Swedish Elitserien Round 14

[Anders]

PREVIEW OF ELITSERIEN ROUND 14

Tuesday August 5th 2008

 

LEJONEN - VÄSTERVIK

at Axelent Arena, Gislaved

 

The Lions have only victories at home so far, but they will face a hard test in Västervik, despite what the standing says. Västervik have a good team even though plagued by injuries throughout the season but they are now at full strength, and most riders have been in Gislaved reasonably close in time as they beat the touring Kaparna side at Gislaved last season.

 

That surely must be an advantage for Västervik, and they have more to ride for so the motivation factor can't be ruled out either. Lejonen are league leaders and have home advantage for sure, but Västervik could pull a shocker even though they themselves have had truly shocking meetings on the road this season.

 

On a personal note, it will be interesting to see what kind of handicap bet will be available tonight...

 

Lejonen (home) 0 (50)

1. Nicki Pedersen

2. Sebastian Ulamek

3. Tomasz Jedrzejak

4. Chris Holder

5. David Ruud

6. Ricky Kling

7. Daniel Jeleniewski

( 8. Robert Pettersson )

 

Västervik (away) 0 (46)

1. Bjarne Pedersen

2. Grigorijs Laguta

3. Niels-Kristian Iversen

4. Chris Harris

5. Tomasz Gollob

6. Stefan Ekberg

7. Billy Forsberg

( 8. Jonas Andersson )

 

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INDIANERNA - MASARNAAVESTA

at Sannaheds Motorstadion, Kumla

 

A scratched 'Henka' Gustafsson, debut for Krzysztof Jablonski and R/R for the injured Adrian Miedzinski, there are surely some different conditions for Indianerna heading into tonight's meeting. Despite that, they must be considered favourites. MasarnaAvesta are missing the injured Emil Sajfutdinov, with Pawel Miesiac stepping in at short notice, but they do have some riders that rides well in Kumla, and last year they took a comfortable 10 point win despite a long tail (Watt, Stead and Adams produced a massive 40 points out of 53).

 

The Riders Replacement facility will put pressure on the remaining riders in the Indianerna line-up, but they must be favourites after beating more fancied sides as Elit Vetlanda, Dackarna and Västervik within a month.

 

Indianerna (home) 0 (38)

1. Adrian Miedzinski R/R

2. Matej Ferjan

3. Magnus Zetterström

4. Jesper B Monberg

5. Piotr Protasiewicz

6. Simon Gustafsson

7. Krzysztof Jablonski

( 8. David Rohlén )

 

MasarnaAvesta (away) 0 (58)

1. Dave Watt

2. Simon Stead

3. Leigh Adams

4. Emil Sajfutdinov

Pawel Miesiac

5. Kenneth Bjerre

6. Dennis Andersson

7. Oliver Allen

( 8. Anton Rosén )

 

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SMEDERNA - PIRATERNA

at Smedstadion, Eskilstuna

 

A red hot Pirates team against a Smederna organization with obvious internal problems and two fired team managers, and a 58-38 win last year fresh in memory. Everything points towards a Piraterna win, but the world of sports aren't always that easy to predict. Smederna do have the advantage of home track and are (or at least should be) a better team than the standing says and the new team management of Bosse Jansson and Stefan Jarl should be able to blow some fresh winds through the squad.

 

Overall, firing coaches/managers, don't usually give a long term success but it could give a better short term performence and it's definitely so that Smederna should be more desperate for a win than Piraterna. Will that be enough?

 

Smederna (home) 0 (44)

1. Jonas Davidsson

2. Rory Schlein

3. Wieslaw Jagus

4. Daniel King

5. Krzysztof Kasprzak

6. Daniel Henderson

7. Robert Miskowiak

( 8. Henrik Karlsson )

 

Piraterna (away) 0 (52)

1. Robert Kosciecha

2. Damian Balinski

3. Grzegorz Walasek

4. Mikael Max

5. Ryan Sullivan

6. Rafal Okoniewski

7. Linus Sundström

( 8. - )

 

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HAMMARBY - ROSPIGGARNA

at Gubbängen, Stockholm

 

Postponed due to waterlogged track. New date TBA.

