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And i would like to clarify that i know you hadn`t.

I am certainly not laying any blame at Armando`s door-he is a top man.However the FIM certainly need to up their act in certain areas-for several days after the delayed Danish challenge semi the media were saying that Pavlic had qualified from Lonigo.-the whole situation with qualification depending how kennett did in Holsted should have been clarified-even the FIM website were saying that Pavlic was in the Poole meeting-it was only FSP from this forum who flagged up the doubts. As for Zagar`s withdrawl i think it is important that the timescale of events is made known so the doubters can be pacified.

10 teams in last years extraleague-so i would suggest about 40 riders at least-certainly Zielona Gora are saying that Dudek was on over that last season(Dudek being chased by Torun for next season)

Andzejs Lebedevs has signed for Rospiggarna

Unfortunately although you very kindly offered to find out what exactly happened within these "procedures " we have never heard what actually happened when Zagar pulled out. Certainly in order Pavlic,Buczkowski and Dilger (through their federation)should have been asked.As Buczkowski was in the country riding for Peterborough the night before i can`t understand if asked why he would turn it down ?

Furher to my earlier answer that phone no is also the customer services number-they are there between 10am and 5 pm mon-fri Danish time.on their website there is also a contact section where you can email them-when my tickets didn`t arrive once they were very helpful.

I thought it would be interesting to try and compare the various strengths of the 3 top leagues in Poland,Sweden and GB I have taken 2013 final averages(less bonus pts)across the 3 leagues-for the Elite league they are the rolling averages. One doesn`t have to be Einstein to realise that the Elite league is the weakest so therefore provide the highest averages of the three(generally) I have shown riders who ride in the 3 leagues first Zagar Eng 8.64 Pol 8.14 Swe 6.32 Batchelor Eng 8.21 pol 7.64 Swe 6.40 NKI Pol 9.46 Eng 9.12 Swe 8.71 Ward Eng 9.07 Swe 8.73 Pol 7.62 Holder Eng 9.23 Swe 8.91 Pol 8.35 Hancock Eng 8.77 Swe 8.54 Pol 7.38 Andersen Eng 8.34 Swe 5.89 Pol 5.49 Buczkowski Eng 7.33 Pol 6.07 Swe 5.93 Lindgren Eng 8.94 Swe 7.03 Pol 6.24 Magic pol 7.04 Eng 6.95 Kasprzak Eng 7.97 Pol 7.35 N Pedersen Swe 9.27 pol 8.78 Woffinden Pol 9.33 Eng 9.20 Hampel Pol 9.61 Swe 9.17 Ulamek Eng 6.60 Pol 5.81 G Laguta Swe 8.50 Pol 8.27 A Laguta Pol 7.88 Swe 7.33 Protasiewicz Swe 8.28 Pol 7.69 Kolodziej Pol 7.89 Swe 7.36 MJJ Swe 7.44 Pol 6.53 Miedzinski Pol 7.49 Swe 7.47 Walasek Pol 8.34 Swe 7.37 Kildemand Eng 8.25 Swe 7.14 B Pedersen Eng 8.12 Pol 5.75 Jonsson Pol 7.40 Swe 6.65 Zengota Pol 6.29 Eng 6.15 Bjerre Eng 8.45 Pol 7.06 Piotr Pawlicki Swe 7.09 pol 6.86 Prem Pawlicki Pol 7.26 Swe 6.65 Dudek Swe 7.49 Pol 7.48 Harris Eng 6.82 Swe 5.90 Vaculik Swe 6.31 Pol 4.95 Holta Pol 6.56 Swe 5.58 Kylmakorpi Eng 7.12 Swe 4.88 Jedrzejak Pol 6.04 Swe 6.00 P Karlsson Eng 8.09 Swe 6.93 Zmarlik Swe 6.78 pol 6.57 I did say earlier in the season that Sweden was the top league for rider strength-these figures show that some riders go better in Poland,some in Sweden.I suppose that`s no surprise as there are many reasons why a riders average is better in one country than another- i suspect that Vaculik picked up a shed load of bonus points in poland which keeps his ave quoted here low.

Hi Glenn, I have bought from Billetlugen.dk via the internet on at least 4 occasions for the Copenhagen GP. Did you set up an account ? I have generally found it works better that way-certainly for polish GP`s one needs an account. One of my big hates on buying foreign GP tickets are the buying procedures-it might start off in English but half way through the process the English changes to the local language-very frustrating and it`s about time BSI got it sorted !!

