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And no Blodurn...

Welcome to Lublin... Bartek tonight is riding in an FIM meeting which was scheduled eons ago, but, instead of not arranging our meeting knowing he was missing, we have instead got Tai "Woffy" Woffinden from Wroclaw riding for us... Let's give Tai a big Lublin welcome... Next week Bartek is off to Venice for a few days so Jason Doyle will be riding for us instead on that night...

Because they are away so their crowd won't be impacted? And/Or, because the league doesn't really matter anyway so just have any septet there representing you..? UK Speedway should be in the dictionary as the perfect definition of irony.. It only "doesn't really matter anyway" due to things like this being allowed to happen, which means that it then "doesn't really matter anyway"...

Holder and Kolodziej maybe? And obviously Sayfutdinov and Laguta would strengthen it considerably, so let's hope that they are back next year, being given permanent wild cards if needed..

Was it a gate that was broken?

Poland have huge crowds, full of passionate fans, making loads of noise, with a bona fide justified emotional attachment to their team.. All willing their team on to try and win a competition that has all the world class competitors, kudos, credibility, a wider public awareness through large media coverage, and big financial rewards... Over here, we measure the entertainment level of the meeting as the key determinant of whether it was a "good night out" or not, because there is pretty much nothing else to go on, given none of the above descriptions apply to a UK domestic meeting..

KK definitely didn't want to get involved then...

Wroclaw too good... That top five cannot be far off the best ever assembled...

Cracking race... Lebedev is one of those riders who always keeps a race interesting...

Was Ht14 a metaphorical kick in the bollox for Pedersen and Jakobsen from their Team Manager?

If I was them, I would avoid Thursday nights like the plague.. Poland will cause havoc at any given moment, and meeting after meeting will have riders missing.. BSN, and the Speedeay Star, to a fair old job considering the infrastructure of the sport that they have to deal with...

Indeed... I believe his leg has almost fully grown back already...

One of my all time favourites.. Saw him once "fall off", but kept hold of the bike whilst he slid along the track, and then, all in one motion without stopping, lifted the bike up with him astride it, and rode off down the home straight.. Unfortunately Ronnie Correy had seen him "fall off" from a few yards behind so had laid his bike down in a similar slide to Bobby to avoid contact.. Correy waved to the ref who stopped the race and excluded Bobby.. He was not impressed... Last heat of the season 1993, Monmore Green....

Fluski?

Is he injured?

A very crap night may make their average a good one to have.. And if on a guarantee then even more reason to do it...

Saturday nights are fine as flights on Sunday morning.. Leicester ran with decent crowds at Div 2 level on Saturdays..

Getting rid of tenants so they have an opportunity of a seamless sell off further down the line, with no legal challenges...?

It's the opposition having to do the same too... League 2 and 3 is Poland is full of Div 2 Heat Leaders who would simply be unavailable... Brum having seven Brits good enough to build a team with, all without Polish contracts, wouldnt be achievable I would suggest as other teams will also be using the same riders in their septets.. Add in guestfest after guestfest due to every team no doubt having a rider in Poland, and very quickly that business model would collapse..

Slick and dusty.... Usually much better than that...

Some quality riders on display tonight, even without Freddie...

Keep them away from any sheep...

As we will say forever... You need a large, noisy, enthusiastic crowd to add atmosphere and make the event look like it actually means something to any potential watching sports fan.... Baffles me why promotions who get given such an opportunity to advertise what they do for two whole hours, seem quite happy to not bother selling themselves to a wider audience....

If they had someone with a drum and someone with a mega phone like the Poles do, all you would hear is.. "It's too noisy"... "I can't see with him with the drum in the way, and I always stand here".. "Where's me tartan blanket?"...

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