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With current placings in the SGP will Holder and Lambert bother with the SGP Challenge ??? Hope Lebedev's qualifies as he has been good entertainment in the SGP series and is unlikely to get a Wild Card spot as on Monster will have only 4 picks. 😲😀

Can see the the Lions nicking this if any of the Oxford team are off the pace. With Masters, Fricke, Lawson and Douglas , if the Lions can get Cook or Hagon making a decent contribution at reserve could be a close meeting. LAst heat decider anybody ??

Tigers will need Pickering to continue his fine form and the Holder brothers to both get in the points. Edwards has been improving this season but Anders Rowe has got better as the season has gone on. Think the Tigers can keep it relatively close but Stars win at home.

Good to hear a decent crowd for todays meeting.

Sounds as though the speedway team will be going to the dogs in "25. Greyhounds dont't know if they will be running and Speedway will only run if greyhounds do. Doesn't sound promising. Can the Brummies beat the Ipswich Tru7 Guest Witches tonight ??

Good to hear that Emil has come out of the crash without serious injury. Although will definitively be uncomfortable for a couple of weeks. Get well soon Emil. Guess Ipswich can follow the Kings Lynn protocol and cancel fixtures due to lack of riders now.

Great effort by Team GB - Bewley and Lambert were excellent and got better as the meeting went on and brought the trophy home !! Decent racing and good to see Latvia and Germany competitive in the Final. Was expecting more from Denmark but they just couldn't get the team right on the night. Crowd was as expected - no need for the temporary stand could of saved the cost of that over the week and as for food and drink - it is always a tedious with a larger capacity - like SoN or British Final etc ... Let's see if that meeting will be enough to convince WSD to offer a SGP.

Agreed - Kurtz will know the track and you would expect be able to adapt to the conditions on his home-track quicker than most. Should be a decent meeting I think this is wide open.

He was at the FIM Autograph session earlier today !!

Even running out of excuses no as Ermolenko said the elements were against his side throughout. The Brummies were always going to struggle this season. The team lacked any heat-leaders of note and needed the Polish riders to step up big time; both have been below par and despite Brennan being competitive the lack of a #1 and any support they were always going to be up against it from the off. Even bringing Freddie Lindgren in has not improved matters as all the riders are continuing to struggle for any consistency.

Last time at the SoN in Manchester the standing areas had additional catering behind the stand. The Grandstand always struggles to cope - British Final a couple of years back it ran out of food and beer.

Can't see Wed semi final being as well supported as this evening. No Poland support and England in the Euro's. This has always been the issue in the SoN.

Wishing Tate Ziscke a speedy recovery sounds like a nasty crash from all the reports.

Expected Tigers to get blitzed by Oxford. Solid effort from Pickering, Howarth and Holder to keep the score to 6 points only. However Tungate and Harris did the job in ht15.

Absolutely shocking - sounds a serious break. Bad enough when you knock your elbow let alone break it in four places. Good to see that Wroclaw helped get him an expert to do the operation. As in Tai's statement cant move or lift his elbow for foreseeable future. Wish him a speedy recovery.

Not enough has been said about how rubbishe the track was. Yes it was a blistering day but for a track to be that overwatered in Ht1 and a race-line 2cms from the air fence after one heat needs to be questioned. Vaculik in the Instagram Live said the track is very different from an Ekstraliga meeting and no advantage being a "home rider". Hancock even with his Monster/FIM love in said that the track is better in Ekstraliga and reading between the lines even in his conservative state was critical of the track. Can imagine that the SoN at Manchester will be slicker than a strippers bikini line.

Woffinden has been excellent value in the British League but that soil sample looks as though that is his season done. Blame the track prep over watering and making it a one racing line 2cms from the airfence. Vaculik was saying that the track prep is very different for Ekstraliga but they have no say in the SGP meets and it is no advantage being a home rider. Even Hancock wearing his SGP Monster hat reading between the lines said the track was very different from a Ekstraliga meeting. Playoff Bob has to be the answer for Sheffield with Steady using his Team GB persuasion.

Saw the Tolley interview on social media. Why would you put new shale down on the track the day before a meeting against your Wooden Spoon rivals and the hottest day of the year. Unfortunately the results for Birmingham are no surprise , they are a team of 2nd strings and one heat leader. When your reserves outscore the oppo reserves 15 - 5 and you have a full team you shouldn't be getting beat. Admittedly the Stars picked well in their choice of guests but the Brummies were on for a hiding to nothing all season.

Noted in the Speedway Star this week Phillip Hellstrom-Bangs stating that he is only racing in Sweden and hoping for more team places. "I am only racing in Sweden , racing the best riders just once a week. I hope this meeting will help me to get me noticed by other clubs around Europe. That's what I am looking for." Not claiming that he is the answer to the Stars problems but they need riders and he likes big tracks. Lebedevs is another who would not be as expensive as other SGP riders and is not afraid to mix it with the SGP stars. Another rider that seems better on the bigger tracks. Although looking at the table unlikely Stars make the Play-Offs so perhaps Promotion will go for one guest and r/r.

Still undergoing further tests. Shame for the guy he has been so unlucky for injuries, Wish him a speedy recovery.

Hoping that the Klindt injuries are not too serious but didn't look a great fall.

Not a great night on the SGP betting for me. Mikkelsen to be on podium Holder to win SGP Woffinden over 5 Madsen over 7 Kvech over 3 Holder vs Fricke Mikkelsen vs Woffinden Lambert vs Bewley Huckenbeck vs Nilsson My Bet365 may be needing a top up after Gorzow

The track staff did an amazing job to get the meeting on. Glad I was watching on TV because with that downpour and 2hr plus wait , I would of left but watched the Euros and returned to speedway for Heat 1. The track got better as the meeting went on and provided some decent racing. As for the Zmarzlik he is simply the best of this era. To do what he has done consistently SGP after SGP , year after year is phenomenal effort. He rode the nuts of the bike this evening and looked way quicker than other riders and was also brave to stick the bike in the dirt with his outside passes. In the final , it was a case of hoping Holder or Fricke gated because if Zmarzlik gated he would be gone as was the case. Lebedevs have a decent meeting and was getting involved. Lambert getting into the final and getting a place on the podium from Gate4 was positive. As for Woffinden he seems to be going backwards in the SGP. After first couple of races seemed to have some pace at the end of the meeting but was either getting beaten up or making poor decisions in the race. Gorzow next round a track Zmarzlik knows well. Hopefully Vaculik and Wozniak on their home track are more competitive for that one.

But they invested in a Drone !! and I don't mean the commentary team.

100% - What makes it worse is that the SCB excepts this sh*tshow of an excuse and then validates it.