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So this will be the first look at the new Witches septet, it's Doyle, Starke, Tungate, King, Batchelor, Summers & Hume?

The ticket office on Kirkmanshulme Lane in the Grand Stand is usually open when I get there around 18:00, can't imagine there will not be seats available. Programmes are definitely on sale in the Grand Stand also, but I get one included in my season ticket once I've read the stuff in it which I read you can have it.

Pawlicki - 366 more Smektala - 366 more Lebedevs - 366 less

I think I prefer it to the BSPA site! But the previous version was better.

I had assumed that's what I was using, you didn't point out I'd got any of the Polish riders figures incorrect. Is this incorrect

Try pronouncing Matjusonoks after a few beers! Jan Kvech seems to have been on the scene awhile, surprised he's still eligible for SoN2

The run off it is!

It should llook better after heat 18. Sweden v Czechia, they'll both probably drop points. But France have equally easy finish as GB.

Last chance, it's top 3 to final isn't it?

Gotta love translate. Big win, 66 million years.

Poor start but 3 heats against Slovenia, Norway & Italy should see GB do enough. France, Sweden & Czechia were toughest start possible.

The WiFi in this pub is awful. Looks like I'm "watching" it via Sportowefakty!

???? Limdgren 2.2, Aspgren 2.0, Nilsson 1.8. The great form of Victor Palovaara could have earned him an average higher than Zmarzlik but like most Swedes on the Svemo site his average is listed as 0.5?

Poles in Elitserin. Zmarzlik 2,839, Piotr Pawlicki 2,320 Wozniak 2,091, Kubera 2,078 Dudek 2.068 Woryna 1,984 Drabik 1,971 Smektala 1.954 Janowski 1.901 Przedpelski 1.836 Przemyslaw Pawlicki 1,776

Janowski giving up Ekstraliga isn't going to happen, maybe moving away from Wroclaw would. He rides Elitserin every year and spent much longer in British leagues than his contemporaries - several years at Kings Lynn, Swindon & Poole. Did Zmarzlik ever complete a heat in his brief Brummies stint? Piotr Pawlicki did one season with Wolves. Dudek has never ridden here. Janowski (2.293) and Dudek (2.351) average more in Ekstrloga than Kubera (2.094) and don't have their pick of heats unlike Kubera does being regularly at the farcical #8. Drabik's average has plummeted to 19th after getting an early GP Wildcard for topping the averages back then. Interestingly Lambert is considerably higher the the Ekstraliga averages (9th) than Woffinden (17th).

Wasn't a Pole - Rempala? - excluded for dangerous riding against Lee Richardson at Poole in 2004?

I thought it may come down to who scored the most between Becker, Lahti & Huckenbeck for the final qualifying spot. Didn't realize Lahti had such adequate backup in Timi Salonen - should I have heard of him? Poland not dominating the semi should give GB, Denmark & Aussies hope they can win. Norway rather than Slovakia? No Zagar for Slovenia? GB should win semi 2 at a canter! Sweden surely have a third rider more capable than Victor Palovaara? Fancy the French to edge out the Czech's for the third qualifying spot.

Same thing happened at Bydgoszcz in 2014, no Poland at the race off so there were hardly any folk there.

Missed most of this local pub heaving, had to drive to one a couple of villages away. How come Aussies struggling?

Me = Lay Zee Dunno how I missed Czechia. Thought Vaculik was the only Slovakian rider.

On home soil, assuming they track Madsen & Michelsen with Anders Thomsen in reserve it must be the Danes best chance to win gold since 2014. But they'd have surely preferred Esbjerg than Vojens as it would be unknown to many of the visiting riders. I can barely keep up with on goings & injuries in the Championship let alone the Polish equivalent! All I do is check if any injuries to / form of Fricke, Zagar, Kurtz, Blodorn & Brennan. And possibly any other riders I may see on a Monday but other than Musielak, Ellis & Becker I am struggling to think of any others. Harris appeared fleeting I think! Tonight - Poland & Aussies will prevail anyone's guess after that, Latvia without Lebedevs seem.unlikely & can't see Nicol or Ruml troubling the scorers. Tomorrow is GB, Sweden, Italy, France, Slovenia and who? If I pay £6.99 for Discovery+ can I watch it on demand later? No WiFi in this caravan! Is there a decent cellphone interface?

Reserve not U21... odd. Why no Lebedevs for Latvia?

Probably no one other than Tatum & co on TV, he just seems to get a higher billing than the others of his generation, who are pretty much the same level. I do wonder if the Worralls & Howarth had long hair would Tatum big them up more.

And Lawson never fails to underwhelm, probably the most overrated product of British Speedway in the last 10 years.

Just skimmed through that meeting on recorded TV. I'm not sure what is more worrying, how many times Kings Lynn as a team can not cover the inside run off turn 2 @ Monmore* or that despite a play off certainty allowed the dreadful visitors to still have a point up for grabs in the final heat. * Kerr, Lawson, Jorgensen & Richie Worrall must have been visiting Monmore for 10 years now, yet just continued to gift Wolves rider points drifting wide. Stead said "Karlsson corridor" is difficult to hit, and that maybe the case but it is not difficult to stop other riders behind finding a way past on it, in 2019 Troy Batchelor would rate Monmore as his least favourite track in the UK I'd imagine, last time I witnessed him riding it he scored well for the Tigers. It was painful to watch him locking up three times on turns 1&2 but effective. Glad Kemp won heat 14 but his progress has seriously hit a brick wall in the last 2 years. Monmore seems to be Pickerings nemesis.