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Haven't seen result yet with final yet to watch, meeting TiVo'ed. Another great meeting racing wise, why can't the GP's be this entertaining. Pedersen bailed with space to spare when Milik overtook him then hit the tapes in the rerun. Almost poetic justice. Just glad Sayfutdinov hasn't amassed a silly amount of points so the Rybnik event still matters.

Glad Swindon won this at least they have the ambition to be competitive. Kings Lynn gave that up a week ago putting out a frankly awful 1-7 v/s Poole. Hope the racing was good for the fans.

Dear New Science, bickering with Stevebrum is futile. One of the many reasons I gave up spending time on this forum. He's nice enough if you meet him in person.

KING’S LYNN: Niels-Kristian Iversen, Kai Huckenbeck, Chris Harris, Rory Schlein, Troy Batchelor, Josh Bailey, Lewis Kerr SWINDON: Jason Doyle, Justin Sedgmen, Nick Morris, Rohan Tungate, Josh Grajczonek, Leigh Lanham, Stefan Nielsen. Taken from the KL page. If so I'd expect an easy home win.

Just watched Dackarna v Rospiggarna, TiVo box recording. What a fantastic performance from Peter Ljung, certainly the finest moment of his that I have witnessed. Wasn't really sure who to support as I don't particularly like or dislike any riders in the Dackarna or Masarna teams. Would it of been beneficial for Rospiggarna to eliminate Dackarna from the playoffs considering their dominance in the league and Dackarna are more likely to take points from Piraterna & Indianerna than them in the playoffs? No one can fault Rospiggarna efforts. Holta was very hit & miss but his elbow on AJ in the deciding heat was as important as anything, surprised he was given the nod over Dudek if I'm honest for that, or was Dudek struggling mechanically? Still struggling to comprehend how the likes of Timo Lahti are preferred over Brits such as Cooke & King, for Swedish teams. He will probably be a league winner this year. Because despite this narrow loss from what I have seen (televised stuff) their are fewer weak points in the Rospiggarna then all the others. With Krzysztof Buczkowski at reserve, any weakness is completely nullified and they can bring Max Fricke back. Was impressed by Thorssell. If Dackarna are going to do anything in the playoffs, Janowski needs to turn his form around pronto and they need to find someone at reserve alongside Pepsi to score points.

Depends on how much pride Swindon & Kings Lynn have left in them, if Poole can avoid Wolves in Semi. I can't see Pirates winning at Monmore or NSS during or after before unless Zagar goes missing. I do think the Pirates will beat both Wolves & Belle Vue at Wimbourne Rd comfortably.

If you think the signing of Woffinden has won the Elite League for Wolves, you're mad. Belle Vue have flaws also. Wolves have to carry a very disappointingly inconsistent Howarth, an aging PK & novice in Clegg. Belle Vue have to carry a novice in Jacobs. All Poole riders seem to score every meeting and if they don't I'm sure Charles Wright or Paul Starke can step in, they seem to allot. I can see Zagar having a can't be arsed night along the way, to boot.

7.03 he starts on, getting it down to less than Howarth & PK on 4.91 & 5.53 would take allot of last places. Wolves do need to win at least a few of their remaining fixtures.

Who cares. KL gave up hope of PO's tonight, I guess to the benefit of Lakeside. How many points and meetings in hand does this leave Poole on Belle Vue. And do either have to visit Monmore again before the Play Offs start. Is their PO cut off date. I know Poole have to visit NSS twice. Do the Aces have to visit Wimbourne Rd?

I'm sure Masters & Lindgren can find an excuse not to be there if he wants to. The ELRC is pretty low priority for riders these days, else how the hell would Schlien have won it? I'm sure on my only ever visit to Blunsden I witnessed Ronnie Correy be Wolves sole representative in the competition. Think Travis McGowan was the Silver Component.

