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Can you get that many people on a rowing boat? Or do you mean the luxury yacht? I asusme it's the first week of December, it normally is, i think :s

I believe riders WANT to ride at number 5, that way you get 2 gate ones and you go out in the last heat (from gate 1) knowing what is needed of you.

Which is part of the problem, Morten Risager was riding against the World best (well, some of them) in Denmark at the age of 15 as well as in the Swedish version of the Premier League. Surely it's time for the rules to be changed for a rider to be allowed to ride in the CL at 14 provided they prove they're good enough to a panel of people on the BSPA. Being Under 15 Champion in a competition against riders who are already riding in the Conference League proves he IS good enough. Come on, this lad need serious competition or he'll stagnate by the time he gets into the CL.

Can I start by saying on the whole I agree pretty much with this post, with the few exceptions I have picked out I've replied to tape2tapevideo's post about this and this is something that winds me up, as people saw on the Danny King thread, with reference to poor Ed Kennett. I think thats more down to promotion, the only time I personally have seen Tony Rickardsson as what you could charismatic was when Chris Louis was pretending to be him on the crashes and cock-ups 98 video!! Yeah he smiles a lot and gets excited but I can't see what people see in the guy. Before anyone says anything that not a dig at the guy but for me he is too "normal". However I think Crump (more the old version) and Pedersen (as much as I don't like him) are great for the sport, flippin ek, everyone and their dog seems to "hate" (in inverted commas as I hope nobody really does hate him) Nicki Pedersen and he is always causing trouble or being arrigant, same with Hans Andersen BUT you know when they're on tele or at a meeting something WILL happen, at the worst it'll be some spectacular riding!! Crumpy however, is loved/"hated" about 50/50, we have here a guy who desperatly wants to win and we have sene him go through every emotion in the last few years, we've seen the guy laughing, crying, going mad, smiling and falling off his bike when he finally achieved what he has been so close to doing now for 4 or 5 years! Some people love that throwing of googles and swearing at TV cameras other hate it, we need more of it and not just on Sky. Sadly (I think AndyM said it last week) the powers that be are a boring bunch of gits who won't allow a fight or winding up over the PA or any other sort of winding up. They'd prefer to give the riders a fine or a ban. We all love a couple fo rider crashing (not that bit, we dont like that bit) and walking back to the pits with a couple of members of their pit crew between them as they wave to each other in a les than friendly way and give each other some stick, all while the crowd leans over the fence and gives the opposition a piece of their mind, it's great. 99% of the time it's forgotten about 20 minutes later when the riders and fans are in the bar. The only riders we don't like at Newport after a fight or a bit of a comming together are Wild Will Bevridge and Mick Powell and even Will got a big a cheer as you'll get next time he was at Newport (he won a heat in the pairs to get us 3rd place over all!!), Phil Morris has a brilliant love/hate relationship with the fans, we'll boo him one week and quite happily have him in the team the next. I remember 1998 when Anders and Nigel Sadler had a fight, a week later they were riding at 3 and 4 together for the Wasps and we had already forget about it!!! Best meetings at Newport? Almost always the Glasgow meetings, there's always loads of tension and something controvertial (99 and 2002 were brilliant!). I agree with this more than any other point you ahve made. I'm not in the habit of doing "I agree" posts but I had to for this. Just say a facility is only available for 28 days, if a rider is out for 29 days then he has to be replaced. Coventry were in the same position as Poole at the start of the year, why should they get special privilages because the management cocked up? Admitadly had the rules been better it would have been easier to sort out but I don't see why they should be allowed a stronger team. There will always be whipping boys, someone HAS to come last, the points limit (or grading) is introduced to try and make it so that every year it someone different, it's not perfect but it's certain not a bad idea. It was 6 meetings to get an average in the EL. Any rider who had rde 6 meeting and had an assed average got a real average 7 days after meeting number 7 (Ronnie was assesed), all other had to wait until the begginign of the following month after there 6th meeting. What you should be asking is, why didn't Sergei Darkin get an average for Coventry? Seems someone in the BSPA WAS helping Coventry, despite the Coventry fans claiming the whole world (in BSPA's little universe any way) was set against them. No, No, No!!!!! Why do we live in a society that say we should throw everything at people and give them a chance? How does that help anyone? If you say to a 16 year old, "Here's a team place" they're going to think, "<expletive>, this is easy, I don't have to do anything and I get a team place. Make the kids work for it, don't make it easy (thats something I believe should be done in life, not jsut speedway BTW). This "give them a chance to at least fail" attitude sucks, it should be, "let them prove they're good enough". We live in a society that likes the under-dog and people are constantly praising the lesser team/person for improving or catching up and forgetting about the person who is already there. How do you think this makes the person who is already there feel? (I know how it feels!). Take Ed Kennett and Danny King, you all praised Danny King as much as possible 2 weeks ago, just a week after calling Ed Kennett a failiure, why the bloody hell do you lot think that the kids are scared to move up if they're good enough? You hypocrites just want to drag down the decent kids (Ed Kennett) as he is the top guy, yet all you want to do is praise the guy who had nothing to lose, if Danny had faied you have all said "I knew it was too early for him to go into the EL" yet Ed has "failed"(sic) and you all say he is the EL failure of the year and he doesn't get a 5 page thread of well dones. So the top PL GB boys have it all to lose and nothing to gain, the middle order/bottom PL guys have nothing to lsoe and all to gain, sadly they're all likely to fail (Danny King being an exception rather than the rule). Sadly this doesn't just happen in Speedway, it happens in education and work and all it does is demoralise the people with a bit of talent when they're constantly ignored or given stick for slipping up once or twice. You're better of being just an average Joe who occasionally does well and getting praise than being the top guy who occasionally slips up and get stick for it as they're expected to always be great!

