Steve Shovlar

If we are without Klindt and Jakobsen we won’t get close to a point at Kings Lynn.

Sorry that was the only heat available.

Probably get Kyle Newman and Shansey.

If it’s true both Somerset reserves are missing, it’s a shame but to be honest they wouldn’t score many points anyway against our reserves. As FB said, they hardly troubled the scorers after heat 2. If it had been Holder or Doyle missing it would have had a bigger impact. Zack W shouldn’t be available due to 7 day rule? Still be extremely close.

You can se the crowd yourself in the video clip I posted on the Poole v Swindon clip at the end of the race.

Wouldn’t be hectic if the Poole meeting was in the evening but its a mid day meeting. Klindt finishes at Workington at 10 pm and has to be in Poole at 10 am. A 7 + hour drive.

Some of the Poole ridrrs have horrendous schedules before Monday. Richie Worrall and Chris Harris are riding Glasgow v Edinburgh home and away over the weekend. The meeting due to finish around 6 pm on the Sunday and have to be at Poole for 11 am Monday. Nicolai Klindt is riding at Workington on Sunday night at 7.30 start!

After seeing off Swindon last night at Wimborne Road to put a huge dent in the Robins chance of defending the championship, all roads lead to Blunsdon on bank holiday Monday evening for the return. Swindon must win this one to keep that flicker of a chance of making the playoffs open. Around Blunsdon they are a force and it’s difficult to get a result here. Pirates normally come up a bit short and I am expecting a similar situation on Monday night, with the Robins home advantage just a bit too much for Pirates, who will have come through one hell of a tussle with Somerset just a few hours earlier. Both teams should be at full strength, baring any disaster earlier in the day. Should imagine there will be a huge Pirates following coming up for this and a very big crowd. Looking forward to it. Thoughts?

Why? The rest of this season is crucial, to get that top spot. Teams will be desperate to avoid Somerset or Poole. If Belle Vue finish top they wil pick Kings Lynn, and vice versa. I doubt Poole or Somerset would pick each other in the semis. Poole would probably pick Lynn if we topped the table. (Unlikely)

Just watched the clip. Lawson a dick. Andersen did nothing wrong at all.

Pretty sure Somerset would see off Lynn at home on any date. Somerset clearly want the meeting to go ahead as they can only benefit.

It makes no difference who we get. We still have to beat any of two of the three to become champs and it’s wideopen. No clear favourite. Somerset might fancy us in the semi having just turned us over, but will we ride that badly again? And we will have certainly wised up to their track doctoring. Any of the 4 can win this. Should make for thrilling semi finals and final.

Gary told me that if the meeting doesn’t go ahead, neither team gets the points. A ridiculous situation.

Two losses for Swindon and then Poole finally booted them out of the play offs on the 22nd! Happy Days!!!! Glug glug glug.... Will Kings Lynn go to Somerset before the cutoff? Is it fair they refuse every date offered by Somerset so they can finish top?

All that continuous gloating from some Swindon fans, especially poor old Darren Cook, has certainly come home to roost in spectacular fashion. On an on it went, but now it’s come back to bite them on the ass big style. Poole Might not win it this season but we will make the playoffs and be in with a shout. Somerset are now clear favourites for the title, but it’s been the closest run league for many seasons.

Ooh dear an up themselves Belle Vue fan can’t bear the fact that Wimborne Road showed just how good it can be with some stonking racing. We all know that Belle Vue has an excellent racetrack but that doesn’t mean other tracks won’t produce some thrilling racing as well. Those three races at the end of tonights meeting were sensational.

Bank holiday Monday at 12.30 pm. The big one. Huge crowd expected. Another titanic battle likely. Pirates back to full strength with the return of Klindt and Jakobsen. Somerset also at full strength and expecting to arrive and win. Should be a really close one which is hard to call. Somerset only having ridden here recently. Thoughts?

