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Anyone know if there are any tickets left for the Poole end of season dinner dance next month?

Common sense would dictate that 14 riders all on track at full speed at the same time would be a disaster waiting to happen. hot laps are rider doing laps at full speed in relative safety. I thought anyone with with an iota of sense could see the difference.

Agreed. Szczepaniak has exceeded my expectations to date. He's been solid or better in every meeting to date. Fans who thought Woryna and Szczepaniak were suddenly going to be 7.50+ riders were extremely optimistic.

najjer has made sensible posts,and it appears all fans have supported the flying lap idea,you reply with an ignorant and rude post, very poor show,like many others im completely baffled by your regular references to "sandcastles"please can you explain this to everyone?

Lindgren hates Poole more than you do Gavan and Tai will only help Wolves. I'd much rather have Brady anyway, he'll be better than them in a year or so.

Terrific effort by the Robins last night and I'm glad I went. I can't remember seeing Troy Bachelor ride that well for a long time. After the first 6 heats it wasn't looking great as we were 10 points down and hadn't provided a heat winner. Nick had taken a fall in the first heat and according to Rosco's after-meeting comments had felt he'd damaged his number 1 bike and his reserve machine lacked pace. However there seemed to be a concerted team effort and they all dug deep to turn it around. Everybody contributed, even Mitchell Davey didn't look too far off the pace although he failed to score. A special mention for Zach who continues to improve and he had a great scrap with Kurtz in Heat 12 picking up a valuable 3rd place to give us a 4-2 heat victory. I know its early days yet but the Robins are shaping up well. I think there's scope in this team for a number of riders to improve their averages this year; Zac Toby and Adam and if Batch can maintain something close to the form he showed last night I think we can compensate for the loss of Doyley. For Leicester, they look a much better side and I know Bjerre's return of 6 paid 8 was a little disappointing (though according to another poster he was on borrowed equipment last night) I think he's a very good choice of cover for Vaculik for that track as he's a gating specialist which is big advantage there. Well done Budgies, onwards and upwards, a very entertaining meeting.

Sorry Chris, but I find myself at odds with your comments on the Rye managers offering congratulations to Dan. My game was Rugby both league and union, and we were told that you congratulate your opponents after the match, it was called sportsmanship in my day, yes, in the dressing room you let your feelings be known about the performance or lack thereof, but a performance like Dan’s should be recognised. I’m old fashioned, tell them well done but kick their backsides next time.

I don't believe anyone has forgotten, but whilst he's scoring like he is, we're all currently quite happy !

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1944049679002275&id=129552893785305 Dan the man's heat 15 win

Reckon Ivan, and also Ove Fundin, would have won more World Championships under the GP system. And Ivan a-l-m-o-s-t won 6 in a row ! As we know: he took out 1968-1970, Ole Olsen won in 1971, Ivan won again in 1972, and had he waited another 3/4 of a lap to pass the Pole Jerzy Szczakiel in 1973, it could have 6 on the bounce. But any rider will say if you see a gap then you really must go for it as you may never get another chance, though there are relativley few 'must win' races under the GP format. Ivan disproved his 'just a gater' tag in that 1973 Final when he was passing for fun around the outside on his longstroke JAWA, and while he must have been well peeved at the time (to say the least !) and also afterwards at being constantly asked about it, he bore no ill will towards Jerzy "he was a better rider than most people thought plus he deserved to win because I fell off and he didn't", says a lot about the man Ivan Mauger....

7 actually, but it's easier to just say Poole Pirates.

Think it's the other way round.

Bachelor's ability has never been in doubt. Its his Attitude, Arrogance, and Self importance that fans don't like. If his persona wasn't so self driven, then probably he would have the support his talent deserves. If you remember 2 yrs ago every Swindon fans were well pleased he left. No-body had a good word for him... Its amazing how quick they can forget this...

Anybody with good sensible suggestions regarding the good of sport (like Najjer)are welcome on a King's Lynn thread any day.

