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What's frustrating on here is there's not one post giving Plymouth any credit for giving that KO Cup tie a proper go. Everyone wrote us off heading into Saturday, we got a deserved 8pt lead, could've been a couple more. Heading into last night, everyone (Including some of us) expected Poole to just power away and win it by 8+ on aggregate. A comfortable night everyone was saying... Plymouth had 7 heat winners - I can't remember the last time we went to Wimborne Road and achieved that? Whilst yes, on the night a 14pt win is a comfortable evening, the Gladiators have made that a proper test for the Pirates. We're starting to see signs in my opinion that the Gladiators are going to ruffle a few a feathers in the league campaign this year and aren't quite the pushovers everyone assumed they would be. When you think Alfie Bowtell and Lasse Fredrikesen, both have started this season well had just 5 points between them, it could've been a lot closer than it was. Congratulations to Poole, good meeting last night, best of luck for the rest of the KO Cup, bring on the league fixtures now!

Zmarzlik just will not accept defeat will he

The sport is serious decline in UK.Dont know the answer though.Strange decisions seem to being made in the eyes of many supporters,but at the end of the day the Promotions are the ones with the money invested.Sporadic fixture list will kill off the sport.

More like the big boys days are going to be over soon.You will be having a3Team Tournaments with Sheffield and Ipswich every week

since zach joined a proper big club hes not arsed about poole, great to see that hes flying for us and struggling for you, poole just havent got that aura about them unlike belle vue

They not RS though. That is just in the Prem. Plus Glasgow have two 2 pointers.

Thank Lisa, for the Ritchings Reflects link. Here's hoping he continues to improve, he's certainly putting the effort into the pre-meeting preparation and reaping the benefits. I also like that he has shown he's a bit of a racer. He's doing everything he can to make sure he can't be ignored come the end of June.

Agree, we need weekly speedway or at least fortnightly, having 3 -4 week gaps, folk will find something else to do with their time and money

I agree with you, it was a proper test, scoreline doesnt do the meeting justice. I am sure Barker could do a job for a premiership club at reserve, his pass in heat 6 was outstanding.Good meeting overall and it was close on aggregate until the end, Plymouth can hold their heads up high.

Such an aura that Belle Vue’s crowds have flopped to the few hundreds.

Lindgren riding like a rider coming to the end of his career, no aggression, no speed

Promoting stopped back in the late 70’s. I can remember seeing posters etc around Rayleigh and on the A127 etc on most race nights and plenty of articles in the local press. Saturday night and bank holidays at the Weir were packed with families in the stadium and a good smattering of away fans on the back straight. Best were Eastbourne, Ipswich, Canterbury and Crayford but you also had Bradford, Sunderland, Crewe, Ellesmere Port and others who made the journey. Alas this has all gone now and we are left with a shadow of what it used to to be.

That’s so true though to be fair, as a PROMOTER surely you have to be good at promoting the sport as well as just your team. How much can it cost to even put signs around each city about the local meetings taking place. In Gorzów, before every meeting they have the Stał flags waving on all the buses and signs on every main entry route into the city. That doesn’t really take that much planning does it?

So would a lot of fans.

Ritchie must be scared of Boughen, as he rightfully should be!!!

I think Lambert is a poor choice of guest for Ipswich, I know he is a good at Lynn usually but he has been poor recently and Jenkins had a crash the other day so Boughen should score some points.

I would have said more Touchy than Touche!

Clever by Lynn, Kildermand only OX rider to be able to replace D Thompson. They could've had cook or Riss but instead try to mess Ipswich up Hopefully Janowski for Doyle as he's good round Lynn and at 2,3 or 4 should do a great job Now Witches management we going cheap and predictable with Hume or get a champ rider who's doing well to guest?

Lynn will never have a better chance than this All the pressure on them - proper bottle job if they fail.....

