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Sure he has. Drink and drive is not legal. He was above the legal limit 0,2 promille so he do have done something illegal.

MJJ says that Coventry have not approved it but that he will ride for Dackarna on Monday. I would assume that play offs take precedence over a regular league meeting? http://www.nt.se/sport/installt-det-tackar-dackarna-for-10094581.aspx

Dackarna-Indianerna are confirmed for Monday. http://indianerna.nu/nyhet.php?id=3227 not sure about the return but I don't understand why they would have in on Wednesday.

Smederna were truly awful tonight. PK and Pawel P rode like newbies. Track was very heavy and Smederna did hardly win a start. Dackarna-Indianerna will be on Monday and the Indianerna - Dackarna on Wednesday apparently. For anyone complaining about ESP not showing well, you didn't miss anything.

Dont think will win this. Neither meeting or qf. Kenni and Laguta the only ones doing good so far for Smederna.. As usual home team is disadvantaged after a post-rain graded track.

Crowd is quite small, maybe 2500. It has rained some during the afternoon which probably have scared off a thousand or so. Add last weeks aborted meeting that...

Another 10-15 min till start here but the sun is shining though. The other qf is postponed. It have to be re-run this week.

Track prep in progress in Eskilstuna, we're maybe 15 min away from heat 1 at the moment.

Sure I agree but from ESP point of view; live tennis gives more viewers then speedway -> better commercial conditions -> sell adverts to a higher price -> more income to Eurosport.

They haven't dropped it, it's the US open in tennis which takes precedence over Swedish speedway.

It seems that Davey Watt also suddenly is a Poole Pirates rider rather then riding for his Polish team which have a meeting that day. A meeting that was postponed and moved to this Sunday due to bad weather. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=pl&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=sv&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportowefakty.pl%2Fzuzel%2F463165%2Fworld-speedway-league-klopotem-dla-koziolkow-kmz-lublin-mocno-oslabiony-w-rzeszo&edit-text= So half of Poole's team consist of non-Poole riders?

Well what do you expect, it Tuesday.

He have arrived. http://instagram.com/p/sKVUfPOkBj/

How is this possible? How many years since Emil last raced for Poole and how many meetings did he do? Emil is not part of their squad this season so why is Poole allowed to use him? Does this mean that any of the teams are allowed to use any rider that has ridden for them anytime the past 5 years? Anyhow this just shows the pointlessness of this whole idea if the teams can bring in any rider they like.

Not yet. The forecasts looked good a couple of days ago but as always it's Tuesday and it's raining. There is a large area with rain over Bottenhavet (Bothnian Sea) in a worst case scenario it will affect Smederna-Rospiggarna and possible also the second meeting. http://www.smhi.se/vadret/nederbord-molnighet/radar-blixt-sverige

The background picture, which track is that and how long is it? 350m?

The thing is though that Darcy doesn't have any license to loose since he already lost it (a two year disqualification) after the incident in Australia.

Allsvenskan play off will be semi finals and finals only, Just like Elitserien play offs, the winner of the series gets to pick opponent and if the want to start home or away. race card for Gnistorna - Masarna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/11nfdnw7lcc70gu/AS.2014.SF1-1.Gnistorna-Masarna.pdf Gnistorna-Masarna will be live streamed via Malmotv.se / youtube: http://www.malmotv.se/live-sections/live/index.1.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlI-jaq4ysU 2014-09-11 - Semifinals - Leg 1 Gnistorna - Masarna Gnistorna 1. Mikael Max 2. Mathias Thörnblom 3. Patrik Hougaard 4. Jesper Sörgaard 5. Peter Ljung 6. Kenny Wennerstam 7. Mattias Nilsson Masarna 1. Dennis Andersson 2. Kalle Katajisto 3. Maksims Bogdanovs 4. Fredrik Engman 5. Antonio Lindbäck (K) 6. Anton Rosén 7. Ted Hagansbo -------- Lejonen 1. Rafal Okoniewski 2. David Ruud 3. Pontus Aspgren 4. Oliver Berntzon 5. Linus Sundström (K) 6. Christian Agö 7. Daniel Pytel Griparna 1. Fredrik Lindgren 2. John Lindman 3. Kim Nilsson 4. Alexander Edberg 5. Kauko Nieminen (K) 6. Joel Kling 7. Viktor Bergström 2014-09-12 - Semifinals - Leg 2 Masarna 1. Dennis Andersson 2. Fredrik Engman 3. Maksims Bogdanovs 4. Kalle Katajisto 5. Antonio Lindbäck (K) 6. Ted Hagansbo 7. Anton Rosén Gnistorna 1. Mikael Max 2. Mattias Nilsson 3. Miroslaw Jablonski 4. Mathias Thörnblom 5. Peter Ljung 6. Sebastian Carlson 7. Kenny Wennerstam -------- Griparna 1. Fredrik Lindgren 2. Alexander Edberg 3. Kim Nilsson 4. John Lindman 5. Kauko Nieminen 6. Joel Kling 7. Viktor Bergström Lejonen 1. Linus Sundström 2. David Ruud 3. Pontus Aspgren 4. Oliver Berntzon 5. Rafal Okoniewski 6. Daniel Pytel 7. Christian Agö

No it shouldn't be really and I find it strange that there aren't any pre-defined rulings for riders who are caught being intoxicated in relation to a meeting.

