Steve Shovlar

The Aussie Champion, an Under 21 Champ, a Poole track specialist and by all accounts the best young rider since Michael Lee taking the rides of a third heat leader. Strengthens Belle Vue no end.

Leicester are favourites for tomorrow. Do you seriously think Poole will go through the league unbeaten? If so you rate the team higher than I.

Well this time we might actually be able to start our season! Forecast for Wednesday is dry with sunny periods. The track has had extra time to bed it so it should be all systems go against Belle Vue. A very tough fixture to start our season and looking forward to it very much. POOLE 1. Brady Kurtz 8.08 2. Josh Grajczonek 7.34 3. Kacper Woryna 4.65 4. Linus Sundstrom 7.22 5. Peter Kildemand 6. James Shanes 2.88 7. Mateusz Szczepaniak 4.54 BELLE VUE 1. Craig Cook 8.45 2. Rohan Tungate 6.18 3. R/R? 4. Paul Starke 5. Max Fricke 7.39 6. Dan Bewley 4.71 7. Jye Etheridge 3.89 The order of the Belle Vue team might be wrong. A tough opener but I fancy Pirates to open our home campaign with a win. The missing Worrall can be covered well by Fricke, Tungate, Starke and Bewley. Thoughts?

Forecast has gone bad. Not looking very good for this to go ahead. Rain tomorrow during the day light and patchy with heavy rain sweeping in during the evening.

Is it an odd or even year?

It looked like he was unconscious to me. If he hasn’t broken a shoulder or collarbone it will be remarkable.

Bad crash for Doyle in heat one. High sided and hooked up cartwheeling with his bike. Looked like he knocked himself out and landed on his shoulder. Taken by ambulance to hospital. All the very best to Doyley.

My error. But I am sure Swindon fans will also be concerned as will all speedway fans.

Be suprised if they show it again with confirmation he is OK. They don’t follow the same rules as the UK when there is a serious incident.

Its was an horrendous looking high side. Best wishes to Doyle.

Bad fall for Doyle in heat one in Poland. He high-sided onto collarbone off bend two. Nasty fall. Ambulance out on track. Hope he is OK. Being attended to. Looked like he was knocked out. Being taken away by ambulance to hospital. He highsided still attached to bike. Very best wishes to Doyley.

Bad fall for Doyle. Ouch! highsided onto collarbone. Rag doll. Nasty. Abulance out on track.

Had to switch to freesports as the buffering was bad on goldvod. No problems yesterday but today frustrating. Let’s see what the second meeting runs like. Might have to rejoin widja which is a shame as the picture on Goldvod is excellent.

Good meeting. Agree sound mix is wrong. Need to turn up the background noise.

Ok dowload tv player. Its on there with a good picture. You have to register with freesports but only takes a minute. Worth it for next week.

Its not premier sports its free sports.

Eh? Check you are watching freesports.

It is on freesports right now. Been on for the last couple of hours.

I would have taken the wheel off and presented it to Buckowski. Where was the team manager fighting the lads corner? Cieslak should have been on the phone.

Buckowski should be out.

Very true Dave as I said earlier. He has clearly done his research. What is needed is for you to give him a call and give him some constructive criticism. And perhaps he needs to get himself down to a local track to get a feeling of the sport. in one heat the racing was excellent with Lindgren blasting through. These bits need to be bigged up but he missed the opportunity. He is doing a better job than I ever could though. And I know the sport pretty well.

And some people moan about Pearson and Tatum! It’s not an easy job to commentate. Love the way this one says a good slide from the rider though!

Commentator. ‘Oooooohhhhh noooooooo!’ The commentator has clearly spent time researching speedway. I give him credit for that. The problem is he knows nothing about the sport so is making many fundemental mistakes every heat. He didn’t even mention that Pieczak also ended up in a heap after being clipped. He said Madsen was out of the meeting as he was wearing a neck brace. A neck protector. Two minutes later Madsen is at tapes to be greeted by silence by the commentator. He talks in the Tony Mullard style that every sentence ends in an exclamation mark!

Andreas Jonsson was very poor there and gave Bober nowhere to go.