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Teams confirmed in Wroclaw- 8 is Tonder

It is stated on the Speedway GP website https://www.speedwayofnations.com/son/event/Manchester and confirmed to me by the FIM

100% confirmed that it`s 4pm start both days

I still think it is as the GP website states 4pm on both days- i will endeavour to confirm one way or the other

Semi- finals draw done for Daugavpils- 17th/18th September SF 1 Poland Denmark Sweden Finland Czech Rep Slovenia USA SF 2 Russia Australia Latvia Italy Ukraine Germany France

Then they are both wrong !!! ( or the GP website is wrong )

About time the wild card is announced.

Riders will be issued tyres on the day in the play-offs- Google translated the 2021 season according to the following rules. delivering, for each play-off game in the 2021 season, on match dates in accordance with the published schedule of the games, rear tires of Mitas and Anlas brands, 80 of each brand, delivery should be made on the day of the competition, 6 hours before the start of the match - ready to sell tires, for the tires purchased by the players before the match, the tenderer shall issue an invoice to the club whose colors the player represents, the price of tires specified in the offer should include transport to the place of sale, offers of companies whose owners, shareholders or shareholders have been registered in the team of any player of the team participating in the league competition in the last 3 years will not be considered, Ekstraliga Żużlowa sp. O. O. I have the right to resign from accepting any of the offers without giving any reason, an offer may also be submitted by a dealer offering only one tire brand, offers in the form of a signed PDF scan should be submitted by e-mail to the following address: office@speedwayekstraliga.pl by August 27, 2021 inclusive.

Current table 1 Smederna P 13 points 26 2 Vastervik P 12 points 20 3 Dackarna P 13 points 17 4 Lejonen P 13 points 16 5 Vetlanda P 11 points 15 6 Rospiggarna P 12 points 13 7 Masarna P 12 points 11 8 Indianerna P 12 points 10 9 Piraterna P 12 points 1

We move on to next week Tuesday August 24th round 15 Lejonen v Masarna-TV MATCH Piraterna v Dackarna Vetlanda v Smederna Rospiggarna v Vastervik Thursday August 26th round 14 Indianerna v Vetlanda- TV MATCH

TV coverage pulled- not on Eurosport

4 team tournament featuring Kangaroo`s, European, Russian and Polish teams. Match starts at 5pm UK time and is live on Motowizja and on you tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxmLT3z81ec Riders announced are Kangaroo`s Troy Bachelor Ryan Douglas Brady Kurtz Rohan Tungate Europe Luke Becker-(based in ) Robert Lambert Ben Ernst Jonas Jeppesen Polish Dudek Kosciuch Nowak Prem Pawlicki

Final regular round 14 of the season gets underway tomorrow with 2 matches. Friday August 20th Wroclaw v Zielona Gora start time 5pm UK time Eleven Sport 1 Friday August 20th Torun v Gorzow start time 7.30pm UK time Eleven Sport 1 Links http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html http://www.maniak.tv/mk1 http://assia.org/live/mix-sport6/?lang=pl VK to follow nearer start time Racecards Wroclaw v Zielona Gora Torun v Gorzow

Page 8 says that 4 qualified from Nagyhalász 4 qualified from Glasgow 4 qualified from Terenzano 3 qualified from Gorican- this is because they needed a Slovakian wildcard- Vaculik When Michelsen pulled out the 5th in Nagyhalász- Logachev came in When Vaculik pulled out they must have decided not to put another Slovakian in and put Kvech in instead( 4th in Gorican)

can`t be any clearer than this Event will start at 16:00 local time on both Day 1 & Day 2.

Avon Van Dyck replaces sick brother Sammy tonight

Sunday`s matches line-ups Landshut v Rawicz Landshut 9 Huckenbeck 10 Haertel 11 Grobauer 12 Berge 13 Smolinski 14 15 Blodorn Rawicz 1 Rew 2 Balinski 3 Gilmore 4 Szlauderbach 5 Drozdz 6 Pludra 7 Daugavpils v Opole(NOT ON TV) Daugavpils 9 Puodzuks 10 Ansvisulis 11 Mihailovs 12 Matjusonoks 13 Kostigovs 14 Gusts 15 Opole 1 Brzozowski 2 Kudriashov 3 Thorsell 4 M Hansen 5 Polis 6 Lobodzinski 7 Krzykowski

Big clue on page 8.

