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ZG are awful this evening

He continued that today a full 15 in Poland!

Entertaining team meeting from Gora.

When is Charles Wright likely to return?

Cairns close up. Good race between Pawlicki and Lebedevs.

U.K. speedway always has to take 2nd best

Danish fixture I believe, all above board. Jamie Swales mentioned it in the Speedway Star this week

He chooses not the club

Why is he missing the Oxford match?

Class act at times

Poland really need to break the model and make their riders employees, it's the only thing missing from their business model and the day that happens all other professional leagues become amateur.

It really is time for the authorities to charge Dale Allitt and Buster Chapman for bringing the sport into disrepute. Everyone knows they are looking at getting rid of Paco Castagna so are deliberately postponing meetings.

Wish he stayed away from the British mainland for good.

nice work Lebedevs

How about having them for my Birthday as a gift

I thought it was a tad optimistic given how much fundamentally is needed to unpick... And. If Poland decrees one extra league only to race in... Which I can see their rationale given how many riders they lose riding elsewhere... Then next season will see some huge drop in levels..

I wonder if I could give it ago

It will be dead and buried before then.

In the 70's the sport piggy backed off the England team doing well on World of Sport, at a time when the football and cricket teams were crap.. A good news story... The domestic sport has always been a bit "Mickey Mouse" however the money was good due to attendance numbers... In a recent Speedway Star it covered Kenny Carter winning the 1979 British Junior Championship and for that, he got £2000. (Over £13k today).. So individual meetings carried some big prizes eg the Grand Prix at White City was £5k and the Internationale at Wimbledon a Jawa bike... In 1978, PC, in his book, said when he got banned for a month, for arriving late from Los Angeles and missing a meeting due to a plane cancellation, it cost him over £20k including his Long Track money... What you could get away with in the 70's you cannot get away with now, and the Mickey Mouse circa 200 guests per season, (with just 15 teams in total), is ludicrous, (but condoned by those who attend regularly), and doubling up is now, just like guesting, a necessity. (Only in the UK though)... The promoters of today are, in the main, hobbyists, who are quite happy to lose money that they can afford to lose, hence becoming a bona fide team sport simply isn't going to happen, therefore the sharing riders operating model is all we have.. If Poland ever decided to run with the UK's operating model their sport would go bust overnight... Fans, Sponsors, and TV would simply walk away... As Richard Coleman said in the Speedway Star this week... It has about five years to sort itself out...

They will bring violence with them.Best stay away.

The sport stinks in this country

I can p*ss more than what rain will fall. Supporters need to boycott the place.

A fine. Never known a promotion like it.

The place wants closing.

Was absent a lot when he rode for Plymouth. Used to pick his meetings