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Tom Hedley - Australia - ? Andrea Maida - Italy - ? Guglielmo Franchetti - Italy - 5.10.1985 Rune Sola - Norway - ? Andrew Aldridge - New Zealand - 18.04.1986 Jan-Mikke Bjerk - Norway - 02.04.1984 Jason Doyle - Australia - 06.11.1985 Frank Facher - Germany - 11.06.1989 Armando Castagna - Italy - 22.09.1963

Tarabanko - there is small mistake in Round 18 (September 2). It should be "Västervik - Piraterna" instead of "Piraterna - Västervik" (match Piraterna - Västervik is scheduled in Round 9). Is it official Elitserien calendar?

Maciej Piaszczyński was part of Polish national team in Junior Team World Championship semifinal in Poznań - he scored 10 points in 4 heats and was beaten only by the best riders in Australian (Chris Holder - 16 points in 6 heats) and Russian (Emil Sajfutdinow - 12 points in 6 heats) teams. As appeared few months later - he was beaten by the Individual Junior World Champion and Vice-Champion Piaszczyński was born in 1989 and started his speedway career when he was 15 years old in German league (in Poland he could get the licence when he was 16). This year he represented club from Poznań in Polish 1st league and got the heat average 1,451 (at home track 1,684 and away 1,182). [E.g. Kaj Laukkanen had heat average 1,489 - also in Polish 1st league] He is quite offensive rider and I think he is able to score quite good in Allsvenskan ...

Tarnów signed another Top Star - Kevin Doolan

And also Adrian Gomólski goes to Ostrów - he is borrowed from Gniezno.

When full Elitserien (and Allsvenskan) calendar will be known?

I know, I know - it looks like really TOP SECRET Or rather like YETI - everybody knows it exists but noone saw it

Riders allocations for the World Championships (organized by FIM) you can find here: http://www.pzm.pl/userfiles/file/aktualnos...ations_2008.xls with allocation change Tomaz wrote earlier: Speedway World Cup Qualfiying Round 1 in Miskolc (HUN), Finland will be replaced by USA. Speedway World Cup Qualfiying Round 2 in Ljubljana (SLO), USA will be replaced by Finland.

... and the next season of paying old debts by money for next season and than riding in credit ...

James Wright for 2 years ... and Tobias Busch They are completing real DREAM TEAM

My dear friend Tarabanko One of this year Team Bikab riders told me that the team will not ride in 2008. After your answer I think he wanted to say that the team will not ride in Allsvenskan in 2008 ...

Will Team Bikab start in 2008 season? I've heard something different ...

http://www.world.speedway.org - but this site hasn't been updated since May 2005 In Poland we have: - Individual Championship - 4 quarterfinals, 2 semifinals and final (at the track of Team Champion from previous year) - the final is organized at 15th of August (Polish national holiday) - Pairs Championship - 3 semifinals (6 or 7 pairs in each semifinal) and final (7 pairs - at the track of Team Vice-Champion from previous year) - Junior Individual Championship - 2 semifinals and final (at the track of Junior Team Champion from previous year) - Junior Pairs Championship - 3 semifinals (6 or 7 pairs in each semifinal) and final (7 pairs - at the track of Junior Team Vice-Champion from previous year) - Junior Team Championship - depends on the number of teams - most usual group preliminaries (3-4 groups of 4 or 5 teams, each team host 1 preliminary round) and final (at the track of the best team in preliminaries) - each meeting is 4 team tournament - Golden Helmet (for few last years it's also national preliminary for Individual World Championship) - only final (at the track of Team 2nd Vice-Champion from previous year) - 12 Polish best riders from Extraleague and 4 Polish best riders from 1st league - the winner gets new Jawa speedway bike and helmet - Silver Helmet (U-21) - 2 semifinals anf final (at the track of Junior Team 2nd Vice-Champion from previous year) - 16 Polish best U-21 riders from Extraleague and 10 Polish best U-21 riders from 1st league and 6 Polish best U-21 riders from 2nd league - Bronze Helmet (U-19) - 2 semifinals and final - national preliminaries for Junior Individual World Championship - 2 semifinals and final - national preliminary for Individual European Championship - final - national preliminary for Junior Individual European Championship (U-19) - final We have also some prestigious meetings: - Aces Criterion in Bydgoszcz (last Sunday before leagues start) - Crest Chain in Ostrów - Alfred Smoczyk Memorial in Leszno - Edward Jancarz Memorial in Gorzów - Eugeniusz Nazimek Memorial in Rzeszów - Gerard Stach Memorial in Opole - Rif Saitgariejew Memorial in Ostrów etc.

