Ghostwalker

Actually it is a very relevant comparison. Why should speedway be different then any other sport? Why should speedway use last seasons teams? Then there still is this factor with team conflicts for riders which makes the whole idea of a champions league pretty much non existent. Why should Poole be allowed to use Chris Holder when he doesn't ride for them this season? A team should not be able to use a riders which they don't have a contract with for the current season. As I said before the CL is doomed since teams can use their best riders since they have to to ride for another team in the same tournament. Also teams and meetings should be league-style and not SWC style. @arnieg Kenni Larsen have a sligthly lower average then Korneliussen in Sweden but Kenni have rode all his meetings as nr5 except one which he rode as nr1. Korneliussen have about 3-4 meetings as nr4 and he rest as nr 3 which gives him easier heats (especially as nr4) which makes it easier to score more points,

I read in the Riga SGP thread that Riga are (rumoured to be?) interested in SWC for next year.

Skidder, surely in football, the team uses the current season's players rather then last season's players for their Champions league games?

I don't know exactly for all teams and it varies from one track/club to another. Some teams also own their own arena which means that they don't pay any rent at all. 8 years ago Rospiggarna paid 180'000SEK (about £15'400GBP with current exchange rate) / year in rent to the municipality /community in which they are located. In 2007 Smederna paid an annual rent of 144'000 SEK (about £12'000GBP with current exchange rate) to the municipality /community in which they are located. I don't have any more recent numbers but at least this gives you an estimate and as you can see the rents are definitely not free but from what I understand the rents are subsidized to some extent so. *edit I found some info from 2012 for Smederna which were in Allsvenskan (PL equivalent) that year. Also important to remember that Smederna pulled out of Elitserien in 2009, rode in division in 2010 and in Allsvenskan in 2011 and 2012 before advancing to Elitserien to the 2013 season. In 2012 they paid only 42'000SEK (£3600GBP) while a 100% rent would have costed about (2.1 million SEK, (~180'00GBP). I don't know what they are paying now but I would guess that is at least the double.

The thing is still that riders rides for several teams and in this case it strongly gives an disadvantage to Piraterna who have a team that heavily relies on Greg H, Darcy and Chris Holder. The problem for Piraterna now is that that Darcy and Holder will ride for another team. This means that the whole idea of a champions league is lost since we don't know what the strongest league team in Europe is since Piraterna can't field the strongest possible team. Instead of a lineup with Greg Hancock, Darcy Ward, Chris Holder and Bjarne Pedersen they will have to replace Darcy and Holder with Linus Sundström and Rory Schlein. Quite a big difference don't you think? So if not all teams can use their best riders, what is the point of all this?

Good work, I reposted the link on twitter. Arena looks nice, just hope they can get more dirt onto the track. I think it looks a bit sandy?

one photo can be found here: https://twitter.com/speedwaystarmag/status/491876557539909632

I don't think so, they already been at Eskilstuna twice in three weeks (last week and two weeks before tat) I don't think they make another visit so close after the previous visits. I think they'll wait to the final round to go back to Smedstadion atleast if Smederna - Vargarna still have any deciding meaning regarding play offs.

Yes excellent racing tonight and yet the track wasn't as good as it usually is. Definitely one of the best meetings so far this season. I feel gutted for Vetlanda though since it felt like they were cheated of the victory due to Piraterna getting an extra heat each on Darcy and Greg. There have been a few very good meetings in Kumla though this season. Not sure which meeting that will be televised after the world cup break but I would guess that it will be Västervik-Indianerna or possible Elit Vetlanda - Vargarna.

Smederna lost after Dackarna winning the last two heat with 9-3. Like last week reserves are not used fully to replace non-performing regular riders. Zengota & Zorro should have take one heat more from Michelsen and Berntzon.

That was a crazy first bend by greg and darcy.

heat 10: Greg & Darcy vs. EMil and Bartosz. Dudek will not ride any more in the meeting between Dackarna and Smederna. He was involved in a crash with Oliver Berntzon and it is suspected that he have broken his foot.

Indianerna seems to be steam rolling Vargarna.

Descent meeting so far, not as good as normal at Dunteberget in Motala but like BB48 said the weather have been very hot for 2 weeks and the track is a little too dry.

but 4-2 in heat 5 and in heat 6. Smederna 5-1 in heat 7. Pawelek, PK, Nicki and MJJ.

Zmarzlik

I don't know, the preview on Vetlanda's website didn't provide any info regarding it, however I would assume that this will be brought up in the broadcast so I'll tell you then if they mention why.

