Dickie Head

Just back to my mainland base. Bit one sided but given the Cradley team it was understandable. None the less both teams did their best with the wins for Campos and Bailey in heats 5 & 6 the highlights for me. Got to say the IOW club do go the extra mile and put customers first. I saw the announcer who is usually in the referees box go out of his way to escort a visiting couple who were new to the track from the snack bar to the pits. Great customer care and PR just backs up what most people say about the Warriors.

As I'm on the south coast this week, going over for this. Shame the Heathens have run out of time for play offs nevertheless this should be a decent fixture with Island specialists Danny Ayres and Josh Bailey in the visitors line up.

Yes, good signing but after yesterday's near disaster, the four in four coming up are far more important at the moment. Do we expect Luke and Danno to be fit for the southern tour?

As above

Think semi final first legs 11 September with second legs a week later. Happy to be corrected if wrong.

If it goes ahead I would have thought Poole will be the same as Monday and Lynn would be full strength other than reserve where they might need to cover Simon Lambert.

Rye might be better to use RR for Bomber and given his showing last week Aces might plump for Lasse to guest for Stevie.

Where will Stevie W and Bomber be? Belle Vue or Peterborough?

Sorry if I have missed this elsewhere, but are there any convenient Polish meetings the day after the Lublin meeting?

There is an awful lot of racing to take place between now and Monday night. Who knows what the final line ups will look like.

But this is the National League so almost anything goes if your face fits.

In fairness to Dan Bewley he was setting off by road to Latvia for the U21 European final so his absence is understandable.

Getting ready to set off. Weather check please.

Does anyone really think Jack will repeat his first match score? Total flash in the pan and will be doing 2's and 3's from now on.

If it's not five this week, it will be the following week with Rye 'KK' House the opposition!

My brother went to the recent meeting when David Wallinger was injured. This resulted in a delay of over an hour. Every resourceful, the Warriors management held some impromptu games for the youngsters to keep them entertained during the stoppage. How many other clubs would have had the gumption to do this? Well done (again) IOW.

To answer my own question, yes the SGP have an official pin badge for each round of the GP.

As Chris Holder appears to have burned his boats at KL, how about Poole releasing KK and signing Holder before 31 July even though he is under suspension. Would have to cover a few meetings with a PL 6 pointer(?) but you would have him for the run in and play offs plus his Poland / Sweden teams look to be running down as well so he might welcome it.

As I have had no reply to a question posted on the SGP 'contact us' site, I thought I would ask here. Do any of you good folks know if there are official SGP badges for 2017? In previous seasons a separate badge was issued for each GP so any idea for this year.

Thanks

Could anyone advise on the venue for the Pairs finals in 2000, 2001 and 2002? Thanks.

Adam Portwood signs for IOW. Subject to BSPA ok.

Given the universal criticism of the track at the last meeting, I'm surprised their has been no public comment from the Poole management about the steps they have / are / will be taking to sort it out. They must have been speaking to the team to tell them what's happening given the riders adverse comments about it. Go on Matt, shock us all. Put out an official press release with an update. We don't want to rely on the one sided view of Starman telling us motorway blades, heavy duty rollers and twenty tons of fresh shale have been used. Prediction is a four point away win whether Klindt rides or not.

Campos for Dugard just announced.

Like the Belle Vue meeting a month or so ago, Warriors have made a very early call to postpone tomorrow's fixture due to a poor weather forecast.