Paulco

Agree totally . The GP series is how we find our World Champion , how is this possible when a certain amount of riders are only selected through a quirk of birth . If we must go down the GP route then let's get a better method of qualification sorted out .

Arrange to have a weekend free at the end of June and you can join me in the annual Cardiff pub crawl .

I had a Jim McMillan one and a Charlie Monk one when i was a wean Although Charlie's photograph , whether on the front of the programme or on the rossette , would scare the weans .

Got soaked through coming up the road from work earlier . Too cold , too wet and too dark to be stood on that 1st bend tonight mate .

To be fair mate , Dick was entertaining back then . I suppose in 1978 his patter was fresh then , still using the same stuff at Berwick 30 years on . Back then , when Dick was centre-green announcer at Blantyre One , both ourselves and the Monarchs raced on a Friday night . The Monarchs home meetings were covered live by Radio Forth , and Dick used to take great delight in keeping us up to date - if the Monarchs were losing .

Going to the Friday night meeting at Blantyre One , and then getting on the supporters coach and travelling overnight to places like Canterbury . They were great times .

Before the days of teletext and t'internet i had to go into the kitchen at 11 p.m. and tune into Radio Luxembourg to get the night's speedway results , which they gave after the news .

My favourite Tigers track - Coatbridge . The place was a right dump - bits falling of the roof of the shed on the back straight , pee flowing out the bog door under the stand . But what a track . The Northern Riders Championship qualifiers . Probably the reason i'm still not keen on individual meetings - they were awful meetings . Not continually looking at the sky for rain - in the seventies it seemed so much dryer . Speedway on a Friday night . Glasgow were always a Friday night club - none of this Sunday afternoon bollocks then .

Would it though . I go to Cardiff every year and Nicholls and Harris are way down the list of the riders i want to see . Do Swindon fans support Nicholls over Adams at Cardiff , do Lakeside fans cheer Harris against Jonsson , do BV fans prefer to see Crump lose to Nicholls . I think not . There will be a wildcard for the patriotic fans , while the rest of us will enjoy the GP - British riders in the field or not .

Agreed Sajfutdinov and Holder will bring something young , new and exciting to a tired looking series . Time to jetteson the dead wood like Nicholls , Bjarne Pedersen , Harris and Dryml .

They will have a wildcard to cheer , presumably Scotty . Don't really get this " there must be a Brit in it " argument myself . If there isn't a Brit good enough then such is life . Why didn't Nicholls , and Harris for that matter , not give themself every chance by doing the qualifiers ?

He probably will be in as the token Brit . Satsumanov and Holder should be certs . Lindgren will probably get another chance . Hampel would be a more deserving case than Nicholls , but there are already 4 Poles in next years GPs - so the token Brit it will be then .

I was bad enough on the Vodka in Cardiff this year , without going to flaming Poland

Thought it was not a bad meeting once it warmed up . Would rather watch a Bydgoszcz GP than one on some nonsense temporary track anyday .

We''ll all get to see Sajfutdinov in the GP's soon enough . Therefore it's quite right Smolinski should retain his place in the field . Why should he miss out due to German inefficiency

It has got to be the lamest excuse ever for cancelling a meeting . On the bright side , at least the final GP will be on a proper speedway track . However i feel so very sorry for all the people who have went over there .

I am almost sure both of them will .

Would make more sense to offer the place to young Mr Sajfutdinov , as he beat Holder into second place in the under-21 final .

According to that the Prague GP is 4 days after Cardiff

Yes , but he's still only a PL rider with a lot to learn . As Saturday afternoon showed .

Why would a PL heat-leader expect to score more points than an EL second string ?

Nobody is writing him off , but maybe this is a timely wake-up call for him .

Yes it was the people ( including myself ) who had a different opinion to events on Saturday than Subedei . However Subedei is entitled to air his opinion on any matter the same as the rest of us , and if individuals decide they cannot handle this and resign - then that is their decision . I will be saddened if Subedei is forced out because of this , although i disagree with the lengths he sometimes goes to , his views are more often than not accurate . Although not in the Gollob/Crump incident .

Have you not heard about what goes on at Polish meetings on the terraces .

His rant during his subsequent interview was quite amusing though .