Im warming to these pre laps proir to the meeting sounds a good idea perhaps matt should give it a try?

What are you on about it was a poole poster who said it .I happen to like craig cook 100% british and belle vue speedway i replied to someone who was knocking craig !!!

Yep that was one of my posts - a great idea and one that a lot of tracks could take on board. It's the sort of thing a sponsor is likely to want to get on board with offering a financial prize at the end of the season to the winner.

I find all this embarrassing. Rye House have always been a second tier club running on weekends and have done pretty well too. Now we are running again on an unfamiliar night and given the side we are putting out the crowds will dwindle. Harris Robson and Nicholls have hardly set the Second tier alight and at this level are the basis of a side that will get mauled every time away from home. We didn’t make the playoffs last year, we have learned nothing from team building last season and the current side would struggle against Championsip teams. Even down to no team Kevlar we look a second rate club going nowhere and have a stadium that has gone backwards since the BMR mob moved in. Fans wanted Silver out and now they have what they wished for

We offered to go to Workington on Saturday not been confirmed wether Workington have given it the ok. Not too bothered what happens as it is all hot air and bluster from some on here when they post before the brain engages.

Writing off Poole's season in April - you're having a larf!!

He discovered pies.

All I can say is. Tonight was an "I was there moment" Bewley take a bow. The kidda is class

Please could anyone confirm whether the relegation race off is in place again this year? Just asking for a friend who lives in Dorset.

It is what it is, but for us to cast judgement and say it's very badly advised may itself be badly advised. We only have our selfish opinions as fans. We aren't close enough to the guy or his family to know all the facts that went into making that decision. It might be unfortunate for the world of speedway, but there's a lot more to life than just speedway.

It's called realism when you are paying the bills.

Thanks for that Phil. Dan is on fire at the mo. Love your track, but only seen it on TV..

It must be horrible..Don't forget Davey scored well in the charity shield over 2 legs with the Aces. 7+3 from 5 and 5+1 from 4......So it looks like he is better than he is showing right now. Looks like he is capable of averaging 2 per meeting given a run at it.

Yeah so you can't slag him off just yet, bet you're gutted.

Parade lap Parap Lapade

Only four meetings in mate, lets give the lad a chance eh..

They don't like English riders in Dorset some fans are calling for young Shanes to be dropped!

Quite accurate summing-up ...However, not sure about blaming Shanes ? He's a 2 pointer, he's doing his job

I think you have totally miss-understood my reply, Szczepaniak is by far IMO the best rider for Poole this year!

No, no I haven't as we haven't got a match this week. I have been discussing Kings Lynn with Kings Lynn supporters so don't flatter yourself. Anyway, after about 3 irrelevant postings about 'sandcastles' I'm finally going to ask... what on gods earth are you on about? Or have you finally completely lost the plot?

That’s right. You don’t see. Because you don’t see Poole ever. Talk about running around like a headless chicken! I can see you running around like Corporal Jones. Don’t panic! Don’t panic!

