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Building a team way below the points limit is absolutely insanity & wreaks of penny pinching.

Well ... 1 never quite managed to gate GP winner, 3 reserves & 2 second strings look good, any possibility of a rider who can win a heat?

Four qualification rounds will take place on May 1st and 8th. The competition will be hosted in Plzeň - Czechia (01.05.), Debrecen - Hungary (01.05.), Pocking - Germany (08.05.) and Rivne Ukraine (08.05.). The SEC Challenge, as the final qualification round, will be held in Krsko (Slovenia) on May 22nd. TOP 5 of TAURON SEC 2020 will automatically participate in next year's competition, this means that Robert Lambert, Grigorij Laguta, Leon Madsen, Mikkel Michelsen and Bartosz Smektała

Not convinced Bydgoszcz are that strong. Tarnow & Gdansk look as good at least. Think Krosno could be massive spoilers.

FZG gonna struggle.

The same one who was going to single handedly win the league for Poole but flopped about 14 years ago?

There's usually an option on posts to this forum which contain pasted text to "use standard text size" or something like that. Very useful

U21? Any good?

Didn't look at Polish div 1 results, obviously, but Zengota was a Ekstraliga heat leader before his injury.

Not enough meetings to assess the effects of almost 2 years on the injury list then. Hope Bydgoszcz show him patience.

Zengota, talented rider. When did he last ride though?

Oops Is there a Polish league one team building thread, if there is I can't see it.

Fairly sure I saw NKI had joined Unia Tarnow on Instagram.

Were Doyle & Lindgren stats obscured by Czestochowa's cancelled home fixtures? Did Lublin operate RR for a rider for a lengthy period? If so were Laguta & Mikkelsen used wisely and their RR rides in heats they'd surely win? How teams lineup their 1-5 can also affect this. I don't know. I do know I'd rather have Lindgren & Doyle in my team than G Laguta & Mikkelsen.

Nothing wrong with Grigorij Laguta but I don't think he's quite in the same bracket as the genuinely top class riders - Zmarzlik, Woffinden, A Laguta, Madsen, Janowski, Sayfutdinov, Vaculik, Doyle & Lindgren. At 36 he's unlikely to improve too. So Lublin don't have an out & out #1 they have a very good second heat leader and 4 third heat leaders. With the best tail in the league they should be very competitive. Kasprzak & Berntzon in the GP's will be out classed, but they qualified by rights. I can only assume the Polish riders fall out with the National team boss is how Kasprzak was nominated for the GP challenge ahead of Piotr Pawlicki & a few others

Nit picking. They don't have a GP rider of which there are 15, so all things being equal most teams will have 2 GP riders.

They don't have a top 2! They have 5 better than average 3rd heat leaders.

Is Woryna much of an upgrade on Przedpełski, I'm not convinced he is.

I'm guessing Drabik missing is more of an issue for Wroclaw with him being the second Pole in their 1-5 after Janowski.

Gleb Czugunow is 22, so too old to be at reserve but still qualifies for that spot.

Allot depends on who lines up at reserve, Miskowiak & Lampart are likely to be the best two in the league I'd suggest but don't watch enough so feel free to correct me. As far as 1-5's go Leszno's title again but Gorzow should push them closer. FZG, Grudziądz Torun look weaker than Lublin to me.

No. Even when I've asked in conversation via email. No comment whatsoever from Brummies management.

They've had a great 1-5 on paper the last two years but have completely failed to deliver results.

Jakub Miskowiak still young enough to be at reserve? Might be old news but Woryna leaving Rybnik.

That's next week's depressing announcement.