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Since Australia are likely to end up behind GB in the final and he has a good chance in the GPs, that would make sense.

With all the gaps in clubs meetings in the last couple of months I am surprised that Mark or Rosco have not tried to set up a series of Eng - Aus, under say 23, matches around the country. This would have helped the riders and given the managers of GB and Aus an idea of how the youngsters are progressing in a pressure situation.

Had forgotten about that with all the false completion dates we have been fed. Do not even think about it now, I will only believe it when and if we actually have a meeting there. Yes the same pictures you have for Wimborne Road.

Just hope Batch has a few spare dates, but the worrying thing is how many meetings we have close to each other, yet we have had weeks of gaps to date. We may need Craig Cook as well subject to how he scores next thurs.

If that is the case would that guarantee GB going straight through to the final or as some would prefer, might there be a change and they go to the semi final, with two teams going through from the semi to the final.

Hope Nick can recover as we have 5 meetings in 8 days starting on 13th, the same goes for Jason. Both need to be 100% as we have another heavy schedule in August. So we have had two meetings in June, now we have got six in July and nine in Aug, on top of that we are still in the KOC.

Agree they should produce a decent racing surface. OK they cannot all be like BV but look at some of the rubbish racing we have had to watch in the last few years. It even got to the point that when a meeting was from certain clubs many would not bother watching it. Often the racing from the lower leagues was better than most of the racing from the Elite league.

OK, thank you for that explanation

How come the some of the Polish riders in the WC team were able to ride in the Polish Final, I thought that once the comp started the riders could not race elsewhere?.

If that was the event in Europe it was equivalent to a speedway NL meeting.

That would have been a good idea

Well he is riding for Berwick tonight, 4 days after sick note.

If the tracks still get money from the tv to compensate for a drop in the crowd then a threat not to go to a rubbish track might make them improve it. I am not sure though if BT pay or not as they might now be showing speedway for just the production costs and the club gets nothing.

So should the non Polish clubs

That seemed to be the case from what has been posted and claimed to be what he said.

Lets see how the Robins do against BV next week, we beat Wolves last week and if Rosco can either get Dany going or make a team change it is not too late to climb the table. I am waiting to see where we are by the end of July.

Posted exactly that earlier, the host being in the semi and the top two going to the final On a few occasions recently the playoff has been the better meeting of the playoff and final.

Did not know they were thinking of restricting the riders choices even more. The riders may well ignore the restriction, it would only take a few. Just wait for the money to run out in Poland, then the riders will tell them where to go.

Or stop getting paid - from Skidder post It would only take the top two or three riders in the world to ignore the Polish ruling for the Polish authority to change its mind.

Not 100% sure but the non change and no reserve was commented on to keep the option of Jason for the playoff, now that comment may have been wrong. Maybe someone who knows the rules can clarify an injury situation. It does seem a bit daft if riders cannot be changed providing they are in the original squad of 10.

Do not agree, if they are good they will qualify, if rubbish they will look a joke in the final.

Also if Jason is ok on fri he can return for the play off, if another rider was bought in he could not return.

If the current champions or hosts cannot get into the top two in the thurs or fri playoff they do not deserve to go to the final

Well done Team GB, where are all those who moaned at Roscos choice of riders now ? Yes I know Sat will be a lot different.

If they are seeded it should only be to the playoff, not the final