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The decent well behaved people who enjoyed a drink before the event wouldnt suffer through a policy of banning those drunk at the turnstiles as they would be sober and well behaved. Only those that go ott and cant hold their drink would suffer.

Th GP sucks never been a fan of it.

Lynch was proved right with his defeatist but honest appraisal of tonights meeting. Truth is we are just not good enough to step up to the top table. Cant see where another collins, carter, morton, jessup, lee, louis, etc is going to come from, theres a couple of promising lads coming through but not i fear of the above quality. With such a poor investment in young home based riders what do you expect. I know someone who,s lad has just started riding, he,s finding out just how difficult it is to get a couple of laps in. Compare that to the excellent danish youth policy and there you go.

I agree i think his tratment by the crowd was a disgrace, if the positistions between him and adams in heat 17 had been reversed can you imagine the reaction? Full credit to him for getting his bike off the track in the final, i think crumpy should be grateful as well as i think if it had been rerun hancock would have got the drop. As for the track, terrible, lets all be glad no rider was seriously injured, in a season where theres been far too many injuries.

Hes just realised speedway beats a proper day job

It just proves you dont need all the top guys to have entertaining speedway.

Ive never liked th GP series, much prefered the tension of the big night during the days of the one off final. The atmosphere of Cardiff is great but you dont actually get a result from the meeting, last year there was no excitement at all with Crump walking it, how often is it going to go down to the wire in this series? Its ok saying the expansion of the GP,s puts speedway on a par with formula 1 and moto cross, these sports dont run a bread and butter league which will in the end suffer badly from the omission of the top riders as they chase GP glory. I remember the British Final being a great meeting with meaning. Compare Collins, Louis, Carter, Jessup, Lee, Morton, Boocock, Simmons, Wilson, etc with the line up at monmore, no comparison at all, neither is there between the one off or GP for me. With all the GP exposure the terraces remain the same, the series certainly hasnt had new fans running to the turnstiles. With the omission of so many top riders in the future the reverse will soon be evident im afraid.

The start of the elite going into meltdown as the gp series grows. Im one of those that prefers the old one off final, stuck in the past maybe but there was no threat to the bread and butter league racing at the top level. The expansion of the gp is going to prove costly to the sport domestically in general.

Wasnt that long ago that a few people down on the south coast were talking up lindback as the next big thing in world speedway, what a difference a season can make. He wont be the first rider to suffer after dropping the british league from his schedule. Suddenly not looking the complete article, comes across as a rider that is losing heart in the sport at the moment.

Also you need to take into consideration that the Crump of 2006 might have been a freak - Jason's standards are mighty high but will he ever be as good over a whole season as last year again? Maybe. Course not as hes left the Aces

Yeah, but dropping back down to the Premier League with Kings Lynn in 2007 seems a bit too soon for him. Lol Maybe he knows a bit more about Lynn coming up next season

Its a hard game especally at GP level its good to see Scott mixing it and seeming to want it more, you need to be physically and mentally tough hope Scott keeps it up and has more GP success.

Well done to Crumpy should be another world champion crowned wearing the Aces jacket. As for him not riding for the Aces in 2007 well hes stated he would like to end his career at KL, we need to give him the support he deserves at team level. I think all those that call him on here would welcome him at their club next season with open arms, as for his attitude its called being a winner.

Says it all that middlos supporters on here also seem to be personal friends of his, at the end of the day your judged on results and after 6 years of failure its not unreasonable to want a change of ideas.

Who knows if Stead would have done any better? There seems plenty of psychics on here confident he wouldnt have done, could he have done any worse? Louis is at the back end of his career albeit riding well for Ipswich at the moment, but talking of the future the likes of Stead need the experiance of these meetings to be able to gain the experiance to progress and to compete on this type of stage, if stead had performed like louis at least he would be gaining experiance for the future, lets be honest CL future isnt going to be riding for his country, more experianced riders than stead didnt exactly score well at Reading and the chance to gain experiance of these events has been wasted.

