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Meetings between these two rarely disappoint and this was another cracker watched by a huge crowd with plenty of travelling support , from Ht1 that saw Doolan and Worrall passing and re-passing right up to Ht15 that saw a typically spectacular ride from Chris Harris there was value for money in every race. Big crowd, great racing, close score, value for money and a meeting done and dusted in good time, more of the same each week please, the speedway season has started.

Following the injury to Martin Vaculik on Thursday I’ve been looking for any official details of his injury I come on to the thread ( not very often these days due to the drivel that some spew out) to find out only to read 10 pages of Swindon bashing and the same sh**e over and over again,by the same offender Pretty sad really when your not even a Swindon supporter hey Facts are nobody forced them on to the track,accidents happen and that’s speedway just a shame that we’ve lost Martin Get well soon and look forward to the next time he’s on the bike Shirl

I want to see 2 evenly matched sides in most matches not NL rider to stand in for stupid rules

Lakeside's average crowd is probably a fair bit lower than it was 5or 6 years ago, but that is symptomatic of many clubs, these days. I put that down mainly to the disastrous way the sport has been mismanaged in recent years. I see the rule that stopped riders from getting off the bike to prepare the start has been dropped already, barely a month into th e season, the latest example of how Chapman & Co stagger from one crazy idea to the next. Ipswich are fortunate in that they are apparently one of the very few clubs whose attendances have gone against the trend, but many others were in dire financial crisis at the end of last season. One thing that hasn't been mentioned on the thread was timing. Parade was at 8.pm, first race a little before 8.15, last race finished 1hr 20 min later, so credit to the ref for keeping it moving, as last weeks ref did well, so credit where it's due. I think a lot of Lakeside's supporters stopped going and maybe got out of the speedway habit as a result of last years disatrous decision to drop to NL, not that the club had much choice at the time, but some work has to be done now to win the missing fans back.

Only reason Swindon won the league last year was because you got lucky in the final. And nearly made a complete mess of that as well!

Says someone whose home track is Blunsdon. You rarely see a good meeting at Swindon. Nearly always spaced out. Come down Wednesday and lets see how our newly laid track does.

Bet Gavan is getting excited, Kurtz v Morris

Max Fricke is going to be some rider, he's brilliant now, future world champion in my opinion

Probably yet another victory for the Robins down in deepest darkest Dorset. Poole 44-46 Swindon

The problem at Lakeside is that the spectators spread themselves out so much that even a decent crowd can look scanty. Certainly, compared to last season, it was a bumper crowd. The crunch will come when we have decent weather which always, at Lakeside at least, puts a lot on the gate.

Gavan a question for you, would you like Matt Ford as your promoter at Ipswich

And his home average this year?? Near unbeatable. RR won't cover him and weakens the Aces significantly home and away. You would have to know very little about speedway to to not see that.

The irony of this is unbelievable....Wasn’t you the one who said “i’ll Believe Hans over a riders Dad who was there” & now this....you can’t make this up.

Have to laugh at you. On Wednesday you stated Belle Vue would have won at Poole but for Cook and Worrall missing. Now Cook is back and r/r covers Worrall very well, Belle Vue are at home and Poole, with the same team, are going to win away by at least 10? The trouble is Gavan you can be read like an old book. This post was made for the sole purpose of coming on here on Monday night after the meeting to say how Poole choked against a “so called” weakened Belle Vue team. The Aces aren’t really weakened at home. Worrall can be covered easily with r/r. Etheridge is no loss at all. A rider from the Colts team could easily strengthen the Aces. If Poole win it will be hard won. We have a chance, yes, but Belle Vue are still favourites to win the meeting. They are a likely playoff team. You will have to do better than that.

Typical numpty comment from a no nothing.

Poole fan??? Definitely not a Poole fan!

So who has ultimate responsibility for speedway meetings? I'm presuming the referee by authority delegated to him/her from the ACU. Has to be someone in command, otherwise you get chaos with every Tom Dick and Harry trying to lay claim to being in authority. By all means the referee can listen and seek opinions, but they should be able to intervene with full authority and take charge when these situations exist, where so many variables are at play. I won't shift from my view this was caused, as most system failures are, by weak management and fully agree that it needs prompt investigation with Crystal clear directives.