Because the Swedes do not want it?

Tamtig, they CANNOT charge you for the under 15's meeting (some legal reason, making money out of minors). So if you turn up just for the Under 15's you should get in for nothing. They might just not let you in though.

Surely it not different to the current (old now I guess) format where the 1-8 ride in heat 10 and 11(i think it's them two) and then the other number ride in the different heats dependant on number. Then obviously it goes by the last GP, the rider who won the last GP does not suddenty take over the number 1 race jacket, so why will it change? I'd imagine rider will onyl ever ride with there GP number regardless of what heats they ride in first. How did they do it in the original GP's?

Yeah, Wales has a GP, we should have a Welsh wildcard, Freddie is the best ever Welsh rider (best living British rider, for all you must have Brits people , he won 2 World titles). I think it's only fair.

You'd like to think so but I can name 3 riders who have been banned from British Speedway in the last 4 years for drug use, all recreational But does he take it in high doses? Drink enough cough medicine and it'll give you an effect the makers didnt expect it to have and people might abuse that, as they do with other things. I assume this is what taking this stuff has in large quantities does, give some other effect. Any way, it's not relevent, Mathias has been confimed as astmhatic.

£1000? I want to invest £500,000!! Incidently, the Millenium Stadium cost £117m so everyone needs to invest £300,000 and lets not forget, half the millenium stadium was already in place!! We just need a lottery grant twice the size they had the for millenium stadium!

Does that mean then that the winner of the final, is not nesercarily the highest scorer?

Or there is so much paper work that Mathias didn't realise he had to fill the form in. Everything these days involves paper work, even filling in paper works requires you to fill in paper work before hand to get permission! If it's on his license application, wheres the problem? To the person with common sense, there is no problem, to the FIM and other big organisations, there is!

Ok, ok! I know other drugs raise your heart beat, extasy for a start as that is, I believe, what causes death when taking it.

Wales seems to be an independant state, so we want independed wild cards. Looks like Wales' top rider Phil Morris should be wild card next season.

Have you not answered your own question? Doesn't speeding up the heart give a buzz of some sort?

Lower number rider, so Crumpy would always have first choice over any one, Trick would have first choice over any one except Crumpy etc...... I ASSUME, so dont shout at me if it's wrong!

Well, no I'm not. Until we know exctly hows it's done we can only guess. I'm just assuming it's being done the same was as the GP qualifiers and the U21 Championship.

Surely the Centre of British Speedway is on the South Coast?! Poole?! Wimbourne Road to be exact!!!

And you the most unsensible person anywhere, Would you be happy turning up at 4pm for a meeting to be told, "sorry, looked like rain so we started the meeting at 2pm"?

I think next years format will fall into the hands of Leigh and TRick. Personally i expect them 2 to be battling it out. I don't think Crumpy is the kind of guy to care about the format so he'll be up there too. My tip for the top 3 next season is Crump, Adams, Trick. That said, someone has just said getting to semi-finals is not his problem, it's getting into the final where he has a problem and that won't change. If Nicki rode in 8 semis, how many finals did he ride in? 1 or 2? At least Leigh and Nicki can claim to be the two most consistent riders, after the Dryml brothers!

Yet how many ex-World Under 21 champions ahve won the "ultimate" prize? Answer, just one, Mr Crump

Sod others Shaz, this forums about discussing and we're doing just that! If people don't like it, tough (unless they're a mod, then they can ban me/us ) Mark Loram IS British(I was winding you up last week ), Mark is NOT British born. Jason Crump IS Australian, Jason IS British born. Nothing sinister there, is there?!

Mark Loram is also used in the advert, though it's not quite as obvious.

BUT HE IS STILL NOT BRITISH BORN. JASON CRUMP WAS BRTISH BORN AS HE COMES FROM BRISTOL. Henry W said British born, Norbold asked was he leaving out Mark Loram so I pointed out of course he was leaving out Mark Loram as he was not born in Britiain. Nothing in there about being/not being British, Maltesse or Australian! Why don't people actually read what is wrote rather than scan through it and only get the jist?! (thats twice this morning!)

They do!