Steve Shovlar

Now that Allen is out for the season I guess Gary May will be using horses for courses for the rest of the season.

We have Wolves at home next week. Nailed on win.

Just got back from the gating comp. Well done Swindon for gating better. Gates 1 and 3 a massive advantage, so much so that Brennan gated in heat 2 and no matter how the Poole boys tried they couldn’t pass. Harris was doing all he could but went backwards. A few points of minor interest. Morris got it all wrong and binned it in heat 7. No one near him. Ref said all 4 back. Farcical. Batchelor got a roller and the ref let it go. Poor. Absolutely rubbish meeting racing wise. Not sure if the track was purposely set up like that or is the norm. Dire fodder in front of. Decent sized crowd. The good news is that we are in the playoffs regardless of whatever results now happen. Swindon are out, or not likely to make it. I fancy our chances. Stuart Dickson is back next week to do the track, and how the riders want it. I think we can beat any of the three others over 2 legs. As for tonight really so little to say it was such a poor advert for the sport.

Well he just dropped it on his own with no one near him and was allowed back in to win. Shocking call by ref.

Somerset totally gifted a point they didn’t desrve. Absolute howler leaving Worrall in heat 12 when we had Woryna winning races for fun. Couldn’t believe that, as Somerset gain a point. Another big big crowd here today. Poole always in control of the meeting though Kurtz was extremely poor and Worrall so slow, the same as last week. The rest of the Poole team were OK though Klindts through the tapes then a last was poor. Star of the show was Kasper Woyna who only dropped on point to the opposition. Did I say he should have had an extra ride? For Poole. Brady was poor. 5 points from a number one? Josh battled well. Klindt started poorly but improved. Worrall was poor. Did I say he was slow? Harris threw away a point in his first but was solid. Woryna was excellent. Jakobsen was pretty good. For Somerset. Doyle looked unbeatable until heat 15 when outgated by Woyna. He then stopped. Looked like he had knackered himself. Summers had one good ride. Covatti wasn’t very good bar one ride. Holder was poor. Arnio did a good job. N B Jakobsen impressed before running out of steam. Three points to take us back to the top but we are far better than this and to gift Somerset a point was poor.

Grandstand now virtually full. Crowd coming in late.

Lindback rang Ford with belly ache. No chance for Matt to do anything but r/r and we were stuffed before a wheel had turned.

Considering Poole took hundreds to Somerset, it seens Rebels fans havent travelled the other way.

Track is being watered with bowser. Edit beat me to it FB. Spoke to Arnio he has had 1 hour sleep.

Everyone here. Doyle just arrived. Crowd building.

Track looks good.

Just opened gate. Will let you know in a few mins.

Tom Brennan steps in for Smith tonight. No news on Morris guess he rides.

Any news on Morris? Would rather face a full strength team than one weakened.

Just looked at speedway updates and Morris won his last ride then withdrew from the meeting. No mention of any crash. Perhaps it was just down to track conditions?

What is Poole’s record at Swindon? Answer is, not very good. We tend to implode around heat 10 and come away losing by 8. It will probably be the same tomorrow night though there is not too much playing on it. As long as we pick up something tomorrow from the 2 meetings the playoffs are done.

Thats the problem with riders like Fricke. They don’t realise the throttle goes both ways and the speed of the bike was more than his ability.

It was at Leicester. Do you have a clue about any of this event as so far you have proved yourself to be completely ignorant of every single fact so far!

Lindback rode one meeting then failed to show saying he had belly ache. Andersen was out for the season. We went to Wolves with no main heat leader.

No they can’t terrible error. I was gobsmacked when I saw Tarnows selection.

When I saw Gora’s selection tarnow had an open goal. They missed and the ball hit the corner flag. Manager needs the sack.

Tarnow blew it with their selection. Idiots!

I am confused. Why didn’t Tarnow go for it in heat 14 as a 5-1 would have virtually done it for them?

No he didn’t. He attempted to ride in one meeting but his broken hand was too painful and his season was over. It was so bad it affected the start of the following season. We ended up going to Wolves with r/r and ran out of steam in the last few races as we had no heat leaders. Kyle Newman rode his socks off to keep us in it. If Andersen had been fit he would have ridden. The x-ray photographs showed how bad it was. His problem was not being able to drop the clutch at starts. He even tried using his other hand but failed.

Thanks Dave, he clearly does his research. It’s a shame you can’t be there as well as I always feel two commentators bouncing off each other is better. Costs probably prevent it.