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FINAL LEAGUE TABLE 122* noggin 122 Stilton Panther NOGGIN wins the title after a run off 113 home straight 112 refereerick 104 DukeyBoy 100 Impartial One 93 smiles 86 June01 86 beercellar 82 Rico 82 phillips11 69 broniagigolo 64 Cornishman 63 TNT 62 scotcj101 61 Andy Lebedevs 55 Gray 51 racers and royals 49 Beesboybert 38 William Fisher Jones 30 Lingo 27 Robbie B 19 keef 16 waihekeaces 16 I hate the rain 15 drakey 11 spook 11 pensilva 6 Crazy Machine 3 Adzy -1 Matt K -5 superguest -5 future -11 Wadey -12 Lis -18 screm

Darcy Ward will NOT be in the Grand Prix next season by the looks of it now. ... He would be crazy to turn down a regular team place in Poland alongside Chris Holder, roughly 18 big pay days with hardly any costs. Travelling around on the GP Series take a big investment and travelling arrangements. One thing that is going to throw things wide open though is that they are talking about limiting each country to THREE riders maximum .... Poland will have Gollob, Pepe and Jarek .... Sweden - AJ, Freddie and Antonio ...... then you have Bjerre, Nicki and Bjarne from Denmark..... Australia - Crump, Holder and ? .... , Emil from Russia, Greg from USA Thats 13 riders with no more allowed from Denmark, Sweden and Poland. 14 - Chris Harris - England The final place then to ..... ?

Same 4 riders but different views .... Lets hope heat 15 contains those 4 !!! GOOD LUCK to both ...... and C'MON THE BUDGIES

PLAY - OFF FINAL will be the title decider then for Stilton Panther and noggin Each pick FOUR riders and predict what they will score on Monday .... get it correct you get 3 points ... minus scores for every point out NOTE; You mush have at least ONE rider from each team ! in the event of a tie, the one with the most bonus points will win.

NOGGIN ..... STILTON PANTHER If you both agree to a play off and post before 11.30am today ..... I want you to pick 4 of these riders in todays final round of the World Under 21's 11 Przemysław Pawlicki (Polska) 12 Darcy Ward (Australia) 5 Bartosz Zmarzlik (Polska) 8 Michael Jepsen Jensen (Dania) 2 Wadim Tarasienko (Rosja) 6 Simon Gustafsson (Szwecja) 3 Aleksandr Łoktajew (Ukraina) 12 Maciej Janowski (Polska) 9 Dennis Andersson (Szwecja) 10 Piotr Pawlicki (Polska) 8 Patryk Dudek (Polska) 4 Vaclav Milik (Czechy) 2 Oskar Fajfer (Polska) 8 Mikkel Michelsen (Dania) 8 Mikkel B. Jensen (Dania) 12 Martin Vaculik (Słowacja) If one or both havent posted in time today ..... we will make it for the Poole v Eastbourne meeting on Monday night ! .... ok

I suggest a play off for the title ..... Stilton Panther and Noggin .....are you up for it ?

WHAT YOU SCORED (or didnt score) IN GORZOW ! +5 William Fisher Jones -3 beercellar -5 racers and royals -8 Dukey Boy -9 scotcj101 -9 Rico -12 home straight -13 June01 -14 refereerick -14 noggin -17 broniagigilo -20 Impartial One -22 screm -25 spook -25 smiles -26 Stilton Panther -34 Gray -46 TNT FINAL LEAGUE TABLE 122 Stiltonpanther 122 noggin 113 home straight 112 refereerick 104 DukeyBoy 100 Impartial One 93 smiles 86 June01 86 beercellar 82 Rico 82 phillips11 69 broniagigolo 64 Cornishman 63 TNT 62 scotcj101 61 Andy Lebedevs 55 Gray 51 racers and royals 49 Beesboybert 38 William Fisher Jones 30 Lingo 27 Robbie B 19 keef 16 waihekeaces 16 I hate the rain 15 drakey 11 spook 11 pensilva 6 Crazy Machine 3 Adzy -1 Matt K -5 superguest -5 future -11 Wadey -12 Lis -18 screm

Obviously with the meeting finishing after 16 heats there is no points awarded for finalists ..... get ready for some big MINUS POINTS

