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In one way I agree, it should be a great match, the best possible advert for British Speedway. But I wanna get home before midnight! Yes loads of urban roads around, even if you can't park on Kirkmanshulme lane head towards Longsight market and there will be somewhere to park.

How have Summers & Tungate faired at NSS previously?

Why are Gorzow not using R/R for Vaculik?

For who? Kurtz, Fricke & Tungate all survived their Polish league fixture uninjured.

Not as far as I can tell by looking at the lineups listed on Sportowefakty

Doyle fell in his last heat during Leszno's home defeat by Czestochowa last night but Sportowefakty suggests he's uninjured. Kurtz, Tungate, Blodorn, Fricke & Zagar are due to ride in Polish league outings still this weekend while Etheridge has an outing for Berwick.

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?