Sunday`s matches line-ups Leszno v Lublin Leszno 9 Sayfutdinov 10 Kolodziej 11 Lidsey 12 Doyle 13 Piotr Pawlicki 14 Sadurski 15 Ratajczak 16 Lublin 1 Karion 2 G Laguta 3 Hampel 4 Buczkowski 5 Michelsen 6 Lampart 7 Cierniak 8 (Kubera)- not named Grudziadz v Czestochowa Grudziadz 9 Prem Pawlicki 10 Bjerre 11 Kasprzak 12 Lacbaum 13 Pedersen 14 Oracki 15 Zielinski 16 Czestochowa 1 Woryna 2 Smektala 3 Lindgren 4 Jeppesen 5 Madsen 6 Miskowiak 7 Swidnicki 8

Confirmed teams from around 5.30pm UK time and live updates from 6pm https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Arena,FromDateShort&Datefilter=Today&pagesize=6&CompetitionId=12516

Jan Kvech is replacing Vaculik in the meeting.

Another news item from the Extraleague- Google translated Changes in the training process at PGE Ekstraliga will include a modern approach to attracting young foreign players. The annual camp is to be an "exhibition window" for speedway riders who do not always have the opportunity to show themselves on Polish tracks. Ekstraliga Żużlowa has a TV contract and money spending strategy that has been presented to the clubs. Scouting is a novelty that can be organized slightly differently. The aim of organizing the camp will be to attract to Poland talented young foreign players who, due to the cost barrier, would not be able to present themselves to the training staffs of PGE Ekstraliga clubs. In cooperation with foreign federations, PGE Ekstraliga wants to regularly organize this type of event, at least once a year. - The arrival of a young speedway rider to Poland from Australia, New Zealand or the United States, for example during the holiday season, when this type of adept does not have professional equipment and sponsors, but has a willingness to show his skills, can be a life chance for him - says Wojciech Stępniewski , president of PGE Ekstraliga. - I believe that in many Polish centers there is no courage to bet on young players, and direct contact with them, the opportunity to look at real skills always increases the chances of catching talented youth, who actually only in Poland has a chance to make a career in speedway sport - adds Wojciech Stępniewski. Representatives of all PGE Ekstraliga clubs will be invited to the camp and will have the opportunity to contract players. It is also worth emphasizing that the newly acquired player will be able to play in the U24 Ekstraliga competition in the same season. Clubs will be able to contract players in a specific order, taking into account the league's average pole point for youth players and U24 in a given club. A system will be created - like a draft, and the club whose players achieve the lowest average will be the first to contract.

News item from the Extraleague- google translated PLN 20 million a year will be spent by PGE Ekstraliga clubs on training and the reserve team. This is the strategy of the company managing the games for the next 4 years. Before making a final decision, clubs have time to comment. Where does the money for training come from? A new TV contract will provide them. Development for the speedway sport and new opportunities for the discipline can only be provided by young players. From the 2022 season, the clubs in PGE Ekstraliga will have to submit their reserve team to a separate competition. There is already the name of the new competition. It's U24 Ekstraliga. The matches of the second teams will be played on extra-league tracks, they will be governed by separate competition regulations and, most importantly, the age limit for participating players, which will be 24 years. In the U24 Ekstraliga competition, the so-called guests. Let us remind you that there was a lot of speculation about the reserve teams in PGE Ekstraliga. The media reported that the teams would compete in the second league, but ultimately each club in PGE Ekstraliga will have a separate team, and during the season the club's staff will have to include at least 8 players up to 24 years of age, including at least 4 national youth players. Players who have reached the age of 15 will be able to submit their entries to the second team and will be able to take part in the matches. Restrictions will be introduced to ensure the training aspect of the competition and an appropriate starting policy for competitors with lower levels of sport. The U24 Ekstraliga will not be allowed to run by players who in the previous season in PGE Ekstraliga had an average point-to-point average of 1,500 or more. Players will be able to be reported simultaneously to the first and second teams, and if contracts with new players are signed during the season, the PGE Ekstraliga club will be obliged to send the current list of the first and second teams to the Licensing Commission within three days from the confirmation of the player. The staff of the PGE Ekstraliga club after each change (a player coming or leaving) must meet the requirements for the number of players in the second team. U24 Ekstraliga will be played according to the rates of the PGE Ekstraliga financial regulations. The day of the week which will be the match day has not been determined yet, but it is already known that players will not be able to take part in the first and second team league matches on the same day.

Semi-final play-off dates and TV announced 1st legs Saturday September 4th Rybnik v Ostrow start time 3pm UK time N Sport Sunday September 5th Gdansk v krosno start time 1pm UK time N Sport 2nd legs Saturday September 11th Krosno v Gdansk start time 3pm UK time N Sport Sunday September 12th Ostrow v Rybnik start time 1pm UK time N Sport

Saturday’s match line- ups Rzeszow v Poznan Rzeszow 9 Rolnicki 10 Cyfer 11 Legowik 12 Baran 13 Masters 14 15 Majcher Poznan 1 2 Chmiel 3 Seifert- Salk 4 M Nielsen 5 Wolbert 6 Rachubik 7