Swedish play offs 2014 It's only the end of August and Elitserien is already finished. It's only 14 rounds but still. This means that it's play off time. Elitserien's play off consists of two quart finals, two semifinals and one final. teams 1 and 2 from the final standings are seeded to semi final while teams 3-6 are qualified for the quarter finals. Team 3 gets to pick (between teams 5 & 6) which team they want to meet and also if the want to start at home or away. Team 4 (obviously) meets the team that wasn't picked by team 3 but Team 4 also gets to choose whether to start home or away. Rospiggarna chose Smederna and to start away, while Indianerna also chose to start away against their opponent Dackarna. The semis works the same way, Vetlanda gets to pick first and Piraterna get the remaining team. Both meeting are televised in Sweden, Dackarna-Indianerna will be the main focus meeting aired in Cmore sport Smederna-Rospiggarna will be shown on Cmore extreme. It seems though that neither of this week's meetings or next week's meetings are shown on Eurosport due to US Open in Tennis. More info about that in this thread: http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=77494 Live scores at: http://www.svemo.se/Speedway. from 19.00 Swedish time. race cards: Ikaros Smederna - Rospiggarna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/7e4rwqh84c0wc21/ES.2014.QF1-1.IkarosSmederna-Rospiggarna.pdf Dackarna - Indianerna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/ezblgyluzlccezz/ES.2014.QF2-1.Dackarna-Indianerna.pdf Rospiggarna - Smederna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/lhgshvjzcvdgl10/ES.2014.QF1-2.Rospiggarna-IkarosSmederna.pdf Indianerna - Dackarna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/y3cwliu4qdb43e2/ES.2014.QF2-2.Indianerna-Dackarna.pdf Piraterna - Indianerna http://www.mediafire.com/view/9jz9t7st8kk1173/ES.2014.SF2-1.Piraterna-Indianerna.pdf Elit Vetlanda - Rospiggarna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/p4qs6mr4hx3qm38/ES.2014.SF1-2.ElitVetlanda-Rospiggarna.pdf Indianerna-Piraterna: http://www.mediafire.com/view/yheh9hxizi90z3i/ES.2014.SF2-2.Indianerna-Piraterna.pdf Quarter-finals leg 1: 2014-08-26 Ikaros Smederna - Rospiggarna Ikaros Smederna Grzegorz Zengota Kenni Larsen Pawel Przedpelski Grigorij Laguta Peter Karlsson Oliver Berntzon Magnus Zetterström Rospiggarna Maciej Janowski Timo Lahti Mads Korneliussen Kim Nilsson Andreas Jonsson Chris Harris Jonas Davidsson For the first time since June Ikaros Smederna can bring in the best riders that they have. Kenni returned last week and this week Grigorij Laguta makes his comeback after being sidelined for two months due to a foot injury. Smederna's riders also seems to have found a good form in the last couple of meetings. Especially Zengota seems to have found himself a good form. Smederna did a heroic effort away against Indianerna two weeks ago which was followed up by a good start against Vargarna last week before the meeting was aborted by rain. For Smederna the return of Laguta/Kenni means that Davey Watt is no longer registered in Smederna's squad and that Mikkel Michelsen is outside the lineup. Rospiggarna on the other hand finished the season with three straight narrow losses against Smederna, Piraterna and Dackarna. They have brought in Maciej Janowski instead of Walasek who is injured. Mads Korneliussen has been sidelined for a while due to a crash but is supposed to be fit for fight. Some think Smederna will steam roll this but I think that it will be quite close over two meetings. Smederna have been quite strong at home but so have Rospiggarna. I think Smederna will need maybe 10-12 points from the first leg to be able to advance to the semi final. Dackarna-Indianerna, postponed to Monday Sep 1st. (televised on Cmore). Dackarna Nicki Pedersen R/R Joonas Kylmäkorpi Michael Jepsen Jensen Rune Holta Alexandr Loktaev Dennis Andersson Robin Aspegren Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren Kenneth Bjerre Piotr Protasiewicz Piotr Swiderski Cameron Woordward Antonio Lindbäck Mikael Max Stackarna, err I mean Dackarna, have a tough situation at the moment. Patryk Dudek suspended until till further notice, Krzyzstof Buczkowski long time injured (replaced by Rune Holta), Robin Aspegren injured (replaced by Victor Paloovaara) and then in the Polish Ekstraliga Championship, Nicki Pedersen was injured and is unable to ride. Then who knows whether Loktaev is planning on showing up or if he have another one of those occurrences when he "strains a muscle" while entering his van. Dackarna faces a hard challenge and while I think that they might be able to keep the scores down at home but over two meetings I don't think they will able to stand up against Indianerna. Indianerna are at full strength