racers and royals

According to a Polish report Grigori Laguta is the 1st of 3 permanent wild cards to join the 5 qualified riders already named Emil Sayfutdinov Peter Kildemand Nicki Pedersen Martin Vaculik Janusz kolodziej

With the final U21 round at Pardubice on Saturday 19th September, can we assume the Golden helmet weekend in 2015 is 18/19/20th September ?

This season 1st round was April 12th so good chance of league fixtures the following day.. Fixtures were announced for season 2014 on January 9th-so expect similar for 2015. Nearest to Warsaw is Torun about 160 miles then Tarnow/Rzeszow

Marek Cieslak has joined div 1 side Ostrow and the 1st signing could be Rune Holta.

It gets very messy in Poland at times-if the rider owed doesn`t ride -the club then counter claims.Czestochowa claimed all sorts of things in Emil`s case.

Sportowefakty are saying that Emil Sayfutdinov has left Torun and could end up at Leszno.

Batchelor released by Wroclaw.

So how does the Swedish Elite league go about creating a meaningful league programme with only 7 clubs. This is the R& R suggestion. Regular season part 1 Each team meets each other home and away=6 home 6 away Regular season part 2 the top 3 teams after part one are guaranteed play-off spots. They now meet each other home and away again= 2 home 2 away -points gained in part 1 are carried on to part 2 Top team after part 2 can choose play-off semi opponent and choice of 1st leg home or away. Teams placed 4-6 after part 1 meet each other home and away= 2 home 2 away and the top team after part 2 makes play-off. Team in 7th after part 1=season over. NB no team in 4-6th position overtakes top 3 in 2nd phase. 2 semi`s and grand final all over 2 legs.

Hatchet job-latest from the greyhound side of things http://www.racingpost.com/news/greyhounds/panorama-criticism-provokes-intense-debate/1749435/top/

Good post-I would add that as far as I know most club`s press officer has access to their clubs login/back room details so will do any updating/post stories themselves.

And by someone who by his posts is extremely close to Poole Speedway

For those bemoaning the delay in the hearing-we are today just 2 days into the European "close season" -hardly at the eve of next season stage !!!

Greg Hancock has signed for another season with Piraterna.

Is Darcy`s next to a pub

I see Neil Middleditch has given another stunning interview in the "star" today about Mr Ward-slagging off the FIM mercilessly but in my opinion the best bit is and I quote " If heaven forbid they give him a year ban, even dating back to when the offence was committed,we`re into August next year. That`s the season done We need to know what`s happening " A year ban-the end of the world-unbelievable. Tough s**t I say !!

Video of Gorzow`s open top bus league title celebration http://www.sportowefakty.pl/zuzel/477798/gorzow-powital-mistrzow-polski-wideo good song to go with it .

Which is the Swedish league format as well

No-they had it 54-39 until they corrected it.

Looks like updates have score wrong-54-42 I make it not 54-39 Edit they have now corrected it.

The Landshut meeting I linked the video to was the night before the world final and it worked really well-massive crowd there. I remember driving from Munich and we passed the Muldorf long track stadium on the way.

Yet you would pay to watch Millwall-no accounting for some peoples taste

He`s left Tarnow because they have no money-so somehow don`t think it will be Coventry

Latest on the Greyhound v football situation at Wimbledon http://www.racingpost.com/news/greyhounds/paschal-taggart-tide-starting-to-turn-in-battle-for-wimbledon/1737601/ (I will be there on the 11th November for the St Leger/Puppy derby finals)

Marek Cieslak has left Tarnow.-wonder where he will end up ??

In fact he`s a better rider than commentator