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No venue yet for the Nice Polska league pairs, however some further info from a Sportowefakty article- Google translated. There will be a new speedway event in Poland. Clubs from the first league should be satisfied The first league club championship is an event that will appear in the speedway calendar in the 2019 season. In the Main Committee of Speedway Sport, they take the subject very seriously. It is known that participants will be able to count on financial rewards. We're still fine-tuning the rules. At the moment I can only say that six teams from the first division will take part in the competition. There will be a wild card that the organizer will most likely receive - says GKSŻ chairman Piotr Szymański. The winner of the Club League Championships of the first division will advance to the MPPK final, where he will fight with the teams from PGE Ekstraliga. Until now, it looked different. The pass for the decisive game for medals was awarded to the five best extrale teams from the previous season and the winner of the Nice 1.LŻ. In practice, in the final we had only the highest-class players. Now an opportunity opens up for the teams from the first division. About the promotion to the MMPK finals will decide the day's disposition, not the results of the previous season. In GKSŻ, they believe clubs will approach the topic seriously. Finance is an additional incentive. The prize pool may not be high immediately, but the most important thing is that in this case it was possible to take a step in the right direction. According to our information, the participants of the Championships of Club Pairs of the first division will be divided into 50-60,000 PLN. Not much, but no one will be able to complain that he is going for free

I have stayed in Hultsfred and Vimmerby for previous Malilla GP`s and would recommend either town. Looking at map these are sort of wrong side(north)of Malilla for Vaxjo- you are not flying from UK ?

Article in the Times today by Henry Winter on Middlesborough manager Tony Pulis recalls him walking 40 minutes from home to watch the Newport Wasps at Somerton Park. Maybe Redcar could invite him along as a special guest one night.

Thanks- knew you would know

Full GP qualifying calendar 08th June ACU Qualifying Round 1 Glasgow Great Britain 08th June SMF Qualifying Round 2 Zarnovica Slovakia 08th June FFM Qualifying Round 3 Lamothe L. France 10th June DMSB Qualifying Round 4 Abensberg Germany 24th August HMS Challenge Gorican Croatia

3 Qualifying rounds on May 25th will decide the finals field. Pardubice, Krakow are 2 of the rounds with the 3rd scheduled for Germany.

3 round final series in 2019 Lublin 22nd June Gustrow 14th September Pardubice Friday October 4th-start of golden helmet weekend ( Torun GP on the Saturday)

13/7 Gustrow 27/7 Torun 10/8 Vojens 28/9 Chorzow Confirmed tonight

Lets hope that Jack Holder is a changed man

So you think that the 6 fixture clashes for the 3 Poole riders will see them every time in the UK and not Sweden ??

Same as Jacob Thorssell and Sam Masters - no fixtures that clash( Don`t know if NKI is riding UK)

Quick look through the fixtures has shown up these clashes between the Premiership and the new Swedish Elitserien Thursday fixtures. We know that the UK has priority - we shall see ?? Doyle 8th Aug J Holder 27th June 4th July Batchelor 6th June 25th July 15th Aug B Kurtz 16th May Klindt 16th May 27th June 4th July K Bjerre 22nd Aug K Pieszczek 20th June 11th July 22nd Aug

Not strictly this thread but the venue has been announced for the golden Helmet finals on Saturday April 20th at Pila

You keep on saying 2 GP`s - however the reserve dates are on another 6 GP weekends. Hell of a difference if they use some of those !!!!

