Steve Shovlar

Got a feeling we are going to get a from the tapes meeting. Fingers crossed it’s not.

Try to avoid last has to be the first aim. Anything else a bonus.

Hope that wasn’t live shots from the stadium. No one there! Russians should come out in force, surely?

Seems a strange call. Heat 13 was a great race. And there were other heats better as well.

Still nice to be top even with a weakened team. Plus the chance to pick our opponent.

Let’s be honest. It has been proved that a weak injury depleted Poole team are better than a full strength Ipswich team, home or away.

Heeps should have been replaced in one and perhaps Nicholls in 13.

Well, Poole turn up two weeks running looking weak and depleted and again see of an Ipswich team which should have been all out for a quick revenge. But again they were found wanting. I have to ask a simple question. Can we race against you every week? If we do finish top I Hope Middlo picks Ipswich in the semis. We have been sitting ducks but our weak lineup still saw them off. Track tonight was very smooth but imo a little too slick and dry. The first half of the meeting was pretty much a race from the tapes. But in the last third of the meeting it sprang into life with some great battles. Barker throwing himself all over the place in heat 13 to hold off KP for three laps and beat Nicholls was a surprise, and earlier in heat 10 beating King. For Poole: Brady Kurtz rides mustered a ridiculous 3 points. He just failed a concussion test and still has to sit it out. Barker battled and got 5 points. Decent effort to be honest. August brings new averages and a chance for a replacement. I don’t know who the management are after. Paid 12 from Klindt. Good efforts all night with his usual expected duffer thrown in. 10 from Josh but should have been paid 12 but for an EF when safely clear of Allen on the last lap. Jack takes heat one but nearly always runs a last. Time for Middlo to try another rider. Paid 12 a good score. Some good team riding. Nico got paid 12, and did some good team riding with Jack. Ricky W found the going tough against two good reserves. For Ipswich: Nicholls battled hard all night but found it tough. Heeps gated in heat one but then vanished from the meeting. Had 4 rides. What was the Ipswich manager thinking? King has his best meeting at Poole in years. 13 deserved points. Lawson was as bad as Heeps. Nowhere to be seen tonight. Pieszczek battled for his paid 7. But I expected more. Eddie K, as expected, was the back up to King and rode as he does at Wimborne Road. Paid 10 and deserved all his points. Allen again showed his liking for our track with two heat wins. Why did he only get 4 rides? Ask your manager! So Pirates, with a beaten up team, now go clear at the top of the league. No meetings for us until three home meetings on the bounce and Peterborough two weeks tonight. With any luck Brady will have been give the all clear by then.

And Brady Kurtz far more than 3. A full strength Pirates would have won tonight comfortably against a full strength Ipswich team, in my opinion.

Wells found it tough against arguably the best two reserves in the league with Eddie K a Poole specialist and Allen quick around here. No suprise he found it tough tonight.

Enjoy your point. And know a very weak Poole team saw you off.

We all laughed when Heeps had four rides. Looks like the bubble has well and truly popped there! Patched up Pirates do it again.

Ipswich gifted a point due to Josh’s ef on heat 14. Great performance by a very weak Pirates team to beat Ipswich. 3 points only from Bradys rides. New number two in August and Brady back will make us a very serious team to beat. Happy days!

Top of the league, baby!

I look at it this way. Poole are clearly weaker with Brady missing and usin Barker. Ipswich are basically full strength. Nicholls for Harris is about the same. So whatever the score tonight, Poole have quite a bit of strength to attain. Ipswich haven’t. Both teams are in the playoffs. Tonight doesn’t really matter. When they meet in the playoffs it will.

Don’t you mean legend in his own bedroom? Tonight is going to be a tough one with Brady still out. We really needed him to be honest and are very vulnerable again. The lads need to get stuck in from heat one. Ipswich will be sore after being thrashed at home last week and be out for a quick revenge.

Yodelling is good fun and clears the throat. I love to yodel. Swinging from lampposts.

https://poole-speedway.com/news/view/17-07-19-wells-signed-by-pirates

https://poole-speedway.com/news/view/17-07-19-wells-signed-by-pirates

Got it from Steve Koch on Twitter.

Anyone tried peanut butter and marmite on toast? Keep hearing about this combo but yet to try it. Like them both.

Hearing Nicholls for Harris. Our luck might just have finally run out on Thursday.

Treebeards an interesting name. I like it.