Steve Shovlar

Good meeting. Well done to Tungate. Comisserations to Kurtz. Heat 20 Tungate lucky and dirty. The TV showed he touched the tapes and got away with it, then took two looks at Kurtz before riding into him. Brady should have laid it down for the title. Kurtz fluffed the start of the final and that was that. Excellent coverage from the streaming company and well worth the money. If there is no BT or Sky, a streaming service like this would be well worth subscribing to.

The broadcast has now started. Delayed to to a crash with a youngster pre meeting. Good crowd. Very good quality stream with multiple cameras and good commentary. Looks like a very good tv broadcast. Would recommend forking out the 6-7 quid for 3 hours of Sunday morning racing. https://nrgtv.cleeng.com/australian-solo-speedway-championship-rnd-4-gillman-sa/

Well I have paid the 6 quid and the broadcast starts in 20 mins. As its the decider it should have some tension. I have been to Gillman and its a pretty good racetrack. Hopefully some good racing to watch in the middle of winter.

Considering this is a Poole thread, and I am writing about Poole, my post and opinion is completely valid. If you don’t like it don’t read the Poole thread!

Because any promoter worth their salt can’t offer a team place to Shanes until the more important option is in place. You can’t give Shnes a berth and then discover anheat leade rider is available that now won’t fit by a fraction of a point. That would be a schoolboy error.

Madsen was 4th in the averages last year in front of Doyle. He is an extremely high value rider at club level and because of that one of the highest earners in world speedway. When you factor in the risks involved, the expenses, the time of remaining a top of the top rider, its not that high a figure to be honest. More dangerous than F1. Hamilton earns 35 million a year to put it in perspective.

So, are Poland going to back down allowing us to name Sundstrom and Shanes, or are they going to dig their heels in meaning we name P Pawlicki and Shanes? 1 Brady Kurtz 2. Kacper Woryna 3. Josh Grajczonek 4. Chris Holder 5. Piotr Pawlicki 6. Mateusz Szczepaniak 7. James Shanes No team out there to touch us with that 1-7. Swap out Pawlicki and bring in Sundstrom and we will still be the powerhouse team in the league. Strongest top 5, with Mateusz Szczepaniak at reserve, supported by Pirates rider of the year in 2017 James Shanes. Should be a very exciting season for us Pirates fans. Another point to make is with Sundstrom we are well sort of the 42.5. Meaning should a rider underperform, we have scope to redeclare before the first GS to bring in a good replacement.

Hey don’t need to be. The bikes that ride Polish tracks would be set up completely differently to what setups are required in the UK. If he rode his Polish bikes at Monmore he probably wouldn’t get around the first bend.

Seems to be a straight shootout between Tungate and Kurtz. has anyone paid for and watched the live streaming? If its any good I might buy the last round for tomorrow morning.

Thing is, Pirates Bleeding Blue called Gavan out for slagging off Kurtz in the Aussie Championship. Gavan denies he did but it was clear he was having a dig at Kurtz. We all read it on here. But he had to back track and deny he was slagging Kurtz off and ‘we all read it wrong’, after Kurtz has hardly dropped a point all championship. Gavan wasn’t slagging him off after all, even though it looked to everyone else that he was, and that being beaten by a second string etc should never happen, even though it happens in virtually every meeting with any top rider. Pirate Bleeds Blue smack on the money.

Good to know. Norris was a very good rider who only showed his real potential in that brilliant season he had when he really went for it.

Be interesting to see whether they actually cover the whole of the season this time, or just the back end.

I see that Brady went through the card again in the latest round of the Aussie Championship. He really is a cut above the opposition in this event. Got pipped by a fast gating Holder in the final but virtually unbeatable. In fact Holder is the first rider to beat him over 4 laps this championship. The only points Brady has dropped is for an exclusion and EF. Let’s hope he comes into the speedway season over here in similar devastating form and battles to retain his number one berth.

And why do two very long journeys a week to the other end of the country when Poole is just 15 miles up the road?

Both Poles are going to do very well. You should catch up with some Polish meetings on Youtube. Plenty there to see their potential. Think Woryna will be challenging for heat leader next season.

I know you are a fan of Hans but he really is a journeyman nowdays, cramming in as many meetings as possible so he doesn’t need to average high. At times last year he was poor, being beaten easily by the worst rider in the league, Smith, at Belle Vue. younger, more hungry riders needed with the desire to try and win every heat. The time was right for Hans to move on.

Musielak ladt season? No difference.

Is this Mr Brundle at all related to the ex racing driver Martin Brundle?

Easy to say that but I doubt anyone would have expected KK to be so pathetic. Looking at the lineups Swindon are nowhere near strong enough to retain next season. No big improvers and no big hitting reserves. Looks like last year was a blip and its back to mediocrity for the Robins. While normal service resumed for Pirates? Looking possible.

Worralls starting average?

More a case of DC being extremely bothered about the look of the Poole team that's so far been assembled and hoping against all hope for a chink of light for his beloved Robins. With Leicester already looking stronger than Swindon and Poole likely to match, Swindon might scrape into the playoffs with their current team. But that's about it.

But wasn’t that lifted ? Someone told me a couple of days ago they saw him walking through Poole down towards the quay but I dismissed it as mistaken identity. Perhaps it was him after all.

Hopefully Have big enough gonads to refuse planning permission at every attempt Brandon Estates make.

In which case it could be down to around 7 taking discount into hand. Will ride as a second string if it goes through.

But surely he only wants to ride for Wolves? What is he doing signing for Poole? A Turncoat? What is His current EL average?