Steve Shovlar

Weathers good, should be a very big crowd. Expect it to be very tight. Lets hope the Kk that turned up last time re-appears tonight. Bet we don't see the same Fricke from Monday night. Expecting BV to take a point but we must get three to stand a chance of finishing second.

Great thing to do. Just made a donation towards your going bald.

Dazafl, as you know Tai can you please ask him to make a statement to clear up any speculation. Surely he wants everyone on his side and not be bad mouthed. A simple few words putting forward his case on his issues would suffice. What are his gripes? I certainly don't think it is asking much. He is a sportsman so different rules apply to people with normal jobs. His fans want to know, and it could put the doubters minds to rest. Give him a call and lets hear his reasoning.

Don't eant to go with guests. Look what happened Monday night! If we lose we lose as a team and the team we have had nearly all season. Be much sweeter to win with our team not like Wolves bringing in a ringer for the playoffs. ABW.

Its ridiculous but for some reason they stand there for about 4 hours waiting for the turnsyles to open.

I said when I posted about it I couldn't divulge my source so therefore its up to you to believe it, or not. I am not in the habit of making up stories and if I thought I was being strung along with a load of balony I wouldn't have posted it. And yes, from what I can gather there were other issues as well, including pizza gate and team attire. And there could certainly be other issues I am not privvy to.

They get prize money not points money. The equal divi has been this way for a long time, going back to the days of Screen, Louis, Loram etc.

The reason Woffinden hasn't mentioned the reason why he has quit teamgb is because it might not make him look very good. I was told the exact reason on Monday from a reliable source who I will not disclose, so some on here will not want to believe this and it is their perogative. Woffinden was very unhappy with only receiving 25% of the prize money TeamGB won for coming second. The prize money has always been split evenly betwen the riders. They ride as a team, and get the rewards as a team. But Woffinden wanted nearly 60% of the prize money, with the other 40% devided up between the other three riders. His argument was that he had scored 19 points, therefore he was entitled to a percentage equivelent to that out of 32 points. (Just short of 60%) He was told that was not how it was done, and that all riders get the same, but he wouldn't have it. So there you go. There are plenty of peole who think I am a dick. Water off a dicks back. I don't know Hagonshocker any more than I know you.

Watch it. Next he will be using the lines of he met some mates who were talking about you and they said your knowledge of speedway was very limited. I had that line thrown at me a few weeks ago. And right on cue there it is! Lol!

The bspa did not cause this mess only one person is responsible and that man is the owner of Leicester Speedway. He can pay his fine and see if he gets his license back. No fine paid no license. He can't sell until his fine is paid as bspa will not grant a promoters license to a new promoter. Its a mess which will only end one way.

If Belle Vue win at our place tomorrow they may well pick us for a semi final clash.

But Bjarne could have come in anyway as a reserve change. It was Middlos decision fo Kyle to come to tapes and he could have been swapped out before the race. By the way nice to meet you on Monday BB.

The biggest league gate you have had this season is against Poole on Monday. Even though we are a long way from Manchester, Poole would bring a lot of fans for the final. The place will be full regardless of whether it is Poole or Wolverhampton.

Please pleae please Swindon promotion, take your time to get the track right. Is Cardiff the right shape? Thought the Warsaw shape was better for a small track. For gods sake get it right. You have a blank canvas. No excuses.

I would like to point out I am not critisizing the quality of the track prep. It is the overall shape which is the issue. As the club are almost in receivership and not paying wages, there clearly isn't a penny spare. What can happen next year? Hemsley has burnt his bridges ala Trump and is a goner. Even if he pays the 7000 fine they won't let him back. And he says they can stick the fine where the sun dont shine! So any prospective buyer cant buy the place as the bspa have said no new promoters lisence will be granted until the fine is paid. Would a new promoter who is only a tennant be prepared to spend thousands on a new track to improve the racing? The place is doomed.

Yes we were not interested. But I would have been just as scathing as I was on my last visit even if we had won. Perhaps the crap track was highlighted even more because we visited BV earlier. Get the dozers in and rip it out.

The only purpose built stadium other than Leicester is Belle Vue or Kings Lynn.

Regardless of which bend its clearly made no difference whatsoever. What is desperately needed is a new promotion with some cadh to come in and put in a brand new track. The current one is only good for gating practice.

So at least a thousand there last night. £17,000 on the gate. Wheres that money going? If not paying off the debt to the riders the current promotion should have their licenses removed for good.

Everything about it is wrong. The straights are too long and the corners too tight. It is not wide enough. Only one racing line in the middle of the track. No way of passing. Bjarne wasn't fast last night but gated and no one could pass him. He just sat there mid track and it was game over. Every race was over by the second bend. It is, by a long long way, the worst speedway track ever to grace the sport in this country. The first and second bend alterations over last winter have made no difference whatsoever. They need to bring in the bulldozers and remove this scare of a track off the face of the planet. Then start again.