 

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DACKARNA - ELIT VETLANDA

at G&B Arena, Målilla

 

Dackarna bolster 4 of the 5 current Grand Prix riders on display on the night and are strong after the second reserve heat (heat 11). In the 6 winning meetings at home, they have produced a massive 121-59 score over the final five heats so Elit Vetlanda will definitely need a bit of lead after heat 11 to be able to hold on to the points.

 

Another 4 ex-Grand Prix riders (not counting Wild Card performences) can be found in the two line-ups which should give the crowd a thrilling meeting, if the weather allows it. Many Elit Vetlanda rides fairly well in Målilla and they have won there before but the home side are favourites for two points. The aggregated points will be harder to get for the current champions, being down by 14 points at the start.

 

Dackarna (home) 0 (41)

1. Fredrik Lindgren

2. Peter Karlsson

3. Hans Andersen

4. Lukas Dryml

5. Andreas Jonsson

6. Ludvig Lindgren

7. Nicolai Klindt

( 8. Christian Isomettä )

 

Elit Vetlanda (away) 0 (55)

1. Lee Richardson

2. Peter Ljung

3. Jaroslaw Hampel

4. Thomas H Jonasson

5. Rune Holta

6. Morten Risager

7. Ales Dryml

( 8. Robin Aspegren )

 

All (currently 4) meetings can be followed on www.speedway.nu from 19:00 Swedish time.

 

 

[Blazeaway]

sop://broker.sopcast.com:3912/25466

 

Indianerna v Masarnavesta

[Sandie]

any swedish speaker out there able to say why there are no updates on the Smederna meeting please.

My translation had something to do with judges, material and bananas!!!!!!!!!!

[schumi]

They're waiting for a decision from the referee about the track.

[Ghostwalker]

any swedish speaker out there able to say why there are no updates on the Smederna meeting please.

My translation had something to do with judges, material and bananas!!!!!!!!!!

 

postponed. riders claimed that the track was not ridable. Allthough the part i saw from my position on the main grandstand looked ok.

[Subedei]

any swedish speaker out there able to say why there are no updates on the Smederna meeting please.

My translation had something to do with judges, material and bananas!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

postponed. riders claimed that the track was not ridable. Allthough the part i saw from my position on the main grandstand looked ok.

 

You probably couldn't see the bananas, Ghostwalker. I gather they were the real hazard.

 

[Steve Turner]

Congratulations Subedei, your best ever comedy moment on here !

 

[Subedei]

Congratulations Subedei, your best ever comedy moment on here !

 

I do try. I don't always succeed, but I do try. And as Mark Loram always used to say, God loves a trier.

 

[Anders]

SWEDISH ELITSERIEN ROUND 14

Tuesday August 5th 2008

 

LEJONEN - VÄSTERVIK 52-44 (Aggregate: 102-90)

Attendence: 6915

 

Heat details, courtesy of www.speedway.nu.

 

The Lions kept their 100% home record by beating Västervik by eight points, two maximums by Pedersen/Ulamek being the difference in the end. They started the meeting with a maximum over Bjarne Pedersen and then recorded another one over Grand Prix riders Harris/Iversen in heat 7 to open up a six point lead.

 

Västervik couldn't recover, despite the home side losing Chris Holder after a fall in heat 8. The live updates service reports that he hurt an arm and suffered a blow "down low". Sounds painful...

 

On another note, Lejonen had lowered their entrance fee to 1 SEK for this meeting but had over 100 companies to pay the same amount of money as the number of people instead, to encourage and attract new speedway supporters. A massive 6915 entered the gates, hopefully a lot of them will come back.

 

Lejonen (home) 52 (50)

1. Nicki Pedersen 3-3-2-3-3 = 14 (5)

2. Sebastian Ulamek 2*-2-2*-3-1 = 10+2 (5)

3. Tomasz Jedrzejak 3-0-2-0-3 = 8 (5)

4. Chris Holder 1-2-Fx-N = 3 (3)

5. David Ruud 2-3-3-Ef-0 = 8 (5)

6. Ricky Kling 1-0-0-3-1 = 5 (5)

7. Daniel Jeleniewski 3-0-1*-Ef = 4+1 (4)

8. Robert Pettersson

 

Västervik (away) 44 (90)

1. Bjarne Pedersen 1-3-1*-2-1*-0 = 8+2 (6)

2. Grigorijs Laguta 0-1-2-2-1* = 6+1 (5)

3. Niels-Kristian Iversen 0-0-0-N = 0 (3)

4. Chris Harris 2-3-1-1*-2 = 9+1 (5)

5. Tomasz Gollob 3-1-3-2-2 = 11 (5)

6. Stefan Ekberg 0-N-N-1* = 1+1 (2)

7. Billy Forsberg 2-1-1-3-0-2 = 9 (6)

8. Jonas Andersson

 

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INDIANERNA - MASARNAAVESTA 61-35 (Aggregate: 99-93)

Attendence: 2087

 

Heat details, courtesy of www.speedway.nu.