Jonas Davidsson will be out for two weeks because of minor injuries that he suffered in a crash in the past weekends round of the European Championship. http://www.speedwaynyheter.se/rospiggarna/davidsson-borta-i-tva-veckor/

Preview round 11 televised meeting is Piraterna - Elit Vetlanda. British Eursport does not show it live this week but later in the evening (9pm Esp 2). continental eurosport shows it live from 20.00 CEST on Eurosport 1. race card: http://www.mediafire.com/view/gjk8fvienuq7jwh/ES.2014.R11.Piraterna-ElitVetlanda.pdf Piraterna - Elit Vetlanda Piraterna (44) Greg Hancock Rory Schlein Bjarne Pedersen Linus Sundström Darcy Ward Anton Rosén Fredrik Engman Elit Vetlanda (46) Leon Madsen Jacob Thorssell Jaroslaw Hampel (K) Tomas H Jonasson Emil Sajfutdinov Kenny Wennerstam Bartosz Zmarzlik Should be a close meeting although I expect Vetlanda to win in the end. Since this meeting is quite important when it comes to which teams that goes to the post-season meetings, I think it is a bit less good by Vetlanda not to field the strongest possible lineup. I know Tai is unavailable but they could have Swapped him for Kolodziej. Rospiggarna - Västervik Rospiggarna (47) Andreas Jonsson Jonas Davidsson R/R Kim Nilsson Timo Lahti Mads Korneliussen Chris Harris Grzegorz Walasek Västervik (43) Przemyslaw Pawlicki Tobiasz Musielak Krzysztof Kasprzak Hans Andersen Peter Ljung (K) Mathias Thörnblom Ludvig Lindgren Västervik lost tonight's meeting against Västervik and it looks more and more certain that Västervik is the team that will demoted to Allsvenskan. They are 6p behind Smederna with 4 rounds remaining of this year's Elitserien. Rospiggarna have only lost one meeting at home and I don't see Västervik being able to defeat Rospiggarna at Rospiggarna's track. Dackarna - Ikaros Smederna Dackarna (41) Nicki Pedersen Michael Jepsen Jensen Alexandr Loktaev R/R Joonas Kylmäkorpi Patryk Dudek Dennis Andersson Robin Aspegren Ikaros Smederna (48) Davey Watt Mikkel Michelsen Peter Karlsson Pawel Przedpelski Oliver Berntzon Grzegorz Zengota Magnus Zetterström Not much to say here really, Kenni apparently does not have enough equipment to be able to ride in this meeting. Quite a bit poor from him really. If you are a professional you have to make sure that you have the equipment required to fulfil your obligations. Kenni have had a bit poor form lately but I still would have preferred him over Watt. Dackarna should win this fairly easy, Smedernq can hopefully salvage the aggregated bonus point but I think it will be difficult. Also Smederna's team managers have to step up compared to last week when they costed us two points by giving Watt three heats and Berntzon 4 heats.That have to change tomorrow. If there are hot reserves and cold regular riders, the reserves have to be used as much as possible (6 heats is maximum allowed number of heats). Smederna need to win to stay in the race for a place in the play off. Indianerna - Vargarna Indianerna (49) Fredrik Lindgren Antonio Lindbäck Piotr Protasiewicz Cameron Woodward Niels-Kristian Iversen Mikael Max Joel Andersson Vargarna (41) Martin Vaculik Pontus Aspgren Peter Kildemand Jason Doyle Adrian Miedzinski Ricky Kling Billy Forsberg This could be a very good meeting and it is too bad this isn't televised since I think this could be a really excellent meeting. Indianerna is usually very strong at home. For Vagarna, Vavulik, Kildemand and Doyle seems to be in very good form so I think this will be tight and intense and that it will end with a victory for Indianerna. Current standings at: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2014/Serietabell/ top 6 to play off, 8th team demoted to Allsvenskan. live results at: http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/ from 19.00 CEST.

Live scores for tonight's meeting: http://ta.svemo.se/Public/Pages/Competition/DrivingSchedule/CompetitionLiveResult.aspx?Branch=Speedway&Columns=CompetitionInfo,Branch,Name,Arena,Organizer,FromDateShort&Datefilter=Today&pagesize=10&CompetitionId=3362

Don't worry we have the same problem far from all tv-meetings are good but obviously Cmore have to variate which track they visit or else a few teams would be much more affected then others.

It is. However there is this small problem though, there is no Grand Prix in Gothenburg.

It depends how many spectators they loose from it in relation to how many sponsors who wouldn't be interesting in sponsoring without tv-coverage. Also IMO a sport without TV-coverage will struggle to get new fans since they might not find out about the sport without it. In Sweden we have a saying that goes like this "syns du inte så finns du inte", translated it means about "if you are not seen, you do not exist". Meaning that you need to have the sport exposed on tv and in media in general to make fans aware of the sport. A good tv-meeting can be a fantastic good advert for the sport, but obviously on days when it feels like the rain is about to start falling in any second, some people will stay at home and watch it on tv.

Nope, Vaculik striked Nicki's front wheel and Nicki fell. Vaculik excluded. very simple.

The only childish person is here was paul himself especially when it came to the constant complaining about moderators when they deleted his complaints. Then it was his constant nagging about his race card at every possible opportunity which got way too tiresome so it was not particular surprising that he got banned. Anyway it will be interesting to see tonight if Nicki, Janusz, Emil and Peter can continue to ride well and possible make a gap to the rest of the riders. Since it is only 4 rounds no rider can afford to trail too much after two rounds. Then since round 3 is at Holsted, Nicki and Kildemand have a great opportunity if they can make a good result tonight.