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Pretty sure it's down to Government not club decision. Poland are in full lockdown currently, I believe. No idea on infection rates in Germany, Poland, San Marino or Albania.

It's been suggested that Robert Lewandowski may not be able to represent Poland against England in a Football World Cup qualifier on Wednesday as he can't leave Germany, where he plays for Bayern Munich, to enter his home country. So I'm not convinced Wittstock will be riding many fixtures! Speedway authorities don't have the funds to throw at testing football does.

I was a doubter, unimpressed quite frankly with the first 6 signings but always said one very good heat leader added to that 6 could make a decent team, Riss was the best visitor I witnessed in 2019 at Perry Barr. I haven't looked at any other team line-ups as yet so can't comment on how competitive I think this team will be as yet.

Pedersen? As in B*yawn*e? If do Harris will feel like a spring chicken!

Erik Riss was superb when visiting Perry Barr for Redcar a few years ago - the Brummies "Couldn't land a blow". Let's hope Covid restrictions allow.

Being at tapes in 2021 is no more fortunate for Brummies than any other team & I'm sure absolutely every other championship team will field a stronger line-up than Birmingham who have had my season ticket money for 16 months! I'd really love the final rider to make the team competitive but I just can't see it happening. Harris, Morris, Castagne & Shanes signings fine. Basis of a decent team, it's what you put around them. Thomas fine... If you sign two riders above Morris in the averages... Another second string, fine if you plan to have Harris as second heat leader... It could still happen, I just don't see it.

Building a team way below the points limit is absolutely insanity & wreaks of penny pinching.

Well ... 1 never quite managed to gate GP winner, 3 reserves & 2 second strings look good, any possibility of a rider who can win a heat?

Four qualification rounds will take place on May 1st and 8th. The competition will be hosted in Plzeň - Czechia (01.05.), Debrecen - Hungary (01.05.), Pocking - Germany (08.05.) and Rivne Ukraine (08.05.). The SEC Challenge, as the final qualification round, will be held in Krsko (Slovenia) on May 22nd. TOP 5 of TAURON SEC 2020 will automatically participate in next year's competition, this means that Robert Lambert, Grigorij Laguta, Leon Madsen, Mikkel Michelsen and Bartosz Smektała

Not convinced Bydgoszcz are that strong. Tarnow & Gdansk look as good at least. Think Krosno could be massive spoilers.

FZG gonna struggle.

The same one who was going to single handedly win the league for Poole but flopped about 14 years ago?

There's usually an option on posts to this forum which contain pasted text to "use standard text size" or something like that. Very useful

U21? Any good?

Didn't look at Polish div 1 results, obviously, but Zengota was a Ekstraliga heat leader before his injury.

Not enough meetings to assess the effects of almost 2 years on the injury list then. Hope Bydgoszcz show him patience.

Zengota, talented rider. When did he last ride though?

Oops Is there a Polish league one team building thread, if there is I can't see it.

Fairly sure I saw NKI had joined Unia Tarnow on Instagram.

Were Doyle & Lindgren stats obscured by Czestochowa's cancelled home fixtures? Did Lublin operate RR for a rider for a lengthy period? If so were Laguta & Mikkelsen used wisely and their RR rides in heats they'd surely win? How teams lineup their 1-5 can also affect this. I don't know. I do know I'd rather have Lindgren & Doyle in my team than G Laguta & Mikkelsen.

Nothing wrong with Grigorij Laguta but I don't think he's quite in the same bracket as the genuinely top class riders - Zmarzlik, Woffinden, A Laguta, Madsen, Janowski, Sayfutdinov, Vaculik, Doyle & Lindgren. At 36 he's unlikely to improve too. So Lublin don't have an out & out #1 they have a very good second heat leader and 4 third heat leaders. With the best tail in the league they should be very competitive. Kasprzak & Berntzon in the GP's will be out classed, but they qualified by rights. I can only assume the Polish riders fall out with the National team boss is how Kasprzak was nominated for the GP challenge ahead of Piotr Pawlicki & a few others

Nit picking. They don't have a GP rider of which there are 15, so all things being equal most teams will have 2 GP riders.

They don't have a top 2! They have 5 better than average 3rd heat leaders.

Is Woryna much of an upgrade on Przedpełski, I'm not convinced he is.

I'm guessing Drabik missing is more of an issue for Wroclaw with him being the second Pole in their 1-5 after Janowski.