SteveLyric2

Lots of people saying that everything needs to be smooth at Speedway tracks?!!!

Johnson stated in the Speedway Star last week or the week before that they all wanted to 'stay in the Premiership'!!

I've said before - my main issue with your many many posts usually on Poole threads is that they are simply repetitive - over and over and over again saying the same old stuff. Sometimes you have something valuable to say which is why you are not on ignore - but you don't need to keep on saying it. Once is often enough - for everyone.

BT Sports football - indeed all their sport - is in HD and some in HD Ultra via the Virgin platform. I find it much better than Sky's standard package SD sports channels.

I have Quest and Quest Red on Freeview (which is built into my TV). Both are also on Virgin (215 and 217) which I also have. My point was and is that whether they have shown sport in the past - and I agree Quest certainly has, including speedway (possibly one of the Euro rounds?) then it provides a further option for Eurosport if and when there are clashes of sports that they also pay for.

Just because Poole might not win doesn't mean they 'choked'. I don't recall Ipswich being accused of choking when Poole's half a team put it over them at the foxhole too earlier this season

Wherever Bomber rides in 2020, don't forget Somerset who may well be back in whatever the top league is?

I see Bomber is taking more unnecessary risks by guesting for the Stars again tomorrow - or maybe its the money on offer?

If you bothered to actually read what I wrote rather than getting into yet another 'I know better then you' strop, I never stated that Eurosport was on Freeview ! I stated that Eurosport (or the Discovery group if you prefer) have other channels that are available on Freeview for example Quest and Quest Red, which have previously been utilised to show sports including speedway and other motor sport. I really don't know how that amounts to ignorance - merely stating a fact - something that someone such as yourself claims 'to know something about'!

Eurosport do have more than the 2 main sports channels to utilise if required - free to air on Freeview too!!

The Poole v KL Supporters Cup meeting will be Poole's end-of-season fixture in October , so expect some sort of incentives for people to attend.

I guess the request for r/r to cover Masters non-speedway related absence is a request for 'special dispensation'? Not having a go at Wolves or Sam - just asking, in light of Lambert missing a flight last week and KL having to use a NL rider?!

If that is correct, why are there so many more serious injuries on the smooth, well maintained and prepared Polish tracks??

He'll probably be at Somerset in the top league next year!!!

Does anyone else not have a clue what this post is about? No? Just me then.....!

Eurosport haven't got the SGPs.

Definitely not!!! In what other walk of life would you prefer smooth over a bit of bump and grind for excitement? NB. If by some quirk of fate and a good performance Poole do finish top, does that make Poole better than Swindon or Wolves/ Just asking......?

Hopefully they'll have more time to work on it next Monday?!

woof woof!!

Your post seems to suggest that only 'some Ipswich riders' were definitely riding within themselves? I would venture to suggest that so were at least a couple of Poole riders. Steve Shovlar has his own opinion, as do I and clearly you. His and mine are all just opinions based on being there. Yours is based in a TV version of the meeting that cannot be forced on others just because one person thinks its right.

They've already got links with IOW and KL (The Chairman) and possibly others. I think there is the slow but sure realisation amongst the Polish hierarchy that their dominance - particularly financially - is doing little to further the sport Europe-wide. To be honest if the Poles paid riders 50% of what they currently pay they would not lose any riders BUT it may get some of them to reconsider where else they race.

Yes Quest and Discovery etc are all part of the Eurosport stable.

BT's GP coverage is a totally seperate contract to that for domestic speedway. Its with different organisations for starters.

So I was there in my usual seat high up in the grandstand and watching it live as well as just watched the TV coverage for a different view. Firstly I thought the referee's decisions were spot on apart from allowing Danny King's rolling start, including all the startline warnings. Yes the 1-2 bend had some bumps which quite honestly weren't there last week!! I don't know how or why although the rest of the circuit rode very well for everyone. I do know that the track guys could only get on the track from mid afternoon because of the greyhounds and auction which is not usually the case but can happen on Monday meetings. Not sure if that had any bearing on matters last night. Race times were on a par - if not slightly faster - than last Thursday. As for the track being dangerous - as according to some its been for several years(?) - you'd think that riders would have worked it out by now?! Lawson was quick all night; King did his usual good first half then tailed off; Bomber was Bomber and NKI likewise. Anyway onto the racing, Poole won but it wasn't as easy as the score might suggest. Beforehand many were saying Poole's reserves and former reserve Covatti were the weakpoints but they proved everyone wrong as it was a couple of heatleaders that were below par. Particularly pleased for THJ who was in a German hospital for 6 hours on Saturday after a Longtrack crash and as the TV showed was clearly suffering with an arm injury!! Both reserves got paid 7 - no complaints there. Nico Covatti was immense, setting his best time of the season beating NKI in heat 1 I guess with only one remaining league meeting left, if we are to make the final then Nicolai will likely be at number 1 from October 1. Onwards and upwards.

Hey Gav chalk this one up. You actually agree with Middlo. He's just said on Radio that if Poole go top Poole will pick Ipswich. Well done.