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Poole Pirates Vs Leicester Lions Play off semi Final1st Leg 13th October

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22 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

You need to start blowing them out of the starts to the 1st corner lol

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3 minutes ago, Cookiefan said:

Will 6 points be enough for the Pirates?

Maybe 50/50 going in to it. Hope Rory is okay? 

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Didn't expect Leicester to get that many.....all to play for in the second leg.

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38 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

King not had the meetings unfortunately and prob lost a bit of match fitness. 

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Poole and Glasgow both a bit race rusty with weeks of no meetings

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41 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

Zach cook probably scored more than neilsen so that's lady luck for you Shovlar :t:

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Just now, Cookiefan said:

Poole and Glasgow both a bit race rusty with weeks of no meetings

Especially if you have someone not involved with the Prem playoffs either. Good job Cook is guesting for Peterborough tomorrow! ;)

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4 minutes ago, lisa-colette said:

Was holding his arm after H15. 

Oh so he is going to claim injury for sat night then, interesting.

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Quite an astute move by Lions putting Douglas at number 2.

Chris Harris a good guest as was Zach Cook for Poole so that evened things out.

Hindsight a great thing but surprised Poole didn’t opt for Edinburgh.

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Well first of all well done to Leicester who held us to a very measly 6 point advantage. I hate to say I told you so but a treble mistake was made. First of all in picking Leicester when they were the last time to ride here. No way were we going to get close to what we scored last time. Their riders would have known setups etc and would be at it from the first heat. And the fact that some of our riders are stale while Leicester rode last night showed up clearly.

Secondly having the first leg to ease other clubs fixture congestion was a bad error. Doing favours for clubs doesn’t help us as it’s never or rarely reciprocated.

And thirdly, why the hell didn’t we pick Edinburgh? I know a Derby for the Scottish clubs means bumper crowds for their clubs but this is the title at stake, not helping rival clubs at the pointy end of the season. Their riders would have had to travel down all day and we could have smashed them. I have said all this over the last week and my predictions have been spot on. 

Back to tonight and our staleness at the gate was clearly evident. Lions heat after heat having a bike length heading into bend one. Poole battled hard but if you give riders like Morris, Harris and Howarth a lead they love the track and are almost impossible to pass.  Some very good races tonight as Pirates attempted to pass and stay in the meeting.  

Is 6 enough to defend? No, if tonight was anything to go by. Not having track time showed riders like Danny King to look a little rusty. He tried all night but never saw a lead in any of his heats. 

Advantage Leicester to go through to the final. It should be very tight but riders like the Thompson twins, who were nowhere near a point tonight, are likely to score, as is Kennedy who battled tonight.

Well done to them. 
 

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1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

Talking out of your backside again …. Harris so much better than Andersen lol

Harris scored 8 tonight 

Hans has scored 6 and 9 at Poole this season 

Hmmm please tell me how 8 is much better than 9…..Oh and Zach Cook scored more than Nielsen would have done so how the heck can you say Poole were weaker

Nice to see a Poole choke though 

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