I am no Poole fan by any means, in fact I find Shovlar, SteveLyric, Starman, Lisa Collette etc unbearable. But some of the comments on here are well off.
You can't say Workington would of won with Batch on form, Voulas on form, if Foord had finished the meeting, if Tate Z had rode etc.
Riders have good and bad nights, look at Poole. Thomsen having a nightmare, Rowe being well off it clearly not fit. It is more likely that those two have a good meeting than Batchelor and Voulas away from home so it is probably a case of Workington being lucky those pair were off form.
Foord as I have posted elsewhere is well over hyped and done absolutely nothing before crashing out. Hasn't exactly set the world on fire this season either so his score of 1 away from home is not exactly surprising.
And from looking at the results, the Comets seemed to cope with no Tate pretty well only dropping two points from his rides.
So as much as it would of been good to see Poole get spanked, I think the comments about Poole being lucky are off the mark.