796 tickets left for Motor - Start tomorrow, it will be a sell out again

There’s not an automatic right to all four back no - but standing on the second bend it was clear to see all four made a good start together it got nipped up and Bowtell from gate two made clear contact with haertel and haertel with Morley on the outside - both continued on trying to save it and subsequently fell of on their own but it was a clear case of first bend bunching and the ref denied the paying public of a speedway race with all four riders back in! Wouldn’t have made much difference to be result but just seemed a very harsh decision on the two young lads racing hard for the first corner!

When these situations happens, it should be essential that the BSPA learn from them and make amendments to address any issues that became evident. It is wrong to place the blame squarely on the Referee. Track conditions can change and riders opinions can as well. We need to have guidelines in place to react when these situations happen...

Credit to who was texting the updates this evening. Never have I read a more balanced account of a meeting. Full marks.

ty has his visa in place, just need a certain bit of paperwork to go with it . its people in lower places that are slowing the process down . riding under protest, wonder who thought that wording up ? i bet it was that mikehunter !

as with the others in the same situation guests have been allowed but lets wait and see what happens id expect the bspa had given the go ahead for a guest otherwise it woud have been r/r or a nl guest but the main thing was it was a decent meeting much better than the cumberland open

Just caught up with the last few heats of this on YouTube after going out earlier. Gotta be said the Polish league do most things better than the UK but which imbecile came up with the rule about not being able to award a race? Wroclaw were robbed of a draw there. Woffy and Drabik a mile in front of Doyle entering bend 3 on the last lap and cos the Torun junior had fallen it got re-run!!! Pathetic decision and a 5-1 turned into a 3-3 and they were robbed of a draw. Surely now if you’re last and out of contention you just need to drop it to get a re-run for your team?? Scandalous

I accept a couple of meetings have had a badly prepared track, but the new one, if we get it, should make the racing slightly better.

you were lucky, you had Batchelor and Lawson

He won't find it as easy as last year. Anyway Nick can have a max and Poole win, suits me!!

Till he has to ride your track

No it’s not! Just because you say it doesn’t make it true.

Learn what “hindsight & Irony” mean & then perhaps we can have an adult conversation. Other than that....bye!

Many years ago, in what might be called the "Good Old Days" of Speedway in the 70's, one of my best friends was a promoter and with that association, I learned about a lot of the problems that he faced. One of them was wet and rainy days. What he told me was that in spite of, maybe, working hard to get the meeting on, far too few people attended anyway, so money was lost in spite of all the effort. So he changed his whole attitude to such situations and called a meeting off when the weather looked "Iffy". He still got criticised, but at least kept his bank balance intact.

Its like saying James shanes is a world beater after scoring a maximum 15 at the begining of last season for Poole against Wolves. At least ten meetings needed to show a true average. A meaningless 90th anniversary meeting where riders are testing etc and one home meeting against Swindon are not a true reflection of a riders average.

I agree with the comments about heat 8. Quite clearly the ref' got it wrong...sadly as they so often do. But this was a good performance by our team and looks good for the season. Just hope we steer clear of injuries. I think Bowtell will prove to be an ace in the hole and I have high hopes for this young man who I first saw in a training school at Rye House. Was impressed then, and nothing has changed.

What are you Actually doing on a Poole thread if you don’t like Poole? If I don’t like something I don’t set up camp there. I avoid what I don’t like. If I set up camp on the Ipswich thread and posted the same drivel you post on here, they would think I am some kind of nutter needing assistence from the local loony bin. The only reason you post on a Poole thread is quite simply because you are an internet troll. There is absolutely no other reason. I know it, you know it and so do the majority of fans who frequent the Poole thread. oh, and the last time I looked James Shanes is a young Brit.

Poole to win this quite comfortably by at least 10. Would expect Woryna and Kildemand to go better than they did the other night. No Worrall and Cooks mind elsewhere and Tungate struggling i can only see a Poole win. Poole can only beat whats in front of them but they have been fortunate to ride Belle Vue at the right time

Ill leave this here. The following is from Kyle Newman's Dad. yes they were given the opportunity to do a lap, a parade lap with no helmets. Therefore that is not the practice lap that Swindon and Rosco claim. Palm-Toft also knew nothing about a practice lap. Swindon lying end of story.

Nope, I don't have his number! Fingers crossed for Sunday.

