Obviously several years too late, but you would have to think that necessity truly will be the mother of invention...

Most teams get injuries and although Belle Vue have had some bad luck it isn't a curse, you won a couple of those play offs with guests or very late replacements so it didn't hurt Belle Vue as a team. It is a great shame Dan is not riding, I love watching him ride and he is great to watch.

hopefully this will stop gb speedway kicking the can down the rd, and a full restructure is needed.

My lads Sunday league team had a similar "curse" last season.. They ended up just second in the league because of it... But did, thankfully, win two cups... The "curse" has now been officially recognised as being "The Curse of Deansgate" A popular street, which is full of bars in Manchester... Some Sundays we were down to a bare eleven as "The Curse" struck... It struck usually around 9am when all the lads who had been out till 5am in the morning cried off on the WhatsApp group.. On the WhatsApp group it got very personal with the lads who went out each week, but still turned up, even questioning the sexuality of those who didn't make it... I showed the comments to an ex player of the team, and he said he was glad he had no idea what WhatsApp was, but added, he would have gone out and just arrived at the game from the boozer in his day... The fans of the club were devastated by last season runners up spot with literally dozens of people effected, particularly as the prize giving at the Town Hall includes a buffet .. Let's hope "The Curse" doesn't hit this season..

It is a very difficult decision for these lads though... As Dan T said, his Lodz's signing fee was "several times" more than his Leicester and Edinburgh fees combined... Which can set you up for the season outside Poland too.. And given the current level of these lads, and their aspirations, riding in tier one of the UK will give them more stretch than riding in tier two... In an ideal world they 100% should develop through the 2nd tier over here, but that pull of Poland, which includes the professionalism of the clubs, the level of the crowds, and the jeopardy and consequence of the competition, which ensures a level of pressure to perform which will test them, (it's not just the money), must be tempting..

2021 when Brady was injured so was Ulrich Ostergaard of Peterborough so that levelled the final up.