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I was actually going to hunt it out myself.

Not BSI anymore, remember. It's IMG these days.

Yes, thank you for that tricky dicky. Not one of my better efforts, just as this season has been far from one of Crump's better efforts. I've been massively disappointed with him. Crump's been but a shadow of the rider from last season. However, even had he been in last season's form, Crump would've struggled to match Nicki P, who has been head, shoulders and torso above the rest this time around. I do wonder what goes on in Crump's mind - he tailed off dreadfully after winning the title last season and just hasn't got going this season. I suppose next season the fire will be back and he'll be charging hard again.

It has to be said that Denmark's 22 wins have been shared among six riders, while Sweden's between two. And one of those, Tony Rickardsson leads Andreas Jonsson 20 to 2. All Poland's win have flowed from a single source: Tomasz Gollob.

I thought TR broke it in the 2005 GP. What was the point in having the outside starting gates on the track tonight - they seemed to serve no purpose, except for when the guys on the inside made a mess of things?

With TNT in the team, you've really got to think the Eggheads smashed the BSF team, haven't you? What a load of ill-informed nonsense.

Those line-ups were confirmed on 29-08-07, while Kus had his crash in Glasgow on 09-09-07.

For the time being, until IMG realise he's sold them a crock of...

Ah, but that's the problem, you see? No one really cares, except for a select band of brothers and sisters that care about such things as honour and probity. But our band grows stronger by the day and eventually we'll have enough people to surround your citadel of shame and bring it crashing down around you. Then we'll build, you guessed it, the New Jerusalem from the rubble of the bastion of delusion.

And why wasn't he in this meeting? Does he believe it lies beneath his princely status? A status that the likes of yourself, terminally deluded to the end, are so quick to bestow upon one with such obvious and crude limitations.

Well, that's okay then, since there should be minimal pressure on him in the GPs, for the first season, at least. Once again, most of the pressure will be on the established Tomasz Gollob, with Kasprzak left to his own devices. If there's one rider I would say folds under pressure, it is your own much-loved former British champion, who always manages to lose out on a place in the top eight in the final GP of a season.

It did seem a rather pathetic display from Jonsson, just looking at the scorechart.

I just don't see why Adams would resign from the GPs after his most successful season in the circus - he's going to finish second and if he retires he may always be left wondering if he couldn't have gone one better the following season. If he'd had his usual GP season, I'd have thought he might've called it a day.

And if Jagus makes the top eight? And why doesn't Zagar get a second chance? The former British champion has had chance after chance after chance and he's still no further forwards. In fact, all this charity isn't helping him one little bit. The whole speedway world will ridicule ANOTHER nomination for this serial failure if he fails again.

Well, officially, for the minute, with three heats left to go in Zielona Gora that would appear to be it for Bydgoszcz - relegated for the first time in their history. And what a pathetic display from Andreas Jonsson.

I suspect you're saying that in the full knowledge that Lindgren's on maximum points in Zielona Gora after three rides today, young Turner.

Which isn't far away from what the former British champion adds to the series. But, anyway, you know what, Lubos Tomicek bothered entering the qualification process, unlike your beloved former British champion, so why the hell should a lazybones get the nod ahead of someone willing to go out and make an effort?

I suppose because last year everyone complained about PK losing out in the final, but I do wish they'd decide on a set of rules and stick to them.

Adams won't retire until another Australian, presumably Chris Holder, is ready to take his place. And anyway, I think the former British champion will struggle to finish 9th, with superior riders such as Jagus, Hampel and Jonsson breathing down his neck - I think he'll finish 11th.

No, that'll be when the former British champion appears in yours.

I'm not that sure how secure Harris is in seventh, to be honest. At the minute he's 12 points ahead of eighth place, but he's hardly setting the GPs alight these days. A couple of good GPs for a couple of the chasing pack and Harris could find himself outside the top eight. I should think it will all look a bit clearer after Krsko. However, at the minute I'd say the certainties, should they wish to take part in 2008 are: L Adams J Crump L Dryml N Pedersen N-K Iversen B Pedersen H Andersen T Gollob G Hancock

1..Tomasz Gollob 2..Andreas Jonsson 3..Nicki Pedersen 4..Wieslaw Jagus

But, of course, BSI are no longer involved and it's IMG, an American organisation that call the shots now. Presumably, if Hancock does call it a day you believe another American should be drafted into the circus to replace him - Janniro in the GPs, what a sick joke - very nearly as sick as a fourth chance for a serial failure like the former British champion. He's already raced in 54 GPs and still hasn't come close to winning one. But I don't believe he'll get a fourth chance - Sky are obviously losing patience with him, as is shown by Pearson questioning whether he'd get another chance during the Bydgoszcz GP.

Since Piotr Protasiewicz chose ZKZ over Bydgoszcz due to money, according to our Bydgoszcz people, Robert Dowhan and ZKZ aren't short of money.

Why should the former British champion get another nomination if he fails again? How many chances should this serial failure be allowed? Why should Zagar not be allowed a second chance, when the former British champion is has had his third chance and is now being suggested for a fourth chance?