Guest bookings do not count towards riders averages as far as I am aware. But doubt we would want to use Tungate in place of Andersen.

Thinks its Wolves to lose now. They will thrash teams at home and keep it close away.

So all at Leicester last night just imagined Fricke spearing Andersen then? As has been reported elsewhere, it looks like Andersen is out for the season, and will miss the GP challenge on Saturday. Await apology.

I see that bloke Gavan has been in full trolling mode again with our two defeats yesterday. Having the moron on block doesn't work when he is requoted by others. Must say though he has made an absolute cock of himself, yet again. Can't the mods act and ban this troll for good? He brings nothing to Poole threads but anger and bile, and as proof of his trolling doesn't even post on his own club threads. I feel sorry for the Ipswich club who this person pretends to support. Clearly he has no affinity with them whatsoever. Best wishes to Hans on his recovery. He was completely speared by Fricke and had no chance of avoidance. It must be hard to accept he won't be in the GP Challenge this weekend and his season could be over. Hopefully it isn't as bad as first diagnosed. It was one of those days when, as a Poole fan, we witnessed all that was good about the sport and all that was bad about the sport in a few hours. I used to moan about the Lakeside track years ago. I Hated it. A tricky little track with riders going backwards into corners. But compared to Leicester it is on another planet with plenty of passing and racing lines. The Leicester track has been discussed many times on here. Best thing to do is bulldoze it off the face of the speedway planet. It has no redeeming features. Then put in a new track which has more than one racing line. If that cannot be afforded, well stick them in the NL so it can be used as a practice track for youngsters. This track has no place in the EL. Sorry if this offends Leicester fans. Its all going to go pop in a few weeks max anyway. In comparison we were all treated to a speedway extravaganza earlier on with what you can do with a piece of land if you do it right. A big crowd, and a real race track. Comparing the Belle Vue track to the Leicester track is like comparing a bottle of Armand De Brignac Ace Of Spades Brut Gold Champagne to an opened flat bottle of Diamond White. It is unfathomable just how wrong the Leicester owner got the track shape so wrong. Feel so sorry for genuine Leicester fans who are served up this dirge every week.

Well just got back. 540 miles in a day with some good and some dreadful racing. The two tracks are relatively new, Belle Vue got it spot on. Leicester got it seriously wrong. This lunchtime meeting at Belle Vue was the perfect advert for the sport. A big crowd, perfect weather and some brilliant racing. The meeting had all a speedway fan would want, well nearly everything except if you are a Poole fan. Belle Vue with their home track knowledge got themselves into an eight point lead but Poole started to get their setups right and in the second half of the meeting were the better team imo, but just kept losing heat advantages. We deserved a point but it was not to be. Anyone who was there must have left thinking this is one of the best sports in the world. The two Newman wins were spectacular as was Holders last three rides. Our problem arose with Holder withdrawing from tonights meeting at Leicester. One rule Matt Ford usually sticks to is not to use riders from clubs that are your closest rivals in the league. However on this occassion he was left with no choice. Unfortunately Fricke was worse than useless, and on top of that lifted, then piled into Hans Andersen who was hurt bad enough to have to withdraw from the meeting. With no Holder and Andersen we were stuffed in a meeting which was chalk and cheese to the meeting served up earlier. There was one pass in this meeting after the second bend, when Buckowski made a wall of death ride around bends three and four to move into second, only to fall on the next bend because he couldn't get back on line. It was a meeting of the worst kind possible. Where Belle Vues meeting had passing in virtually every heat, in this meeting you could fill your program in going down the back straight of lap one, so dire was the non existent 'racing'. Poole riders lifted out of the gate, Leicesters didn't and it was all over by the second bend. Bjarne had a field day as he gated and just sat there, mid track, picking up the points. There was no way anyone would pass. The whole Leicester setup is diabolical. Where Belle Vue have got it right, Leicester have got it wrong. They wonder why Sky don't show racing from here? Because its crap. Simple as that. I don't care that we lost at Leicester, the result is almost meaningless as we needed to win at Belle Vue. Failing to do that meant that whatever the result at Leicester or any other meeting in the regular season, it means we probably can't finish top. I hope Leicester find a buyer and take them down out of the Elite League to the PL. A track like this should not be gracing top flight speedway. Harsh but true. And I hope they can be replaced by a club with a decent race track. I feel I have been mugged paying to watch that garbage after the great meeting on a proper race track earlier on. As for Agent Fricke, if people didn't realise it was meant tongue in cheek then they really are that stupid.