I doubt he would want another venture in a dying sport

Firstly it’s very important no matter the level that your team wins it’s home meetings or at least enough of them to keep the crowds coming back, it doesn’t matter if the get a hiding away from home because very few fans actually travel now so unless you pay for a stream, you only see your team when they are at home. Secondly whilst the idea of a promotion being run by members of another seems odd, I know from reading the history of the sport, there used to be promoters who ran many tracks at the same time so it’s nothing new. The basics of speedway as a promoters is always, put together a team that will win most of its home matches and provide a track that will suit those riders and doesn’t leave your patrons covered in dust. I used to go to Rye House on Sundays afternoons every so often, especially when they were in a different league to Arena, I don’t remember many occasions if any where on nice warm afternoon, I would get covered in dust.

When was his good day? The most he ever scored was 7... on his debut and he matched that in his penultimate match. Some on here went completely overboard hyping the lad up because he outgated and beat some established names through his short Speedway career Fri Aug 25th 2023 Oxford v Plymouth (CP) 7 3, 2, 1, 0, 1' 7 1   Tue Sep 5th 2023 Oxford v Scunthorpe (CP) 7 2, 1', 0, 2' 5 2   Fri Sep 8th 2023 Glasgow v Oxford (CP) 7 0, 1', 1', 0, T 2 2   Wed Sep 13th 2023 Oxford v Glasgow (CPPOB) 6 3, 0, 1', 0 4 1   Fri Sep 22nd 2023 Redcar v Oxford (CPPOB) 7 0, 0, 0 0     Sun Sep 24th 2023 Oxford v Redcar (CPPOB) 7 0, 1, 0, 0 1     Tue Oct 3rd 2023 Glasgow v Oxford (CPPOB) 7 1'~, 1, 0 2 1   Thu Mar 14th 2024 Oxford v Birmingham (PRa) 7 1', 1, 1, 0 3 1   Thu Mar 21st 2024 Oxford v Sheffield (PRa) 7 0, 0, 1, 0 1     Mon Apr 1st 2024 Birmingham v Oxford (PRa) 7 0, 0, 1' 1 1   Thu Apr 11th 2024 Oxford v Ipswich (PRa) 7 0, 0, 0, 0 0     Thu Apr 18th 2024 Ipswich v Oxford (PRa) 7 0, 3, 1 4     Thu Apr 25th 2024 Oxford v King's Lynn (PRa) 7 1, 0, 1, 1 3     Thu May 2nd 2024 Sheffield v Oxford (PRa) 7 0, 0, 0 0     Mon May 13th 2024 Belle Vue v Oxford (PRa) 7 0, 0, 1' 1 1   Thu May 23rd 2024 Oxford v Belle Vue (PRa) 7 3, 0, 1, 0 4     Mon May 27th 2024 Leicester v Oxford (PRa) 7 1', 0, 0 1 1   Mon Jun 3rd 2024 Oxford v Leicester (PRa) 7 3, 2, 1, 0 6     Thu Jun 13th 2024 Oxford v Ipswich (PRb) (Aban) 7 0, 0 0     Mon Jun 17th 2024 King's Lynn v Oxford (PRa) 7 0, 2, 0 2     Thu Jun 27th 2024 Ipswich v Oxford (PRb) 7 0, 1', 3, 0, 0 4 1   Mon Jul 1st 2024 Oxford v Sheffield (PRb) 7 0, 3, 1', 0, 0 4 1   Thu Jul 4th 2024 Oxford v Ipswich (PRb) 7 0, 0, 3, 3, 0 6     Mon Jul 8th 2024 Birmingham v Oxford (PRb) 7 0, 0, 0, 0 0     Thu Jul 18th 2024 Oxford v Belle Vue (PRb) 7 0, 0, 1 1     Mon Jul 22nd 2024 Belle Vue v Oxford (PRb) 6 2, 0, 0 2     Thu Jul 25th 2024 Sheffield v Oxford (PRb) 6 1', 1, 0, 0 2 1   Thu Aug 1st 2024 Oxford v Birmingham (PRb) 6 2, 0, 0, 1' 3 1   Thu Aug 15th 2024 Oxford v King's Lynn (PRb) 6 3, 1, X, 0 4     Mon Aug 19th 2024 Leicester v Oxford (PRb) 6 3, 0, 0, 0 3     Thu Aug 22nd 2024 King's Lynn v Oxford (PRb) 6 1, 0, 0, 1, 3 5     Thu Aug 29th 2024 Oxford v Leicester (PRb) 6 2, 0, 0, 1' 3 1   Fri Apr 4th 2025 Edinburgh v Glasgow (Ch) 2 0, 0 0     Fri Apr 11th 2025 Glasgow v Edinburgh (Ch) 2 T, 0, 3, 0 3     Sat Apr 19th 2025 Berwick v Glasgow (BSNSC) 2 0, 1', 1', 1 3 2   Fri Apr 25th 2025 Edinburgh v Glasgow (BSNSC) 2 3, 1', 2, 0 6 1   Sun May 4th 2025 Glasgow v Berwick (BSNSC) 2 0, 1, T, 0 1     Fri May 9th 2025 Glasgow v Edinburgh (BSNSC) 2 T, 0, 2, R 2     Sat May 10th 2025 Plymouth v Glasgow (CP) 2 0, 0, 3, 0 3     Fri May 16th 2025 Scunthorpe v Glasgow (CP) 2 3, 0, 3, 1 7     Fri May 30th 2025 Edinburgh v Glasgow (CPKO) 2 0, 0 0    

Well in Simon's statement he did say the phone has already been ringing and is excited what the future may hold. So that could fit in with it being Glasgow. Possibly Worky if they are looking to make changes. 

It's all so typically British Speedway isn't it, companies house shows 1 shareholder, Mark Lemon, holding 1 share valued at £1... Then there's the 2 co-promoters Tony Gaul & Paul Hunsdon (previously named as a Director at Birmingham, as was David Rowe for a short period interestingly) seemingly with no limited liability... and we have people like Jan Staechmann saying things like "they're the ones we can talk about" on BSN. Why so cloak and dagger? What could possibly be worse than the CEO and team manager of another team being the sole shareholder of another club?

I think the noise coming from Wimborne Road would be rather loud though if the Pirates suffered back to back home defeats 😃. The way I see Comets situation is that  unfortunately Vinnie is a number of weeks away, Cookie who knows ? dislocated shoulder or rotator cuff injury ? . Rotator Cuff injury is potentially more serious and wouldn't really withstand the shoulder forces experienced riding Speedway , least not in the short term . We have two big meetings next weekend Glasgow away Oxford at home followed by Scunny at home on the 30th. Then it is likely we have no meeting until June 27th.  To lose both meetings next weekend may be damaging to crowd levels so avoiding this scenario is probably priority. Then following the Scunny meeting two week later there is another two week gap so more time for healing of injuries.  What would Poole do team changes or guests ?