Dekker

So a few pl clubs should be thrown to wolves to improve your viewing, ask your beloved CVS why he allowed with others the EL to get like it is?? Plus i really doubt any EL riders would like riding at worky due to the travelling, look what happend when the bspa had to really twist neil evitts arms to get him to sign for Halifax back in the 80s. Bottom line, PL are still suspicous of certain el promoters after the amalgamated league. The BLC would have built bridges, but cos of the usual suspects the divisions are as large as ever.

But who are the champs and who were the also rans.

Unlucky for the aussiesm, but lyons big performance was too much to over come. Nice to see the Swedes had faith in their kids and didnt look back to the failures like stefan danno and stefan "FWC" andersen.

Thats the difference, the spot in the final was likely even with the weakened team, but to get carried away with beating the minnows was the wrong attitude. The final showed that reality hurts.

Mull of Kintyre LOL

Hmmm it could be seen as that, better edit it quick LOL

Too true Gemini, its easy to beat a rag tag collection of russians and slovenians, but come the big test all bar Nicholls flopped badly as predicted. How anyone can claim making the final was a big deal is amazing, even the team Team England put out should have made the final with ease.

The END

i agree that the bjerre/pedersen swap was a bad move, but gjedde certainly proved he was worth his place.

So where are you Derwent? So did he do better than expected against that opposition???? Dont think so.........

Not surprised Iversen was dropped fro Gjedde, but Bjerre being dropped is an odd one. As Bjerre is better than Ronnie Pedersen.

Didnt see Norris at Cardiff?

Nope i'm just saying the moaning minnie couldnt fail to score what he did considering he is allegedly a EL star. Norris is a joke and tbh Team england would have been better off haking harris and stead who probably would have scored the same.

Dont also forget that some EL promoters are happy to run at a loss to work with their other business iinterests. I cant think of any PL teams that do that.

Given the the opposition i dont think the scores of floppy are anything other than what he SHOULD have scored. However will he do the business in the repercharge round where the opposition will be more with it.

I predict it will be totally boring and that aussie will win.

Christiensen was a powerhouse US domestic rider in the 80s, one of US top guys then and much sought after by the UK promoters but he never came across.

Only one saddo on this thread, predictably a wolves fan, your so tounge in cheek it must hurt with all your ernest trolling. All in a worthy companion to lupus.

Dump Norris and Havelock and take Harris, Stead, Ollie Allen and ed Kennett along for the ride, as what ever team england put out will beat the weaker teams but will get canned by the top seeds.

NP deserves 110% of what he gets here, he nowt more than a danger to other riders as gollob found out. I pity Denmark having to get behind a jerk like Nicki, hope risager/bjerre/Bjarne P/Gjedde/Hans Andersen can come through and show Denmark what a real rider is like. Well done Leigh Adams, a real racer and a gentleman on and off the track

please change this thread title to the steve and shazz show

Agree with most of what you say, having seen EL and PL at swindon. But economic reality will prevent most teams moving up. If cost at EL level are not reduced then any PL team moving up will need a very big subsidy maybe as much as 100K a year to cover the loses and cost of employing GP riders. The main trouble is that speedway has been largely displaced from the big cities where EL speedway would be viable.. no teams in london, birmingham (not wolves), bradford for example. So speedway is in the regions and in many cases out in the sticks, so wont pull many more fans by moving up. Thats the biggest trouble the EL faces, how do u get punters to pay 2 or 3 quid more?

Not really, Sky created SSE when the regulators forced them to give the cable operators access to the SKY sports regular channels. SSE was created with only 1 aim, to have an exclusive channel that the cable operators would have no access to.

Milking you and the sport of every penny they can.

The AMA wants to enter a team but will not assist finacially, so atm they have a team with no riders.