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Not really, second rate over the hill journey man.

Poole flexing their PO muscles. And increasing their averages, so who will be dumped for the PO terminator THJ?

I'd rather them draft in a quality rider in Woffinden who has spent many a season in the British Leagues, then a play off mercenary like THJ. Although THJ seems to have dropped my radar completely. Exactly, I would rather Wolves employ a quality British rider than a Finnish Journeyman. And have a chance of making the playoffs interesting.

Just watched this on TiVo. Swindon middle order, oh dear. Coventry track wasn't in prime condition. I didn't think any Coventry rider really impressed despite the scoreline. Without looking at remaining fixtures, as awful as Lakeside were at Poole when I saw them, they appear to have more points throughout the team than Swindon. A late Kings Lynn push, might save the play off first round fixtures.

Indeed now having looked at the fixtures, it seems mission impossible with Masarna hosting Smederna the final week. I guess that would suit him. With Poole & Belle Vue also cert's for the top two places, he clearly has no objections to the track at the NSS judging by his SWC exploits. Even if Lakeside (the track he seemed to object to the most) do make the play-off's it is unlikely Wolves will visit Purfleet.

Vetlanda & Wroclaw both have a reasonable chance of making the play-offs in there respective leagues, Woffinden has been pretty scathing of British tracks via twitter when he's seen them on TV. Wolves traditionally don't make changes they're not forced into, I would be very surprised if the swap happened.

Coventry rode without Kasprzak regardless. There are very few EL meets on a Saturday. If their PL teams were allowed a facility for rider in the pairs competition & SEC, they could be involved. I am of the the opinion that the the BSPA should find sponsors to fund these riders participation in such events. You cannot tell me that the riders from Germany & Eastern Europe (not including Poland & Russia) can have a greater level of income & sponsorship than our promising youngsters if the BSPA backed them?

Another fantastic spectacle in Daugavpils, if only for the crazy lines the Latvian's were pulling, thought Bogdanovs was harshly excluded in the final. Shame that 3 riders who were not involved in the first event finished in the top 4 at this event, but in some way it is all to play for at the final events with about 10 riders on 18-13 points. It would be hugely beneficial for British riders to be involved and for an event to be held here, the same can be said of the pairs event. I'm sure the riders involved in this would draw a greater crowd to the NSS or Brandon than CL meetings. Would it really hurt the BSPA to grant a guest facility for Cooke, Lambert, Ellis & Bates to compete in these international televised events.

Surely, Paul Starke is booked as a guest for someone, along with Charles Wright. Poole's most effective assets.

If Poole were in the same position, would your management been keen to give your likely Play-off final opponents practice on your track? Didn't Belle Vue win at Poole in the only fixture I am aware of between the two teams this year? Holder & Kurtz were pretty useless last Friday, Holder was probably worse on Saturday. If Belle Vue can finish top of the EL by the time the Play-offs kick in without arranging home meetings against their likely play-off opponents. Fair play. Besides Poole can't even win away at Coventry, where every other team seems to.

Ouch on the early finish for the bottom four, must hit their income. Hope Janowski & Dudek find some form before next weeks TV match. Is Holta any good at Motala? If not it won't be much of a spectacle.

The guy on Eurosport last night said that the play off's are 6 meetings per team this year, so I assume it is a mini league? Do the bottom four also compete in a mini league or is there season over by the third week in August? I hope Vetlanda don't make the top 4 if that is what will be televised, horrible track.

I have not been to many Speedway meetings in the last few years, but I can't think of one I've been to or watched on TV where both teams were at full strength i.e. no R/R or guests. I don't think I'd ever go to a meeting expecting both teams to be fielding their named 1-7. I last had a season ticket for Birmingham in 2008, every week watching a multitude of home guest riders put me off.

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I can't really understand why considering the riders they have that Rospiggarna are good while Lejonen are rubbish. Enjoyed the Eurosport meeting tonight, the heat with Ljung & Dudek V Lindgren & Iversen, was a cracker. Couple of good rides in there from Lindback & Joel Andersson. I do wonder what are the rules? Why was Magnus Karlsson not replaced in the second reserves race with a tac sub, Gomolski for example. Why couldn't a reserve replace the TS Holta when he was eliminated by 2 mins rule? Pepsi could have got a point in that heat. Does Karlsson have to have 3 rides, being a reserve? Could have put him in heat 15, when all was lost if required.

