Steve Shovlar

Hate to tell you this but Poole should wie te floor with this Somerset side. 60+ at Wimborne Road. Where are the heat winners going to come from? At Somerset obviously closer but no one to touch KK and the rest should enjoy the open spaces of the track, which they know well. One thing for sure. Two very big crowds. I do wish Gary May all the best but he will have his work cut out to avid humiliating thrashings on the road. If you want to believe that then fine. Think you will discover pretty quickly Poole on paper and on track are a far superior team. Struggling to see where Somerset will get heat advantages.

Tungate the final rider? If so can't wait for Poole to come visiting on hopefully very Good Friday.

When? Last season?

Just don't get it. Terrible looking team. Makes Leicester 2016 look like champions. BV and Leicester got to be better than this?

Relegation beckons, this team will struggle to beat Swindon. The Robins fans now don't have the fear of relegation.

But they have moved up to the top league. This team looks poor so far. Riders like Josh G are not going to do what they did last year.

A big oh dear at the moment. No strength at all so far. Need a Noddy.

No he was a team manager.

All this travelling too far nonsense. Havvy used to travel to his home meetings at Poole every week from Redcar! Thought nothing of it.

Why is this thread in the el section? Better to put it in the pl or general thread.

You know as well as the rest of us that Poole were devastated by injuries for the semi and the injury to Andersen couldn't be covered by the no show of Lindback. With a fit Andersen I am sure we would have gone through but Fricke put paid to that at Leicester. With the team Poole had to put out at Monmore it was no suprise we were beaten. Like coming to Poole trying to defend a lead without Woffinden or Lindgren. If you think the team mentioned a few posts up is good enough then I hope that will be the team. They won't come close with that lineup. Still, Woffinden will probably come knocking cap in hand before the end of July when his wc chances have vanished. Who will be for the chop this time? Tell that to Brum.

A bit tiny more than I saw last week. Mind you that pile of stone and metal fencing were there. At this rate the new stadium will be ready. By 2025.

Agree. Perfect team to beat. Howarth hasn't prgressed as many thought he would. Skornicki is past his best by ten years. And two very weak reserves. Clegg is next to useless away.

Surely they could put together a better team than that? Looks weak to me.

'When you get to the bend, turn left, then go as fast as you can down the back straight, turn left again, then go as fast as you can down the home straight, then, turn left, .....

This topic wouldn't have been started if Klindt had sign for another club. Haters gonna hate.....

A shame an event lie this could not have been put up through periscope for everyone to watch with questions being posted through twitter.

If the rumours are true about Buster taking over the promotion the first job is to change thr track shape, and he has the gear and experience to get it sorted.

I believe Good Friday is Poole v Somerset noon with the return at 7.30pm.

Theres nothing to be had. Sandhu has had all the scrap away.

I have emailed him to thank him for his mediation work. Suggest Coventry and speedway fans alike do the same.

Agree can someone find his email details?

These Championship clubs need to remember that Poole fixtures take priority. Ipswich will be missing Newman when Poole ride away at Swindon on a Thursday and any other Ipwich away meeting clashes. Same goes for Holder and Kurtz if he rides Championship.

I now really hope both parties now honor their agreement. It has been very unfair on the Coventry fans and the whole episode could have been avoided. Two men with no doubt huge egos and neither wanted to back down led to this sorry mess. Keeping everything crossed for the suffering Coventry fans.

Over the years I have had some right tough old banter with Coventry fans. The rivalry between Poole and Coventry over the last 15 or so years has been legendary. But when something so terrible as this happens there's no place for rivalry. Reading this forum and looking at those photos is devastating. And that's from a Poole fan. I dread to know what it actually feels like as a Bees supporter. If I was I would be banging on doors demanding explainations. What is clear this evening is that Horton has thrown in the towel. His lawyer has said he is not going ahead and has told his riders to find a club. Basically they are now up 5hite creek without a paddle. The vandalism to the stadium means the place is finished as a sporting venue. Expect the main stand to become the victim of some arsonists over the next couple of months, meaning the whole place will have to be flattened on health and safety grounds speeding forward the propety developers plans. So sad and so depressing. Really feel for Coventry fans at this time and wish them all, every single one of them, the best.