I`m excited !! R & R bookmakers are funding the competition for a 7th year- and the best Speedway bookmaker in the UK has made the competition better for the punters(i know my generosity is unequalled !!) In 2019 we have the introduction of the SPREAD STRETCHER- more of that later. RULES Each contestant MUST place bets in all 10 rounds -in the event of having no money left they are out of the competition Each player starts with £400. MAXIMUM BET PER GP IS £200.minimum bet per GP is £20(or total balance if less than £20) minimum bet per rider is £10. All bets can be edited up to the advertised starting time of the meeting. If a rider is injured before a round starts then the bet is voided on that rider, or bets can be amended up to the meeting start time. If a rider starts a meeting but is injured and cannot continue THE BET STANDS but any points scored by the reserves count towards the injured riders score. If any rider is excluded for a starting offence the reserve points scored do not get added. To ensure fair play bets for the final round may be required to be PM`d to me instead of normal posting. If a meeting is called off at heat 16 then the spread will be adjusted to 4/5th`s of the original. If a meeting is called off at or after 20 heats the spreads stand. HOW TO PLAY One must bet on a rider to score MORE OR LESS than the spread-the HIGHER figure is taken for MORE bets and the LOWER for LESS bets-the mid between the two is what I expect them to score-and they add up to 138 which is the total points available in a GP EXAMPLE These might be 3 of the spreads for the 1st GP of the season Woffinden 10 - 12 .Hancock 7 - 9 Kolodziej 5 - 7 Player 1 might think Woffinden will score more than 12 in Warsaw so bets £100 MORE. If Woffinden scored 15 he would win (15-12 =3) X £100 which is £300. If he only scored 8 he would LOSE (12-8=4) X £100 which is £400 and be out of the competition. Player 2 might think Hancock will score less than 7 and bets £200 LESS Hancock scored 5 so wins (7-5=2) X £200 which is £400. If he scored 11 he would LOSE (11-7=4) X £200 which is £800 and he would be out of the competition. Player 3 might think Kolodziej will have a stormer and bet £200 MORE than 7 . if he scored 9 he would win (9-7=2) X £200 which is £400. however if Kolodziej scored the mid-spread of 6 he would LOSE (7-6=1 x £200 which is £200 SPREAD STRETCHER The other major bookmakers are so predictable offering " bet boosters" "make your own bet" etc etc that i have gone one better and am offering the unique SPREAD STRETCHER. Every contestant has 2 opportunities (separate GP`s) to use their SPREAD STRETCHER in the 10 GP`S(if left in competition!!) The SPREAD STRETCHER is used on a bet on 1 rider - up to the maximum of £200 bet per round (ie £200 on the 1 rider or maybe £100 as the SPREAD STRETCHER with up to £100 on other riders) If the SPREAD STRETCHER bet is to score MORE i will adjust the spread on that rider bet by ONE WHOLE POINT ie Bet more on Woffinden at 10-12 the SPREAD STRETCHER turns it into 9-11 !!!!! If betting LESS the adjustment goes the other way ie Woffinden less than 10-12 becomes 11-13 Obviously if you the Punter get it wrong it`s happy days !!!! As you can tell i`m really excited about this addition to the competition- and rest assured i will be keeping a note of it`s use so that no one gets to use it 3 times(as if punters would try that !!!!) Spread for the 1st GP of the season in Warsaw on May 18th will be up nice and early once the early season form has been studied

I’m sure there are 15 riders unhappy with this Extraleague decision. They are all to scared to upset the Polish cash cow. You just wait until a rider racing in Poland the night before has a bad GP - the truth will then come out !!! For fear of repeating myself there is absolutely no need for the Extraleague to schedule league matches the night before a GP.

Indeed and Polish matches have also been called off when reserves/other team members are not available through postponed FIM Europe/other FIM events. Yet the Extraleague are happy to schedule matches the day after Cardiff at 4.30pm Polish time !! The Poles if they wanted to could avoid GP weekends for any fixtures.

100% certain there will be meetings on in Poland on that Sunday- either rearranged postponed matches or individual meetings.

Because it`s about the Extraleague having no respect for anybody else other than themselves. They have the best riders in the world, and the best riders in the world want to prepare properly for their ulitimate aim - being World champion. There are plenty of other Friday`s they can use other than GP weekends. The FIM should have immediately scuppered their plans by ensuring riders are at practice the day before GP`s. 2 years ago the Extraleague even annoyed there own association(Polish PZM) by rearranging a league match for a Thursday when the Polish championships(IMP) qualifying was on- and the PZM had to cancel a round.

As i said on my last post on the other thread - the TV fixtures are done in blocks of 4/6 rounds. Early March will probably around the time when the 1st lot is decided. As for who is hosting the MPPK that maybe will be known by end of February.

I solve a 10year old mystery and all i get for my trouble is a load of abuse !!!!!

Who is(or was) this Speedguy chap ? or shouldn`t i ask ? Why was he banned ?

I know it`s old(2009 question) but it was Walthamstow Speedway as they are credited in the opening titles of the film which is in full here

Wonder if NKI has had his diamond checked out yet by a gems expert ?

Another " Pile " of cr&p on the Poole thread