Well theres signs that we have some good riders starting to come through, Bridger, Auty, etc, what they need is nurturing without any added pressures and we might just be able to build a side worthy of challenging for these championships within a few years.

No other country embraces failure as we do here, if we actually have a world beater in any sport its only a matter of time before they are getting knocked off their pedestal via the press, but if your a failure your loved, other countries have a winning mentality, the bottom line is your judged on results, looking at the line up at reading i dont think rider for rider we were totally inferior at all, we had riders that could compete at that level against that opposition as they do every week in the league, it then comes down to the managers shrewdness with tactical moves and the ability to motivate, when greece won the european championship they were no way the best squad of players most wouldnt get a regular premiership start, the managers astuteness then came into play and his tacticts proved the deciding factor.

The mark of a great manager in any sport is being able to coax a great performance out of a mediocre player/rider, instilling a confidence and belief that they can go out and put in that big performance, i dont think NM is that type of manager, to be fair theres not many managers around most sports that have this ability.

Stead was out of his depth but its a bit previous to state he will never be able to compete at this level, adams and pedersen didnt exactly set the place on fire did they and they are certainly not out of their depth. So barring injury the championship is done and dusted with 6 rounds to go, ive never been a fan of this series as it cant recreate the drama and tension of the one off final. We all remember 81 at wembley as being a great final, if it had been round 4 of 10 there would have been no tension or excitement as there would have been another 6 rounds for the riders to sort themselves out, the wembley round would have been just another event along the way, so with last years domination and now this year going the same way the excitement/tension level of who will be crowned world champion just dosent exsist. The GP series dosent even bring in extra revenue through the turnstiles at club level as after the 40,000 at cardiff its back to 1000-1,500 at elite league level. Sorry im not a fan of this event but a weekend out in cardiff is always welcome as its a great place with some good pubs.

Anyone trying to convince me that Rickardsson is the best rider of all-time is going to have an even bigger task now. Away from the GP series, he's looked extremely ordinary when I've seen him in 2005 (getting passed by Tom P Madsen in a league match at Arena, and tonight he was frankly dreadful). He seems completely incapable of dominating an entire season in the same manner as the likes of Mauger, Nielsen, etc. Best of his era certainly, but best of all-time... not even close. Agreed

I understand what you mean, by boring i mean a lack of the expectation and unpredictability that surrounded the one off final, that was a unique atmosphere no second chances all or nothing on the night, as for your last comment there are boring speedway meetings as there are boring football matches etc,

Seems ironic really that sky tv instigate silly rulings like the T/R rule to keep league matches close for screening while their flagship the GP has become a borefest with the result barring injury sorted with 5 rounds left.

Be interesting to compare crowd figures for the remaining GP,s as TR is so far ahead barring injury the rest of the series is rapidly becoming pointless, its ironic sky dabble with league racing (the hated T/R rule) to try to guarentee close meetings and their flagship has become one long bore you still cant beat the atmosphere and unpredictability of the one off final, the meetings along the way to the one off were also something else, the european final, nordic, british final when it meant something, sorry for me the GP is a bore fest.

TR is going great this season good luck to him, but if this GP system had been in place when Mauger was at the top of the tree his title successes would have been in double figures, for consistancy Mauger was awesome, dont forget he had to go through lots of difficult one off qualifying rounds in some cases only the top four progresseing to the next round, then come world final night you couldnt afford one slip not the luxury of being world champ without winning a round which is possible now and has been done, remember Mauger having an 11 point plus average for five consecutive years i think it was, cant see that happening again, and look who he was riding against to achieve it, as for never passing anyone i remember at belle vue one time he forgot to turn on his fuel and was passed on the back straight by the three other riders, he turned on the fuel gave chase and won the race, not often from the back i grant you that but he wasnt often at the back to start with, theres his record of league wins with teams he rode for, his long track and WTC succsesses espeacally when riding for GB, TR is a great rider but better than Mauger i dont think so.

I much prefer Cardiff to London if it was moved back to London i wouldnt consider going and i dont think a lot would either, keep it at Cardiff