'refereerick' My Picks are - Gollob 11 Crump 11 Nicki P 6 Lindgren 6 My predicted scores are - Laguta 2 Lindback 6 Holta 4 Kolodziej 4 Finalists AJ Hampel Crump Gollob 'ImpartialOne' Holta Harris Ward Sayfutdinov Holder 9 Lindback 4 Crump 14 Bjerre 7 Finalists: Crump Gollob Hampel Ward 'spook' Picks Gollob Sayfutdinov Harris Crump Predicted Hancock 8 Pedersen 5 Laguta 4 Sayfutdinov 13 Finalists Gollob Sayfutdinov Crump Jonsson 'scotcj101' 4 Antonio Lindback 8 Chris Holder 3 Janusz Kolodiej 9 Emil Sayfutdinov 7 Chris Harris 7 Rune Holta 10 Darcy Ward 0 Artem Laguta Chris Holder Jarek Hampel Jason Crump Kenneth Bjerre 'Stiltonpanther' Lindgren Ward Holder Bjerre Hampel 13 Harris 6 AJ 12 Crump 11 Holder AJ Bjerre Hampel 'home straight' Picks: Laguta Hancock Ward Holder Predicted Scores Hampel 15 Harris 3 Lindgren 5 Pedersen 7 Finalists Gollob Hancock Ward Hampel 'William Fisher-Jones' Picks Harris Ward Hancock Holta Predictions Laguta 3 Kolodiej 5 Hancock 12 Pedersen 8 Finalists Hampel Jonsson Ward Gollob 'DUKEYBOY' TNT Predictions N.Pedersen 6 C.Harris 5 A.Lindback 4 R.Holta 4 My Predictions F.Lindgren 5 A.Lindback 7 J.Hampel 13 E.Sayfutdinov 11 Finalists E.Sayfutdinov A.Jonsson D.Ward J.Hampel 'smiles' Lindgren Ward Holder Bjerre Hampel 13 Harris 6 AJ 12 Crump 11 Holder AJ Bjerre Hampel 'Rico' 11 Tomasz Gollob 11 Jason Crump 6 Nicki Pedersen 3 Janusz Kolodiej Laguta 2 Lindback 6 Harris 5 Pedersen 9 Gollob, Crump, Hampel, Sayfutdinov 'beercellar' runa holta darcy ward emil sayfutdinov greg habcock ------------- darcy ward - 15 points andreas jonsson - 14 points chris harris - 8 points emil sayfutdinov - 10 points ------------- final - a.jonsson,j.crump,j.hampel,e.sayfutdinov 'racers and royals' Kolodiej Pedersen Gollob Hampel Ward 6 Holder 8 Harris 6 Laguta 3 Gollob Hampel Pedersen Sayfutdinov 'broniagigolo' Nicki Pedersen Fredrik Lindgren Antonio Lindback Tomasz Gollob Tomasz Gollob-19 Kenneth Bjerre-9 Chris Harris-7 Nicki Pedersen-15 Tomasz Gollob Jason Crump Emil Sayfutdinov Nicki Pedersen 'T.N.T.' Tomasz Gollob Jarek Hampel Emil Sayfutdinov Fredrik Lindgren Tomasz Gollob 17 Jarek Hampel 20 Andreas Jonsson 14 Chris Harris 2 FINALISTS; Gollob, Hampel, Jonsson, Sayfutdinov 'June01' 11 Tomasz Gollob 4 Rune Holta 3 Janusz Kolodziej 2 Artem Laguta Tomasz Gollob 16 Rune Holta 4 Janusz Kolodziej 5 Artem Laguta 5 Finalists: Hampel, Gollob, Jonsson, Pedersen 'noggin' HANCOCK, GOLLOB, LINDGREN, KOLODZIEJ. LINDBACK 7, HOLTA 6, HARRIS 9, LAGUTA 5. FINALISTS: GOLLOB, HAMPEL, HANCOCK, JONSSON 'Gray' 11 Tomasz Gollob 6 Nicki Pedersen 6 Fredrik Lindgren 13 Jarek Hampel Jarek Hampel Tomasz Gollob Nicki Pedersen Emil Sayfutdinov Tomasz Gollob 19 Jarek Hampel 16 Artem Laguta 2 Chris Harris 2 'screm' Hampel Harris Crump Laguta Pedersen 6 Jonsson 11 Hancock 8 Linback 4 Hampel Gollob Jonsson Holder

I would much rather see the likes of Darcy Ward who is in form riding in the Italian, Czech GP's .... Poland, Denmark and Sweden etc have good riders to fill the Wild Card spaces.