 

Stormy weather on the Baltic Sea caused problems with cancelled ferries between Sweden and Poland/Germany on Monday/Tuesday, resulting in Pawel Miesiac being unable to take his place at No 4 for MasarnaAvesta and Matej Ferjan arriving late to miss his opening ride.

 

The meeting itself was a one way story but the away team kept it fairly close in the beginning but crashed and burned as they couldn't even hold on to the aggregated point as two 4-2's clinched it for The Indians in the nomination heats.

 

Indianerna (home) 61 (99)

1. Adrian Miedzinski R/R (1*,3,2,0)

2. Matej Ferjan N-3-1-2-3-3 = 12 (5)

3. Magnus Zetterström 2*-2-3-2*-2*-3 = 14+3 (6)

4. Jesper B Monberg 3-1*-3-1*-0-1 = 9+2 (6)

5. Piotr Protasiewicz 1*-2-3-2-2-1 = 11+1 (6)

6. Simon Gustafsson 3-1*-N-3 = 7+1 (3)

7. Krzysztof Jablonski 2-N-2*-2*-0-2* = 8+3 (5)

8. David Rohlén 0 = 0 (1)

 

MasarnaAvesta (away) 35 (58)

1. Dave Watt 3-0-0-0-0 = 3 (5)

2. Simon Stead 0-3-1-0-2 = 6 (5)

3. Leigh Adams 1-2-3-3-3-2 = 14 (6)

4. Oliver Allen Ef-1-N-1-0 = 2 (4)

5. Kenneth Bjerre 3-0-1-1-1-T = 6 (6)

6. Dennis Andersson 2-0-N-1 = 3 (3)

7. Fredrik Andersson N-N-N-N = 0 (0)

8. Anton Rosén 1*-0-0-0 = 1+1 (4)

 

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SMEDERNA - PIRATERNA

at Smedstadion, Eskilstuna

 

Postponed due to waterlogged track. New date TBA.

 

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HAMMARBY - ROSPIGGARNA

at Gubbängen, Stockholm

 

Postponed due to waterlogged track. New date TBA.

 

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DACKARNA - ELIT VETLANDA 51-45 (Aggregate: 92-100)

Attendence: 5258

 

Heat details, courtesy of www.speedway.nu.

 

The home side started with a maximum against the Ljung/Richardson partnership in the light drizzle of rain over G&B Arena and scored another one against them in heat 6 to open up a lead. Elit Vetlanda lost Rune Holta to an undetermined shoulder injury after a fall in heat 10 and got banned from the track doctor to continue, but the team still fought hard and kept it tied with only three heats to go, and had clinched the aggregated point by then.

 

Grand Prix pair of Lindgren/Jonsson recored a maximum in heat 14 and the Elit Vetlanda outfit couldn't find a way back against a solid Dackarna side who was the rightfully winner tonight.

 

Dackarna (home) 51 (92)

1. Fredrik Lindgren 2*-2-1-3-1* = 9+2 (5)

2. Peter Karlsson 3-3-1*-1*-2 = 10+2 (5)

3. Hans Andersen Fx-3-3-2-3 = 11 (5)

4. Lukas Dryml 2-2*-2*-2 = 8+2 (4)

5. Andreas Jonsson 2-2-1*-2*-1 = 8+2 (5)

6. Ludvig Lindgren 2-0-N-1 = 3 (3)

7. Nicolai Klindt 1*-1-0-0-0 = 2+1 (5)

8. Christian Isomettä

 

Elit Vetlanda (away) 45 (100)

1. Lee Richardson 0-R-3-3-2 = 8 (5)

2. Peter Ljung 1-1-1-0 = 3 (4)

3. Jaroslaw Hampel 3-0-3-3-0-3 = 12 (6)

4. Thomas H Jonasson 1-2-3-2*-Ef-0 = 8+1 (6)

5. Rune Holta 3-1-Fn-N = 4 (2)

6. Morten Risager 0-0-N-3 = 3 (3)

7. Ales Dryml 3-1-0-2*-1-0 = 7+1 (6)

8. Robin Aspegren

 