Also for Tarnów v Rzeszów: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456242206

It’s a very disjointed season these days for the lesser riders,I think that’s the reason for their inconsistency riding weeks apart.Sady not going to get any better

Had a good meeting as well

One word.....entitlement. Good to see Phil has several in his keep net including the biggest fish of all 😁

Well done to Plymouth, taking us to last heat decider! fantastic meeting with some great racing, what a move by Barker in the heat with Lawson and Tobias. Rowe the star again and needs to move to 5, Lawson again solid and Darryl what a performance, getting better each meeting and the main thing showing some fight! Zach poor again, yes he had a fall but running the same inside line for 4 laps against Thompson who only does that hoping things may happen, try the wide line and try and make the rider in front try and second guess you! Kerr looked down on power again and not at the races, the less said about Starke the best. Great servant to British Speedway but his days are done sadly. Yes I keep saying but we are going to be found out quickly against Redcar, Glasgow and Oxford as they are far too strong for our miss-firing squad. Onto the next round of the KO cup.

Its so popular in manchester nobody turns up for a league meeting.

Ah Phil and his wind ups, BV must be boring him and the Prem. Nothing interesting will happen in that league til September now. No wonder nobody wants to move up. 💤💤

The way things are going, the premium league will soon be over

If Starke (3.7) and Kerr (7.07) were to make way, totaling to 10.77, and Carins comes in on a 2 does that not leave 8.77 for the pirates to play with? That would leave the pirates a few options like Ben Cook(should be back on the bike in a month and maybe looking for more meetings to get himself fit and make up for lost time/ earnings) and even Scott Nicholls if he’s recovered and not retired

He was signed to ride at reserve, if he was signed as a second string that’s where he’d be. You were the one that claimed the Poole reserves are better than a guy averaging almost 10. Obviously been a long day for you.

Still confused what Poole saw in Starke for this year. He must've talked a very good game, because it's a long time since he showed one.

His hard charging “no nonsense “ racing style “ need refining.IMO.

You have to take your hat off to Tolley, a nice bloke who is willing to throw some money at speedway.

That can’t be right. There’s never any passing at Poole.

Danish meeting apparently.

It's no surprise that those whose livelihood depends on speedway often produce the best teams... No "expensive hobby" for them...

Don't blame him to be fair

In his interview he said that hardly anyone in Birmingham knows that speedway exists, and it's similar around the country... And I thought it was his, and his other promoters' job to ensure that wasn't the case..!!! They had ONE job....😁

An up hill battle this for the Witches. However it could still go either way. To be on the safe side we could do with Buter running out of pit gate spares on Monday morning. 😂

Did only Glasgow and Edinburgh sign up to race this year?? Assuming no rain offs this weekend that will be 6 of Glasgow's first 10 meetings against Edinburgh. And its 6 times before the first change of averages. And then half the rest were against Berwick! (So that possibly makes 6 appearances for Drew Kemp in those 10 meetings) I get that there are less teams about these days but it would be good to get a bit of variety in so we are seeing too keep interest levels up. All well and good having derby matches but not every time

Also for Poznań v Leszno: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456242207

Very true Ippo spoken to Dudek & Zmarzlik last year amongst others no takers

I wouldn't say he can't be arsed, had a nasty off in his first ride, was certainly determined to win heat 13

after tonight is Starke safe or will Ricchings be retained? Next weeks meeting should be good-Cairns, Rushen, Vinnie Ford & Ritchings + more exciting riders. Looking forward to it

Poole will be 1.26 over the limit in June. So Cairns for Starke wouldn't give them much to play with to strengthen elsewhere (if they wanted to).

At east they won Gavan unlike last Thursday😀

The fact that yours is the first post in the NL section for 4 weeks tells you what speedway is becoming

Starke is doing the job he was expected to do but to be a good Team you need a reserve who is going to improve his form and stand up when one of the Top 5 is having a bad night.Poole are going be relying on Cairns being that rider on their current form.IMO

Spot on... And teenagers don't want to be seen out where their Dad and even their Grandad goes... They also "hunt in packs", so let them in for free, as many mates as they can muster, until they leave school, and see if any stay on and pay as adults... There are hardly any there now, so almost zero to be lossed...

A working class family can get a lot of entertainment these days for £60, a nice meal out, some drinks, followed by cinema, in the warm and not going home covered in dust. It's okay having kids interval runabout races and kids for a quid etc but when they hit 16/17 there's a 2,300% price increase... and they're lost unless they've got a really really good job at that age or parents prepared to pay for them.