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Regarding football someone said that France is the closest when it comes to reality in finances, but are not that close. Jokerit from Helsinki has been in ice hockey KHL for 5 seasons now and been subsidised by Rotenbergs and Timoshenko for roughly 10M € a a year.

A few years ago I spoke with a Finnish TV chief (mine at the time as well ) and he said that all UK top footy is on TV and stadiums are still over 95 % full. But thats not why I replied, been waiting to air this... Lauri Markkanen is the next Michael Jordan in NBA Chigaco Bulls. So there's been something about his every game during the winter. Now the fun thing with NBA is that the worst team gets the first draft during offseason. So teams like Bulls dont let their best players play, but bench them, so they would lose and finish as low as possible to get a better pick in the draft. And when they bench players, they bench millions in pay. This happens every year when about 60-70% of the regular season is done. This actually got so bad league wide last season, that the league president or similar issued a statement that stop this crap or hefty fines will follow.

Reading my mind then... Like a friend said today, within a day the internet and Facebook is full of pics, hundreds. Result spreadsheet - > no. Thats where I remember speedway.org being really good a couple of years ago.

Better!! But not speedway.org atleast yet. But Jesper and Jan did winter season really well!

Not good enough, but yes.

Now that speedway.org closed, where we find german longtrack results?

Havent decided myself yet... But the basic problem is that About to board so yes. Always nice to travel with my cpusin, but no, it was not worth the effort. Not planning on any german trips...

We seen 9 heats since start time in 115 minutes. This is not making speedway, this is killing it. Things happen and all off them have, but the ref is rubbish.

Gardell. We’ll miss our flight if this carriess on

Stekkers got sacked and there were some sour grapes. I remember asking here ”who is Anders Secher” when he got the job. He did fine and was sacked with sour grapes. Maybe someone knows better, or doesnt have a clue. No clue is my bet ATM.

Isnt wozniak supposed to be the first reserve as the highest scoring 4th placed rider?

Zengota and Wozniak to Terenzano then from Balakovo?

"Zengota comes back because that's how the system slot works. Friday is the day for PGE Ekstraliga Grzegorz Zengota was on the start list of the SEC elimination in Balakowo. The competition was supposed to take place on Thursday, but it was canceled and postponed until Friday. Zengota will not go on Friday. He returns to Poland. Penalties will not be. This is how the system slot works." from google translate and sportowefakty I know that for FIM first round qualifiers the rule says that they are FMN allocations. So for example Russians declared their riders for Ylitornio only a few days before, even though the rule says something like 30 days. This includes also the chance of making substitutions until signing on without any fear of fines. But Zengota was there, signed in and rode. Now if they talking about the new weekly slot system, FIM Europe is above PZM. IMO. EDIT: Reading the ISL rule, FIM and FIM Europe only have first call on Saturdays and restagings on dates in question.

I was on Aldaris for a couple of days recently. I have no desire to drink beer for a while now...

One with a FIM Europe ref collar shirt was just on the other end of a wazzup... As was a FIM CoC licensed fellow an hour earlier. We were just wondering. Shurely went by the book...

If Zengota has signed in to the meeting, how come he’s allowed to leave?

Out of all the doom and gloom I’m starting to think that Polish speedway is doing pretty well crowd wise ATM...

Yes it does.

Overthinking is a killer. And if you are really ”in to your sport” as is easy IMO in speedway, you might start to think about too much what you say. As most likely you know stuff that would not help anyone if blurred out on tv.

In all individuals the basic rule is to decide the top three places and last qualifiers by a runoff. I asked because I thought it was weird that there wasnt one. But if there was rain and the track was bad, I could see why a ref might say this was enough. Also, there’s a chance BSPA/ACU has their own rule regarding this scenario.

I'd guess it's always good that the commentator even knows what a motorbike is. We have some good one's over here as well. Cant identify riders on the tapes but speak fluently about anything prior to mid 80's...

The rain probably explains why there was no runoff?

But it wasnt live wasnt it? If it was, thats one more press release I’ve missed...

No they are not available here. Apart from Youtube, stuff pops up there also from FIM. I had forgotten the dorna deal, and the ingridients of it...