Swedish Elite League Wk 6 Tuesday 7th June Tv Match

[racers and royals]

The TV match this week is Dackarna v Elite Vetlanda live on C More at 6pm uk time

Eurosport 2 showing is on Wednesday morning at 8am for 1 hour

Likely line-ups

 

Dackarna

1 Dudek

2 Ljung

3 Janowski

4 K Gomolski

5 MJJ

6 Max

7 M Karlsson

 

Elite Vetlanda

1 Woffinden

2 Berntzon

3 A Laguta

4 B Pedersen

5 Zmarzlik

6 Kling

7 THJ

 

other matches on Tuesday are

Smederna v Rospiggarna- proper team put out by Smederna this week !!

Lejonen v Masarna

Piraterna v Indianerna

line-ups http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2016/

Edited June 5, 2016 by racers and royals

[racers and royals]

Change for Dackarna at no 5 rune Holta rides in place of mjj

[Dawkins20]

Anyone got a link?

[brandonbee48]

Anyone got a link?

Can't find anything. Would be very grateful if anyone has one. Alan.

[Steve Shovlar]

Nothing on kodi either. Looks like we are out of luck tonight.

[blocktread]

Can't find a link either

[racers and royals]

Another farce from the Eurosport editor/programme director- 3 heats missed this week again how can they put out a decent 1 hour programme one week and then the following week back to their amateur worst.

[SteveLyric2]

Although the overall score kept it interesting for the impartial viewer, apart from a couple of Woffy moves towards his maximum, I found most heats quite processional on a dusty track with some holes in.

 

But of course it is so much better than EL racing??!! ;-)

[Daniel Smith]

Although the overall score kept it interesting for the impartial viewer, apart from a couple of Woffy moves towards his maximum, I found most heats quite processional on a dusty track with some holes in.

 

But of course it is so much better than EL racing??!! ;-)

 

Proof if any with a couple of the Swedish & Polish meetings recently that the big names DO NOT make Speedway interesting.

[scottyfan]

Although the overall score kept it interesting for the impartial viewer, apart from a couple of Woffy moves towards his maximum, I found most heats quite processional on a dusty track with some holes in.

 

But of course it is so much better than EL racing??!! ;-)

Was Gerald Richter in charge of the Dackarna track prep?? Looked just like Poole did before the last meeting against Swindon!!!!!

[RobMcCaffery]

Another farce from the Eurosport editor/programme director- 3 heats missed this week again how can they put out a decent 1 hour programme one week and then the following week back to their amateur worst.

Very tempted to cancel my series link and rely on C More either live or on You Tube in future. Dismal stuff from them. Just hope someone with some respect for it picks up the contract after this shambolic outfit. It's a shame because Dave Rowe is doing an excellent job. He even almost had me caring that Team Fogo won the pairs

[mike1944]

racers and royals, on 08 Jun 2016 - 09:39 AM, said:

Another farce from the Eurosport editor/programme director- 3 heats missed this week again how can they put out a decent 1 hour programme one week and then the following week back to their amateur worst.

Very strange and one wonders why, when they spend so much time showing gardening at the gates etc., and replays of heats. Plenty of time to fit all 15 heats and adverts in a 1 hour programme with sensible editing. I believe most people would prefer to see the actual racing rather than gardening and preparation at the tapes. Still I am grateful that Eurosport covers this Swedish Speedway despite these shortcomings but it could easily be made much better with little effort and a bit of thought.

[racers and royals]

Very strange and one wonders why, when they spend so much time showing gardening at the gates etc., and replays of heats. Plenty of time to fit all 15 heats and adverts in a 1 hour programme with sensible editing. I believe most people would prefer to see the actual racing rather than gardening and preparation at the tapes. Still I am grateful that Eurosport covers this Swedish Speedway despite these shortcomings but it could easily be made much better with little effort and a bit of thought.

This week was probably the worst it`s been- with Artem Laguta apparently crashing in 1 of the heats cut- it`s fairly obvious that Dave and Sam are in the studio at 7.30am or 8am Wednesday morning commentating on the "live edited 1 hour show" Dave to his credit tries to give us as much info about the missed heats as he can which helps a bit.

[racers and royals]

next weeks TV match is the top of the table clash Masarna v piraterna

Edited June 9, 2016 by racers and royals

[mike1944]

racers and royals, on 09 Jun 2016 - 4:57 PM, said:

next weeks TV match is the top of the table clash Masarna v piraterna

Hopefully, and it is hopefully, Eurosport will be able to fit all 15 races in, that cannot be really very hard to do, can it?

[OveFundinFan]

TV and speedway in the UK seems very fragmented now and non more so then this year.

We have Sky Sports, Eurosport and BT Sports.

Who can afford the subscription to be able to watch them all.

 

I can get BT Sports to watch the GP,s but I notice apart from the live showing and one shortened rerun that's it for BT Sport. Its as if they bid, won and beat the others just for the sake of doing it....or was it with the hope the others would give up on their speedway contracts and BT Sport move in to cover all at cheap purchase for them but higher cost to the viewer.

[RobMcCaffery]

There are in fact usually only two subscriptions to pay since Eurosport is normally bundled in packages that include either of the other two.

 

The 'fragmentation' is quite simple - Sky ditched the GPs and One Sport set up rival tournaments and signed a coverage deal with Eurosport Poland.

 

So, as long as Eurosport had the GP contract all was quiet on the speedway front - few had to pay extra to watch Eurosport as well.

 

The chief howls have come now that BT Sport (no s) has won the contract to cover the GPs, as if they had no right to and had cruelly deprived speedway fans of the coverage.

 

Sky have ripped-off the market for years so inevitably other competitors have come along, most of which such as Setanta and ESPN have failed. Now they've found themselves facing a properly-funded serious rival in BT.

 

Now, Sky's coverage of speedway isn't charitable and they are not doing it as a favour but as a business decision. They are a very hard-headed commercial organisation with with no public service obligations to get in the way such as those that BBC, ITV and Channels 4 and 5 have to abide with.

 

It is a commercial business, but it is Sky's behaviour that has created this fragmentation. They overcharged for years when they had a monopoly, with most of that money going into the pockets of footballers and their agents. A tiny amount found its way into speedway.

 

Sky have cut back on their speedway commitment, have ceased to sponsor the Elite League while still providing coverage but with less cash. They dumped the GPs onto the red button and ultimately dropped them altogether.

 

Sky have no divine right to all sport and neither do their overcharged subscribers. This current situation is of their own creation.

 

Regarding the extra sub - it's less than the entry cost of a domestic league meeting, a programme and a a drink - for two top-level meetings a month on average. Perhaps if Sky weren't draining so much money out of their subscribers they wouldn't be quite so up in arms at having to pay a relatively small additional subscription?

 

Perhaps the best way is for BT to also take on the domestic British league racing contract as well? I don't say Elite League because I don't believe it will survive this season.

 

BT aren't the villains of the piece here and they're giving the GPs a damn sight more respect than Eurosport are for their events and Sky did for the GPs themselves in the final years of their holding the contract.

Edited June 10, 2016 by rmc