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If you're still stuck there in 10 days, your beloved Robins will be in town.

Pretty awful meeting entertainment wise, heats 8 & 9 aside. Poole riders with the exception of Grajczonek & Covatti just couldn't ride the track. Klindt was alright but only when he gated, when he gated & someone was close he expectedly lacked any bottle. Now I'm fairly sure I've not watched a meeting from Foxhall for many years but I doubt it is normally prepared like that. I did begrudgingly hope Poole would get through only because I can't see the Witches giving either the Robins or Wolves a contest in the final, but as soon Holder withdrew my allegiance switched. Hats off to James Sarjeant, a rider who has annoyed me his entire career, considering the quality of the other riders on track he did well. Chips down, Pirates go glug.

Was slightly better than the SEC meeting at the same venue last year, there was some (few but some) races. Felt for Woryna. Strangely the runoffs were probably the highlights.

If Ernolenko says "mam made track" once more. Tell me Sam, is there a naturally occurring Speedway track?

FZG were rather hindered with Pedersen missing through injury replaced by Smolinski, they seemed to lack any belief fight without Pedersen.

Sand. Its. An. Ostrich. In. Like. Head. The. With. Dudek will probably ride like a novice at the final GP in Torun, just as he did at the recent GP in Cardiff. And recent Swedish Playoffs. And in the recent Polish playoffs. An in form rider, is an in form rider. Regardless of location, league & competition. Just as an out of form rider is. I have no personal objection to Thorsell. Is there anything about him to object to?

He scored Ok, once the result was in longer in doubt & Smederna were simply seeing the meeting out. Piotr Pawlicki & Dudek & Berntzon were equally as awful. That is true.

Regardless of which country he is riding in, if he rode Ilke a novice on Tuesday & Wednesday, he is likely to ride like a novice next outing. Or is his form dictated by longitudinal & latitudinal lines?

WTF was that? It was little other than a total farce on an awful track. Who did Ipswich sign NKI as replacement for? It's with a heavy heart I say this because for a time he was my favourite GP rider but bring back whoever he replaced because that was the second awful showing from him that I've unfortunately witnessed in a couple of weeks. Could no one in the Ipswich side of the pits figure out that Middlo's genius team talk was? Tell the Poole riders to set their bikes up to gate & ride the white line, while telling the track re+grade team to scrape the nitro boost near the fence exiting turn two? Middlo is clearly more genius than Hawkins & Louis. At least the Pirates should make the final a contest. The Witches would be steam rollered by either Wolves or Swindon.

Did you watch the Eliteserien playoffs?

When they look at Jason Doyle, I hope they hang their heads in shame.

Ekstraliga & GP'd only in 2020? Not convinced a less busy schedule in any way increases a riders performance.

How come? Another great performance from the Blacksmiths, congratulations to them. Awful Dackarna performance again, probably worse than previous night. Janowski & Jacobsen the only riders who can be mildly satisfied with their performances.

That did occur to me afterwards, Lambert is however riding in both meetings.

If Thorsell brings his Swedish playoff form it's Swindon in the final for sure.

Also Jakub Miskowiak and Karol Zupinski named as track reserves & Krister Gardell as referee. Miskowiak is odd, he's the poorer of the two Czestchowa reserves, his greatest moment that I'm aware of is being overtaken by Emil Sayfutdinov's wall of death in the league match at the SGP Arena Częstochowa the day after the Warsaw GP. Żupiński appears to ride for Gdańsk for whom he is averaging under 5 pts a meeting (1.024 a ride) in Nice 1.LŻ. Can anyone shed any light on those track reserve choices. Surely Dominik Kubera & Wiktor Lampart are better prospects? Kubera was reserve at Warsaw but didn't ride, Lampart has been ignored totally.

Adrian Miedzinski named as wildcard, who's he gonna nobble?

It was late Frederik Jakobsen is who I meant, he is the Dane who was at Poole last year isn't he? There was a Frederik Eriksson once, was there not?

Dudek was awful, Piotr Pawlicki somehow managed to be worse. Janowski is about the only Malila rider who did himself justice. Eriksson was Ok. Berntzon really let himself down with the exclusion. Except for Woetin all the Smederna riders all had decent night's but could have been better. Can't see Dackarna winning by 18 points tomorrow. Same septet's tomorrow?

Iversen £54 more for Torun

90 more on Thomsen.

Certainly two people can watch Czestchowa for £15 this year, not sure about other teams entry prices.

Of the four teams that made the play-offs Leszno are the least well supported in terms of paying spectators - https://speedwayekstraliga.pl/en/stats/frekwencja/

A couple of years ago the PGE Ekstraliga website used to list the budget for each club per season. I can''t imagine that Leszno team is anywhere near as expensive in terms of wages as the Zielona Gora team.

On one hand that's good in that it could attract more youngsters one the other hand the route to Cardiff is also the route to allot of UK holiday destinations. The M5 also goes to Cornwall & Devon. Also the hotels will be more expensive! Not so good for speedway fans who don't have children of school age.