Steve Shovlar

What a strange thing to say. What on earth is a cart dealership? The track work is reported to be starting this week. I am not in the country so can’t pop down to take a look but from what I can gather proper heavy equipment is being bought in and fresh new shale laid. Guess we will find out if it’s an improvement next home meeting. As for tonight, a good solid win against a full strength Wolves team who have gone backwards bringing in Thorssell and Morris. Should have kept their other 1-7.

Very easy in the end. Wolves poor to be honest. Not a good meeting and lets all hope the upcoming track improvements get the track back to where it was before. Special mention to Klindt who was sensational. Hope Jack is OK. Another mention to Becker who was good value and deserved heat 15.

What a fantastic backs to the walls performance from Pirates. Against all the odds after losing our number one in heat one, the rest of the boys rallied in difficult conditions to pick up the three points. Well done to the whole team. Now to sort out the track.

And you will pick up the £20,000 shortfall? Clubs can’t afford to reduce prices.

No why should there be? BT don’t compensate Poole for showing the meeting.

Not defending the track just putting the facts out there. Doyle injured himself on the first bend at Blunsdon in the evening meeting. Fell at Poole but not injured. The Pole fell at Poole but was already injured with Rosco telling him not to ride before the meeting. Didn’t have the strength to hold on.

Neither got injured at Poole. Doyle was injured in the evening meeting at Swindon and Musielak the week before in Poland.

I won’t be there to watch it as I am enjoying a lovely break in the French alps but will try and get a good WiFi connection to watch online. Sod’s law it will be a buffering nightmare to watch.

Feel the meeting on Monday could be very entertaining. Pretty sure that some on here will see the slightest rut/bump as a reason to slag off the track but Poole normally produces decent to excellent racing and I see no reason why the BT meeting will be a disappointment.

Good news for me its off. Sitting here in 25 c having a barbeque in Annecy. Hopefully wifi decent enough for the meeting on Monday.

Great heat 14. Meisac should have blocked though.

You do realise “extensive work” means a lot of work to the track, not tinkering, don’t you?

I believe it was over 7000. I was there that evening as they were riding against Poole. The roads were completely jammed around the area backing up to the M25 tunnel. If we hadn’t beeped our horn and passed dozens and dozens of cars to push in we wouldn’t have got there until heat 8. Got there just before tapes up. Middlo got stuck in it and arrived mid meeting. Many locals were well peed off as they also got stuck. Think it was a televised meeting. Absolutely huge crowd. But the following week they had a regular sized attendance so lost on the promotion.

How many heats have we all witnessed where a rider falls and then, in the rerun, the rider that was tailed off suddenly pops out of the start and what was a nailed on 5-1 suddenly ends up as a 3-3? An example of this was last night when Ipswich were on a 4-2, then Fricke knocked off Harris. Berge was tailed off. In the rerun Berge got the drop and managed to get second place, turning what really should have been an Ipswich 5-1 into a 4-2. So why not stagger the start for the rerun? Riders go for the rerun in the position they were in when the heat was stopped. The leading rider starts from the tapes. The rider in second starts at 5 metres and the rider in third at ten metres. A rider might still come through from 3rd to first but would have done it fairly. It’s frustrating to see a rider who was nowhere in the first running pop out and win. Please feel free to agree or disagree. Easy to implement. Thoughts?

Fricke hadn’t passed Harris though. Passing is when Fricke back wheel is in front of Harris front wheel. But Fricke’s footrest (middle of his bike) went through the spokes of Harris front wheel. Fricke basically hoped Harris would back off but he didn’t. Fricke to blame and rightly excluded.

If it’s as good as last weeks meeting at Wimborne Road, fans will be in for a treat.some great racing last week in the Peterborough meeting. No doubt about that! Couldn’t believe just how dull the racing at Foxhall was. The Gdańsk or Pila of the Premiership. Wimborne Road has had its problems this year, especially in the lunchtime meetings, but the track still produces excellent racing at times. Shame I will miss the next two home meetings as I am taking a holiday to the French Alps. At least I should be able to catch up on the tv meeting.

A good meeting last night. Imagine if the place was full with fans what an atmosphere there could have been. A shame BT pay virtually nothing for it to offset and discounts at the turnstil to entice people to come along.

They were decent. Never going to win but kept it close.

That’s not true. I gave praise to BV tonight. A good enjoyable meeting, with a close result which really was never in doubt.

For just such a good racetrack it’s a real shame BV can’t attract big crowds, especially with so many people in the area in a huge conurbation.

BV could never afford him. On good money in Poland. A late developer but highly unlikely signing.

He looked very despondent after the meeting. Thought he was going to burst into tears.

We were missing Kurtz. Ipswich rode well tonight, and deserved a point. But from heat 12 the writing was on the wall.

But it won’t be the playoff final as I don’t believe either team are going to be finalists.

No. Not like Pooles team. Poole got a 3-3 in heat 13 and a 5-1 in heat 15. Ipswich don’t have that firepower. Ipswich are decent. Better than many predicted at the start of the season and might sneak the last playoff place.