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Like this, you mean.....

Things don't dry this time of year, that's nature. Absolute insanity to be staging finals in October. Will we never learn.

So the 2000 and the 600 are all full paying adults? I don't think so. Plus how much sponsorship and advertising revenue do Oxford get? You really need to get down to Poole and see a big crowd. And once again no disrespect to Oxford who have done a great job. Long may it continue.

Quite a good one as well

Should the weather intervene again and the final cannot be contested, the title should default to the team who finished top of the regular season table. Just an opinion

Running the league play offs in September would be the perfect scenario.. Just after the summer hols and kids back at school so maximum possible adult attendance... And whilst the weather is still decent too... The Cups should take place in April and be done and dusted by mid May.. Again, hopefully in decent weather.. Spreading the competitions keeps publicity throughout the season and not just in one block when Speedway closes just afterwards.. Win a trophy in May, get some local publicity, then advertise yourself as "x" cup winners for the rest of the season.. Fans like to latch on to something successful... Run all the individual comps in October...

Anyway back to Oxford...

Good god you really are a pathetic individual as many people on here are testament to.you silly irrelevant and trivial man at least with shovlar you get a balanced view from a Poole perspective how do you see the racing with those blinkers you wear.cheats is an interesting word because you can only be referring to kennett and if that’s the case you must be referring to a member of the medical profession who must have been writing sick notes for the above mentioned and calling him or her a liar that’s a rocky path your choosing there. Or maybe your referring to the management committee of the bspa which obviously had the evidence in front of them to allow this to continue which I’m assuming pretty confidently that you yourself never saw but your promoter who is a member of said committee Has seen and didn’t have a problem with it. When your walking around your house or outside do you bump into things because I feel for you wearing them blinkers.

Jesus Christ.

Just to clarify this, the policy regarding how postponed fixtures are displayed hasn't changed for many years, although the presentation is slightly different this year since the new website came online prior to the start of the season. I took over responsibility for BSP website editorial a number of years ago now, and one of the things I was keen to bring in was that we would show a separate news item previewing (and subsequently reviewing) every fixture individually. (You may remember that in the very old days, the updates tended to be 2 brief news items per day, and the reason for that was the content was tailored to fit in with the space requirements of Ceefax/Teletext). It's always been the case that if a meeting is postponed, the news item is removed and there's then a separate section on that front page where the fixture is marked as POSTPONED, along with any other relevant info, which would typically be the re-arranged date if available. As mentioned above, it looks slightly different now to the past when it was simply a text box showing results, but that information is still on the front page when a meeting is postponed. The news item previewing the meeting is obviously removed, as to leave it there would cause confusion, and personally I wouldn't want to see separate news items reporting meetings being postponed, especially in a week like this! Individual clubs, of course, would be putting postponement news items on their own websites, but on the BSP site it is reported on the front page down the fixtures/results section on the side, which has always been the case. We've worked over the years to add a huge amount of information to the BSP site - items such as official meeting scorecards, Green Sheets, match-by-match averages, pics from the previous night's meetings rather than standard press day shots, to name a few, but we're always open to suggestions on ways in which it can be improved. We'll look all aspects of output over the winter and happy to receive e-mails to the press office with any feasible suggestions for what you'd like to see in the future.

Oh good!!

So based on that theory there can't be a winner of the jubilee trophy thingy as clubs signed up for a 3 team final.

Good to see a couple of others wanting Marcin Nowak back. He was told when we had him for a few weeks end of last season. We want entertainment and he certainly gave it. His English wasn’t great but he just seemed like a great guy to have around. No idea what he’s done this season, but if we had a full season of what he gave us a glimpse of, he’d be a very popular rider.

Correct... Should have been 2-0....

On a serious note... how on earth are clubs supposed to "promote" their biggest matches of the season at this time of year... it's totally ridiculous!

Can blame your own fans for that

For the conspiracy theorists, here’s a look at the track. It’s a swamp, everyone was ready to go but it’s simply not safe as Stewart explains in the video.. https://fb.watch/gjFLaGwnQ0/

Poole fan who doesn't know his Poole history. Suppose you only started supporting them once they became successful. The original Poole Pirates closed down in the mid-80s and racing only returned when the Weymouth Wildcats were relocated to Poole.