The answer may be found in the 2018 CMA so far copied and pasted from sportowefakty.pl the first CMA Top Twenty of the Polish ExtraLiga 2018 - there are two riders head above all others LP Rider Club M R 1 2 3 4 ef f X t heat average CMA 1 Fredrik Lindgren Czestochowa S 3 16 13 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.875 11.50 2 Nicki Pedersen Tarnow DK 3 16 11 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.813 11.25 3 Bartosz Zmarzlik Gorzow PL 3 17 9 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 2.471 9.88 4 Janusz Kołodziej Leszno PL 3 15 7 4 4 0 0 0 0 0 2.400 9.60 5 Tai Woffinden Wroclaw GB 3 16 9 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 2.375 9.50 6 Patryk Dudek Zielona Gora PL 3 15 10 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 2.267 9.07 7 Leon Madsen Czestochowa DK 3 16 6 5 4 1 0 0 0 0 2.250 9.00 8 Krzysztof Kasprzak Gorzow PL 3 16 8 4 2 2 0 0 0 0 2.188 8.75 9 Kenneth Bjerre Tarnow DK 3 15 6 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 2.067 8.27 10 Emil Sajfutdinow Leszno RU 3 15 4 6 4 1 0 0 0 0 2.067 8.27 11 Jarosław Hampel Leszno PL 3 15 5 4 5 1 0 0 0 0 1.933 7.73 12 Maciej Janowski Wroclaw PL 3 15 6 3 4 0 1 0 1 0 1.933 7.73 13 Grzegorz Zengota Zielona Gora PL 3 15 4 6 1 4 0 0 0 0 1.933 7.73 14 Maksym Drabik Wroclaw PL 3 13 5 3 3 2 0 0 0 0 1.923 7.69 15 Michael Jepsen Jensen Zielona Gora DK 3 15 4 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 1.867 7.47 16 Przemysław Pawlicki Grudziadz PL 3 17 2 9 5 0 0 0 1 0 1.824 7.30 17 Brady Kurtz Leszno AU 3 15 3 4 5 3 0 0 0 0 1.800 7.20 18 Dominik Kubera Leszno PL 3 15 2 5 6 2 0 0 0 0 1.800 7.20 19 Matej Zagar Czestochowa SL 3 14 3 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 1.786 7.14 20 Paweł Przedpełski Torun PL 3 12 1 5 5 1 0 0 0 0 1.750 7.00

Rosco has given the town a team to be proud of, what a great manager. Swindon always at their most dangerous when written off. Batch a brilliant signing, just need to get Davey firing.

Yep 100% agree but getting that balance has proven difficult over the years , fixed race nights were supposed to alleviate this problem apparently not it seems.

Thanks for that - but all of that is irrelevant to the original confusion.

All i said in the off season was the Poole team looked very good but with lots of risks and if the risks dont come off they could struggle. Kurtz needed to step up to be a true number one.......may do in time but so far he is out of form in the UK......irrelevant of his form in Poland. Holder was a risk if he could get back to his form............well he hasnt yet rode Linus has been away from the UK for a while and may take time......and was he any better than Hans Andersen? The 2 Poles are huge risks.....same as any Pole over here especially away from home.....and as of yet they not done much at all but again they may come good. You build a team like that then you like good if it all comes together but as i said pre season its a big if

Holder won't be there so there shouldn't be anyone moaning about the track!

From speedwaygb website, definitely supports the idea of him being level headed. Nice to see from Max Fricke too, he has been brilliant so far both home and away.

Don’t see any reason for Poole to complain apart from Kildemand’s lack of points. Wolves very good at home.

What ultimately happened to Joe Screen - he retired after an excellent career where he entertained 1000s of people here and abroad.

There's a time and a place & bouncing out on track all smiles, pats on back, handshakes and congratulations with the BV side after being stuffed by nearly 30 points again is not acceptable. If you see the young man in the car park on the way out by all means give a nod, but don't be running out on the track straight after the final heat. Would Alex Ferguson, Jose Mourinho or any self respecting manager do that? No. You wouldn't be seeing Peter Adams behaving like that. It just comes across as having no pride in his sides performance & Rye as a club not to be taken seriously.

Rye look a mess of a side. Harris and Nicholls as the top two is putrid. Both are not even impressing in the championship. Speedway GB put a tweet up of Bewley bumps after his maximum & Schroeck the first man out on track after the BV riders with handshakes, smiles and pats on the back with Jenson not far behind. Awful to view. Have some f'in pride in your clubs performances. With these two in charge it doesn't bode well. Dumb and dumber spring to mind.

Early days, stick by them. Growing pains but Poole will walk the league this year

Having trouble getting images to the right size for the forum,but here is one of the track in 1929.Note the overhead lighting on wires,very similar I think to that at Plough Lane

Didn't take you long to get back to normal did it. Pretty sure the Poole 2018 thread should be used to discuss your changes.

Roll on Thursday when the Poole fans might just go back to their own thread to talk about the make up of their team..... nah they'll go and invade whichever club has the misfortune to host them next