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The thing is, when it was a level playing field, down in NZ, Smoli actually won a GP !!!

I think the first sentence contradicts the second somewhat. If one rider is at a disadvantage then how can it be a level playing field.........

Anything is more exciting when it is ‘your’ team. You can just pick a team and make it yours, but if you have no real affinity with a polish or Swedish or Czech team then it is really often boring. And tbh I have seen my own team in a boring meeting or two where the track announcer was getting all worked up because the score was close. That is his job, but the meeting was still boring.....

Have heard similar. One or two things come to mind, is does the sport want to find the 'tricks'. And do other riders want to report their fellow riders ? I can't say about the first, but it does seem the latter that riders are all too willing to share their doubts, but very few want to put their money where their mouth is and go official with it. Much like in any job, nobody wants to run the risk...

Be a bit rusty won’t he ? But it is his chance

I am mostly of the same opinion. But others have a different one, as in most topics . You’ll only upset the others it seems. But both sides must accept the opposite opinion. There are some great races and good meetings in Poland, but I don’t have the patience mostly to trawl through a meeting I have no connection or strong feeling to, in the hope of seeing one

Timo Lahti in for Lebedevs

Wittstock got another pre-season date 25.07 v Team CZ

Yes I saw Hans Nielsen said that a few days ago on FB. Not sure if he was just happy for his local club or he will be involved

Line up for the Wittstock v Rest of Germany warm up meeting Wittstock Steven Mauer, Lukas Fienhage, Dominik Möser, Mirko Wolter, Ben Ernst, Lukas Baumann, Celina Liebmann Rest of Germany Max Dilger, Michael Härtel, Max Pott, Hannes Gast, Mads Hansen !!!, Lukas Wegner, Erik Bachhuber

Should have looked at your U21 rating to get a better idea. But as long as Castagna has a hole in his rear there was going to be an Italian in

See SønderjyskE the team from Haderslev are playing against Esbjerg next week in a cup final in front of 1,500 fans, so no real reason it would appear, why speedway can't start. That would be a decent crowd for a lot of meetings/clubs. But see some are complaining about the tourists must have 6 nights booked in Denmark to enter. People are getting around it by entering the country and then cancelling their hotel etc. The main thing is they have the paperwork on entering !!!

Short tv report on Wittstock and the hopes for a new venture. @19:55 https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/programm/

Work with 3 polish guys and one was back a couple of weeks ago. Not sure which town or city, but he said walking round shopping and one person had a mask on and 20 didn't....despite it being compulsory !!

Still not heard anything. Gone past their hoped for start of early June and a June start looks unlikely now at all Did See though that the junior league or at least meetings had started this weekend

The place was pretty poor even in the 80s from memory. Unfortunately I esnted to visit in the 2000s v Peterborough from memory but the meeting was called off

Grandstand always seemed full to me, so obviously enough people enjoyed their speedway behind glass. They did I think at one time have a few tv screens showing re-runs maybe. B&W from memory. Not sure if they were ever updated to colour though and of course the burgers from the place at the top were to die for

Unfortunately my abodes in the UK were all within the official Blue plaque zone, where you have to be brown bread 20 years or more. Maybe Hamburg is a bit more relaxed about it ?

So I have just read. In Manchester it seems they have a colour coded scheme. Blue for people, red for events, black for buildings Seems in a number of areas, as long as you are willing to fund the plaque it will get approved. Unless of course it is someone controversial....

I didn't actually realise that there was an official scheme and other schemes

Will be a press conference on 25.06 where Teterow will most probably be cancelled for this year, after the government basically put a block on crowds larger than 1,000 up until the end of October

Don't you have to be dead 20 years ? Be a bit of a wait

Going to put the mockers on Wittstock a bit I think that the government have put the restriction on crowds in until the end of October. You can try to get special compensation by jumping through some hoops. But I wonder if it will be worth all the hassle. Pity really for the club and myself, as I was looking forward to one or two meetings

Let's hope they have relaxed the rules by then. Atm I think you are only allowed to enter Denmark if you have at least 6 nights booked somewhere like hotel, hostel or camping site....

It attracts a young crowd. Just as the big meetings in Denmark do. We even league meetings attract a fairly diverse crowd, but the big meetings really bring out the young have a few bevvy crowd, willing to pay out for food and drink. Totally different to the UK crowds in general. Just that is was reading one of those Jeff Scott fanzine style article a couple of days back. One that he wrote for the Irish Times at the end of last year.....