Steve Shovlar

Dates are made but not who is where.

Douglas was excellent on his two visits to Poole. Wolves have very good reserves.

Certainly from the premier league. Both still have something to offer at Championship level.

Easy 4 points tonight for Swindon. Panthers just don’t have any firepower and look beaten already.

Poor old Ricky was carrying that nasty shoulder injury against Wolves. No wonder he struggled. Have to use horses for courses guests now. A real shame as it looked like Ricky was about to ram in some big scores for the playoffs. Our chances are now officially wrecked.

Thank god that tripe is over. A complete bore fest from heat one through to the final. Zmarzliks now to lose. Madsen completely imploded under the pressure. Emil blew the final big time. zzzzzzzzzzz!

I said from the word go Wolves could in on Thursday. We were sitting ducks with no reserves and no Howarth. But I don’t think Ipswich are a threat to us over two legs unless injuries come into play.

Dire stuff. Not one pass of note after back straight of lap one. Voyens living up to his reputation. Zzzzzzzzzz!

If tv companies are not prepared to put their hands in their pocket and pay a fair price, then the BSPA should say no thanks and get a streaming service up and running during this winter. Wasn’t an away meeting streamed for the Somerset fans in the last few days? I recall a Debbie Hancock saying it went very well. The fans were charged £10 a head and it went flawlessly. Think it was streamed to the Oak Tree Arena clubhouse. Perhaps Somerset fans can comment on it. If the stream goes to only one place for fans to attend it would very very limiting. Fans would want to watch from the comfort of their own sofa. Pay a tenner, open a beer and watch your team away from home. Not difficult to achieve and revenues could be large. 1000 fans is £10,000 which wouldn’t have been there. A 30 mile ban around the home track to not affect home attendance. IP monitoring (very easy) so that a stream is not shared. Block international customers to make sure one doesn’t live stream it on Youtube. Far better than giving it to Eurosport IMO.

Actually far from me to defend Starmans posts, but the replies are basically mob bullying of the guy.

Fair comment I take it back. Though it still makes no sense. You have just beaten Swindon yet Poole won at Foxhall twice and won’t win at Poole.

So you want to face Poole as Ipswich won’t win over two legs. Pure Gavan logic.

Great little film here from Nicolai Klindt.

It was always a difficult call as we didn’t want to go into the playoffs with r/r. We lost Recently and couldn’t cover. Trouble was no one about to fit the bill. Now Wells has gone completely awol and THJ is struggling to come up to speed. We won’t win it this year so need to make the final as next best thing.

Funny how you pick up on that. The main point, and my praise for Wolves, was in the reserve department. 21 v 1. Poole are a better team than Wolves in the 1-5 but not at reserve. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. With hindsight I would have millions stashed away. Wells had started OK but his recent form is pathetic. THJ is a gamble but no good going into the playoffs with r/r. We should make the final if we finish top. Hope Swindon beat Wolves for a Swindon v Poole final. No doubt Swindon would come out as champions but we can’t say it’s been a bad season by being runners up.

Not if wants to be released. Can’t force him to ride. He is absolutely not the type of rider we have in Pirates colours. If a rider scores nothing but is giving it a go, then fair enough. But to be tailed off going down the back straight of lap one is not acceptable. I am sure he is a nice guy but it is doing him no good at all.

Certainly gone full circle. You can’t win meetings without scoring reserves and tonight proved it! I said as soon as Howarth was missing that Wolves were far stronger and so it proved. They surely want him to stay injured because as a team they will score far more points. Paid 9 from his rides. Of course the reason Wolves won is because they outscored Pooles reserves by 1 point (gifted in heat 2) to paid 21. A massive gap the Poole top five couldn’t cover. In fact no team could cover that. Becker was excellent as he was last visit. Both he and Douglas had Wells and THJ for breakfast. Whilst the latter can be slightly excused as it was his first meeting, Wells has gone from bad to worse. In fact he never looked close to a point. THJ did have one go in heat 14 which he led for a lap before coming under pressure and then falling. Best bet is to now get rid of Wells for what is left of the season. While we can’t replace him, we can use horse for course guests which is surely likely to do better. Really though there was only one team in it and from the start Wolves were faster out of the starts. On a slick track we couldn’t make an impression. A bit of pirate pride kicked in to close the gap but were were always found wanting whenever we had a reserve in a heat. In heat 15 we needed a 5-1 to draw but Brady completely missed it and Klindt made two errors to allow the Wolves riders through. The correct result to be honest. Well done to Wolves. A A Formidable force.

Well done Wolves fully deserved tonight reserve scores and r/r sums it up.

Schlein withdrawn.

Still a strong side. Swindon v Wolves final should be fun should Wolves make top 4.

Becker has been untouchable. Really likes the Poole track. Have to get him here for next season.

THJ looks like a novice. Miles off the pace. We officially have crap reserves!

Holder and Schlein hooked up on bend one. Both down. Footrest tangle. both up.

My words did the trick!

I can say now we are not going to get anything. R/R for howarth 5 from 2 so far. Wolves need to keep Howarth out. Swindon will struggle against them in the final.