Steve Shovlar

Heading out the door shortly. Always a good day out. Hope the crowd holds up. Would be sad to lose this event.

Harris hasn’t made us stronger at all.

We don’t know, Mystic Meg. Can you tell us what next years league structure and rules are please? There’s no I in team and whatever riders Matt Ford puts out the fans will cheer the team. Enjoy your same 1-7 for the rest of the season and leave the other teams to battle out the playoffs.

Looks like we are going to get a repeat in quality to last weeks meeting. Swindon/Leicester the two worst tracks in the whole country. Racing? Well to the first bend.

Exactly this.

Hate to break this to you DC but Swindon have certainly not done it “the right way”. If they don’t make replacements they have done it exactly “the wrong way”. Because making changes for riders who are not performing is an essential part of the sport. It keeps the winning mentality and puts pressure on riders to maintain or improve or they are the next to go. Successful clubs have always done this. Why do you think Poole have won so much in the last 15 years? But I like this idea of Swindon keeping the faith with the original seven. Long may they continue to do so.

Never mind DC, perhaps it’s time to start the Swindon 2019 thread. Looks like it’s business as usual at Chez Blunsdon after the fortuitous blip of 17.

Looks like battle of the basement on BT Sports, Monday. Who is going to get that prized wooden spoon?

Stop press: Hearing Swindon Speedway are releasing a postage stamp to commemorate the 2018 season. Here it is.

What goes around comes around. DC2 has been throwing jibes on the Poole thread for the last 3 months. I will get great joy repaying the compliment. glug glug glug......

Doubt you would have won with Bellego. Would have just meant Doyle in heat 15. Your reserves are worse than any other club including most the the Championship.

Swindon gave up. White flag raised over Blunsdon stadium before the final heat. Doubt Bellego riding would have made much of a difference. Swindon just don’t have it this year.

This from DC2’s twitter feed.

Due to DC2 camped in the Poole thread for the last couple of months gloating as we struggled for form, I take great delight in this 360 degree turnaround. Swindon plummeting out of the playoffs as Pirates start to show what real champions are made of. Allowing Somerset 4 points instead of 3 by not putting up a proper fight stinks. Poor show.

Rosco has given up all hope. Even allowed Somerset an extra point by not using Batchelor or Morris in heat 15. Poor.

Message to DC2. Glug glug glug. Looks like all that gloating on the Poole thread has now come back and bitten you hard on the ass. Yet another defeat for the Robins. Are they trying to set some kind of record?

Luckily they got away with it but would have been 6 up instead of four.

Terrible tactical error by Somerset in heat 11. 3-3 would have kept the gap at 4 points but Doyle winning it allows Morris in on a t/r in heat 12, chopping out a zero scoring reserve.

Somerset are seriously strong at reserve compared to Swindon. Add to that Doyle showing his team the best lines, this could be very close.

How on earth do you know Matt Ford doesn’t make regular proposals to improve the state of the sport? For all you know he have made many proposals which have or have not been accepted. Many of the proposals which come from this forum are quite frankly ridiculous. From not being though through to simply unaffordable. Take the notion that speedway is a ten pound sport. If this was initiated the sport would be bankrupt have way through a season. Even NL teams charge more. The biggest problem the sport has is the lost generations of fans. Its a blue rinse brigade at every track, with falling attendances due to the fan base litterally dying off. There are very few speedway fans in the 16-35 age group. Get this age group to come out and things will improve. Easier said than done.

And Poole will always have many more titles, and make the most of being above us this season, in a few weeks time the picture will be very different.

Not really sure what you expect Matt Ford to do. He only has one voice at the agm and is not on the mc. Do you expect him to throw some meetings to give others a chance? And most certainly the Poole team is not expensive looking at the riders.

You mixed up your words DC. Surely you want Swindon to ascend to Pooles level, not descend. Though they are making a very good job of the latter recently.

Like Swindon did with Musiliak. This whole thread has DC2 running scared written all over it. All the P taking he has been doing on every Poole thread looks like it’s going to come back and bite him on his jacksy, very hard. With the robins falling apart at the seams and losing how many away meetings on the bounce? It’s squeeky bum time in the Cook household.