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Could be good news for Wroclaw as they prepare for Sunday`s play-off semi 1st leg against Gorzow in Poznan- Maksym Drabik out with a broken leg since May has been practising and could return.

Following last night`s last matches in the regular season- region Varde( Outrup) and Holsted have made it to the finals. new this season is the semi-final next Thursday September 8th where Esbjerg,Slangerup, Fjelsted and Grindsted meet to decide the remaining 2 places in the final. Don`t quite understand how they decided 2nd place as they both finished on 22 points. Google translation of article on Holsted website With a convincing victory at 50-37 won Holsted Tigers on Wednesday night the last match in the series of Esbjerg Vikings - the result means Holsted Tigers goes directly to the Metal Super Final on 14 sepember in Varde Motor Arena in Outrup, while Esbjerg Vikings need through a thrilling semifinal in an attempt to reach this year's Super Final. Holsted Tigers sat down last night completely on the match right from the first race, and in just a few heats it was clear to everyone that it would be a long and sad night for Esbjerg supporters. Although Esbjerg team leader Ib Pederen tried both Joker and tactical reserves, the Vikings never able to threaten Holsted Tigers, who with convincing driving can be a dangerous outsider in the Super Final, where the home team Region Varde course must be favorites for this year's championship, as the qua first place going into the final with two extra machpoint compared to Holsted Tigers. The last two participate in Metal Super Final will this year found through a Semifinal, which is run between the numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6. The semifinal to be run Thursday, September 8 in Esbjerg and besides hjemmeoldet will semifinal involve Slangerup, Fjelsted and Grindsted . Both semifinal and Metal Super Finals will be sent directly to TV2 Sport.

As I have got older I have started reminiscing a lot more- probably because I can`t remember what happened 10 minutes ago . It set me thinking that lots of us supporters would love to know how a lot of ex- riders are doing these days. I know Rob Peasley (Lucifer Sam) tracks down and interviews some for Backtrack magazine. I don`t go on social media- so maybe some ex-riders are active on there ? I would like to start the ball rolling by asking about a couple of real characters I got to know fairly well.- Tommy Palmer and Dave Steen. Steeny had a most successful testimonial meeting - anyone remember "Bike Mania" seemed to go on for a day and a half Tommy one day- allegedly got flashed by a speed camera on the A1 - stopped the van, got some Methanol and set fire to the camera !!!! Please add to the list and any sleuth`s out there with any information to whereabouts will be gratefully received.

At least we don`t get "tailed off at the back " every race now !!!!

1st few names announced for the golden helmet Sayfutdinov, N Pedersen,Smolinski,Hefenbrock,Magosi and Milanese

Will be on here http://tvsport.pro/channel/4402/ and here http://sport.tvp.pl/na-antenie

Good news- thanks

Video of the European team championship U21 (DMEJ) final from Stralsund 28/8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8byYjDx1ds

Balakovo v Togliatti 17/8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KelKcomfcGo&spfreload=10

Piraterna v Dackarna round 2 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71cgyb5CtpI

Rzeszow v Gdansk is the TV match on Sunday from the NICE POLSKA league- it is only on the TVP regional stations. 1st race is 12.45pm UK time

For those waiting for the Eurosport highlights programme on Friday morning- we are in for a treat - all 15 heats !!! Next Tuesday`s live TV match is Dackarna v Indianerna- a match the Indian`s need to win !!!!!

Video Wolves v Swindon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcU5gj6VB-Y Video Wolves v kings Lynn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AAwCVXLVq8

If you go to Stockholm- I can recommend a really superb restaurant.

C More captions have been notoriously bad recently- still would say no bonus in this 2nd stage. Table 1 Rospiggarna p 2 pts 4 103 - 77 2 Dackarna p 2 pts 2 90 - 90 3 Piraterna p 2 pts 2 90- 90 4 Indianerna p 2 pts 0 77 - 103 Edit confirmed here http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2016/Serietabell/ NO bonus points

Rospiggarna going well- 34- 20 Did you " feel a right t*t " Come on Greg talk American !!!

You do however get a commentary for your money

No watershed for adverts in Sweden

Obviously being a big Abba fan I liked the Abba story museum- and the Vasa museum is excellent. I`m going again in 3 weeks and again in Feb 2017 for a birthday celebration. We did a city bus hop on hop off tour as well and a trip on the water.

Live updates https://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Arena,Organizer,FromDateShort&Datefilter=Today&pagesize=10&CompetitionId=7767

stream up and running http://tvsport.pro/channel/302/ nice evening in Motala

Only by Ghostwalker - joking aside passing is normally very difficult there.

Everyone bar Greg Hancock

R/R ?

For some reason my memory associates them with Erik Gundersen