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i am merely playing devils advocate...I have also heard some of the rumours doing the rounds. Still hoping they are wrong.

just watched a random meeting from back in the day. My favourite place to visit was always Brandon, and Poole was always the top team when I was growing up (now belle Vue 😜) how great would it be for Coventry to return to top league and Poole to return to the top flight to. speedway could be great again

Taken from the Speedway Riders Index 1929-2022: Bernie Lewis LAGROSSE Born: 2 August 1939, Christchurch, New Zealand. Died: 30 June 2007. Career record: (1965) Glasgow; (1968-70) Berwick. NOTE: This rider originally rode under his real name of Bernie Lagrosse for Glasgow in 1965 but, when he returned in 1968, Trevor Redmond took some riders to Wales and said if anyone volunteered to be a Welshman for the night, there would be a bonus in it. Lagrosse agreed and Roy Williams was born!

Count yourselves lucky. A lot of Poole fans love going to Glasgow for that reason.

I think every club has home track advantage, they don't win their home meetings so easily without a bit of home advantage.

Yes true, I expect him to achieve great things in the sport but Glasgow knew when they signed him he would miss some meetings but like Plymouth with Klindt are willing to accept that.

Of course I get the home advantage thingy. It takes me back to my original comment. Glasgow is a racers track with numerous lines and is nigh on impossible to prepare for home team advantage.

Assuming there is a top league which with some of the current talk is looking a stretch.

I do understand all that and I didn’t say he would achieve a better score at Poole but just that he is very much more on the up than any of the guests available.

Home advantage Hardly gonna set it up to how he likes it. I could see him having similar debuts to Mcdiarmid and Bowes at Poole (maybe having to wait for playoffs if we meet). So Bowes would be a good replacement although be hard to reproduce similar score but you never know.

He has had poor meetings at kings Lynn this season too and he says its because they prepare the track for gate and go but meetings I have seen on tv it looks like he has lacked speed in those meetings. On Monday he was on fire but the opposition was very poor.

Neither did Frazer Bowes but look how he scored the other week, when poor old worky took you to a last heat decider 😃

My point is I’ve seen the track been deliberately doctored on the outside to prevent him performing his typical Harris moves.

It would be much worse if you only had 5.00 to play with, you are fortunate he has done enough meetings for his average to go up considering he is missing meetings. With his current average he has gone above Flint so Howarth and Flint could take a r/r ride, ok not as good as Nagel but Villads has never ridden Poole before so not sure you could say he would have achieved a better score than r/r or a guest.

He is always good at Poole, whatever the track is like.

Yes, but none of them quite up to the standard Villads is currently showing in my opinion.

You honestly think the leagues going to be that strong next season

I’m flattered but they couldn’t afford me. 😆

Not the times when they deliberately don’t give him some dirt to play with….🙄

What's gone wrong Phil it would appear they are still getting some of the better crowds in Speedway and they were supposed to be backed by a fella with deep pockets ? is it running in three leagues that's balls'ed things up ?

Although the business model of running 3 teams is somewhat questionable, allegedly that is not the reason for the current shortfall.

I was at Oxford on Sunday for the worky fixture, thought the championship crowd level was poor around 500 this includes lots in the posh bit behind the glasses, but very patchy on the normal terraces, and this team is slightly more successful than the premiership team. . Have also heard rumours of riders not being paid.

Jan & Kevin heading up from Somerset. Getting ready for all Northern meetings, a busy few weeks ahead. Hope all Pirates safe and score well. Hope to see many Pirates supporters tonight.

Harris loves racing at Wimborne Road.

Probably a stupid question, but could the way of getting speedway to new foreign audiences be in the way of holding many events over the weekend? Flat track is popular in USA and Spain. Could we have both a speedway GP and flat track GP over a weekend along with other motorcycle events within the weekend? Almost turning it into an X-games style weekend?