Steve Shovlar

Rider of the night: Christine Turnbull.

Congrats Leicester, commiserations Ipswich. Silly falls and a dodgy referee led to defeat when they should have made the final.

Fricke and Masters? Brennan and Ellis? Must be advantage Leicester heat 15.

As I said. Ipswich must feel hard done by.

Fricke, who shouldn’t be in the race, will gate and go.

For once I agree with you.

Becker had him off.

Never the same in a rerun. Watch this…….

Ref has had a stinker. Fricke should have gone.

It’s obvious the winner is coming from the other semi.

Never the same on a rerun. Ipswich completely thrown this away with falls. The ref has been poor but Leicester were there for the taking.

Stating the bleeding obvious That fall could cost Ipswich big time.

Justice served.

That should be awarded!

Absolutely disgraceful decision there.

I share your fears. We can’t win anything if three of our team continue to perform as they are. Tobias has completely lost it since his injuries. Looks poor. Hagon the same. One decent ride last night but tailed off in his others. Vinnie can be forgiven but is a trier and just back. Against Oxford they will be found wanting. Masters and Nicholls are capable of beating our top boys.

Decent lead and enough imo. Workington battled but Pirates top end too strong. Would have been 16 but for Zach trying to get past in heat 14. Onto Workington Saturday. Didn’t Pickering ride there last Saturday so is not available?

The way Hagen is riding I won’t hold out any hope of points there. Chalk and cheese to earlier this season. Bereft of any form whatsoever. Like to be proven wrong but he gates poorly, then goes out wide on bend one/two so that he’s 20 metres behind going down the back straight. Doesn’t seem to want to mix it.

Boughen did the same at Poole a few meetings back. Once he got out wide no one, including Lawson, could get near him. Need to block his run out wide early, which is easier said than done. Straight to fence on bend two and he won’t be able to generate the speed he gets. Certainly Oxfords trump card heading into the playoffs and KO Cup.

Just caught up with the meeting. Heats 13 and 15 really great racing with Bomber and Masters. Boughen again looking good. Def one for the top. Poland will no doubt be calling for next season. But got to block him going right out to the fence to nullify him a bit. As soon as he is out there he’s a rocket ship and not to be caught.

Ignore found link thanks.

Anyone got a link without overdubbed Russian?

Good meeting and a 12 point lead but not enough to stop Lublin getting through to the final IMO. Torun a rider short of a good team. They rode very well though and deserved the win.

Good win tonight for patched up Pirates. So it’s looking like a Poole V Oxford playoff final and KO Cup final. At least not far to travel. Trouble for us Pirates is the form of Boughen who could seriously help win both for the Cheeters. Still, there’s been some enjoyable racing this season and we deserve to be there.

I will look out for you in the crowd from the stream. 😂