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First time watching Pirates TV…bloody hell, I’ve never heard such a biased commentary in a LONG time!! 🤣 Not even a hint of impartiality!! 🤣

Ok Leon you know what you have to do anything less than 3 points is job done. I am sure Gerry will make up the shortfall, any questions asked about your performance just say you had a burger for lunch and it must have been dodgy.

I've come up with a brilliant idea, that nobody has thought of... don't call it the Knock Out Cup!

Did you post that with a straight face Lewy? Hmm, maybe we should do what the Plymouth comms do and scream down the microphone when they are winning lol. Can't wait for that tomorrow lmao. Everyone is biased on their own stream, lord give me strength. Are you 5 years old?

Yeah, this is painful. There’s natural bias, but this is childish. My new season enthusiasm got the better of me and I purchased this. The only excitement has been the incidents. The rain off at Armadale is more exciting than this. New season, same rubbish.

Broken femur, eye socket, punctured lung and damaged ribs. Not good at all. Speedy recovery Tobi.

What has he got against Scotland? 🤷‍♀️😁

Not sure why anyone would think something called Pirates TV would be anything other than one eyed.

And they still haven’t realised Spencer was in for Klima in Heat 9. They are still banging on about how he won’t have enough rides.

For what it is worth, I think that Poland has far too much influence in British Speedway. 🤬 They should not dictate to riders and Clubs over here. 🤬 Let them run their own Sport, and keep their collective noses out of other people's business. 🤬

Its not the clubs fault its down to the rider who signs for a polish club knowing full well they will miss matches in his home country time to tell poland to do one show some backbone.

There’s been a lot less rain in Berwick today than originally forecast fingers crossed it’s the same tomorrow.

As it turned out it was gate 1 and gate 4 to some extent that turned out to be difficult. My perennial complaint is why don't the track staff fix it? Back in the day we had a man or men with rakes on the start line that would fix any obvious problems. Oh I know that there was always accusations of doctoring the gates for the next race in favour of the home team. But if one gate was deep or slick, at least with some attention this could be improved. Uneven gates are annoying especially in key heats (13,15 and especially any super heat).

I was going to use Horace Goes Flying as the title... but couldn't think of a name rhyming with Horace 😂

Yep remember that and Manic Miner.

Been said elsewhere it is 4.82 🤷‍♀️ For @Neila as i know you'll want to know his thoughts ahead of new season 😉

Yes. Beat the opposing rising star away from home...... job done

So in other words he did his job.

Belle Vue fans won't need to worry about what it's called soon anyway. By the end of the Easter weekend they will be concentrating on the league. 😉

It really is just a joke sport.Will Flint help Monarchs eliminate Tigers or vice versa.

Edinburgh will easily finish Top 4 well balanced team. After watching Dan last Saturday he looks like he will go up another level our loss is Edinburgh’s gain. I am away for a lie down now after that prediction

Hi Neil. Guess what I won't be cheering for Comets either. 😀

I guess it was pretty full. I was looking forward to going, but we were running a bit late. We got to the stadium about 5:30 only to find that the carpark was already full, and still a big queue of cars behind us trying to get in. We went home, which is probably just as well. I don't think my grandson would have had the patience to sit through the delay. Hope Tobi is okay, that's the main thing. Top guy who always engaged with the fans.

Think it’s a great idea. Other clubs don’t give the opposition the opportunity to feel the track. About time we did the same.

Couldn't argee more! These guys give people a chance to watch the meeting who aren't able to attend give them a break!

APeople moaning about bias on a PIRATES stream. You couldn’t make it up. No I have never watched Pirates stream but darts legend Scott Mitchell is a Poole fan. Expect nothing less. Huge crowd tonight. A shame the nasty crash marred the meeting though. Best wishes for Tobias and hope he gets well soon. Two riders hooking up and ploughing into the fence at speed. We had to wait along time in the wind and the track dried out. Still a decent win for a team that will only get better.

I spotted it on the stream pair of clowns

The commentary are now making excuses for their error, saying they weren’t told. You could use your eyes! Either look at the bike colours or the number on their back!! It’s not rocket science.

Yes it's almost comical.

Lawson excluded,poor decision in my opinion.

https://livestream.poole-speedway.com

the one that took off on April fools day 😁

Reid looked good at p+p also. It was incredibly wet at Glasgow and I can’t imagine he has ever ridden a speedway bike in those conditions before. I timed a few laps at p+p and he was within .5 of a second of (an admittedly not fully fit) Morris. I think once he gets in the swing of riding uk track he will be a bright talent. Tonight’s meeting vs the monarchs is off unfortunately.

It's an oven-ready meal (or soon will be)

Just meant they got used to gate 3 being a graveyard

More like Lord Lemon, Captain Buster and Fabulous Phil! And hats off to them and any others involved in the venture. Leicester's existence today owes much to Chapman's rescue act after the Hemsley train-crash when he cleared the debts so that Bates and Machin could come in and take over a cleaned-up mess. Lemon's may be the only name appearing on the Companies House records as Director of NS Ltd, but i'd bet Chapman and Morris are "ipso facto" directors and raised the money to fund the setting up and initial operating costs. They'll be looking to sell asap, get their money back, and exit stage left. The Promoters are in place to fulfil requirements of SCB/ACU and when new owners and directors of NS Ltd take over (whenever that is, but probably soon as possible after the season starts), they'll either disappear back off and be replaced, but more likely stay to provide continuity.

As with a lot of things money talks . Oh and on the Poole thread how ironic 😜

they missed out faster than a formula 1 car,,

It’s the 5-point riders that often struggle to find a spot. Too high to be a reserve, too low to be a sure bet. They’re the ones that get squeezed for the final spots.

Obviously, just bored this morning deciding what petrol station that has the nicest view whilst I wait 3 hours for diesel. So thought I would give my first insightful posts on this season.

Not that new: In 1998 the Premier League KNOCK OUT Cup consisted of two groups. In the group matches Peterborough easily bested Reading winning at Alwalton and Smallmead, but Racers won the cup beating Peterborough in the final.

I suspect the first few meetings will be busy due to the novelty factor, but yes it could go south rapidly. History tells us that new or newish teams are usually in fire fighting territory early on. For example Milton Keynes 1990, Skegness 1998.

As things slowly emerge, for me they seem to confirm the "consortium" are looking to sell it on asap after the start and recoup their financial outlay. Possibly already is a party waiting in the wings. Hence minimal marketing and promotion, likewise budget team. As for the bizarre choice of Foxes for the team name, maybe Harry Redknapp has worked his contacts book a bit more by lining up Samantha Fox to front-up the "grand opening" on the 30th, perhaps with Linda Lusardi making it a twosome (or foursome)

The Hokey Cokey Cup... Missed a trick there didn't they?

Always maintained if he got in there would be trouble. Took one look at him and thought straight away he’s a war monger. The bloke wants ousting out

It is bizarre and the huge amounts of grift in the open doesn't even try to hide it but again no one seems fussed or their to scared if they try and stop him some of the crazy militia that support him will turn up at their home with guns.

I thought it might be an incentive to write the long awaited sequel? And "At least we can't finish 10th" sounds like a great title :)

I was thinking of starting a "Guestfest 2026" thread, and logging each one... But then realised what an undertaking it would be ...

HBO max does not officially launch until end of march for some reason. Presume apps will be available after then