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Thankfully Latvia are giving as a run for the wooden spoon.

Pole has been excluded.

Heat 6 - Pole got to be excluded?

10* more people here tonight than the semis may actually be 2k in the stadium.

10* more people here tonight than the semis may actually be 2k in the stadium.

Jesus... how long is that going to take.. I've seen enough of those 3 blue tractors already!

It wasn't actually that busy, the Stary Rynek in Torun is quite small - compared to Krakow Wroclaw & Poznan at least. If there were 1.5k there I'd be surprised.

It wasn't actually that busy, the Stary Rynek in Torun is quite small - compared to Krakow Wroclaw & Poznan at least. If there were 1.5k there I'd be surprised.

If anyone is in Torun and hasn't noticed whats been put up in the square, Torun are celebrating the Ekstraliga title at 6 pm.

And the vaguely successful late 80's early 90's Rep. of Ireland football team were mostly English.

All Blacks hoover up the best of the south sea island talent (Fiji, Samoa, Tonga) for themselves... Find someone looking Japanese in the Bold Blossoms! Italy Rugby team are mostly players not quite good enough for NZ or Argentina. There is a chap born in Sandwell playing for West Brom in the Hungarian national team.

That 3rd / 4th race-off at the end is useless, makes the preceeding 6 heats those pairs have ridden a waste of time. Parnitskyi would have been an interesting spoiler in the final as I'm sure Lebedevs will prove to be, less faith in Kvech I have!

Kvech makes the best start, rides Torun every other week but doesn't ride the wide line? Bizarre, made it too easy for Kurtz & Holder

Kvech makes the best start, rides Torun every other week but doesn't ride the wide line? Bizarre, made it too easy for Kurtz & Holder

Bizarre exclusion for Mustonen, sure he impeded Bellego but they both stayed on their bikes would have made the race more interesting. Wide line doesn't seem to be generating the speed it did last night.

Sportwoefakty don't realise it's 0 for fourth... but at least they're covering it tonight.

Ten years after Rune Holta won the World Cup for Poland? People are moaning that Lahti is competing for Sweden? Mark Loram was born in Malta! Tai Woffinden was raised in Australia. People in glass houses.

Yes... and it's basically between Germany, Latvia & Czechia. Let the France, Italy, Norway, Finland, Argentina, USA & Slovenia compete first to face them. And hold the three semi's over three legs in Germany, Latvia & Czechia on the day that nation has hosted a GP. Might get some interest then. Yes... it was sodding cold in that stadium tonight. I saw a woman in a Slovenia scarf, there were a few Germans, a couple of Swedes and a bunch of chaps from Argentina! No Latvians though, have seen them in Manchester. Rubbish. I've been to... 2014 SWC race-off, 2017 SWC race-off, 2023 SWC semis & race-off.. all hosted in Poland, without Poland competing, none of which were well attended. Poles don't turn up unless Poland are competing. That World Cup will be awful. The temporary track at the Narodowy starts getting rutted up after 3-4 heats on a single night. How on earth is it going to cope with 4 events? Probably exactly the same people as were there tonight, except the German's will go home. The noise that is generated in that arena is still superb without the hoards watching.

Is Huckenbeck even trying?

You can pay on card for refreshments in stadium.

If it rains it usually only dampens the inside metre of the track, the roof covers most of it. They really are flogging a dead horse putting on meetings that don't involve the Poles in Poland. 40 minutes to go and it's virtually empty. No merchandise on sale, autograph signing was cancelled " due to weather" - no one turned up.

But the reserve cam be used whenever.

Poland & Australia are favourites... GB will do well to finish third above Denmark. But I hope I'm wrong.

Latvia or Germany for third tonight? Assuming GB will cruise through, if so hope Brennan gets a few rides. Lindgren should do enough to see Swedes through.

Female... did Celina Liebmann do anything after leaving Workington?