Call-offs ARE costly!!! The stadium rental alone is a killer. Stadium owners don’t just say, “have this one on us” they are business men too ALSO, ask another question, if no-one goes to speedway but stays at home to watch it on whatever you can..... will the tracks be kept open to film for your viewing pleasure?

So still no ty, bad news for the monarchs as Charles Wright guests which actually makes us stronger. Dry day an finally some speedway

Which Aaron Summers is turning up tonight.

I think the best thing for both of us is not to bother with SS as you said Gavan the rest of the Poole supporters are decent passionate people who can be civil Ray ( etc)who can be all impartial.Be nice if one of the other Poole fans can give us a unbiased match report of there meetings maybe Skidder, Foreverblue, Ray maybe.?

Bonus from tonight was a more controlled performance from Alfie Bowtell ,,the lad has top class gating ability and.with improved confidence from last night could be the turning point for him.. after previous performances where he did not look ready for this level of racing......Heat 8 was an appalling decision by another useless ref,, one of the most obvious first bend bunching situations i have ever seen ..the standard of refereeing is at a low ebb in speedway.,.Thought the crowd was decent and the meeting had its moments ,Lawson and Ellis were outstanding,,,,but riders giving it a real go on a wide line are still not getting enough help from the track .,,more dirt is needed .The Hammers look a solid unit and i think we can expect a decent season home and away.....

Also forgot to mention the sound system was much clearer last night, and having Andy back on the mic was good too, no disrespect meant to the other guy who is new and will take time to grow into the part, Andy just adds a little something to proceedings, he sounds confident and tries to get the crowd involved.

Yes it is the idiot KKS still being a right numpty

After the event & what is said is not a fact. It’s hindsight which has been explained to you. Pls come along to the Abbey to watch your beloved Poole & perhaps you can call the Swindon promotion liars to their faces rather than hiding behind a keyboard. Bring all the facts with you. Oh, MPT also said that the track was fine on the track walk...I can also pick out what I want from social media.

One very ignorant comment regarding the current weather circumstances, then a much more realistic one. When will loads of speedway supporters who've followed the sport for donkey years finally grasp the basic fact that if the temperature's struggling to ever get above 11 or 12 celsius on a still day or (at a pinch) a blustery 9 or 10 celsius, it doesn't matter how gloriously dry or even sunny the weather is on the day, an already saturated track is going to be a devil of a job to dry out satisfactorily for a proper speedway meeting to be held ? !! I've been following the sport since 1988 and I can't recall any spring like the one we're currently enduring with the weather since late-February so overwhelmingly dominated by chilly winds from the east and north-east instead of the usual majority of helpful warmer breezes from the west and south-west. There are large parts of northern England and eastern Scotland where there's barely been any single day yet in 2018 reaching that all-important 12 degrees, albeit that should change tomorrow and Sunday judging by this weekend's forecast. Contrast that with 2012 when there was almost continuous 16-celsius sunshine for the last fortnight of March when a house I was having decorated was done in record time because the paint was drying beautifully quickly - it would probably have taken twice as long if that same work was being done now. Once we're consistently into mid-teens weather, then of course dry conditions on the day of the meeting should be enough to ensure it goes ahead even after a day or two of rain beforehand because there's enough warmth in the air for Mother Nature to be truly helpful. But that's nowhere near what we've got now or, even more importantly have had relentlessly for the past 6 weeks or so (the first and most vicious wave of the Beast From the East reached our shores on the evening of Tuesday 27th February). If Rob Godfrey and his crew at Scunthorpe, well known for running in just about any borderline conditions, can deem this evening's action worth a call-off with several hours to go, that should be seriously appreciated and understood rather than stupidly criticised.

I repeat - " I think it's time to stop apportioning blame, riders got injured, no one wants to see that. What we should be doing is wishing the injured riders a speedy recovery and hope this awful weather that is causing havoc to the sport we love improves so that riders, promoters and referees don't get put in the no win situation they were in last night." Isn't it about time you stopped this silly little wind-up game your trying to play on this forum with others who are unfortunately taking the bait but I can understand why they are.

If Eastie had 36 hours of dry weather before a meeting, even now would probably be watering it! Never been to Stoke but the drainage must be really bad not to get a meeting on.

You have “evidence”, I have a son rode in the heat. I think I know who’s opinion I can count on. bye loser

..........and the riders of the 50's!!!