racers and royals

I was thinking exactly the same as i watched on Monday. If the start marshall pulled everyone tight up to the tapes as he does in Poland it very much reduces the opportunity to roll forward and get a flyer.

Ole Olsen and his team start putting the track in this Friday. next Tuesday there is scheduled a test meeting with junior riders.

TV matches announced for round 6- all UK times Friday May 24th Gorzow v Grudziadz Eleven Sport 1 start time 5pm Friday May 24th Czestochowa v Wroclaw eleven Sport 1 start time 7.30pm Sunday May 26th Lublin v Torun N Sport start time 3.30pm Sunday May 26th Leszno v Zielona Gora N Sport start time 6pm

Gdansk v Ostrow sunday May 5th

SEC qualification round Krsko May 1st

Round 1 DMPJ at Zielona Gora(junior team comp) Tuesday May 7th

I`m going to get something right today as i have just watched it and wrote this on the Swedish league thread.- thought he was ok but obviously not !! The other crash was Brady Kurtz going on the outside of Nicki P and finding amongst many riders in the past that the gap disappeared in an instance !!!! heavy fall but ok- Nicki excluded !! Edit didn`t realise but he didn`t ride again after crashing.

Tuesday`s final match watched Masarna 33 Indianerna 57- and what an embarrassing result for the Avesta team- Indianerna, my tip for the title were just to good for them. It pains me to say it but i can`t see Masarna lasting the season !! attendance 1260

Just watched Vastervik v Vetlanda- decent speedway couple of nasty crashes firstly for Smektala when he went under the airfence. Not sure his pit crew dragging him out before the medics got there was the most sensible thing they should have done. the other crash was Brady Kurtz going on the outside of Nicki P and finding amongest many riders in the past that the gap disappeared in an instance !!!! heavy fall but ok- Nicki excluded !! attendance 1623

Sincere apologies to one and all- very much a senior moment - should have checked Poole`s 1 to 7 before posting such rubbish !!! i`m very much the prat

Prat !!!! https://poole-speedway.com/news/view/poole-pirates-v-ipswich-witches-preview

Swedish fixture 1st here Poole 2nd file:///C:/Users/timst/Downloads/2019_International_Speedway_League_Calendar_-_07.05.2019.pdf Edit not sure if that has anything to do with priority as the following Thursday Sweden is 1st over all the UK fixtures.

Yes this is his return to action after his injury. No news yet of who rides where in the GP qualifiers- bit too early news should filter through around the end of May

Just watched 2 of last nights matches- Lejonen v Rospiggarna was pretty ordinary fare, however at Motala Piraterna v Smederna was a great meeting with loads of passing !! 2027 at Gislaved 1506 at Motala

Wouldn`t normally start a Poole match thread, however this Thursday see`s the start of the "who rides where" on a Thursday conundrum, as Jakobsen has been named in the Dackarna team facing Smederna on Thursday. This might be what Matt Ford referred to when he said that Sweden had priority over the UK cup matches ?

Thursday`s Match teams DACKARNA 1 Dudek 2 Jakobsen 3 Berntzon 4 Thorssell 5 Janowski- R/R(probably) 6 Kling 7 Gomolski SMEDERNA 1 F Lindgren 2 Asprgen 3 MJJ 4 Lebedevs 5 Prem Pawlicki 6 Miedzinski 7 M Szczepaniak

Must be a special for week 1 only !!

For fear of repeating myself - NO Tuesday matches are available anywhere apart from subscribing to ESS. The TV match weekly is now the Thursday match and at the moment i can’t see a deal has been done with Poland yet which leaves Freesports and maybe sister channel Premier Sports.

All TV matches are on Thursday`s which is an additional night for Sweden this season- i did mention it in the OP

FMNs shall nominate a squad up to 3 seniors and 2 U21 Riders two weeks before Race off 1 mentioning who are the 2 seniors and 1 U21 Riders competing to the meeting. 2 weeks before the Final they can nominate only the Riders named in the squad. If there is an injury, it is allowed to nominate another Rider that was not in the squad.

You can change it nowadays through injury.

Yes 1 above and any below- think averages change almost weekly.

Go onto the SON draw thread - i put them on there.It was page 4 so here you are RACE OFF 2 SQUADS AND LINE-UPS (IN DRAW ORDER): AUSTRALIA: 1 Jason Doyle (captain), 2 Max Fricke, U21 Jaimon Lidsey. Also in squad: Chris Holder, Jordan Stewart (U21). FINLAND: 1 Timo Lahti (captain), 2 Tero Aarnio, U21 Timi Salonen. Also in squad: Jesse Mustonen, Niklas Sayrio (U21). LATVIA: 1 Andzejs Lebedevs (captain), 2 Jevgenijs Kostigovs, U21 Olegs Mihailovs. DENMARK: 1 Niels-Kristian Iversen (captain), 2 Leon Madsen, U21 Frederik Jakobsen. Also in squad: Michael Jepsen Jensen, Patrick Hansen (U21). GREAT BRITAIN: 1 Tai Woffinden (captain), 2 Craig Cook, U21 Robert Lambert. Also in squad: Chris Harris, Daniel Bewley (U21). FRANCE: 1 David Bellego (captain), 2 Dimitri Berge, U21 Gaetan Stella. USA: 1 Austin Novratil, 2 Luke Becker (captain), U21 Broc Nicol. Also in squad: Ricky Wells.

If he replaced Lambert it would be a miracle as Lambert is the U21 rider

Daugavpils v Gdansk Sunday April 14th