Having been there last night & having just watched the reply, I don't think anyone can deny the Poles who probably had the best 4th, 5th, 6th & 7th riders at the meeting. Woffinden was without doubt the stand out performer, with Doyle & Lindgren vying for second. For a journeyman rider the Swede's can be pretty happy with Ljungs performance IMO because Lindback & Jonsson faded badly. So do I think Doyle should have been excluded in what turned out to be a crucial heat 16? Very debatable, he hit Pawlicki going in and I do think Pawlicki bailed as soon as he realised that Jonsson was past in hope rather than expectation of getting a re-run. But Doyle then, showed stupid impatience proceeded to shove Cooke into the fence twice, to his credit Cooke did stay on his bike but to a massive disadvantage. Had Pawlicki been excluded how the following heats went team GB could have won or finished 4th! Had Cooke gone down, Doyle would have been excluded, had Doyle showed a modicum of patience having passed Pawlicki & Jonsson he'd have passed Cooke, he was certainly faster. It is a shame that Cooke & King took time to come to the party, should we be disappointed with Lambert, possibly but he 3 years younger than any other rider that competed last night and fingers crossed will benefit from the international experience. King & Cooke have had their moment at Cardiff, it's time the spot was automatically granted to Lambert.

Thought places 1 & 2 would be highly contested but Swedes were a class above the Aussies, especially with the Doyle antics trying to get the joker & tac sub to get Masters out that heat, have to say fairly disappointed with the Germans, thought they'd do better on a big wide track. Heat 16 was almost beautiful, Holder on joker had no answer for Hancock & Lindback. While the yellow helmet failed for Denmark earlier this week due to gate positions it worked for Sweden tonight. Be interesting to see who get it in the race off, if the Aussie's don't I think they'll struggle. You basically concede the first four heats if yellow, but can use joker early and hit back. On a side note, if the race-off was moved to Kirky Lane, would the USA team be favourites for it? The Russians would be bouncing off the fence for sure.

Having purchased tickets for the Race-off & final. I hope the Aussie's can get the win here, Sweden V Denmark on the Friday will make it a better meeting. I'm far from convinced Greg's points will be enough to make the race off for the US. That is a decent German line-up.

Fairly predictable event, horrible race circuit as ever in Vojens. Very little passing. Denmark must be hoping the Aussie's beat the Swede's in Vasterik else they're not gonna make the final.

Russia Emil Sayfutdinov Artem Laguta Poland Maciej Jankowski Bartosz Zmarzlik Czech Republic Josef Franc Vaclav Milik Denmark Leon Madsen Niels-Kristian Iversen Australia Max Fricke Jason Doyle USA Greg Hancock Ricky Wells Germany Kevin Wolbert Martin Smolinski Sweden Antonio Lindback Andreas Jonsson

Really enjoyed the meeting from Güstrow. Agree the SEC would be a great way for Brit's like Lambert to get some quality International Experience, ridiculous if it is the BSPA that are denying their riders such an opportunity. Looking forward to the next event. Will be supporting Vaculik, Kołodziej & Lebedevs for the rest of the series due to no Brit's.

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I can't see a topic for this, so apologies for any potential double post. But I've just watched it as my TiVo box taped it. What a fantastic meeting, the rain helped in making the track and results somewhat random & unpredictable. Why are no Brits involved in this? Surely Robert Lambert at least would be more competitive than Anders Thomsen, Peter Ljung and Tobias Busch. And an extra event at 'the National Speedway Arena" could be accommodated in the series.

I can't see a topic for this, so apologies for any potential double post. But I've just watched it as my TiVo box taped it. What a fantastic meeting, the rain helped in making the track and results somewhat random & unpredictable. Why are no Brits involved in this? Surely Robert Lambert at least would be more competitive than Anders Thomsen, Peter Ljung and Tobias Busch. And an extra event at 'the National Speedway Arena" could be accomodated in the series.

Is the current Smederna team the worst ever in the league. No fight at all.