Steve Shovlar

So it will be shown live rather than delayed Dave?

Need someone in the Swindon area to pop into the stadium late Wednesday and see if the track has been pinned out. Pretty sure this is going to happen.

The only track better than Poole in the top flight is NSS imo. Somersets was good but seems to have gone to the dogs this year. Swindon, Leicester equal bottom. Kings Lynn is gate and go nowdays. Wolverhampton isn’t proper speedway.

He should have replaced Jorgensen. Toft had scored double figures while Jorgensen had struggled. A no brainer swap.

This has nothing to do with Poole’s track, which is far, far superior to Swindons in every aspect. The Poole track was excellent last week after the return of the track man from his holiday. No holes. Great racing and passing. Not like last night at Swindon with once in a blue moon. The Swindon promotion now have a blank sheet to put in a track that can be shaped how they want, within certain limitations. 300 metres is ideal and they could copy the shape of Belle Vue or Scunthorpe or Poole, all proper race tracks. Hope the fans get a track which means overtaking and thrills. Not some follow the leader rubbish like Leicester fans have to endure.

Because its a discussion forum and your post needed responding to. Why on earth would the track shape not be important? It’s absolutely of PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. What would be the point of the club surviving, only to have a track similar to Leicester? The track is EVERYTHING. The opportunity to put in a great shaped track with racing. Not follow the leader crap Swindon fans hve had to endure week after week.

Of course the shape matters. 200%.

Why on earth doesn’t he shape it like a smaller version of Belle Vue?

And what did he say about the tactical howler in heat 14?

Lynn made a howler in 14 as FB said. Toft should have been in. No brainer.

Swindon blew it mid meeting. A good comeback though. 11 points from Proctors rides. Would he have scored as many? Very doubtful. Puts any comeback this season into jeopardy. R Lambert had a poor one. Toft at reserve the saviour for Lynn who now should go through. Missed opportunity for the robins. Updates made it sound a good meeting though.

Luke Becker interview at 15.00

Woffinden looks disinterested. Should have won his last against Pawlicki. Letting his team down.

Agree. Believe the winner will be from the Somerset v Poole side of the draw. But all four teams are in with a shout. Just needs a couple of riders to stand up and be counted when it matters to swing things in their teams favour. A shame we have a week gap. Would be better to be riding at Somerset tomorrow night.

Hmmm. I thought it was an excellent race but to say it’s the best race in 38 years is ridiculous. Seen just as good or better races in the GP and Poland. The Darcy Ward GP race against Hancock and Gollob was better imo. Doyle made an error to allow Fricke to get him. However it was top notch no doubt about it.

He isn’t for us either but ends up top of the averages. How we could have done with Chris Holder right now.

Some interesting comments on the Polish speedway site. Some say the has bought embarrassment onto Polish speedway and it was frankly a disgrace as two of the other riders were also not ready. One said it stank with the ref giving Zmarzlik a huge helping hand. A Polish speedway commentator has called it karma, as a British ref threw out Zmarzlik unfairly from a race a couple of GP’s ago (I don’t recall what happened) Says it’s now 1-1. The general consensus in Poland from fans is that the ref was very wrong.

I think you have every chance of progressing to the final.

But a huge % of those 70 odd thousand at Old Trafford are Japs or asians who have come on a trip up from London for the day while visiting UK. When me and Rob came up to Manchester for the day before a Poole meeting we went to OT and on a non match day there were loads of Japs. Half the OT crowd are tourists. Doubt half of the MU crowd are from the area nowdays.

Up yours you corrupt ref!

Because its an individual. Clearly the fight has been knocked outof Woofinden tonight.

As proved in heat 18, the decision by the ref was completely corrupt. The FIM need to open an investigation immediately. Whilst it won’t alter what happened, it could ensure the ref is never near the start button ever again. I would go even further and get the fraud squad to check his bank accounts to see if any money has been recently been deposited.

Hancock is not challenging Zmarzlik.

The ref knew that if Woofinden was excluded he wouldn’t make the semis. He knew that by excluding Woofinden Zmarzlik would have a free hit, would make the semis, probably make the final and reduce Woofindens lead to nothing. The referee will think he is a hero to Polish speedway. The rest of us call him corrupt.

Have to say Tai is calmer than I would have been. He is watching his lead dwindle down to nothing. Zmarzlik on a roll and going to be hard to stop.