Unfortunately Krystian will probably have to leave Bydgoszcz With such number of riders in the Polonia line up there is no place for him I don't understand some decissions of Polonia chief - for Polish league Klecha is really better rider then Stead ...

Polonia Bydgoszcz has almost completed the line-up for next season - today Rafał Okoniewski has signed the contract ... Polonia Bydgoszcz 2008: - Andreas Jonsson - surprise (GP rider) - Jonas Davidsson - Rafał Okoniewski - Krzysztof Buczkowski - Christian Hefenbrock (at least 10 matches) - Simon Stead U-21 riders - Emil Sajfutdinow - Marcin Jędrzejewski - Michał Łopaczewski - Marcin Mazur ? Now we're waiting till the end of November for the final decission about the Unia Tarnów case - if they won't pay their debts and show the budget guarantees for next season, they'll be probably relegated from Extraliga and Polonia will take this place ...

At the website http://rozklad.pkp.pl/bin/query.exe/en you can check the train connections in Poland. But you should waite some times because Polish train schedule will change some times till September 2008 (last change will take place probably on June). Using this site you should write correct names of the stations/stops (if you are not able, write names without Polish letters and than take the correct name from the list). If going from Poznań to Bydgoszcz you'll use probably main stations: Poznań Główny Bydgoszcz Główna

Tarnów signed the contract with Peter Juul Larsen They have time to the end of November to pay off their debts (for now they paid off only Gollob brothers) and show the budget guarantees for the 2008 season.

For now you can fly to Bydgoszcz from: - London (Stansted) - each day (by RyanAir) - Dublin - Wednesdays and Saturdays (by RyanAir) - flights back the same days - Liverpool - Wednesdays and Sundays (by RyanAir) - flights back the same days Flights schedule and another information at the web site of Bydgoszcz Airport (also English version) - http://www.plb.pl/

The UEM calendar (of course not only) meeting will take place between 7th and 9th of November.

Nicki wants 2.000.000 złotych for next season in Polish Ekstraliga - so I really wish him lot of luck in finding new club

Maybe Ekstraliga will ride on some Fridays and/or U21 Team World Final will be on Saturday ...

Mateusz - be patient

Exactly Subedei! Thanks to the U-21 final, there won't be any problem with the "Zlata prilba" line-up! No - after waking up he just won't be the U-21 champ

In Polish lower leagues the play-off is proceed only in 1st league. After regular season teams were split into 2 groups: - teams from places 1-4 - teams from places 5-8 In the play-off the teams gain "match points" in typical way - 2 for victory, 1 for draw, 0 for loose (no bonus points, no special points for away victory). If after 2 matches there is draw in match points (2:2), the teams meet one more time (at the track of the team higher placed after regular season). 1st play-off round consists of matches: a) 1-4 b ) 2-3 --- c) 5-8 d) 6-7 (the numbers mean the place after regular season) 2nd play-off round consists of matches: e) winner a) - winner b ) --- f) looser c) - looser d) After 2nd play-off round the final classification is made: 1. Winner e) - advanced to the Extraleague 2. Looser e) - race-off with 7th Extraleague team for last place in Extraleague 3. Higher placed after regular season from loosers a), b ) 4. Lower placed after regular season from loosers a), b ) --- 5. Higher placed after regular season from winners c), d) 6. Lower placed after regular season from winners c), d) 7. Winner f) - race-off with 2nd team from 2nd league for last place in 1st league 8. Loser f) - relegation to 2nd league 1st team from 2nd league advance directly to 1st league. But we need to wait for final decissions of Extraleague management in case of "wild cards" (the meeting will be held this Wednesday) and decissions of Polish speedway management in case of integrate 1st and 2nd leagues in one league.

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