PREDICTED SCORES FOR TONIGHTS FINAL GP 13 Andreas Jonsson 13 Jarek Hampel 11 Tomasz Gollob 11 Jason Crump 9 Emil Sayfutdinov 9 Darcy Ward 9 Greg Hancock 8 Chris Holder 7 Kenneth Bjerre 6 Nicki Pedersen 6 Fredrik Lindgren 5 Chris Harris 4 Antonio Lindback 4 Rune Holta 3 Janusz Kolodiej 2 Artem Laguta Remember to also predict four riders scores yourself and name the four finalists MY PREDICTIONS Tomasz Gollob Jarek Hampel Emil Sayfutdinov Fredrik Lindgren Tomasz Gollob 17 Jarek Hampel 20 Andreas Jonsson 14 Chris Harris 2 FINALISTS; Gollob, Hampel, Jonsson, Sayfutdinov

No ..... you just dont get the bonus points ! Hopefully I will get the scores updated for Sunday morning ....so check in to see who is crowned Champion. In this round, you can lose some serious points ... but also make some big points. .... One person could lose 30 points and another score 50 .... thats an 80 point swing .... So its all to play for !! Pleasure running it .... may even run a Speedway predictor next season with League matches, KO Cups, WTC and Individuals .... Will work it out in the close season

Darcy aint going to retain his title by the looks of it Heat 11, Janowski bts MJJ and Ward ..... now leads Andersson by 2 and Ward by 5

Would be a great meeting to watch with some real talent on show Zmarzlik cuases Piotr P to fall in heat 2 ..... the lads good but wild

FINAL ROUND - ALL TO PLAY FOR So here we are, Greg Hancock has already been confirmed as World Champion and it looks like Jarek Hampel and Andreas Jonsson will be fighting for the medals with a place on the podium with GRIN As we enter this final hurdle, Stiltonpanther on 148pts leads noggin (136) by 12 points while just behind refereerick (126), home straight (125), Impartial One (120) and smiles (118) are looking for a podium finish ...... HOWEVER !! The final round is VERY VERY different and anyone can pick up BIG points or LOSE points !! In previous rounds I predicted a score for each rider and you tried to select the rider that would do better than I predicted ...... this will be the same ..... but This time YOU also have to predict the scores for FOUR other riders !! You also have to predict which FOUR riders will be in the Grand Final If you predict Greg Hancock will score 12 points in Gorzow but actually scores just 7 ..... you lose 5 points .. if he scores 15 then you lose 3 points .... if however he does score 12 points, you score FIVE points For every rider you correctly predict to reach the Grand Final ... you will score TEN points ... If one of your predicted finalists wins the Gorzow GP you will gain an extra TEN points. EXAMPLE PREDICTION POST 6 Fredrik Lindgren 9 Darcy Ward 2 Artem Laguta 11 Tomasz Gollob Hampel - 12 points Jonsson - 14 points Hancock - 8 points Lindback - 3 points FINALISTS - Jonsson, Hampel, Gollob, Ward GORZOW PREDICTIONS 13 Andreas Jonsson 13 Jarek Hampel 11 Tomasz Gollob 11 Jason Crump 9 Emil Sayfutdinov 9 Darcy Ward 9 Greg Hancock 8 Chris Holder 7 Kenneth Bjerre 6 Nicki Pedersen 6 Fredrik Lindgren 5 Chris Harris 4 Antonio Lindback 4 Rune Holta 3 Janusz Kolodiej 2 Artem Laguta

