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Robert Lambert won the British title in 2018. The meeting should be compulsory for all riders that hold an ACU license if invited. Imagine a Pole missing the Polish Final without good reason. Back in the day a rider would have copped a ban for missing the British Final, shame the powers that be have become so weak.

Not sure what Janowski's problem was after heat 12, and acting like a petulant school child after the final and shunning the celebrations. What with that, and his antics in Heat 15 at Wroclaw the other week he seems to have had a class transplant lately. Has Darcy started managing him? Anyhow, great win from the world's finest. Onwards and upwards.

Definitely. Would have taken that option was there not a dirt cheap legal option available. Just gets annoying if the stream gets shut down half way through. Not too much of an issue if you have a couple of backups that you can switch to swiftly.

Belter. Worth £1.75 for that race alone.

Of course, there are no hidden agendas when you subscribe, either via prime or directly on the app. You can cancel immediately and the service will cut off after one month. Hopefully the GPs do get taken over by them. Hell of a lot cheaper than bolting BT Sports onto your Sky package. The future of TV is in the streaming app unfortunately. Chances are there will come a day when Eurosport isn't chucked in on Sky packages for next to nothing, which very nearly happened the last time the deal was renewed. Eurosport nearly disappeared from the Sky channel roster altogether. The price of the app is very good when weighed against other services. It offers 18 extra channels which will become particularly useful for people that want to watch multiple events during the Olympics I would imagine. And of course you only need to pay for the month you need it. No dodgy 12 month contract.

Good idea, what with them being a business and not a charity. The Sky/Virgin deal didn't include the player. The main two channels can't show all sports and speedway is way down the pecking order.

Decent meeting so far. Cracking coverage on the Eurosport player. Good value at 6.99 for a month covering all 4 rounds as well. Especially when you consider that people will pay upwards of a tenner for a British meeting filmed on a mobile phone.

Lol. That completes the set. Another who should carry a permanent warning throughout his career.

And now the Danish Sarj has a go. Another serial mover.

The Polish Sarj does it again. Moves in pretty much every race he rides in.

Polish Speedway is certainly doing a cracking impression of British Speedway this year. What a complete and utter shambles. Yet again.

So Miedzinski went from Rybnik to Torun and rode with the Holder's, who moved onto ZG and Bydgoszcz potentially spreading it there. Where do you draw the line on who should quarantine? Whole game should shut down for 7 days.

Sounds right. It's included in both Prem and BT packs on Sky, and neither on Virgin by the looks of things. Only in SD I think, but not the end of the world occasionally if it ensures a live broadcast.

Box Nation is also available via the BT Sport app for anyone with access to that. Looks like it's a paid add on for virgin customers.

Premier always prioritise a live offering. They wont leave a live Nascar race, a sport which has thousands more fans than speedway incidentally, to show a recording of a speedway meeting. Likewise, they won't leave a live speedway meeting, even if it's running an hour behind, as can often happen in the Swedish league. Premier doesn't run solely for the benefit of the speedway fan. They broadcast popular sport as well. They won't be able to show every match when there's a stack of live football to be caught up on. The NHL will also recommence soon which will further tighten the schedule. Anyhow, this weekend the Friday meetings are on Freesports and Prem 1 respectively. On Sunday it looks like they are making use of Box Nation (sky 427) and showing both meetings live according to the sky planner weather permitting.

It does make me laugh that people think that, just because they've signed up to 3 months free on Premier, that they will remove popular sports from their schedule to show a speedway meeting at the drop of a hat.

I don't think you can replace a reserve with a TS though as managers never seem to do it.

Anyone know if the plan to change the heat format/gate positions to make life easier on number 10s and number 2s was implemented over the winter?

Sounds like Janowski and Drabik are in a raft of trouble for missing this meeting with dodgy sick notes. Particularly Janowski, who was caught enjoying himself when he should have been at home nursing acute bronchitis according to his sick note. Expect to see neither of them anywhere near the Polish side next year and Janowski to be stripped of the captaincy.

To be fair, RoW sides have been a bit stronger than this over the past few years of these tests. Imagine a lot of riders didn't want the work at this time of year.

The current scoring system ensured that we had three riders still in with a shot going down to the last few heats this year. Closest we've got to replicating the drama of a one off Final for a while. In round one you'd have had Madsen squeezing into the semis on 8 points and walking away with 25 at the end of the night. That sort of swing can badly distort who the best rider is over a 10 round series. They should leave it alone. No issue with the other changes.

Lol, Troy's gone on strike. Gone into trundle mode. This is classic British Speedway.

I struggle to believe that some idiot fans defend the actions of Cook and Lambert in scenarios like this. The same sickening cretins that massage the riders egos and suck up to them on social media probably, trying to act all pally with them. Yes, it's a meaningless meeting in the grander scheme, but it is an official meeting that needs completing. Can we look forward to Man City's top boys failing to turn up to their last league game of the season if Liverpool have already won it by then? Letting the riders get away with crap like this is a big part of the problem over here and why we remain a joke. Imagine a Pole pulling this stunt at home. PZM would just suspend them.

If those 7 meetings were packed with the top riders in the world, organised professionally and sponsored to the hilt by major national companies making it a product to be proud of, I suspect, for some, the answer would be a resounding yes.

Any news on Holder's toe?