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just caught up with the action by keeping away from any score details and watching Eurosport - cracking meeting- obviously spoilt by Eurosport !!! cut out heat 6 but then ludicrously cut out heat 14- what the **** I did enjoy the " 10 best cycling near-misses" during one of the breaks. Edit If that`s the best the editor can do sat in Paris- then I`m glad we are out of the EU !!!!!!

confirmation of the catch-up matches dates round 9 Rybnik v Wroclaw Thursday 7th July LIVE ON TV start time 6pm uk time round 9 Leszno v Tarnow Sunday 10th July round 10 Rybnik v Zielona Gora Sunday 17th July

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WYecQZZSjo

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWVWLBeRLVI

There is another Laguta around- Pawel nephew of Grigori and Artem http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/611767/wladywostok-pewnie-zmierza-po-zloto-dm-rosji-wostok-turbina-5238

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smhRSE6TCrE

RIGHT- can`t hang about I need to start clawing back some of the recent losses !!!! Cardiff GP Saturday 9th July (my birthday if anyone wants to buy me a drink in Cardiff ) start time 5pm UK time Hancock 12 - 14 Woffinden 12 - 14 Doyle 10 - 12 NKI 9 - 11 Zmarzlik 9 - 11 Holder 9 - 11 Pedersen 9 - 11 Zagar 7 - 9 Kildemand 7 - 9 Janowski 7 - 9 Lindback 7 - 9 Lindgren 6 - 8 Harris 6 - 8 Jonsson 5 - 7 Pawlicki 5 - 7 King 2 - 4

If you are a fan of messrs Tatum, Pearson and Barrie watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMgRWPv-lYs

Draw has been made for the helmet colours for the opening 2 rounds Event 1 red Russia blue Poland white Czech rep yellow Denmark Event 2 red Australia blue USA white Germany yellow Sweden

With the Elitserien having a new play-off system this season-top 4 meet each other home and away(points reset to zero) with the top 2 after the 6 matches each(3 H 3 A) meeting in the grand final. I have confirmation of the play off dates. Tues August 23rd Tues August 30th Tues September 6th Wednesday September 7th Monday September 12th Tuesday September 13th Tuesday September 27th Grand final 1st leg Wednesday September 28th grand final 2nd leg

Attendances in the Extraleague seem to be holding up Rybnik Thursday 8500 Gorzow yesterday 10,350 Torun yesterday 7868

Without helmets on !!! Can't say i've seen that before- totally irresponsible to both do it and allow it to be done !!!

After last week`s break we are back with the TV match Elite Vetlanda v Rospiggarna likely line-ups Vetlanda 1 Zmarzlik 2 Musielak 3 Sayfutdinov 4 kling 5 Woffinden 6 Berntzon 7 Wennerstam Rospiggarna 1 Doyle 2 Fricke 3 Jonsson 4 Thorssell 5 Vaculik 6 Lindman 7 Lahti meeting is covered by C MORE sport start time 6pm uk time stream http://tvsport.pro/channels/ Eurosport 2 highlights programme is on Wednesday 29th at 11am The other meetings this Tuesday are Dackarna v Lejonen Smederna v Indianerna Piraterna v Masarna teams http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2016/

Short video from Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peZlBtXoRZE they are mad -wheelies without helmets on

Next Sunday 3rd July-all UK times programme starts 12.15pm 1st race 12.45pm Rzeszow v Czestochowa NICE POLSKA league followed by Extraleague programme starts 3.30pm 1st race 4pm Wroclaw v Leszno followed at 6pm 1st race 6.30pm Grudziadz v Torun (local derby !!)

Gorzow 59 Tarnow 31 just a reminder that before next Sunday`s league programme we have Friday July 1st Polish ind final from Leszno programme starts at 5pm UK time followed on Saturday 2nd July Poland v Russia from Krakow programme starts 4pm UK time both live on TV

Decent decision there to exclude Miedzinski

Tarnow in for a right stuffing at Gorzow 15-3 after 3 heats. Musielak would be a good signing for someone like kings Lynn

Daugavpils 51 Pila 39

Wroclaw 47 Grudziadz 43 Krakow 46 Czestochowa 44 Watching on http://sportslive.info/viewpage.php?page_id=2 Going to be a cracking match-and with Emil back difficult to call however I will go 47-43 to Torun Alan-you can keep Daria today`s interviewer is different class !!

Krosno 50 Gdansk 40 Rawicz 35 Rzeszow 55

he will probably make a cut to 5 senior riders before the official training at 12pm on the day of the meeting and then go with 4 out of the 5.

From what mdmc82 has said - Rosco said " on the day "

N sport showing re-run of Zielona gora v Torun from last Sunday- roll on 6pm for the live action from Torun Daugavpils v Pila live at 4pm uk time may be available to watch here http://sport.tvp.pl/ - nope not available to us

He is going to have to make some sort of decision before practice- because only 5 senior team riders plus the U21 can take part in the session.