Steve Shovlar

Considering the meeting is an open forum and there are people not able to attend because its a full house, asking to not film is pi55 poor. These new people come from a corporate background but need to realise sport is a different type of business with fans. Do they expect to say things that won't go reported? Poor start.

Sorry you replied to my post about a serious hand injury to Andersen which ended our hopes, and you replied, "and how we laughed". No other way to read it. No. My post was on about Hans hand injury as that is what the thread is currently talking about. Perhaps he didn't mean it quite the way he meant but that's how it read.

Nice to see that you and the others who liked your post laughed at a very serious hand injury to a rider.

Just shows how serious his injury was and the detrimental effect it had on our chances of retaining the title. And some on here believe we went into the playoffs at full strength.

Anyone going to stream the event on periscope or Facebook live?

Very negative thread.

I would if I was closer. Great to see this long overdue track work being carried out. 6 metres in is a fair old chunk which should have a knock on effect of reducing the length of those too long straights. Once the work is complete I really do hope it will give more racing lines for the riders which will leas to more passing, better entertainment and happier fans.

Super news. Hope the shape changes turn one of the worst tracks into one of the best.

Horton won't go bankrupt. He will pull the plug once the club start losing club money. Not his own which would be quite safe.

Pleased to read on here that Poole are not favourites this year. This thread shows many don't rate the Poole team very highly. So clearly if we pull away at the top and win the league, we will have done it against all the odds, with the team raising their game and Middlo playing a blinder as team manager. Matt Ford will come in for huge praise from all and sundry for putting together a team that many thought was not good enough. Personally, I think we have easily the best team of those announced so far. Andersen may be passed his peak, but against the weaker opposition in this years lineups he is still better than the majority. Guess we will soon see in the ES.Bring it on!

Fabulous news. Said I would never go there again if the track was left as it was, so I can know add the trip back into my diary. Hopefully rather than just bringing in the bends, some thought could go into the shape to make as many racing lines as is physically possible.

Speedway quiz tonight at the stadium. Expect another packed room.

So true. Anyway where is Starman? He has gone very quiet recently.

Thinking exactly that. Would bring the cost right down on sorting ghat carbuncle of a track.

Certainly the right call to have KK this season due to the extra points which will allow a scoring reserve all the time. If we had used Holder we would have been very weak at the bottom end.

Cribb on his ice bike would lap 'em both!

Nothing to do with blue blindness. Just common sense. If both are riding at number one there is only one choice. It doesn't matter if Cook rides Monmore better than KK. At the end of the season KK will likely have a higher average than Cook, meaning he will score more points at other tracks as well as being strong at home. It really is a no brainer, whether you like Cook over KK or not!

Actually Matt Ford has missed a massive opportunity here. He should have signed Cook over KK. Then done a roaring trade in the track shop selling white flags. Seriously, Cook might well be 100% commited which is great to see. The problem is his ability on a bike, which comes up just short of top rider. If he was 22-23 years old then I would say there's more to come. But he came into the sport too late. He is 30 in May. He has never ridden overseas to push on and even last season rode PL.

He probably could have but the problems arose early last season with Matt and Noddy clasing which festered and brought about the change to KK. Perhaps time away from Poole will help Noddy In both his professional and personal life. Theres no doubt 2016 was not a happy time in his life and affected his racing. Nothing would be better than to welcome him back in a years time with his personal issues all behind him. In the meantime I will still be 100% behind him in his GP endeavours.

I agree a silly thread. One was runner up to Hancock in the gp series in 2014, the other a second string/heat leader who has never ridden outside the UK. Guess we will see who finishes with the higher average in 2017 in the UK. Think we know the answer to this already.

Fricke should stick two fingers up to the Polish rules and see if his Polish team has the guts to drop him. Doubt they will.

I agree with that. But that isn't the point that was being made.

You want to drag it out I am happy to. You made a fool of yourself by saying Cook is better than KK. Saying you would take Cook 100 times out of 100 over KK says you think Cook is the better rider as no one with a modicum of common sense would choose an inferior rider. Just admit that your dislike of KK, well documented on here, has clouded your judgement.

You wrote quite clearly, "I would take Cook over KK 100 times out of 100". I didn't misread it. You said it. However, its a pointless argument cluttering up the Belle Vue thread and I don't want to turn this into anothe Gavan V Starman or whoever he is trolling so will leave it there. Where is Kirby? Never heard of the place.

Clearly he is not. Seen some spectacular passing from KK. Last year at Poole he had Holder for breakfast. Noddy couldn't keep him out.