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A very poor showing from Kolodziej was Tarnow's downfall, while Marcin Rempala's miserable season doesn't get any better. Edit: ZKZ winning in Leszno at the minute. I reckon Leszno will turn it around, but Falubaz are starting to look the part.

Well, if you follow Polonia Bydgoszcz, it might be an idea not to look at the result - they're taking an Ipswich style hammering.

Anyway, to get back to your original point. The GPs are, as I understand it, largely promoted by local organisations. Thus, the GPs go where people are willing to stump up the readies and promote a GP. Poland and Sweden obviously have more than one organisation willing to promote a GP, so BSI and the FIM give the additional GP a different name.

Could be staged on behalf of Outer Mongolia, still held in Italy.

Italy used to have a couple, since the San Marino circuit was, if memory serves, not in San Marino.

Thought that was Katowice? Obviously not.

My point was that the new scoring system would help a British rider qualify, not help Gollob to a world crown. But obviously that was too subtle for you to understand. Which I understand, since you advocated Simon Stead for a GP place.

Gollob has won three GPs outside Poland. Which is as many GPs as Britain has won in total. It's true Loram won the world title in 2000, but the legitimacy of a world champion who hasn't won a GP during the season he won it has to be questioned. Last season Gollob finished on the podium in Eskilstuna, Krsko and Bydgoszcz. Now, I realise geography mightn't be your strong point (speedway certainly isn't), but unless a few borders have changed, only one of those is in Poland. This scoring system has been introduced solely to aid the British champion. Who routinely makes semi finals, but seldom finals? Anyway, the fact remains that Gollob, together with fellow Poles Jagus and Hampel qualified. Now, remind me when a British rider last actually qualified? It's a simple enough question.

Tomasz Gapinski seems to have started the season in fine style for Wroclaw and now Hammarby.

Ill informed, I fear. There is an "ever present" in the GPs and his name's not Gollob. And this home GP is just nonsense. After all, for nine seasons Eskilstuna was the home track of a certain rider who can only dream of matching the achievements of the great man. As for the point of him being "in it". He's in it because he qualified to be in it. Now, I know your ilk don't take qualifying seriously, but some of us still do cling to integrity, honour and probity. Now, what's the point of the British champion being in it? How many goes has he had? And how many GPs has he won?

Okay, the result of the SWC final in 2005 was: Poland..62 T Gollob..14 J Hampel..13 P Protasiewicz..13 R Holta..12 G Walasek 10 Sweden..34 A Jonsson..12 T Rickardsson..7 A Lindback..7 P Karlsson..4 F Lindgren..4 Denmark..31 H Andersen..9 K Bjerre..7 N Pedersen..6 B Pedersen..5 N-K Iversen..4 Great Britain..27 L Richardson..12 S Nicholls..6 S Stead..6 C Harris..2 J Screen..1

No, just the nonsense you usually post. You call Gollob "never quite good enough", but he always seems good enough to qualify, unlike ANY British rider for how long? None qualified by right for 2006, none qualified by right for 2007. Furthermore, "never quite good enough" Gollob has won more than three times as many GPs as British riders have. In fact, only Messrs Rickardsson and Crump have won more GPs than Gollob. Do you actually know anything about speedway?

You mean like James and Charles?

I suspect that's why we're unlikely to see Ekstraliga action on Sky. It sounds like it would really show up the dross I've just suffered on Sky tonight.

Oh dear, how the terminally deluded cling to their illusions. Gollob is currently sitting on, from memory, 10 points from a GP circuit where he traditionally struggles.

Remind me what Harris did to qualify? As far as I can see, his qualification is largely because circa 20 years ago he was born British.

You're points didn't merit addressing, since they consisted largely of balderdash.

I do hope you're not here to steal my opinionated bore crown.

He's heading that way alarmingly fast.

I suppose it's theoretically possible you'll post something worthwhile. But, I tell you what, we'll not bother debating it, since it's just one of those billions of things that are theoretically possible.

To be completely fair to young Shovlar, his little favourite Lindback did make the final at his first proper GP, so he is, more or less, comparing Harris' debut with a rider he admires. However, apart from the occasional GP here and there, Lindback isn't making the sort of strides young Shovlar expected of him.

But it could happen. It's theoretically possible for it to happen. The rest of your pseudo-justification is twaddle. I said merely that it's theoretically possible for it to happen. What on earth you're bringing the FA cup into this for, I don't know? I said it was theoretically possible and it is theoretically possible. You say it's no problem that the winner of a GP does not necessarily get the most points, but I say it is a problem. The GP winner should get the most points, it's just nonsense if they don't.

And only 5 points for Jason Crump. Seems something's amiss with the Crumpmeister, while I believe Nicki P raced to a serene maximum at Rzeszow.

And a Crump 2 minute exclusion gives ZKZ the win.

True, so true.