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I think Loram gets an undeservedly hard time as everybody throws the not winning a GP in his title winning year stat into any argument you out forward for him... Don't forget he did win his world title bang in the middle of the TRick era

You'd like to hope so wouldn't you

No, not only did he not dominate the qualifiers he had a far easier passage to the final than riders of other era's. Still a great great rider, don't get me wrong, you don't win a world championship without being a great rider... Just nowhere near as good as Tai, like I said in an earlier post I compare PC more to the likes of Mark Loram

I think what you meant to say was... Yes he did elect to have an operation knowing he would miss important matches and yes I'd love to know when he booked his holidays

Rules are made to be Bro... er, changed at the last minute

Didn't he elect to have his operation, weeks ago now, knowing he'd let both of his clubs (and fans) down... Would also be interesting to know when your number 1 booked his hollibobs

Any coincidence that the professionalism in the sport moved ahead massively in these years with the emergence of Nielsen and Gundersen?

Wouldn't of said he dominated though... No commonwealth final, no overseas final

I suppose my point is, if one of the 2 matches is a crowd puller you've mitigated your losses on the other... To run 2 against the same team is asking for disaster

And surely BWD must be fit again by now

Looking at PC's journey to the 76 world title it doesn't look that dominant (on paper)

Can Peterborough use R/R for Nicholls as he's jetted off to the Caribbean on holiday?

Did you see SoN? Not dominant enough for you? He did drop that point...

I don't believe it! I'm not sure why you find his "I know stuff but I'm not telling" posts interesting, but if you find them interesting you"like" away and feed his ego. I'll wait until somebody in the know says something that is actually interesting, I'd even find speculation interesting ie. JD returning to the Lions... But flagrag is saying nothing

Thanks to Jack Holder

I just wanted to quote this post to extend the thread by a few pages

Not to mention the 13 riders in their "team" that they used to win the title and that's not including guests!

I thought you'd be on here quick with your "I know what's happening but can't tell anyone" posts... If you've got something to say just say it or keep quiet

Double headers used to work... I remember being at the Cov v Hull & Cov v Leicester in 1979(?) The place was heaving!

And they don't tweet themselves, they employ people to manage their social media accounts

I dunno... I could be tempted along to a T20 match on a nice sunny night for a few beers... I have zero interest

A fiver?

Sometimes I think it's hard to recognise true greatness while it's happening in front of you. I remember Gary Havelock commenting on sky, I think, when TRick secured his 4th title that he had joined the greats of the sport and was a serious contender to Ivan Mauger, Tai's obviously not in that league yet, but I believe he will be. Also look at what Lewis Hamilton is currently doing, who'd have thought he'd be equaling Fangio's achievements At the risk of offending BV fans I would suggest that if Tai was riding in PC's era he'd be more akin to Olsen or Mauger but if PC were riding in Tai's era he'd be a Mark Loram who keeps forever missing the starts... That's not too say that Loram wouldn't have cleaned up in PC's era

It's just too damn expensive, who'd pay £17 to go see something they have zero interest in, not me. Run weekends, slash the price to a tenner

You... And no doubt, hundreds of others