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Average earnings of £2,000 a month in the UK dwarfs the typical wage of £635 in Poland. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2209255/Polish-migrants-return-Britain-search-work-despite-UKs-struggling-economy.html#ixzz2YSvnhzl5

Speedway is more expensive to watch in Poland than in the UK???????? Completely untrue. Price to watch Polish Extraleague matches is either 25 or 30 zlotys, £5 or £6 UK. PLEASE tell me which British EL track charges less than that? Crowds are down in Poland? Yes, they have had a recession too. Crowds down for Extraleague regular season matches from an average of 9,303 in 2008 to 7,442 in 2012. Still way ahead of other leagues for which figures are available.

Worth remembering that both the Polish and Swedish leagues gave the double-point / joker / tactical ride a try and kicked it out after a season or two. Only used now in some MINOR leagues - Germany, Czech Republic, Denmark, U.K ...

Just one way that he is trying to drag our 1950's sport into the 21st century. If all that's wrong with Tai is "what he looks like", then he hasn't got much to worry about. But some will whinge about anything! OAP

Home Depot Stadium at http://www.lagalaxy.com/stadium

There were some Spanish riders pre-war, racing in the bullrings of Madrid and Barcelona. Not at the same time as the bulls, presumably. A team of 4 Spaniards rode at Wembley in the late 1920's and were well beaten.

at Marketa Stadium, Prague CZECH REPUBLIC Ales Dryml Lukas Dryml Josef Franc Matej Kus Vaclav Milik Zdenek Simota Tomas Suchanek Roman Cejka POLAND Tomasz Gollob Jaroslaw Hampel Krzysztof Kasprzak and probably Adrian Miedzinski Maciej Janowski Przemyslaw Pawlicki Patryk Dudek

Agreed. Host nation should be seeded to the Race-Off, NOT to the Final.

Wouldn't have thought so, as I first heard about this Test 3 or 4 months ago, but I hope you are right. Were you listening to the German commentary? As I don't recall any mention of this on the English commentary.

Tickets were available on online for 35 zlotys (7 GB pounds). Scott - Freddie Lindgren (and Lukas Dryml) are not riding because they have a more important meeting at Eastbourne right now.

This is the track that had 15,300 near capacity crowd for a league match last Sunday. And can someome tell Scott that yes, Adrian Miedzinski rides for Torun as we keep being told, but so does Gollob!

PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!! DO NOT SHOW RESULTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY MAY ACTUALLY SHOW THE RACING ONE DAY SOON!!!!!!!

Is this some sort of practical joke? Are they taking the p*** out of our sport?

To those of us who no longer have a team to support (I'm ex-Wimbledon), the more "scattered" nature of the club news has made me read more, rather than less, of those news items. I preferred the old system of having all match reports in league order, but it's no big deal. Would like to see junior/second-half matches get the same reports and heat details as the senior matches each week. Current junior coverage is patchy. I'm also surprised that there is rarely/never any coverage of amateur meetings (Scunny, Lydd, Northside etc) I also like the team pics on the back cover, though that must be difficult with all the injuries, guests and doubling-up in teams these days. It's a steal at just over 2 quid a time. Please print a blank scorechart for people to use when watching EL on TV, like you do for the GP. Or maybe the BSPA wouldn't like this as it may reduce programme sales? And, for someone with a big interest in the history of the sport, the Star documents that history in hard copy, which is invaluable. Information on the web is fine, and is here today ... BUT possibly gone tomorrow.

Ryan Fisher to partner Greg, I think? Jan Staechmann doing pits interviews

Just hope that most of them DONATE TO TAI & CANCER RESEARCH at www.justgiving.com/taiwoffinden01008

Interesting to note that Josef Franc qualified as the wild card at the Prague GP by winning the Marketa Open Championship meeting at Prague on April 30 (see latest Speedway Star).

If there is no Sky TV money next year, I think it WILL come to cutting top riders pay. Which will result in less top riders. Which will result in smaller crowds. Which will result in ... don't wanna go there ....

The Berwick meeting is still on next Tuesday according to the Sky on-screen TV Guide

Fair point. Just to say that the Arlington bank holiday meeting was Bangers and Superstox, not Brisca F1 as shown on Premier Sports each week. To my knowledge, Spedeworth must have been running stocks at Arlington for about 50 years now!

Stock cars are an "entertainment" really, not a true sport. Ask the bank holiday 5,000 crowd who won the main events, and I'd be amazed if more than 1 in 20 knew the answer. Stock cars normally run on Wednesday nights at Arlington, when crowds I'm told are 1,500 to 2,000. Mums and dads love it, and of course the kids love all the crashes and bangs. Nothing wrong with that, I'm sure its a fun afternoon out. Speedway is a 1-minute race which has a 50% chance of being boring and processional, followed by 5 minutes of, well, nothing. Not what young families expect from an evening's sport in the 21st century, I'm afraid. By the way, stock cars on Wednesday nights could make it difficult for Eastbourne to stage Sky matches now.

Teams for the 2011 (Torun) and 2012 (Gorzow) matches were very strong - see http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/polvrow.htm

Now, THAT'S a race track! (Promoters please take note)

But Vladimir was born in Ukraine, yes?