I've actually been to Poole twice this season (vs Oxford and vs Berwick) and the crowds were smaller than Oxford's, so not sure what you're talking about. Fair point that not all will be full paying adults, but it'll be the same situation at Poole. Can't comment on sponsorship, but doubt it's much different - at least it's not going to make up Poole's shortfall from gate receipts. Plus, advertising isn't a revenue by the way! It's a shame you feel so threatened by Oxford that you've felt the need to make it all about Poole, but that's life. Some people are just like that.

No disrespect to him but he is the kind of dross that would be employed as a number seven if Rising Stars were dispensed with.

Who will run the first leg? Very exciting isn't it?

Yeah but doesn’t it go off their most recent average achieved which would be this years Premiership converted ?

Nicholls in for Howarth tonight

Something similar has happened to me. I think it might have something to do with AdBlock. I paused it and refreshed the screen and hey presto.

Cmon Leicester you can do it.every other team bar one are right behind you.

The final should be a single match at Leicester, with no return fixture at Wimbo Road. Poole fans will moan but true pirates supposedly cope with one leg.

Be warned at some point there will be a falling out with Atkins not maybe with him but if daddy gets involved it could all end in tears because he thinks young Henry is a lot better than he is at the moment.

Got an idea to sort out the league winners, have a best of 3 coin toss !! But don't let poole provide the coin as it will be a special double headed one Or as a special measure name the 2018 triple champions the 2022 champions UTC

If not Friday looks better.

Pretty sure wednesday will happen in Poole whatever the weather!

Ha ha ha, made me giggle

The BSPL website really does its best to hide information. They put up a preview of a meeting but if it is rained off they simply delete the preview with no information as to why. This means you have to go to the fixture list to find out if the meeting is postponed or if it is simply the internet playing games. Back when Nigel Pearson was doing most of the site the preview was always replaced by a short message say the meeting was postponed for whatever the reason was and any new date if one had been agreed. Can someone explain in words of one syllable to BSPL that they are supposed to make it easy to follow what is happening or are words of one syllable to complex for them!

In my opinion the other cups and trophies should be completed before October especially this season when you consider the summer we had leaving October to finish the league meetings and play offs.

Meeting off tonight rearranged for the 29th............. of November.

Silver linings. Wait aren't they playing Forest!!

Oh the irony.

Well I suppose you would know!

Streaming could now be attributed to lower attendances with clubs still getting an income. A family of 3 or 4 would spend £60-80+ on a meeting(gate receipts, programmes, food, parking, petrol) whereas £12 on a stream in the warmth of a home.

Weymouth Wildcats, what the hell you on about

Ditto on all of that. Sticking plasters have all been used up - major surgery now required !

For Etheridge or Wright one assumes...

Nope, illness too

It has been very wet in Leicester over the last 2 days with 7 hours of torrential rain yesterday. It's still very wet under foot this morning and hasn't really dried that much. Right decision has been made, we'll have the 2nd leg thank you very much, as we always should have done! Hopefully the skipper will be back by Wednesday.

Don't think Nicholls is a bad replacement for Kyle. He rides well at Leicester but it does make us slightly weaker which is a shame. In terms of my prediction, Poole to win by 20 overall. I can't see us going to Poole and beating them..if anything Poole could easily beat us at Leicester. They've got 4 heat leaders at home with Ben Cook firing recently. I have hope for the lions and wish both teams the best of luck and may the best team won ! But in my eyes... leicester are already the champions...we finished top and that's how it should be !

It looked to me as if Kyle was over riding in both legs of the final for Sheffield, it obviously meant a lot to him. Does it make us stronger? Never great to go into a final without your captain. Do you know who will turn up as your manager tonight?

I think it would be fare to say the only bit of good luck Mark Phillips has had in 2022 was selling Henry Atkins to Oxford!

Don’t think he can.!

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Yeah 2 more!!!

85 overseas final and 90 World Final both had cracking racing, and 85 World Final wasn't too bad either. But for league meetings, I preferred my visits to the Shay, and neither produced racing on a consistent basis to rival Hyde rd