After that pathetic performance, Poole really need to drop Andersen and bring in Dudek before the play-offs. Dudek has spent countless hours practising at Monmore Green & NSS Tracks, he has fast bikes which he'll bring over. Promise. The team Kings Lynn put out was a disgrace.

Janowski isn't exactly riding well in Sweden currently.

Well after yesterday's results, Woffinden won't be riding in Sweden after next Tuesday. Guess that leaves a few spots in his calendar empty.

Belle Vue will have to carry Jacobs, all Poole riders will at least score.

Rain affected meeting which got better as the night progressed at Motala. Do wonder why Hancock who had had little speed all night was selected over Kildemand for heat 15. Kasprzak getting the nod for the Gorzow GP which I'm attending over the seemingly unstoppable force that is Dudek is baffling. I know it is Kasprzaks home track but aside from Sayfutdinov, Dudek is obviously the quickest rider outside the current GP riders. What is wrong with Janowski?

Not really, second rate over the hill journey man.

Poole flexing their PO muscles. And increasing their averages, so who will be dumped for the PO terminator THJ?

I'd rather them draft in a quality rider in Woffinden who has spent many a season in the British Leagues, then a play off mercenary like THJ. Although THJ seems to have dropped my radar completely. Exactly, I would rather Wolves employ a quality British rider than a Finnish Journeyman. And have a chance of making the playoffs interesting.

Just watched this on TiVo. Swindon middle order, oh dear. Coventry track wasn't in prime condition. I didn't think any Coventry rider really impressed despite the scoreline. Without looking at remaining fixtures, as awful as Lakeside were at Poole when I saw them, they appear to have more points throughout the team than Swindon. A late Kings Lynn push, might save the play off first round fixtures.

Indeed now having looked at the fixtures, it seems mission impossible with Masarna hosting Smederna the final week. I guess that would suit him. With Poole & Belle Vue also cert's for the top two places, he clearly has no objections to the track at the NSS judging by his SWC exploits. Even if Lakeside (the track he seemed to object to the most) do make the play-off's it is unlikely Wolves will visit Purfleet.

Vetlanda & Wroclaw both have a reasonable chance of making the play-offs in there respective leagues, Woffinden has been pretty scathing of British tracks via twitter when he's seen them on TV. Wolves traditionally don't make changes they're not forced into, I would be very surprised if the swap happened.

Coventry rode without Kasprzak regardless. There are very few EL meets on a Saturday. If their PL teams were allowed a facility for rider in the pairs competition & SEC, they could be involved. I am of the the opinion that the the BSPA should find sponsors to fund these riders participation in such events. You cannot tell me that the riders from Germany & Eastern Europe (not including Poland & Russia) can have a greater level of income & sponsorship than our promising youngsters if the BSPA backed them?

Another fantastic spectacle in Daugavpils, if only for the crazy lines the Latvian's were pulling, thought Bogdanovs was harshly excluded in the final. Shame that 3 riders who were not involved in the first event finished in the top 4 at this event, but in some way it is all to play for at the final events with about 10 riders on 18-13 points. It would be hugely beneficial for British riders to be involved and for an event to be held here, the same can be said of the pairs event. I'm sure the riders involved in this would draw a greater crowd to the NSS or Brandon than CL meetings. Would it really hurt the BSPA to grant a guest facility for Cooke, Lambert, Ellis & Bates to compete in these international televised events.

Surely, Paul Starke is booked as a guest for someone, along with Charles Wright. Poole's most effective assets.

If Poole were in the same position, would your management been keen to give your likely Play-off final opponents practice on your track? Didn't Belle Vue win at Poole in the only fixture I am aware of between the two teams this year? Holder & Kurtz were pretty useless last Friday, Holder was probably worse on Saturday. If Belle Vue can finish top of the EL by the time the Play-offs kick in without arranging home meetings against their likely play-off opponents. Fair play. Besides Poole can't even win away at Coventry, where every other team seems to.