OTHER TEAMS; Examples BELLE VUE; STAR; Jason Crump 10.00, Schlein 8.43, Gjedde 6.88, Screen 4.64, ... 4.00 TEAM; Hougaard 6.22, ... 5.00, Cook 4.57, Kling 4.09, ... 4.00 BIRMINGHAM; STAR; Karlsson 8.12, Kasprzak 7.97, Fisher 6.02, Ostergaard 5.10, TEAM; Barker 6.53, Nermark 6.17, King 6.09, ... 3.00, ... 3.00 COVENTRY; STAR; Greg Hancock 8.77, Prez Pawlicki 6.95, Larsen 6.42, Smolinski 5.33, Piotr Pawlicki 4.00, TEAM; Harris 7.57, Kennett 7.45, ... 3.64/1, Auty 3.32, ... 3.00 EASTBOURNE; STAR; B Pedersen 8.21, Kylmakorpi 7.61, Gustafsson 6.49, ... 4.00, Taylor Poole 3.67. TEAM; Bridger 7.03, L Dryml 6.03, Woodward 5.80, Lahti 3.00, ... 3.00 KINGS LYNN; STAR; K Bjerre 9.06, Holta 8.00, L Bjerre 5.25, Topinka 3.59, Complin 3.00 TEAM; Iversen 8.00, Allen 5.99, Masters 4.03, Risager 3.63, Sitera 3.09, LAKESIDE; STAR; Andreas Jonsson 9.67, Shields 6.70, J Davidsson 6.61, Ljung 5.60, .... 4.00 TEAM; Richardson 7.66, Robson 4.96, .... 4.79/1, Mear 4.59, ... 3.00 PETERBOROUGH; STAR; Andersen 8.27, Buczkowski 6.05, Gomolski 3.73, TEAM; Batchelor 8.18, Sundstrom 6.78, Jensen 4.00, ... 3.00, ... 3.00 SWINDON; STAR; Korneliussen 7.44, Janowski 6.06, Zengota 5.57, Meidzinski 5.57, .... 4.00 TEAM; Nicholls 7.44, Stead 6.17, Gathercote 4.18, Jensen 4.00, J Sedgman 3.00 These are only examples of how it could work

With the season nearly finished and the AGM set to take place, here is an idea I have drawn up that would not only inject new blood to the sport, but also help bring back some of the top riders every now and again in a squad system. POINTS LIMIT; 25 points for 5 riders. Each track also has three reserve riders as #8, #9 and #10 STAR RIDERS; Each team to select 5 star riders. Only ONE can hold an 8+ average One Star Rider cant have an average greater than the 2nd rider from the 5 team riders. One Star Rider cant have an average greater than the 3rd rider from the 5 team riders. In ALL Elite League matches (18 home and 18 away) the team will consist of 7 riders of which 2 are Star Riders. A team can use a Star Rider instead of one of the 5 team riders as long as his average is lower than the rider they are replacing or the 5 lowest riders remain under the points limit. Should a team only be able to track one Star Rider due to injuries, FIM Meetings or unavailable then the team may operate r/r for any of the star riders apart from the top two. THE NEW BRITISH KNOCK OUT CUP; ALL Elite League teams and ALL Premier League teams (10+14 = 24 teams) are placed into four groups of six (10 home / 10 away) with each group containing at least two EL tracks. Elite League teams cant use any Star Riders in this competition (unless they are replacing a rider with a higher average) and they track any two of the reserve riders (8,9 or 10) Premier League teams can bring in a new rider in these matches .... or operate r/r for a 2nd heat leader EXAMPLES; Wolverhampton STAR 1 - 9.21 Fredrik Lindgren STAR 2 - 6.92 Adam Skornicki STAR 3 - 6.54 Nicolai Klindt STAR 4 - 5.00 Patryk Dudek STAR 5 - 4.00 Mikkel Michelsen TEAM 1 - 8.04 Tai Woffinden TEAM 2 - 5.09 Ty Proctor TEAM 3 - 4.00 ? TEAM 4 - 3.84 Ludvig Lindgren TEAM 5 - 3.75 Ricky Wells RES #8 - 3.00 Joe Haines RES #9 - 3.00 Ashley Morris RES #10 - 3.00 Brendan Johnson ELITE LEAGUE TEAM; F Lindgren, Woffinden, Skornicki, Proctor, 4.00, L Lindgren, Wells KNOCK OUT CUP TEAM; Woffinden, Proctor, 4.00, L Lindgren, Wells, Haines, Morris POOLE; Example ..... STAR; Holder 9.30, Watt 7.71, THJ 5.38, Vaculik 5.00, 4.00 TEAM; Ward 8.94, Doyle 5.28, Gafurov 4.42, Newman 3.00, .... 3.00 OPTION TWO; Instead of a KO CUP featruring ALL tracks, ELITE goes 9 home and 9 away plus EL KO CUP while the 5 Riders plus reserves ride 9 home 9 away in a British League and a BL KO CUP ..... Guaranteed 20 home matches for all EL tracks If more EL matches are needed, make two groups of five (4 home 4 away) with the top two from each group featuring in semi finals then a final. .... 24 guaranteed matches, upto 32 matches if reach all finals. . ANY VIEWS ?

