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So Australia rode their 4 heats against the teams who finished in the top 4, Russia, Poland, Denmark and Sweden.. If they'd got to ride against GB and the Czechs they would of been making the top 3 easily, just shows how ridiculous calling a meeting part-way through is. Mark Lemon was quite right to be a bit pissed off!

It's off to Torun.

Hopefully, and with a better choice of when to run it we might well not get the complete farce tonight’s match was. That meeting was a dreadful advert for the sport and should never have started.

You call it "cup"... and I call it CRAP. Bring back Daily Mirror Tournament of 1973...then we can talk about CUP...if not that then a minimum of 5 riders from each competing nation...and if not even that, ten four riders as we used to have few years back...two ridewrs don't make a team... its a pair and I don't have argument with this. So don't call "cup", don't call it SoN, byt call what it is..Pairs Championship

Oh dear, what was that! Surely it should have been postponed until tomorrow morning. Speedway really does itself no favours at times.

NO they couldn't ... riders would have to self-isolate if they came to GB

I don’t know why nobody on this thread has suggested moving the event to Torun. The weather there is good all weekend apparently and it’s only a four hour drive away...

To the riders I have the upper most respect and well done for riding but in the interest of the the sport the meeting should not have started it's made it look like a Micky mouse sport again

Mickey Mouse Speedway.. Well done FIM Well done BSI Clowns.

What a farce.

Nah... I remember the days of Wilson, Hunter, McKinlay, and the Boococks... NEXT!!!

Can we keep it going until GB get in front?

Looks like those dancing ants the had at Cardiff one year

I thought you had some idea about Speedway obviously not

I have to disagree Steve. Janowski and Pawlicki pulled sickies in order to miss a Polish international match. Zmarzlik is better than both Janowski and Pawlicki but he still shows up to every international match. Polish fans are very much behind Cieslak.

He has been my favourite rider for the past seven years, but he can be frustratingly inconsistent. When on top form he is undoubtedly the most talented and exciting rider in the world.

You mean by not choosing the riders that didnt want to ride for Poland earlier?

This will keep going till poland get in front lol

balls of steel Emil

Professional Sportsmen and their teams are exempt from quarantine unless they test positive

Ridiculous to have two managers. Get Middlo back to install some fight and pride.

That just about sums up this farce tonight what a wonderful advert for our sport

Hopefully after heat 14 they will see sense and move the remaining heats to Torun

Bewley is vastly overrated IMO.

Nonsense, Emil has been the standout rider in this meeting. Zmarzlik doesn't team-ride.

So how is Dan Bewley down to ride at Berwick on Wednesday, then Belle Vue on Thursday.

Pearson really is a clown at times

Lemon just said in his interview, Jack Holder was his No.2 rider, He declined and then Lemon went to his next on his list ie Fricke

Get Brian Leonard out there

Sportowe Fakty are posting live updates from the track. If you have translating software installed this may be of help. https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/905234/zuzel-wielkie-odliczanie-do-jednodniowego-finalu-speedway-of-nations-na-zywo They report: 3.26 (UK) - rain stopped. 3.42 (UK) - Preparations underway 4.21 (UK) - Photo of wet track being worked on. Wet and even, not a ploughed field. ***UPDATE**** 4.31 Photos of track work. Dry straight + wet bend. 4.34 Not raining but high humidity could be problem. Looking optimistic.

Not raining at Brandon either

BIT confused because the Ove Fundin trophy is normally awarded to the winners and it looks nothing like that ...

I quite like it, piston, rod, chain wheel, barrel and levers

"He looks like a flying hairpin"... you don't get Speedway commentary like that anymore, brilliant!

It can be wet or dry in July, August or October. There is no pattern to the UK weather, it is pot luck what we get. Maybe it's best later in our year to give the best chance of having crowds back

Well if that is the case why bother at all what's the point

Haha, a good evening for us. I had £100 on Russia to finish in the top 2 which returned £250. Wish I was brave enough to bet on them to win outright but the grand final would have been a lottery.

Once you go past heat 14 you can only get a fair result after heat 21 because at no point inbetween will all seven teams have raced the same number of heats.

Milik could beat team GB on his own !!!

Lambert thinks he is better than he actually is.

switch it off if its that bad

Everything set up for Poland. Home track, meet Denmark after they have ready run a heat. Whole season has been set up for the Poles. Write it out of the history books. It’s a set up.

Oskar Fajfer has signed on again to ride for Gniezno in 2021

Bbc can't get it right for this country let alone anywhere abroad.

So we will know about 6.05 pm Uk time then, when Phil Morris nnounces it? And yesterday he said if it is not on as a one day event on Saturday , it will not be held. Maybe Boris J. is heading the "What to do next FIM /BSI panel"?

Very sad news. I also remember the Rybnik visit to Poole in 1965. Relatively unknown riders making a sensational impact on a very large crowd. Great days. RIP Pogo.

A very bad off for Ivan in this one...

Rider averages will never be an accurate reflection of true ability because - at least in Britain - each riding position meets the opposition riders a different number of times and under different circumstances. Reserves in particular tend to have easier races in comparison to heat leaders, and the No. 2 position in the classic heat formula generally had easier opposition than the rest of the top 5, although the downside was that Heat 8 was always the obvious place to do a (double) tactical substitution. But as with cricket, there's all sorts of factors such as when you're put into bat or expected to bowl. Case in point is Freddie Flintoff who's batting and bowling averages were never exceptional by classic all-rounder standards, yet every team in the world would have been happy for him to play for them.

Day 2 https://www.speedwayservice.at/images/racecards/2020/SoN2020-F2.pdf

People are after him but he’s also said he might stay at Tarnow yet for another season.