Post by admin on Oct 31, 2007 17:55:52 GMT
Well, I've enjoyed the debate over on the BSF as whether the Sacred Cow of British speedway Middlo should remain in post as team manager of Great Britain, so I thought maybe we should have a debate here as well.
Obviously we may well be short of worshippers of the cult of Middlo here, so maybe the debate won't be so heated, but what the hell?
My own view is that Middlo shouldn't step down, he should be sacked. His comments after the humiliating last place in the SWC Final were shameful and pathetic:
"They just had so much speed on my boys, you had to have something very, very special around here [Leszno] and the other teams certainly did. We weren't disgraced, everyone played their part in getting here and I'm glad Ollie got a couple of rides as well to make him feel a part, he can say he rode in the world cup, they all can."
Maybe, just maybe, Middlo, if your boys had concentrated on their engines ahead of the final, instead of the sights of Poznan, they'd have had the "something very, very special" that everyone else had.
And for your information, your team was disgraced, or were you too embarrassed to read the final scores, which were:
Poland..55
Denmark..52
Australia..29
Great Britain..15
Your top scorer was the former British champion, with seven points, a total that all five Danes exceeded and four of the Poles exceeded. In fact, Krzysztof Kasprzak scored twice as many as Great Britain's top scorer.
Okay, so maybe a different manager wouldn't do any better, but they'd struggle to do much worse.
Obviously we may well be short of worshippers of the cult of Middlo here, so maybe the debate won't be so heated, but what the hell?
My own view is that Middlo shouldn't step down, he should be sacked. His comments after the humiliating last place in the SWC Final were shameful and pathetic:
"They just had so much speed on my boys, you had to have something very, very special around here [Leszno] and the other teams certainly did. We weren't disgraced, everyone played their part in getting here and I'm glad Ollie got a couple of rides as well to make him feel a part, he can say he rode in the world cup, they all can."
Maybe, just maybe, Middlo, if your boys had concentrated on their engines ahead of the final, instead of the sights of Poznan, they'd have had the "something very, very special" that everyone else had.
And for your information, your team was disgraced, or were you too embarrassed to read the final scores, which were:
Poland..55
Denmark..52
Australia..29
Great Britain..15
Your top scorer was the former British champion, with seven points, a total that all five Danes exceeded and four of the Poles exceeded. In fact, Krzysztof Kasprzak scored twice as many as Great Britain's top scorer.
Okay, so maybe a different manager wouldn't do any better, but they'd struggle to do much worse.
