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Probably because no one has PM`d Phil and requested it !!!!!!

1st/2nd week December normally.

You are wrong on 2 counts !! firstly 2 Extraleague matches have always been shown live on Sunday’s - and in 2019 that doesn’t change plus 2 Nice Polska have also been shown live - the Uk times have been 12pm and 1.45pm for the Nice Polska and 4pm and 6.30pm for the Extraleague. the Extraleague no 8’s in 2019 can now guest for LOWER league clubs. There are NO guests in the Extraleague. If there is one thing i know about it’s Polish speedway !!

I Wasn’t talking about the Extraleague !!! Only one rider Ellis on that list of over 30 riders is riding Extraleague and possibly championship. There have been regularly 2 Nice Polska Tv matches on Sundays as well as the occasional Friday/ Saturday Nice Polska Tv matches hence the various % differences.

Wells will not ride for Sheffield- he is riding for Bydgoszcz on Sundays !!

Hence the OP - what should the BSPA do ?? These riders however are hardly 2nd raters as far as the Championship goes. It’s going to be really difficult to fill 12 teams with riders not included in the list !!

Potenially all of them- Nice Polska league(2nd Polish league) and 2nd div(3rd Polish tier) all ride on Sundays apart from some teams like Rawicz ride at home on Saturday’s - there are TV matches on Fridays and Saturday’s for teams who normally ride on Sunday’s.

It’s 80% Sundays 10% Fridays and 10% Saturdays

No

I don`t- i see it as he is buying the clubs and paying over several seasons with additional payment(a wage) to messrs Rathbone and Louis to run the clubs for him.

With plenty of the Championship teams rider targets likely to contracted to riding in Polish teams on Saturday/ Sunday, is it not time for the BSPA/SCB to come up with a firm rule covering facilities for missing riders who are riding elsewhere. My view is any rider who wants to do Poland can only ride Premiership(no clash on Mondays/Thursday`s) - ie NO facility for a rider riding Polish league. Here is a list of riders contracted to Polish teams-only included those i would think might ride in Championship.Poland do use a squad system so some listed below are not guaranteed meetings over there. Ellis Lidsey Erik Riss Bewley Etheridge Schlein Tungate Jorgensen Wilson-Dean Becker Grajczonek Morris Palm-Toft Summers Vissing Klindt Masters Jensen Lyager Aarnio Kus Stewart Stichauer Albin Todd Kurtz Keynan Rew Lawson Wright Bellego Bach Berge Wells Manzares

Wells is riding for Bydgoszcz in 2019 and Lawson has signed for Opole.

Blimey !!! the fans will flock in to see that ROW side.

Not sure if they were the same owners but back then wasn`t it "Tee mill" tours ?

On sale here https://www.ticketportal.cz/Event/2019_Anlas_Czech_Republic_FIM_Speedway_Grand_Prix

Or get the regular season out the way by the end of August and have the top 4 go into a mini- league(3 home matches) and the top 2 after 6 matches each, go into the grand final H and A

This week`s purchases by Buster remind me very much of the scenario Terry Russell faced when he was chairman and purchased (or invested in) clubs just so the top league could meet the minimum number of teams for the TV contract

Maybe from Cheryl she is a Littlechild family member.

I think they mean that riders who didn`t achieve a average of 3 points in the Premiership in 2018 are not eligible to be signed ie Jack Smith,Max Clegg. Will not stop new riders joining who`s assessed average is 3 or more.

Told you so

It doesn`t - he was just using the failure to get an average as an indicator that the British riders were not getting Polish meetings.

Several Extraleague teams have been snapping up the best of the U21 polish riders from Nice Polska and div 2 leagues. They still have it all to do to match Kubera/ Smektala at Leszno but most teams now have 2 semi-decent reserves. Latest line-ups here https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/784378/sklady-druzyn-pge-ekstraliga-2019 Josh Grajczonek has joined Rzeszow from lodz latest Nice Polska league line-ups here https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/784577/sklady-druzyn-nice-1-liga-zuzlowa-2019 Div 2 here https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/784586/sklady-druzyn-2-liga-zuzlowa-2019

GI appointed a new Thai director 2 months ago Phanuthep Brarypaul. I wonder what his specialist field is ??

You used the word " Turmoil" - maybe " uncertainty " would have been a better word I love my trips to some of the big dog meetings - ie Trainers championship night and Towcester was such a brilliant night out !!

It`s not all doom and gloom as Towcester Racecourse assets including the greyhound track were sold yesterday to a company linked to the Hesketh family- with more news expected early in 2019 https://www.racingpost.com/news/towcester-fate-to-be-known-in-new-year-after-racing-assets-sold-to-new-company/353599