and are imo favourites to win this quarter final. I think Dackarna's track which is a pretty "easy" track will suit Indianerna well. update 2014-08-31, 22.00. As you know Niels-Kristian Iversen crashed in yesterday's GP and is out for the rest of the season. This means that Indianerna have opted to replace him and Joel Andersson in the lineup with Cameron Woodward and Piotr Swiderski. As a result of this Antonio Lindbäck is moved down to reserve. For Dackarna Nicki will not ride and they will use R/R for him. Quarter-final leg 2: 2014-09-02 Rospiggarna (49) - Smederna (41) Rospiggarna Andreas Jonsson Kim Nilsson Mads Korneliussen Chris Harris Maciej Janowski Timo Lahti Jonas Davidsson Ikaros Smederna Kenni Larsen Pawel Przedpelski Grigorij Laguta Peter Karlsson Grzegorz Zengota Oliver Berntzon Magnus Zetterström Indianerna - Dackarna Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren Piotr Swiderski Kenneth Bjerre Cameron Woodward Piotr Protasiewicz Mikael Max Antonio Lindbäck Dackarna Michael Jepsen Jensen Rune Holta Alexandr Loktaev Nicki Pedersen R/R Joonas Kylmäkorpi Robin Aspegren Victor Palovaara Backup day: 2014-09-03 Semi finals leg 1: 2014-09-09 (semi 1:1 and 2:1) Rospiggarna - Elit Vetlanda Rospiggarna Andreas Jonsson Kim Nilsson Mads Korneliussen Chris Harris Maciej Janowski Timo Lahti Jonas Davidsson Elit Vetlanda Emil Sayfutdinov Bartosz Zmarzlik Jaroslaw Hampel (K) Tomas H Jonasson Janusz Kolodziej David Ruud Magnus Karlsson Piraterna - Indianerna Piraterna Bjarne Pedersen Linus Sundström Chris Holder Anton Rosén Piotr Pawlicki Fredrik Engman Rory Schlein Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren Antonio Lindbäck Kenneth Bjerre Piotr Swiderski Piotr Protasiewicz Mikael Max Scott Nicholls Semi finals leg 2: 2014-09-16 (semi 1:2) Elit Vetlanda - Rospiggarna Elit Vetlanda (43) Emil Sayfutdinov Bartek Zmarzlik Jaroslaw Hampel Janusz Kolodziej Tomas H Jonasson Jacob Thorssell David Ruud Rospiggarna (47) Grzegorz Walasek Kim Nilsson Mads Korneliussen Chris Harris Andreas Jonsson Jonas Davidsson Timo Lahti Rospiggarna holds a 4p lead after the first leg of the semi final. There are some changes compared to last week. For Vetlanda, Jacob Thorssell is back. He replaces Magnus Karlsson. For Rospiggarna Grzegorz Walasek returns after injury which means that Maciej Janowski leaves the team. 2014-09-17 (semi 2:2) Indianerna - Piraterna Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren Antonio Lindbäck Kenneth Bjerre R/R Piotr Swiderski Piotr Protasiewicz Mikael Max Scott Nicholls Piraterna Linus Sundström Piotr Pawlicki R/R Chris Holder Bjarne Pedersen Rory Schlein Simon Gustafsson Fredrik Engman Both teams are heavily affected by injuries; Iversen, Woodward and Bjerre for Indianerna. For Piraterna Greg Hancock is injured and his replacement Pawlicki is also injured then add the suspended Ward to that. I think Piraterna will fight back as much as the can but in the end I think Indianerna will be too strong. Although Piraterna misses more "Important" riders, IMO Indianerna have a much wiser team build which means that they are less affected.by injuries. Piraterna put all eggs in the same basket with Holder, Greg and Darcy which meant that there weren't much space left for the rest of the riders, Both teams uses R/R for Bjerre and Pawlicki respectively. For both teams all riders can take a R/R heat. Normally Indianerna's track Sannahed provides a very condition for great racing and I hope it will the same tomorrow. Final 1: 2014-09-30 Indianerna Fredrik Lindgren Antonio Lindbäck Kenneth Bjerre Jurica Pavlic Piotr Protasiewicz Mikael Max Scott Nicholls Elit Vetlanda Tai Woffinden Emil Sayfutdinov Jaroslaw Hampel (K) Bartosz Zmarzlik Tomas H Jonasson David Ruud Jacob Thorssell Final 2: 2014-10-01 team lineups TBA Backup day 2014-10-xx.

It seems that Holsted have accused Munkebo for deliberately turning of the power (to the floodlights?), while leading 43-41 with one heat to go, so that they could be awarded the win with 43-41. However the Danish federation, DMU, ruled that there was no evidence that Mukebo had deliberately turned of the power or deliberately prevented it from being turned back on. The result stands which means that Munkebo remains in third place in the league. http://www.fyens.dk/sport/Munkebo-Speedway-frikendt-i-stroemsag/artikel/2562882

Well weather at Vojens is usually quite doubtful as well so that would perhaps not be much "standby" to rely on.

The disadvantage with CASA Arena is that it doesn't have a roof.

As I have mentioned before, the Danish GP was likely to move to Horsens and CASA Arena, it has now been confirmed. Length of contract is not known http://ekstrabladet.dk/sport/anden_sport/motorsport/speedway/article4981394.ece

Surely they could show it on Eurosport player?