Steve Shovlar

I'll watch the Danish final and more or less by the time it's over the Polish meeting will be available on youtube. A night of speedway coming up tonight, tomorrow and Sunday!

Sport tv 2 is available on the sportsmania plugin on Kodi. Just found the channel and its crystal clear hd. No buffering on sportsmania.

Completely disagree. We were stuffed without Andersen who was scoring very well when the injury occurred. Lindback hadn't ridden here for years and to expect him to just come in and score the same or more than Andersen was an impossibility, and so it proved. 5 points first leg, and r/r in the second leaving us weak. Andersen was always good for 10-12 which would have seen us through to the final had he been fit. We suffered last year and Belle Vue could suffer this time around. Did you expect Matt Ford to run with r/r in both legs? It showed we couldn't cover for Andersen in the second leg when we ran out of riders. No. Wolves are favourites imo. Full 1-7, massive home advantage. Swindon on a run, granted but they don't particularly go well at Monmore and Wolves could easily win it in the home leg with a big enough lead.

Ipswich heat one.

Nothing should bevallowed to get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, especially if it involves Poole! As for Andersen, he attempted to ride a meeting in Poland but withdrew and didn't ride again. He said he couldn't grip the throttle tight enough. The injury was completely genuine and all Poole fans would have prefered Andersen, who was riding well, to a brought in Landback who did nothing other than let us down.

Dubious injury? Did you not see the photos Andersen tweeted of his injury? It ended his season and left us vunerable when it mattered. Here's Fricke out of control crashing into Andersen. http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/resources/images/5573250.jpg Courtesy Steve Dixon.

Again Matt Ford the only promoter to see the folly of not being able to make injury replacements. Just goes to show how he understands the rules and the repercussions of an injury after the cut off date, where others think they are invincible until an injury comes knocking. Bad luck to Belle Vue on losing Fricke. Poole fans know what its like from last season when we lost Hans at Leicester. Not replaceable but you just have to get on with it. Advantage Wolves if they steer clear of any injuries.

Your post makes no sense sorry. I have said all along that Holder and Batchelor didn't deal with the situation very well. But. The only reason for all this mess is the disastrous track prep by Buster Chapman. There would have been no issue if the track had been prepped correctly. Chapman cocked it up. The rest is history.

Hans attempted to ride again overseas in one meeting but that was it and he didn't come back until the start of this season. His hand injury was quite serious and not bogus, as well we know. The injury to Hans basically ended our chance of the title.

Would have been a good post except for one fact. Buster Chapman caused the whole sorry issue by failing to prepare a safe racing track. I have stated that neither Holder or Batchelor acted responsibly, but rather than just sack the pair, (he clearly doesn't have an apology in his repertoire) he then became vindictive by making sure both riders couldn't ride again this season. The whole episode is the fault of Chapman. The right thing to have done would have been to apologise to the riders and fans for preparing a track deemed dangerous. But instead he acted spitefully and in a retaliatory manner unbecoming of someone who is currently the BSPA chairman.

Considering Andersen never rode again last season bar one aborted effort, it is safe to assume that Lindback coming in was a genuine injury replacement. Woffinden on the other hand was Wolves strengthening up for the playoffs and the sole reason the rules were changed in the winter.

Not sure why you are quoting Lindback. He was bought in as cover for Andersen who had a season ending hand injury caused coincidentally by one Max Fricke at Leicester. Think you should use the Wolverhampton/Woffinden swap as the example. Brought in to replace Kylmakorpi with the sole purpose of strengthening before the playoffs. That is the very reason the rules were changed. Not Lindback for an injured rider.

Very unfortunate for Fricke and Belle Vue to come after the cut off date. R/R only option for the rest of the season or until Fricke recovers enough to ride. There is no facility other than R/R, though the way the team are riding he can be covered pretty well. No 28 day injury replacements are allowed at this stage of the season.

Great meeting tonight. Best one of the season. Nice to see Bjarne ride like he did for Poole years ago. The old dog still has it in him.

It would be silly to ride on a dangerous track in a dangerous sport. In retrospect a ride through the tapes in heat 13 would have been a better option but I doubt that entered his mind in the heat of the moment. Buster Chapmans behaviour has now alerted the top riders and he could struggle to attract anyone of quality next season. Suprised Jonathon Chapman hasn't made a comment about this whole debacle.

Personally I would open the whole league up and get rid of the points limit completely. Teams can sign any rider they want. But every team should have 2 young British reserves plus a Brit in the top 5. The other four riders can be whoever the club wish to sign. Sure, some teams would be stronger than others, as they are to a certain extent in Poland. Clubs would have to cut their cloth in respect of the revenue or sponsorship they can muster. Take for example Leicester v Belle Vue. Leicester. Dudek Lindgren Kildemand Llung King Bates Newman Belle Vue Bjerre Fricke Woffinden Thorsell Harris Bewley Smith Of course some teams would be weaker but when a big team come to town the crowds should be big and profitable. The underdogs beating the team of stars. What could be better? When Grudziadz beat Zielona Gora or Wroclaw the fans love it. Grudziadz are not the fashionable club in the Polish top flight. We would need BT to sponsor the league but time to ditch the played out points limit and go the way of the Poles. Just my opinion.

The forecast hasn't changed for days with rain forcast for all day tomorrow. Have to feel for Worrall if he ends up with not having done enough meetings to get a new average before giving way to Brady.

Crash in the Swedish league tonight between Fricke and Vaculik. Been a fair delay in the meeting. Hopefully not serious for either rider.

Wouldn't say it was petty. More spiteful and vindictive.

I dont believe Kings Lynn fans ever accepted Chris Holder. His form was never as good as 5 years ago and it was a case of comparing him to Iversen from the off. If it was Iversen that had refused to ride I am surr more KL fans would be blaming Chapman for the disgrace of a track. End of the day neither side come out of this smelling of roses but Chapmans behaviour is disgraceful, considering he is the one who caused the problem in the first place.

Where has all this Poole want to sign Holder or Batchelor come from? Neither were ever in Pooles plans this season. The team we have is the team we have, after Brady returns, and if its not good enough this year so be it.

Already made other plans. Chance of this going ahead with the current forecast is not good.

I have said on the previous posts that Holder could have handled it better. He could have come to tapes in heat 13 and ridden straight through them. No 28 day ban. But Chapman is to blame. Imagine working in a factory in the metal press. Boss says the guard is broken so watch your hands. Be quick with the press or your hand will get squished. You say sod that, I am not using it. So he shouts out to old Bert who takes your place. You are suspended then sacked. Oh, and you can't work again until next March. How do you think that would go down at a tribunial? Basically that's what has happened.

If it had been on a Friday I would have tried to be there but had business today on the Devon Riviera (Torquay to be precise) and had no chance of getting there in time, not that I missed much. Pooles problems are very easy to see. We just don't have the riders in the team to beat the oppositions heat leaders. Meaning heat advantages are rare. Tonight the perfect example. I believe things will improve once Brady returns but even if we make fourth we will be whipping boys. Unless of course the whole thing is one elaborate ruse to blindside the opposition into thinking choosing us is a simple two leg victory. I wish that was the case!

Riders are individuals. Some like plenty of dirt, some like slick tracks. Some like ploughed fields. Very few like grippy tracks. Chapman provided a track deemed by some riders as dangerous. Lambert and Huckenbeck also refused to ride remember. Chapmans fault for the whole sorry mess. 100%. Shame he is too proud to man up and apologise rather than blame riders who put their lives on the line every time they go on track.