-run. No idea who the referee is but he should never be allowed to referee a GP again.

Personally, having attended Pragues practice day last year I cannot think of anything more utterly boring after the first round of rides. Maybe watching tractors drive around is more boring, oh no, we saw that too!

A lot of forum members meet up in (outside most years) the Prince of Wales (Wetherspoons) in Queen Street. As has been pointed out, there so many places to eat and drink within minutes of the stadium you'll not know where to eat the choice is so huge.

I only ever made it there once, sadly. 2004 for the CL meeting vs Newport. I think it was the smallest crowd I have ever seen at a speedway meeting but I don't know why because from the second we walked in I was impressed. Tidy little set up, nothing fancy but it had everything you needed, the back straight terracing was built up so you looked right down onto the back straight and provided a brilliant view. The track was tiny but the racing was superb with some riders able to pin it on the line while other just couldn't, which meant you had loads of passing while Shane Colvin and Scott Peglar just stayed out wide and passed people. In the interval Nigel Meakins took the roving mic on the centre green and gave a 3 minute speach about how pleased he was that everyone was there that day, thanks everyone for being there, said we'd never know what it meant to him and his family that we were supporting them, he said he knew that the fans who had travelled across form Newport were supporting there team but they were also supporting Carmarthen Speedway and he could not thank us enough. When he finished he got the loudest cheer I have ever heard from 150-200 people. After that my dad and I vowed to return, sadly, they probably only run another 3 or 4 meeting that season and closed down in the winter, a huge shame. After the meeting they had the vintage bikes out for a few demo races, by then the Meakins family had made they way out towards the exits and were thanking everyone for coming, smiling, laughing and chatting with anyone who had something to say. It's one of a small number of meeting I have been to and not heard anyone (including myself ) have any complaints and leave with a smile on there face. For anyone wanting to knwo how to run a speedway club, ask the Meakins family as I truly believe if they had been better situated the club would have been a raving success.

I paid £1.03 a litre t'other day for petrol ( about the day you posted. I admit it's gone up to £1.06 since, but when I wrote that psot it was even less, about 98p around here). My car does 42 mpg on the run. There 4.54 litres in a gallon. So from that I pay £4.67 a gallon and I get 42 miles, thats 11.11p a mile (or £1.11 for every 10 miles, so not a bad estimate, whne working out what a journey is going to cost me £1 is a nice round figure that work and it close enough for estimating). So for your £100, you have to travel 900 miles Do you like in Scotland? Edinburgh and Glasgow are closer than that! Now you wake up and either do some maths and work out how bloody stupid your suggestion is, or actually drive some where and put some petrol in your car and see the cost. Or sell your 4.5 litre V8 gas guzzler and buy a sensible car before you complain about fuel prices. Before you come on here spouting spurtious figures, makes sure they're feasible and that nobody can argue with them. And BTW, thats 42 mpg is achieved with less than efficient driving, I bet I could get it to 45 mpg if I wanted to. Feel free to argue back.

Jason CRUMP $50,000 - CAPTAIN Greg HANCOCK $40,000 Scott NICHOLLS $35,000 Chris HARRIS $35,000 Andreas JONSSON $40,000

If a rider wins 2 or more of the super GP's, the highest place rider in the GP series not already in the Super GP final will have a place.

Chris Manchester. At 21ish he was one of the top guys in the EL averaging 9+ by 25 he was a washed up EL rider who was riding in America. He only broke a collarbone too.

What do you drive? I spend about £1 for every 10 miles and I drive a performance sports car Assuming it's a 600 mile round trip for you thats £60. It's weird, in some ways Bomber has ruined Cardiff Fingers crossed we get a Bomber, Rico and Nicholls 1-2-3 and Nicki Pedersens fails to score

It was suggested in the Speedway Star it would be the top rider in the standings not to have won a super GP. IMO it would be fairer to say if a rider wins Super-GP 1 and 3, the guy who come second in S-GP 3 gets the place as the guy coming 1st has already qualified.

In recent years Belle Vue, Coventry, Eastbourne, Peterborough, Poole, Reading, Rye House, Sheffield and Swindon have all had FIM meeting. King's Lynn was, probably still is. Cardiff is too narrow to be an FIM track, so make of that what you will