For Dackarna,

Lindgren wasn't as sharp as he use to be at home, solid score anyway. Karlsson is a good team man and beat an opponent in each heat. Andersen was - I felt - wrongfully excluded in his first outing but looked classy after that and showed the most of the home Grand Prix riders on the night. Dryml hasn't done anything on the road but always racks up big points at home, not surprised to see him score well. Jonsson didn't gate all night and won many points from the back so provided the entertainment value. Lindgren found the opposition to hard/fast today. Klindt started fairly well but slipped dramatically.

 

For Elit Vetlanda,

Richardson was dreadful early on but possibly changed his bike because then on he was very useful. Ljung tried hard but didn't get rewarded. Hampel used his excellent gating ability to score his points. Jonasson was a positive surprise once again. He beat Lindgren twice and score a paid nine despite having an broken chain at the gate in his fifth and being stuck on gate four in the final heat. Holta looked good in his first but had his usual slow one in heat 8 on the road, before the withdrawal in heat 10. Risager didn't do anything.....until he shot out of the gate in heat 11. Dryml did his job against the opposition reserves.

 

Man of the match: Lukas Dryml

 

Most exciting rider: Andreas Jonsson

 

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CURRENT STANDING:

 

1. Lejonen, 14, 10-0-4, 5/5, 25p (+98)

2. Dackarna, 14, 9-0-5, 3/5, 21p (+69)

3. Piraterna, 13, 8-0-5, 2/4, 18p (+19)

4. Elit Vetlanda, 14, 7-0-7, 4/5, 18p (+17)

5. Rospiggarna, 13, 7-1-5, 2/4, 17p (+1)

6. Indianerna, 14, 6-1-7, 2/5, 15p (-19)

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7. Hammarby, 13, 6-0-7, 2/4, 14p (-19)

8. Västervik, 14, 5-0-9, 2/5, 12p (+21)

9. MasarnaAvesta, 14, 5-0-9, 1/5, 11p (-118)

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10. Smederna, 13, 4-0-9, 0/4, 8p (-69)

 

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UPCOMING FIXTURES:

 

Tuesday August 12th 2008

 

MasarnaAvesta - Rospiggarna (36-60)

Indianerna - Smederna (42-53)

Piraterna - Lejonen (42-54)

Västervik - Dackarna (45-51)

Elit Vetlanda - Hammarby (44-51)

 

 

[Steve Turner]

Thanks Anders, great job mate, as usual

 

Get well soon, Holta and Holder !

[Liverstam]

Utter contempt shown by the riders against the Swedish league tonight at Eskilstuna. I was there and the track wasn't a problem after the work put in. Safety reasons - no way. They just didn't feel like riding.

[Ozyace]

Cheers again Anders

 

Why no Johno for Masarna?

[Zetters]

SWEDISH ELITSERIEN ROUND 14

Tuesday August 5th 2008

 

SMEDERNA - PIRATERNA

at Smedstadion, Eskilstuna

 

Postponed due to waterlogged track. New date TBA.

 

 

MAN OF THE MATCH: Ryan Sullivan due talk for the riders and never changed to speedway-dress:)

 

MOST EXCITING RIDER: Rory Schlein who have the best practice-laps:)

[Anders]

Why no Johno for Masarna?

 

Not sure TBH. I guess the MasarnaAvesta management choose between Allen and Johnston for the No 7 racejacket, and Allen normally go well at Indianerna so I guess he got the chance because of that.

 

Sajfutdinov got injured on Sunday evening. Miesiac was called up to replace him but his ferry from Poland got cancelled so he couldn't make it and by then I guess it was to late for either Johnston (or Janniro) to be called in as a replacement.

 

Tough luck for the team management in MasarnaAvesta for sure. Not much else they could've done this time...

[Ghostwalker]

Smederna and Piraterna have agreed on next thursday (August 14th) as the new date for last nights postponed meeting.

Edited August 6, 2008 by Ghostwalker

[Mama]

Very nice date It's quite big chance to watch this match live

[Anders]

Hammarby - Rospiggarna have also been re-scheduled for Thursday August 14th.