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To my mind, economically it makes sense to have the TV match on a Thursday so all the Tuesday matches will not suffer crowd wise from people staying at home to watch it on TV. It also vastly increases the potential viewing figures TV. I wonder if the TV schedulers realise that the odd rider might be missing due to British commitments. The team most likely to suffer if riding on a Thursday is Rospiggarna as they have Robert Lambert, Jason Doyle, Erik Riss & Max Fricke. Other than Bjerre at Kumla I do wonder how often the other riders competing in both leagues will be selected by their Swedish team anyway. Other riders being: Krystian Pieszezk - Kumla Nikolai Klindt, Rohan Tungate - Lejonen Nick Morris, David Bellego - Masarna Troy Batchelor - Vetlanda

Yeah, the results I posted were at heat 20. Never realised there were semi's & final. Harris 2 points from his first ride Girican.

Smektala, Bellego, Kudriaszow & Musielak qualify from Poznan. Ellis scored 3, Hans Andersen 6 & Covatti 7. Big surprise is Anders Thomas missed out by a point.

Unsurprisingly the Poles are looking dominant in Poznan, Kudriaszow aside. Ellis 1 point from 4 rides.

Poland is great, but... The Golden Helmet farve was almost as embarrassing as the opening of the NSS.

I take it KB was a TS in heat 14? Bjerre did well to hold off ZG's 40+ers.

Commentators curse on Laguta, thought he and Buczkowski could win it for Grudziądz, then they convincingly 5-1ed! 0

Pawlicki did Lindback no favours ion heat 11. How fast is Laguta, made Vaculik look like he was going backwards.

Laguta showing no ill effects, same cant be said for his heat 4 partner.

Sadly it didn't last long. What time does the ZG meeting start and is it on the same.stream?

Indeed, I do wish the club was capable of replying to email about purchasing grand stand tickets in advance of our trip.

29/04 not 29/05

Holta is even more past his best than Protasiewicz, but he does ride on a Polish license.

I don't blame him, Protasiewicz & to a lesser extent Hampel are past their best, but I do believe Hampel probably deserves another shot being 2nd after 3 rounds when he broke his leg in the SWC when he was last in the GP's. That said Piotr Pawlicki's performance in last years SEC was below par, before it started I thought he'd be a contender. Don't think Przedpełski & Buczkowski will ever quite reach GP level.

I had thought about making this my first visit to Perry Barr in a long time (2008), but with the Manchester derby on the TV I had decided against it. Hopefully I'll be able to make the rematch.

Yeah, I'd forgotten about Rybnik's slow start to the season.

Again not able to watch any. Lublin (& Lambert) did reasonably well to stay within 8 points looking at the result. Do think Gorzow are weak compared to recent years, Zmarzlik aside. As far as Miedziński goes, never been a fan but there are basically 16 Ekstraliga spots for Poles over 21, are there 16 better Polish riders aged over 21? Make it 17 has Leszno have 3 good senior Poles. Maybe. But the likes of Woryna & Musielak have decided to ride in Nice Div 1 for whatever reason. I think, Woryna hasn't ridden yet, injured? Probably shows up more as Chestochowa probably have the best non Polish trio.

Again not able to watch any. Lublin (& Lambert) did reasonably well to stay within 8 points looking at the result. Do think Gorzow are weak compared to recent years, Zmarzlik aside. As far as Miedziński goes, never been a fan but there are basically 16 Ekstraliga spots for Poles over 21, are there 16 better Polish riders aged over 21? Make it 17 has Leszno have 3 good senior Poles. Maybe. But the likes of Woryna & Musielak have decided to ride in Nice Div 1 for whatever reason. I think, Woryna hasn't ridden yet, injured? Probably shows up more as Chestochowa probably have the best 3 non Polish trio.

Grigory Laguta has to wait until the May league transfer window to be able to join Lublin.

The leathers changed by 1991 (at least), to white with a yellow stripe.

I assume Lindback, Bjerre, Buczkowski & Pawlicki get an extra ride each as Laguta had the highest average in 2018, or are Ekstraliga R/R rules different. Any idea who is likely to feature as #8 for either team?

Is it confirmed Artem Laguta is going to be fit? Interesting swap of riding positions for Zagar & Lindgren, wonder why.

The rider on the DVD sleeve in the turquoise leathers, is it Jan O Pedersen from 1987-88?

I see. That really is a silly rule!

Looks like Robert Lambert has been dropped for Lublin's visit to Gorzow on Friday, replaced by Kacper Gosik?