And in all likeliness probable. Well a huge crowd turned up tonight for this local derby. The carpark was full an hour before the start and grandstand full at 7pm. Any latecomers had to go to the overflow carparks and stand along the home straight or bends. The track seemed well prepared but on the slick side. More of that shortly. Hyabb from Swindon posted on here that more trackwork was needed and the Poole riders were unhappy. Funny that Brady said after the meeting that the track was perfect and just how they wanted it. Tracy Bird posted it was a dust bowl. If you are going to lie Tracy Bird, make sure the people you are lying to didn’t attend. There was no dust. Track had been well watered before the meeting and there was no need for any further watering during the meeting. The track imo was slicker than normal. Harris in particular struggled to find speed to pass early in the meeting. Swindon do have a team of 5 Wimborne Road specialists and it was a tough battle all the way, the scoreline keeping the tension going. But what a spectacular finish. Heats 13,14 and 15 all worth the admission money on their own. Sure, it was 3 5-1’s to Poole but both teams made the race and the roar of the crowd was almost deafening. In heat 11 Kacsper Woryna ran a last, but imo he should have been out in heat 12. However Middlo stuck with Riss as he had done a very decent job. But he ran a last when Kacsper would have seen off Zach W. In heat 13 we had Batchelor and Morris v Brady and Bomber. Robins on 1 and 3. Tapes up and Brady got away but Bomber at the back. He got past Morris and set off after Batchelor, only to go to the back again off bend 2 lap 2. Then cut under Morris and again gave chase. A final bend blast around theoutside of Batchelor took the roof off. Heat 14 was just as good. Kacsper gated but Worrall was last, again. But he must have been watching Bomber the race before. He squared off some corners and down the back straight of lap 3 went between the Swindon pair into bend 3. Zach W tried to maintain 2nd but Worrall was through and the roof, which had just fallen vack into place from the previous heat, was blown clean off again. In heat 15, Brady gated, Harris dropped into second and that looked like that. Except they got in each others way entering lap two and Harris had to bail towards the fence allowing both Swindon riders through. Again he gave chase, and again after getting past Bellego he went after Batchelor and got him in the run in to the line. The roof was last seen floating past the chain ferry at the entrance to Poole harbour. A fantastic finale and everyone bar the Robins fans will go home buzzing after that. By the way we sat by a group who had come down from Swindon and they were the most charming of fans. They cheered and clapped their team and even applauded the final 3 heats when the meeting went away from them. They said they just don’t get that type of racing at Blunsdon and said the crowd was huge and noisy. Really nice proper speedway fans. There was clearly more to the meeting than the final three heats but just highlighting the ending. For Poole. Brady back to his best after he completely missed the gate in heat one. Josh was very solid. Finally showing consistency after a poor first half of the season. Richie Worrall was slow and extremely poor in his first three rides. If Poole had been at full strength he would never have had his ladt two rides. Lucky he redeemed himself, especially in heat 14. Harris couldn’t get close to Ellis early in the meeting but got better and better. Motm imo, though Skidder who was meeting sponsor, gave it to Brady. Kacsper was excellent value. So fast at times. Mark Riss did a very good job guesting at reserve. For Swindon. Batchelor tried all night. Found it too hit in heats 13 and 15. Bellego is so quick out of the starts. Made a pass on Riss in heat 8. Adam Ellis was excellent. Swindon’s best rider. Poole should never have let him go. Musielak was awful. Twice excluded for going though the tapes. Lessons from Brady? Then when in 3rd team riding he over cooked it on bend three, knocking off Ellis in the process. Came out again in his next and went through the tapes. Then ran a last. Morris got the full set. 3,2,1,0. Not the rider he was l season. Zach W found it very tough going. Smith was 100 metres behind. Not sure why he hasn’t fallen on his sword tbh. So a very tough first half of the meeting where Swindon kept in relately close, before Pirates stretched their legs and blew them away in the second. Swindon will be all out to win on Monday night at Blunsdon and will probably get revenge. But nice to get revenge after Swindon won here in the A fixture. Looking forward to hearing what DC2 has to say about tonight.

What a spectacular final theee heats! Just wow!

Slick certainly. Not dusty. No great racing tonight though. Richter doing the track as normal curator away. Certainly slicker than usual and not helping our guys.

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Gospel just chatted with him in the bar. Been good mates for a long time. He said that Osborne cant build the final stage until the stadium is done. Had a meeting in the ladt week or so. Seemed confident.

Just had a chat with Terry Russell. He said thd back straight and bogs will soon be a pile of rubble. Then the main stand will be gone and they will have everything in place for the start of next season.

Track looks fine. Different guy has done it tonight but it looks pretty good. Soon find out. Grandstand now full.