Magic holds a one point lead going into this round ..... he has a very nice final ride with Zmarzlik (Poland), Dudek (Poland) and Tarasenko (Russia)

He was the best rider we had in the early/mid 80's but in my opinion Jessup, Collins, Morton, Simmons, Louis, Wilson, Eric Boocock, Kennett, Pusey, Lee, Tatum, Wigg and Betts were of equal if not better standard. For effort and determination he was one of the best but no where near with attitude and relating with others. Never got to see the likes of Craven, Williams etc ride so can't remark on those but to win two World Titles in the time of Fundin, Moore etc was some achievement so Peter Craven woyld possibly be rated #1 all time Brit

So next season the Wild Card picks should go to an Italian, a Czech, a Croatian and possibly a German ..... (Who would be the Welsh rider ?) Darcy Ward tried to qualify but didnt make it through to the final while Fredrik Lindgren has gone through the qualifiers every season and last year had to compete in a race off to get this years place. So he qualified on merit .... This year I'm not sure if Fred even went in the qualifiers and if he didn't why not as he has always done them before. Basically with the standard of riders already in the line up, it crazy not to change it to the TOP 10 automatically qualify as the riders that finish 9th or 10th are usually top class riders. ... Leave the GP Challenge with 3 spots and then 2 Wild Cards In my opinion Fredrik Lindgren, Nicki Pedersen and Darcy Ward should get picked and looking at the options .... Bomber the final spot too

With just one round left of the GP Series for 2011, we know that Greg Hancock is World Champion but who will win the title of GP PREDICTOR is still to be decided and in this round it could all change big time as the points available (and could be deducted) is staggering so its anyones game. More details to follow soon ......

WELL DONE GREG HANCOCK - 2011 SPEEDWAY WORLD CHAMPION CHRIS "Bomber" HARRIS may not have won the meeting but his 19 points in Crotia landed those that selected him a massive 17 points, making him by far the best rider to have picked while Fredrik Lindgren and Rune Holta picked up 7 points and Kenneth Bjerre picked up 5 points .... no one selected these four together. Other scores were .... Andreas Jonsson 4pts, Nicki Pedersen -3pts, Antonio Lindback -1pt, Jarek Hampel -5pts, Emil Sayfutdinov 1pt, Wild Card -1pt, Chris Holder -2pts, Artem Laguta 3pts, Greg Hancock 1pt, Janusz Kolodiej 3pts, Tomasz Gollob -7pts and Jason Crump -4pts IMPARTIAL ONE was the best "PREDICTOR" in this round despite picking Antonio Lindback. Thankfully Bomber, Fast Freddie and Holta did enough to give him 30 points and a big move up the leaderboard. .... Other good scores were done by Cornishman 28pts, TNT 28pts, noggin 26pts and Dukey Boy 26pts. ..... Worst score was by Gray who selected Hampel, Emil, Lindback and AJ to end up with -1 point. Going into this round the top of the leaderboard was ..... 139 Stiltonpanther 119 refereerick 118 home straight 110 noggin Stilton Panther could have pushed way into the distance but had a nightmare scoring just 9 points while refereerick picked up just 7pts and home straight also 7pts. .... SP still leads the way though ...... but it could all change in the final round in Gorzow .... so be prepared LEAGUE TABLE AFTER CROATIA 148 Stiltonpanther 136 noggin 126 refereerick 125 home straight 120 Impartial One 118 smiles 112 Dukey Boy 109 T.N.T 99 June01 91 Rico 89 beercellar 86 broniagigolo 82 phillips11 71 scotcj101 64 Cornishman 61 racers and royals 61 Andy Lebedevs 55 Gray 49 Beesboybert 36 spook 33 William Fisher Jones 30 Lingo 27 Robbie B 19 keef 16 waihekeaces 16 I hate the rain 15 drakey 11 pensilva 6 Crazy Machine 4 screm 3 Adzy -1 Matt K -5 superguest -5 future -11 Wadey -12 Lis

The trouble with counting matches ridden at the end of the previous season is a team can either be out of the running (or already qualified for the play offs) and in the remaining matches could score lowly as they know these rides will seriously lower next seasons averages and possibly the season after too. If next season every team rides each other twice at home and twice away, there will be 36 league matches ..... will it revert to a 38 match rolling average ? ...... if it does then Wolves can keep both Fredrik Lindgren and Tai Woffinden as Tai's 38 match average is way below 8 points a match

Just over 6 hours to get your predictions in ..... remember no editing after 6pm !!