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Post by admin on Sept 20, 2015 8:26:40 GMT
I was always a bit resistant to watching this but their coverage is generally excellent and the speedway usually delivers. The SGP speaks for itself although it'd be much better with the excellent David Rowe, and perhaps Tatum, doing the commentary. The SEC wants to be the SGP but never will be although it's worth watching, even though it's a Brit free zone. I even watch the Swedish speedway now. The tracks are good and the quality of the heats are generally exceptional.
Compare all of that to the lemon Skysports is left with as British speedway lives within its means but still manages to get worse year on year.
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Post by Hodgy on Sept 20, 2015 11:42:46 GMT
I was always a bit resistant to watching this but their coverage is generally excellent and the speedway usually delivers. The SGP speaks for itself although it'd be much better with the excellent David Rowe, and perhaps Tatum, doing the commentary. The SEC wants to be the SGP but never will be although it's worth watching, even though it's a Brit free zone. I even watch the Swedish speedway now. The tracks are good and the quality of the heats are generally exceptional. Compare all of that to the lemon Skysports is left with as British speedway lives within its means but still manages to get worse year on year. Agree will all that - but can't believe they haven't binned Ermolenko yet, makes me cringe. |
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Post by admin on Sept 20, 2015 16:09:07 GMT
I was always a bit resistant to watching this but their coverage is generally excellent and the speedway usually delivers. The SGP speaks for itself although it'd be much better with the excellent David Rowe, and perhaps Tatum, doing the commentary. The SEC wants to be the SGP but never will be although it's worth watching, even though it's a Brit free zone. I even watch the Swedish speedway now. The tracks are good and the quality of the heats are generally exceptional. Compare all of that to the lemon Skysports is left with as British speedway lives within its means but still manages to get worse year on year. Agree will all that - but can't believe they haven't binned Ermolenko yet, makes me cringe. Ermolenko isn't quite as irritating as he used to be on Sky (it must be part of the Sky speedway commentators training to talk repetitive gibberish) but it made me chuckle last night when he couldn't say Szczepaniak despite David Rowe repeating it a million times. Ermoloenko kept referring to someone called Szczepanski. I kept thinking that he'll twig in a moment but I'm not sure that he ever did. It's just a case of waiting to hear what dilution of the product is rubberstamped at the AGM. This could be my only regular source of speedway. A points limit reduction and PL/NL reserve draft would just about finish me off. |
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Post by Bigcatdiary on Sept 20, 2015 21:22:05 GMT
Agree will all that - but can't believe they haven't binned Ermolenko yet, makes me cringe. Ermolenko isn't quite as irritating as he used to be on Sky (it must be part of the Sky speedway commentators training to talk repetitive gibberish) but it made me chuckle last night when he couldn't say Szczepaniak despite David Rowe repeating it a million times. Ermoloenko kept referring to someone called Szczepanski. I kept thinking that he'll twig in a moment but I'm not sure that he ever did. It's just a case of waiting to hear what dilution of the product is rubberstamped at the AGM. This could be my only regular source of speedway. A points limit reduction and PL/NL reserve draft would just about finish me off. I am with Hodgy on this one, I think Ermolenko as a commentator is dreadful, he has verbal diarrhoea and just talks endless nonsense. Rowe on the other hand is very good. I just cannot get into the sec championship it's like a second rate GP, it's obvious that most of the riders are only interested in the money as no one was really interested in this championship prior to sec. |
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Post by admin on Sept 20, 2015 21:54:47 GMT
I just cannot get into the sec championship it's like a second rate GP, it's obvious that most of the riders are only interested in the money as no one was really interested in this championship prior to sec. It is GP2 in effect but it has got better, just needs to lose the likes of Smolinski. I'm sure that the SEC is more about speedway politics than a genuine desire to create a fantastic competition, but I'm all for improving the product, by whatever means. It's such a change from British speedway's philosophy of going the other way. |
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Post by Hodgy on Sept 20, 2015 23:10:48 GMT
Agree will all that - but can't believe they haven't binned Ermolenko yet, makes me cringe. Ermolenko isn't quite as irritating as he used to be on Sky (it must be part of the Sky speedway commentators training to talk repetitive gibberish) but it made me chuckle last night when he couldn't say Szczepaniak despite David Rowe repeating it a million times. Ermoloenko kept referring to someone called Szczepanski. I kept thinking that he'll twig in a moment but I'm not sure that he ever did. It's just a case of waiting to hear what dilution of the product is rubberstamped at the AGM. This could be my only regular source of speedway. A points limit reduction and PL/NL reserve draft would just about finish me off. Sorry but he gets more irritating to me every week - with the 'high line' and 'back straightaway' repetition. Would never believe he was a former rider, let alone a World Champ. To me, only way forward is one league. The EL isn't marketable as it is and clubs don't have the finance to improve the standard. |
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