Steve Shovlar

Yes when Poole come to town its their biggest meeting agreed. They could have P&P on any day next week. They are running scared.

Thats completely wrecked my planning. What a real pain that is. Wolves clearly running scared. There may well be snow on the track at this moment, as there most certainly is at Wimborne road this afternoon. But the forecast is for temperatures to rise this week. Snow melts when it gets warmer.

I don’t think Somerset was CH’s first choice at all. He wanted to ride with his brother, at Poole. But the way Jack behaved last season was enough for Matt Ford to decide he didn’t want him in the team, no matter what the potential in 2018. So off Jack went to Somerset. CH was pi55ed that Matt didn’t want Jack so decided he wanted to ride with his brother at Somerset, or whatever club Jack was at. But CH was in Poole’s plans. If Somerset wanted him then they would have to pay for a full transfer, which they decided they couldn’t afford or was not worth it. So CH is at Poole, will have excellent sponsorship, and now has a track he has said is very good. And perhaps if Jack matures and improves his attitude he could be back in Matts plans in future seasons. Who knows.

Excellent news.

Yep. The news and info coming out of Poole has increased ten fold.

Where can I get the Trans MF merch?? Can just see a large portion of the crowd now, chanting, “tranny muff, tranny muff!”

We all wish you would. For a long time.

Hopfully the bin fund.

I corrected the post earlier that stated the link from the bt press release went to the 2017 fixtures with a June start.

Ignore the starting in June post. The bt link went to the 2017 press release!

Keep up with the news dear boy. ☠️

Doesn't start until June.

I drove past the stadium a couple of days ago and the road surface on Wimborne Road is in a diabolical condition.

Utter guff waste of time tournament to massage a few corporate ego’s. Pointless event where fans have zero affinity to any team. Would be meaningful if club or country. As it stands, unless you are an employee, who cares?

Hoping to make it along

I think the management will put plenty of pressure on the riders. They have been signed to perform and not just turn up and ride.

Fricke is capable of adding a point, as is Bewley. Pieszczek and Newman if he stays injury clear wil up their averages. Kurtz, Woryna and especially Chris Holder will improve, as will Szczepaniak and Shanes. (And the reason Poole are favourites) KK should up his by a point if he has his head in the right place. Jake Allen for Somerset and Adam Ellis for Swindon should both improve. Not sure about Wajtknecht but we shall see.

Doesn’t do pressure. OK for league but not these types of meetings. Doyle and Fricke/Kurtz for the Aussies. Cook and Lambert for GB.

Already invest heavily, but only in my business. All profits re-invested into building it up. Have seen huge growth in the last few years but nowhere near where I want it to be. Afraid my type of business won’t benefit from an average speedway fan. And that’s with no disrespect intended at all. As for this round of the revamped swc, I hope Woffinden is not considered at all. Choose Brits who WANT to ride for their country.

Agree. Doubt there would be many there. Smaller crowd than a league meeting. Shame its not the final but Poland insist on such events.

You do make me laugh. No nothing about speedway? Lol! Since when have Mildenhall, Workington, Glasgow and Ipswich been in the top flight for Jacobs to score a point? Belle Vue, the only track he can get around in the top flight, binned him because he was garbage elsewhere. A one trick pony. Harsh, yes, but true. As for changing allegiances, Swindon introduced me to speedway in 73 and by 76 I was living in Poole where I became a fan. 40 years a Pirate and proud of it. Still a STFC supporter though as I started going when I was 8. As for selling junk, I didn’t realise selling fine art was junk! My Steptoe ‘junk’ should do me nearly a million this year. Up the Pirates! ☠️

Errrr.... It has been awarded a leg, not the final, and the lineup is crap. Won’t be many bothering with it to be honest. If you want to see a real lineup come to Poole’s 70th aniversary meeting.

Isn't John Hectors son employed by the stadium to maintain the track?

The new BV track is frankly, superb. I have been up several times and the only bad meeting I witnessed was the SWC semi. The final the following day was brilliant. I have gone up for the Poole meetings and all have been top notch racing. As for the Poole track, we are lucky to have such a good race track. Hopefully the dusting of snow we have had should effect the work that’s been done. A rider was seen playing on it last night. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2dwoiot1fbr90ex/Video 28-02-2018%2C 19 31 44.mov?dl=0

Because he was a one track pony. And the track he was good at didn't even want him.