I will try and update regularly as news comes out-at the moment the points limit has to be ratified. Czestochowa 1 Michael Jepsen Jensen 2 Rune Holta 3 Grigorij Laguta 4 Peter Kildemand 5 Rafal Szombierski 6 Artur Czaja 7 Hubert Legowik 8 Miroslaw Jablonski 9 Greg Walasek Gdansk 1 Leon Madsen 2 Fredrik Lindgren 3 Thomas H Jonasson 4 Renat Gafurov 5 Peter Karlsson 6 Krystian Pieszczek 7 8 Artur Mroczka 9 Mathias Thornblom Gorzow 1 Neils Kristen Iversen 2 Kristof Kasprzak 3 Thomas Gapinski 4 Matej Zagar 5 Linus Sundstrom 6 Bartosz Zmarlik 7 Adrian Cyfer 8 Piotr Swiderski 9 Lukasz Cyran Leszno 1 Damian Balinski 2 Kenneth Bjerre 3 Grzegorz Zengota 4 Prem Pawlicki 5 Nicki Pedersen 6 Piotr Pawlicki 7 Tobias Musielak 8 Mikkel Michelsen Tarnow 1 Kristof Buczkowski 2 Martin Vaculik 3 Janus Kolodziej 4 Artem Laguta 5 Greg Hancock 6 Casper Gomolski 7 Mateusz Borowicz/Edward Mazur Torun 1 Thomas Gollob 2 Chris Holder 3 Darcy Ward 4 Emil Sayfutdinov 5 Adrian Miedzinski 6 Pawel Przedpelski 7 Oscar Fajfer 8 Max Fricke 9 Wiktor Kulakow Wroclaw 1 Tai Woffinden 2 Troy Batchelor 3 Thomas Jedrzejak 4 Maciej Janowski 5 Jurica Pavlic 6 Patryk Dolny 7 Patryk Malitowski 8 Zbigniew Suchecki Zielona Gora 1 Pepe Protasiewicz 2 Jarek Hampel 3 Andreas Jonsson 4 Alexsandr Loktaev 5 Patrick Dudek 6 Kamil Adamczewski 7 Adam Strzelec 8 Mikkel b Jensen 9 Krzysztof Jablonski

Chris Harris has signed for Rospiggarna

Not strictly true,as the polish play-offs were broadcast on Speedway.tv for the first time this year(subscription internet feed)

From the racing post website posted yesterday THE potential sale of Hall Green and Belle Vue has moved a step closer with a request from sale agent CBRE for formal written offers for the GRA-owned tracks to be submitted by Monday. The asking price for Hall Green is for offers in excess of £2.3m, while at Belle Vue it is £2.4m. However, Sheffield-based A&S Leisure Group, whose MD John Gilburn was once general manager at Belle Vue and has made little attempt to disguise aspirations to one day purchase the Manchester stadium, will not be among the suitors.

The main reason i would suggest is because Corals own Romford-facilities are good,prize money is decent,whereas Wimbledon is being run down by the GRA, and prize money is pathetic.

Sadly for you the stats show otherwise-Magic,MJJand Dudek all finished above lindgren in Sweden and Poland !!Sweden http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2013/Rankinglista/ Poland http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/enea-ekstraliga/statystyki/2013 Dudek it`s worth pointing out was at reserve all season in Poland.

Poole have what -executive boxes ? no just the restaurant with all the other punters

Cameron Woodward has signed for Indianerna

Sportowefakty are reporting that Lonigo Italy is the chosen venue for the 2014 GP challenge final.

Sorry but you are talking rubbish(again!)Above the bar near the first bend is a first rate sponsor`s facility which leads out onto an outside viewing area with a superb view of the track.

The person who has been banned Slawomir kryjoma is the Team manager-Roman Karkosik is the wealthy owner. One possible outcome being mentioned is the Torun club being declared bankrupt to avoid paying the fines.

Thanks for the clarifaciation Pawel-they might as well have made it free admission for what a ZL is worth.

Futher bit added on SportowefaktyIt is worth noting that Unibax also because of superimposed walkover will have to pay for Falubaz Zielona Gora 200,000 gold ! It is a punishment in Rules . Taking into account the average attendance at the stadium in Torun and duty driven away three games with ticket prices at the level of 1 zł gross , total losses Unibaxu Torun can be as high as 3.7 million ! It seems to say admission is 1 zl,but I agree translation could mean anything.

You have a short memory-one of the best ever SWC meetings was at Peterborough.

Certainly wasn`t for the GP challenge-ruined what should have been a cracking meeting-give it to Peterborough.

google translation of verdict courtesy of sportowefakty-Torun bound to lodge an appeal Trial Committee decided on the second leg final league in. The Unibax Torun and Slawomir Kryjoma subject to severe penalties! Penalties imposed on Slawomir Kryjoma: - Suspension for two years - The loss of any license PZM - A ban on entry to the pits for 16 months Penalties imposed on Unibax Torun: - 12 points negative for season 2014 - 573 thousand. zł reimbursement of lost benefits for Falubaz Zielona Gora - 363 thousand. zł total penalties for Extraleague - 1.5 million zł in three selected foundations involved in the fight against cancer in children - 3 first matches organized at home - the price of tickets up to 1 zł gross The claim of Torun Unibaxu of mutual walkover.