Stoke Potter

They should start investing in some "fat" shale then! Modern day fans (actually fans of any era) won't like having their view spoilt by getting dust in their eyes, and the fans are more important than the riders, but most people don't realise that. Seems obvious that last winter's attempt to fix the track failed, time for Ford to get his hand in his pocket and do it properly.

Fair point!

Shame it don't get a run out during the meeting!!!

No dust last night? To be fair, they probably couldn't see the dust for all the dust! Do Poole even have a water tanker, pretty sure I've only seen the hose pipe..?

Track's rough and slick, quite an achievement. That said, I thought there was some reasonable racing/passing. Better than last week when I was there.

Coincidence that all those teams dropped out of the big league the same year as the People investigation? To be fair the decline may have been more marked between 85-95.

It was trying to pin-point a time when the decline started I think. The biggest fall in national crowds was likely to be between 1980 - 1990 I feel.

Perfectly correct. To just dismiss the scandal and say it had no impact goes a long way to summing up why the sport is in the state it is. As does Mauger's attitude to the newspaper, if that is indeed what happened. The national newspapers sponsored many events in the 70's - early 80's. Did that stop after the Sunday People investigation? I don't recall many different sponsors beyond the mid 80's apart from Sunbrite and variations thereof.

I'd also throw in the Sunday People race fixing scandal of 1984. In reality the sport has never recovered.

There wasn't massive clouds of dust but it was getting in people's eyes and spoiling the viewing, therefore it needs water. Why you can't understand that I don't know.

And a ref??

Malilla GP showing what an utter joke it was to call off the Poole meeting!!!

Why was I watching a different meeting? I don't see how the dust being worse on a previous occasion makes any difference. If the dust is affecting the fans viewing, which it was, then the track should be watered, end of.

A complete joke to call that off, the track was better after the rain than before! Do Poole ever water the track during the meeting? I can't recall ever seeing them do it when I've been there. It needed more water last night as the dust was spoiling the viewing and the rain did it a favour. The most important people at a speedway meeting are the fans and they were robbed again last night. Whoever made the call last night should be held to account, completely wrong decision.

Yes, thank you very much Lisa-Colette (and Sugarray), I may well grace Wimborne Rd with my presence.

Thanks for the prompt replies.

Do any Poole fans know if there are plans for a fixture on Wednesday 8th August? I think this was originally meant to be Rye House...

I'm talking about size, shape, width, banking, surface and prep. B.V. is as close to perfect as you get in this country because of all of those factors. If any of those were lacking it would not be the great track it is. If you want the best tracks then you need all of those to be considered.

Exactly! Any Marketing of the current offering will only hasten the demise of the sport in this country... Fix the tracks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All the more reason why other tracks should be made more like BV then. Glad to see you're starting to see the light...

To be fair if they got the crowd to pee on it they'd probably get more moisture down!

Evidently the people doing Swindon don't!

Flawed tracks aren't the problem you say..? Are you watching this utter joke of a televised meeting at Swindon? Poor tracks are killing the sport in this country!

Utterly dire track. Perfect example of why the tracks need to be fixed!

Some interesting images there, thanks.