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So we move on to the big final 1st leg on Sunday 28th September. 1st up is the 3rd place play-off 1st leg Zielona Gora v Tarnow start time 3.30 pm uk time followed by the final Leszno v Gorzow at 6pm uk time. The div1 final 1st leg Lodz v Rzeszow will be the 1st match on start time 1pm uk time 2nd legs are on Sunday 5th October 3pm uk time Tarnow v Zielona Gora 6pm uk time Gorzow v Leszno

So the penultimate round of this years series, and again loads of injury worries going into it-will Woffy,Greg and Bjerre make it to the start on Saturday ? I think Greg might struggle more than Tai on Saturday-but it`s all about opinions. For the punters if this was golf this round would be "movers day "-make sure you are in with a chance of winning in the final round. Stockholm GP round 11 Saturday 27th September start time 6pm uk time Pedersen 11 - 13 Kasprzak 11 - 13 Woffinden 10 - 12 Holder 10 - 12 Hancock 9 - 11 Zagar 9 - 11 MJJ 9 - 11 Jonsson 8 - 10 lindgren 8 - 10 THJ 8 - 10 Batchelor 8 - 10 Hampel 5 - 7 Bjerre 4 - 6 Harris 4 - 6 Nilsson 4 - 6 Smolinski 4 - 6

Looking ahead to the SEC in 2015-below is taken from SEC website. The last tournament of European Championship behind us. Emil Sajfutdinow has become the new champion and he has ensured the qualification to next year series. Starting from 2015 season, three riders (not five as it was before) will receive permanent “wild cards” from organizers. Seven riders will qualify directly from Challenge which will take place in June next year and the first five riders of this year’s SEC will automatically receive places in the series next year. Because of that five riders are sure that they will start in SEC next year. They are: Emil Sajfutdinow, Peter Kildemand, Nicki Pedersen, Martin Vaculik, Janusz Kołodziej. Grigorij Laguta, who lost three of four tournaments because of the injury, will probably get the chance for a wild card. He won the last round and practically he has ensured start in next year series. Also everything depends on the fact who will start in Challenge in June next year. Maksim Bogdanovs, who started as a reserved in this year’s series and was very close to the qualification, has big chance, in case of bad luck in Challenge. Only a little bit worse score in Częstochowa made that Latvian missed four points to be in the first five. Andreas Jonsson is also very eager to ride in SEC. It is also known that Adrian Miedziński, who won this year’s Challenge in Debrecen, wasn’t very successful in the series but will try again to ride in SEC. The new system of qualification to SEC series (starting from 2015) 5 top riders of SEC 2014 7 riders from qualifying rounds 3 permanent “wild cards”

Don`t profess to know the complete rule-however if teams want to use R/R then that rider cannot ride anywhere for 14/28 days (?)-that`s why Tarnow repaced Hancock with a squad member instead of R/R

But it`s not last minute-that`s my point. Gorzow was Friday and so was Vojens.

All that is clear and understandable-but why don`t they replace the reserve who has been called up into the meeting ?? It just doesn`t make sense that they don`t.

The FIM rules are also strange on meeting reserves-both the last 2 GP`S have only had 1 reserve there on the night-because bizarrely if a reserve is called into the meeting they don`t call up another one-it`s not as if it`s last minute-we are talking the day before the meeting.

We now know the TV details for tomorrow-and what a busy night it is !! -all uk times 4.15pm for 1st race 4.45pm Gorzow v Zielona Gora -teams http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/wydarzenie/33484 7pm for 1st race 7.15pm Tarnow v Leszno - teams http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/wydarzenie/33483 The div 1 match is also on(another channel) 4.40pm for 1st race 5pm Grudziadz v Lodz-teams http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/wydarzenie/33480 http://soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport http://www.meczyki.pl/ Sadly I will be working and will miss all the action. Sopcast 96707 for the 2 extraleague matches. Sopcast 69068 for the div 1 match

New date announced-Wednesday 24th September 1st up at 4.45pm uk time Gorzow v Zielona Gora followed at 7.15pm uk time Tarnow v Leszno Both are live on N sport TV

Video of Elite Vetlanda v Rospiggarna 2nd leg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfmF6_6ncoo&list=UUWMqEj3-1TXYlaGQppBGtbg

Nothing on the extraleague yet but div1 2nd legs areWednesday 5pm uk time Grudziadz v Lodz Thursday 4.30pm uk time Rzeszow v Gniezno. Maybe extraleague will run this Sunday(28th) instead and put final back to October 5th and 12th Video of 1st leg Leszno v Tarnow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LmwlLIpXSI&list=UUWMqEj3-1TXYlaGQppBGtbg

Scott Nicholls rides for Rzeszow in Poland and today`s postponed Polish play-off match has been re-arranged for Thursday-He can`t be in 2 places at once !!!

You ought to know by now-if I`m away the meetings are jinxed-sorry.

On m6 cant say im too disapointed at the postment(s) !!!

In the beautiful lake district-i wont let the result spoil my weekend away. There was an ulterior motive for my selections-not fair if i won my own competition so congrats to cj 69 final result Cj69 £1060 R/r £300 A orlov nil

Sadly I won`t be as I will be on way back "down South" after weekend away "up north"

Just guessing obviously but could it be play off knockout comp

Lejonen should have one foot in the elite league door after winning their home leg of the final over Masarna 53- 37. but will they want it after going skint the last time in the big league ? attendance was1406

Yes-but if you take Rohan Tungate-he has ridden 1 match in Poland this year-last Sunday-so in my opinion when Gniezno came calling last week he should have told them he wasn`t available for this Sunday.

Can you name half a dozen "decent riders around who would race here and put some dedication into the club for a whole year " ??

No however this is post 126 Just looked it up on motorstv, 25th sept 9pm (21.00) and again at 5.30am on the 26th and 3.30pm(15.30) again on the 26th, I didnt think i could find that, well pleased there going to show it.

Offically confirmed now http://speedwayekstraliga.pl/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Komunikat-Enea-Ekstraligi-nr-54_2014.pdf

Right no messing about-risking everything Kolodziej £300 more Davidsson £100 more Vaculik £100 less Holta £100 less Gollob £200 less

Must be the new found love between BSI and Onesport -gaps between GP`s at some points during the season so that the SEC can be run

That meeting was originally on that date but was brought forward to the beginning of the season.I watched it on a stream.