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Confirmed lineups for Saturday (source One Sport Marketing). Sweden 1. Andreas Jonsson 2. Antonio Lindback 15. Peter Ljung Manager: Bosse Wirebrand AUSTRALIA 3. Chris Holder 4. Davey Watt 16. Manager: Travis McGowan USA 5. Greg Hancock 6. Ryan Fisher 17. Manager: Billy Hamill ROSJA 7. Emil Sayfutdinov 8. Grigorij Laguta 18. Artem Laguta Manager: Tomasz Suskiewicz CZECHY 9. Ales Dryml 10. Tomas Suchanek 19. MATEJ ZAGAR (guest) Manager: Milan Spinka POLSKA 11. Tomasz Gollob 12. Jarosław Hampel 20. Adrian Miedziński Manager: Marek Cieslak DANIA 13. Nicki Pedersen 14. Michael Jepsen Jensen 21. Hans Andersen Manager: Anders Secher Hopefully Nicki will be fit enough to ride as Motoarena track is normally pretty slick. Good stuff to use Zagar as a guest (Lukas, Franc, Milik not available) as Czechs looked poor without him. Poland and Russia strongest on paper with Denmark not far behind. Sweden and Australia able to be in the mix of course. USA with Greg and Fish I think will be joy to watch as well. All in all great meeting in prospect and personally can't wait!

Seems that someone from Sky is actually reading our posts. They have shown heat 15 lineups in Berwick - Newcastle meeting on the tv graphics before they started interviews with managers. Great job. The most important info first then some talking.

What I hate on Sky is the way they announce riders for heat 15. Especially when it is last heat decider. Why can't they show names on graphics as soon as lineups are available? Instead they do talk with managers and when they finish, riders are usually already at the tapes. I think it is crucial who is in and from which gate and that kind of info should be available ASAP not as the last part of interview. There should always be time for some quick summary after heat 15 is finished, some time for interview with riders/managers. But the way thay do it, before heat 15 is pretty annoying for me.

SEC qualifiers and final rounds were announced on November 2012, far earlier than BEL fixtures. FIM and FIM-Europe meetings dates are the most important in the international calendar and no-one is supposed to overtype this dates with own meetings. If so, organisers take the risk of some riders unavalaible due to international duties… You can put the meeting on the FIM/FIM-Europe date (like i.e. Eastbourne sometimes do), but it's obvious that the riders' first choice is international meeting. Hans Andersen ‏@Hansi_Andersen 52 min @sheilaeveret made Swindon aware of not being available 4/5 times due to other commitments BEFORE the season started #NotMyFault

Thanks Phil

What time does the practice start this year? Is it open and free?

British Eurosport will aslo cover that great event! More details in a link below: http://www.speedwaypairs.com/eng/?subaction=showfull&id=1366125509&archive=&start_from=&ucat=&

Are they allowed to move riders within the team? Hancock was declared at 1 and Holder at 5 and you got it the other way round.

Fast like a Ghost. You answered while I was writing my post. Top man.

Some rumours say Vaculik may replace Ruud. Hopefully Ghostwalker will be able to answer all these questions soon. Good meeting in prospect anyway. Can't wait.

What's Kosciuch's avarage? Is it 1.40? He scored 35 pts in 25 races last year. It means he will be at reserve tonight and Janowski (1.419) in the main body. Am I right? Any news about Ruud? Fit to ride or R/R?

Jonas D in current form is on Premier League reserve level, nothing more.

They need to do something with the track at Vastervik. Massive advantage again gates 1 and 2. Heat wins: Gate 1- 8 Gate 2 -7 Gate 3 -0 (!!!) Gate 4 -0 (!!!) Points: Gate 1 - 36 Gate 2 - 32 Gate 3 - 14 Gate 4 - 8 (!!!) 15 heats and only 8 points from gate 4. No wins from gates 3 and 4 at all. And gate 1 has such a big advantage in every meeting I watched from Vastervik. Not fair at all.

Is Maciej Janowski fit to ride? After 3 nasty crashes yesterday it is hard to believe that he will give it a go today.

Thanks Ghost

Ghost, 2 things I am not so sure about, in Elitserien. Heat 15 used to be top scorers nominated heat but there are some meetings where top scorer is not in heat 15. Also, do bonus points count when you count who may ride in last heat? And what about gates in heat 15? Is it always home 1&3?

Remove the joker and bring back reserve (max 3 rides allowed to avoid situation when Gollob is on reserve and every time against strongest opponents )

Fair enough. Never heard about Robert Lambert. If he is only 14 then I must admit he seems skilled. You didn't get my point. I didn't try to say that US future is brighter. It was kind of arony. How can you compare USA (with few odd tracks) to GB where you have how many? 25-30 tracks? With such a high numer of tracks/clubs you should be at least close to Poland and Scandinavia. But they produce some talents every year mainly thank's to one simple rule. Fixed numer of local U21 riders in every team. I would be more than happy to watch young Brits every Monday in Elite League and see how they progress as I'm a big fan of British speedway. And I believe it was Chris Louis year or two ago, who said how important for GB speedway it is to follow 'Polish way' and give young Brits places in Elite League teams. Seems that noone listened him and it wasn't even discussed during annual promoters meeting.

GB future is not brighter than American. Auty, Worrall? Gimme a break. Only slim hope is Tai. And solution is simple. In Poland 2 Polish juniors in a team. In Sweden - one. Why there is no such rule in Elite League? Give 10 British boys chance every year and in 5-10 years time you will see some talents like we do in Poland. Janowski, Dudek, Zmarzlik, Pawlicki brothers. All close or even better than Tai now. But British promoters prefer to moan about CMA's, tactical rules etc. Very Sad.

Many thanks, all clear now.

Ghost, I have a quick question. What are the rules for team positioning? Last year many top riders were dropping to reserve after one or two bad meetings. This year it seems it doesn't really work that way. Please explain. Thanks in advance.

Bjarne Pedersen was going to replace Shields. But now with Bjarne injured they might use Kildemand. Not confirmed but possible.

Poland defeated ROTW 47-44 in Torun (October 2011). Now it's time for revenge. The one and only Tony Rickardsson as a manager decided to keep 3 riders from 1st leg lineup (Hancock, Jonsson and Ward), added Crump, Saifutdinov, Harris and MJ Jensen (in place of Nicki, Lindback and Vaculik - they all struggled in Torun). Marek Cieslak decided to make 2 changes bringing 2 local heroes in (Bartosz Zmarzlik replaces Pawlicki and new Gorzow rider Krzysztof Kasprzak replaces Miedzinski). Live tv coverage - TVP Sport and TVP 1. Another great meeting in prospect! Can't wait!

Poland defeated ROTW 47-44 in Torun (October 2011). Now it's time for revenge. The one and only Tony Rickardsson as a manager decided to keep 3 riders from 1st leg lineup (Hancock, Jonsson and Ward), added Crump, Saifutdinov, Harris and MJ Jensen (in place of Nicki, Lindback and Vaculik - they all struggled in Torun). Marek Cieslak decided to make 2 changes bringing 2 local heroes in (Bartosz Zmarzlik replaces Pawlicki and new Gorzow rider Krzysztof Kasprzak replaces Miedzinski). Live tv coverage - TVP Sport and TVP 1. Another great meeting in prospect! Can't wait!

Is it true that Zengota will replace Sullivan tomorrow? Will Bjarne move to 5 if that is the case?