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The thing is though "the kids" are probably living at home with their parents and I suspect are being funded by them. The older riders more likely than not have families to support and have probably had to make hard financial choices this year, that does not mean they have no ambition

Quite possible. I'm sure they have valid reasons. Those who will succeed, though, are probably those who put their ambition ahead of these valid reasons and go to Poland. If someone as green as Anders Rowe can get a team spot in Poland I'm sure there are others who could.

Then again, you thought Worzel would win the general election.

When In the 80s, the Danes dominated WTC somehow it did not bother anyone. The Danes had a golden generation of champions, and they used them for quite a few years. Nobody thought of calling off the competition in which one nation dominates, in the same way nobody is calling off Polish club competition dominated in the last four years by one club. So when Poles came to the fore after years of drought, the FIM abandoned the exciting competition that often kept fans in suspense until the last race, and sometimes even the last bend. They did it under the ridiculous pretext of allegedly caring for the development of the speedway. Mind you, it has to be clear that Poles did not always win. They also had to swallow the bitterness of defeat, for example in Bydgoszcz, where Niels Kristian Iversen stole the gold from them in the last few yards. All the time, however, there were great emotions and great promotion of speedway. What do we have now? A two-day competition, where riders are to run 42 races, but in the end everything is decided by the grand final anyway. To this day, no one knows whether this competition called the Speedway of Nations is a continuator of the WTC or the World Best Pairs. FIM itself, cannot answer this question, saying that it is the championship of … wait for it… Speedway of Nations. What a ridiculous name. Finally, a simple question for the gentlemen from the FIM. Isn’t he Speedway of Nations getting boring? After all the Russians win it year after year. it doesn't matter whether the final takes place in Wrocław, Togliatti or on a soggy track in Lublin, interrupted after 14 races? Russia are the champion and that's it! I’d say, yes it is getting boring. (as seen from sportowefakty.pl point of view)

THE FIM will probably argue that the change wasn't simply to weaken Poland's chances of winning but to have more nations involved which in turn would encourage young riders in those countries to have aspirations of appearing on the international stage. Personally prefer the old-style World Cup.

I wholeheartedly agree with you... In my opinion league format match between two countries is the only test of any value. In the WTC format we have individual riders aiming for individual win, and only total points scored by each rider representing given country are counted in. One might say that with with such a format we might as well add up individual score of the SGP riders representing given country, and not bother with anything else.

I think we can see who has genuine ambition this year, with the GB season scrapped. There are some riders who just decided to leave the season and didn't even compete in the British Final, while others upped sticks and based themselves in Poland. Those, to me, are the youngsters looking to succeed, just as, in the past, riders who came to the UK were most likely to get anywhere. For me, if British speedway has a future star it is likely to come from the likes of Bewley, Ellis and Rowe, and I think that, with Ellis injured, Rowe should have been given the third team slot because of his showing this ambition.

also put some white tape across the the opening of the tv room and when someone comes into the room and breaks the tapes you will have two mins to make a fresh brew ! have you tried eating a pie and farting while you are watching the TV ?

June start being contemplated I've heard

Think back in 1973 there were a few teams relatively equal or competitive at least. Ok they had to combine Norway and Denmark. But the number of actual riders cometing has dropped dramatically since then. One reason of course is riders are or were riding in 3 or more leagues now, when back then it was two at the most. And from a GB point of view, I guess we would be competing with Latvia, Sweden and Czecho instead of Russia, Poland and Denmark. Might not be so attractive as back in the Peter Collins days

But the last time we ran such a competition apart from the WTC was the 1973 Daily Mirror International Tournament. The fixture diary was full in those days and we fitted it in. Only England had home fixtures. But the competition went down to a run off at Wembley in front of 41000 fan. For sure the world has moved on, but a test match series run on a league format sounds pretty attractive to me.

I’m sure there would have been at least one but for Covid and the difficulties involved with getting in and out of countries. Regular experience abroad in whatever form is the best way forward and a Test Matches has to be a large part of that. As for Kemp, I think we’ll have to agree to disagree.

Buy a bike ,and a Tin of Castrol R run it in the living room while watching speedway,satisfaction .

Maybe because they would need a sump and a pump and space is limited on the bike.

I don't see how this is good for young riders. What will happen to Dan Bewley next year?

. You have had a good year with trolling. Come back in 2021 with some more.

To be honest they are not really good enough for Top Tier in Poland and as Cook and others have found out even In lower divisions a bad meeting and you are out.GB really only have Woffy and Lambert at that level.Belwey has had this season in Poland and has struggled.

My SON experience started last winter shortly after the tickets in Manchester went on sale. Being my first live Speedway race and also my first trip to Europe I bought the best grandstand tickets for myself and my SO (significant other) (after seventy what do you call each other in the UK?) Then the air fare, hotel room in Manchester, plans to rent a car after the races and see (practice) if we could drive on the left without incidence. We were going to head North and go along the coast into Scotland then explore our way back down to London to fly back home. Needless to say we were both very excited! Then along came the Covid and we just had to have a wait and see. Well we had our SON yesterday at 1:00 PM and as everyone has said it wasn't ideal......BUT that race with Emil getting pushed wide one second and passing Doylie up against the wall next second will always be my only memory of the race. I hate to agree with KeirStarmerFan BUT I would like to know who else could've pulled that off! So my Speedway experience and my trip to your country didn't turn out the way that I had hoped but that's the way life is, isn't it? I've been a Speedway fan for about 8 years now and that heat was one of the most exciting i can remember and I'm happy with that!

I thought you had some idea about Speedway obviously not

Sad news can still remember his performance for Poland v Scotland Select at Old Meadowbank had 5 wins and a Fall .Scotland select was a good team with Persson, Eide and Monk in it.Great rider in his era.He also had scored 15 pts the year before When Poland scored 79 pts in pouring rain(torrential) would never have went ahead these days. RIP.

Loved watching Pogo. I was only 10 when Rybnik turned up at Poole in 1965, three riders shone like a beacon. Woryna scored a paid max,behind Pogo, Wyglenda only lost his paid max because of a failing motor. Pogo was majestic scoring a full 12pt max in their 52-26 win over the Pirates. Followed them all for the rest of their careers. RIP Pogo.

Several trips to the Leeds Cancer Centre for my wife. Day trips I would have gladly missed.