Steve Shovlar

Didn't think it looked that bad but obviously it hurt him. On Oxygen and holding his arm as wheeled into ambulance. Best wishes to Dan and a very speedy recovery. Oxford deserving of winning tonight. Poole riders last out of the gate heat after heat. Misfiring and crap reserves. No consistency. Masters untouchable and McDiamid a real talent. Dan Ford far from happy. Shows up poor signings.

Purchased the week of the release and still have it. Worn out. Listen to it on Spotify regularly, along with CRIME, even in the quietest moments and Breakfast in America. Saw them in 74 on the Crime tour at Oxford.

Heeps is notoriously crap around Poole.

Pirates could well have three 16 year olds riding in the team next season.

Crisis, what crisis? My fav Supertramp album.

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Then I personally think it was a howler to not resign Vinnie. He will never be a world beater but he had a fantastic rapport with the Poole has and that is something never going to happen with Starkey, even if he scores more points. The fans want a rider who shows his heart on his sleeve and gives his all with a sprinkling of personality. Vinnie had that in spades. I think Danny thought snr’s behaviour could tarnish the images of the club, and that wasn’t acceptable.

Think it might have something to do with Vinnie’s dad. Last season Danny Ford was reputedly far from happy with Foord snr’s behaviour towards some away fans. Would have had Vinnie back but for the behaviour of his dad.

Just caught up with it. Awful GP, lacking any excitement. Zmarzlik untroubled. Totally boring and ended up watching on fast forward. Oh for the days when there were at least ten riders putting up a real fight. Too many no discrips in it today making up the numbers. Few personalities and characters to root for. Perhaps I have fallen out of love with the GPs when I loved to travel Europe watching them.

I meet up with Gary May and quite a few speedway fans at Vitality before every home match. I see dozens of recognisable Poole fans at AFCB every home match. There is a big crossover. There are plenty of Cherries fans sitting around me in the main stand at Wimborne Road.

My daughter and I are heading to Arsenal on Saturday to see Cherries win. Not an Arsenal fan but support English clubs in European matches.

Certainly is down when Poole clash with Bournemouth. There are many fans that go to both. Champions league next Wednesday. A shame there’s a clash which could have been avoided.

A shame Poole were not riding against Oxford this week. Yes I know Oxford are riding v Plymouth on Wednesday, but next Wednesday clashes with the PSG v Arsenal match in the Champions league. Might have been an idea to ride on a Friday or Sunday as it’s a holiday weekend?

Different companies. Some in-house like Redcar, Berwick and Edinburgh. Poole is streamed by Andy who also films at Plymouth and I think Oxford. Varying quality from multi cams to a single cam, but to watch Pirates at Edinburgh for £12.99 is a bargain compared to travelling. Just wish Glasgow would enter the 21st century. Highly frustrating they are the only club to still be in the dark ages.

Click on where is says “live stream started”. I am not using it tonight but it’s normally very reliable, and the stream is available to watch afterwards.

Nasty crash. Wright holding his arm. Collarbone? Footrest of Kildemand gone into Brennans chain.

It’s on speedwayRUS on telegram right now.

The speedwayRUS channel on telegram, stream every match live in Poland and UK. Download telegram, search for speedwayRUS, then you will be able to watch live and recorded matches till they come out of your ears. Tonights match is live on there right now.

Peter Schroek. ‘We are just as good as them.” Er no. You most definitely are not.😂

Magic was second in the world a little while ago. But his star has dimmed. Boughen. Gate and is a rocketship. But if he sees a rider alongside him the throttle is shut off straight away, then throttles off going into every bend.

Probably a large TNT audience tonight but oh boy this is a dreadful advert for the sport. Seems the Oxford team are very weak overall. Kildemand was past his best 5 seasons ago. Janowski clearly on the way down from his peak. Tungate seems disinterested.

They know when they sign for Pirates it’s 100% effort. If riders fail to do their job, they know what will happen. Always been that way since Matt took over the club 25 years ago.

This is really bad. Sparce crowd, dire “racing” with Oxford appalling.

Tom had proved himself throughout the season. Kerr hasn’t proved himself and looks right off where he needs to be. When he was announced I was disappointed. Just feel his best days are behind him. Want to be proved wrong. Tonight felt like my opinion was about right. Let’s see how he does in the next few meetings.

Well you can blame it on gate one, as it caused us problems when it mattered, but a second heatleader scoring 2 points is ridiculous. You can blame Matt Marson but that would be harsh. The rest more or less did their jobs, Rowe and Cook affected at the end by gate one. Plymouth just did their job and deserved it.