Steve Shovlar

Dont have twitter. Or facebook. Can a pic be posted on this thread?

Sitting by the start gate and some rugby players, well i think they are. One looks familiar anyway. Cracking racing so far with lots of passing. Bodes well. Usual size crowd by the look of it.

Well as we haven't ridden at Wimborne Road for six weeks will the boys still know the fastest way around? Ten point win.

Yes quite agree. Belle Vue have a wonderful new track and stadium but the crowd looks like it has turned up to watch crown green bowls such is their age. The promotion now have the facilities, get out there and attract a crowd. All those empty seats looked terrible. Kids free, kids speedway fan club, hit the Trafford Centre, how many live in Manchester? Discount vouchers, bring a friend, a free pint, face painting, free air horns, etc etc If you build it they will come has not happened here so far. As for last night, better than the last three but not a brilliant meeting as some are saying by any stretch of the imagination. 6/10

Hoping for a Holder win as he gives more to British speedway. But if Woffinden wins it fair play. With all due respect not Hancock please. Have to say thats a boring attitude to have. Fans surely want to read about him saying he will do all he can to win the British GP for British fans, not just score 10 points.

Nothing to gloat over. The guy is a jerk who thinks he is above the forum rules. Judging by the sound of it I was far from the only one to report him. The only person to blame for his time out is Gavan. He has been building up for this for weeks, gradually becoming more aggressive and dismissing a different opinion as trolling. He was too blind to see his posts on the Poole thread, were so anti anything Poole, from the team, the promotion, the track, the fans, anything in fact, was bound to attract a reaction. He had lost it so badly he tried to say everyone loved him by the amount of likes he received. And then he completely lost it on here. More fool him. As the saying goes. Oh dear. What a shame. Never mind.

Gavan seems to have gone a bit quiet thought he would gave launched one of his tirades this morning.

Belle Vue making hard work of Wolves. Bloody hell can't wait for a full strength Poole side to go up there. Holder, Buck, Hans, Bjarne will love it. Kurtz, Newman and Ellis should enjoy as well. Bring it on for gods sake!

To behonest the football is not up to much. Crap match to be honest. Decent speedway meeting tonight though. A few good races.

Will be a very small crowd no doubt about it. Perhaps the BV promotion should have just opened the gates and packed the place out. Might have picked up a lot of new fans in doing so. Speculate to accumulate.

Just checked and there are currently grandstand tickets which are not cheap, and east stand which I think are third snd forth bend at a bargain £27.50 for two meetings. Back straight and first bend sold out as is much of grandstand.

Sorry my error thought Wales were playing on Thursday. Shame its him he has been dreadful this year.

I was at the Lakeside v Poole and thought it average funnily enough.

Nothing to do with me? So its a free for all being abusive as you like without moderation? It certainly does have something to do with me when I read posts like that. What happened to attack the post and not the poster? The forum is meant to be moderated therefore posts like that absolutely need to be reported. Gavan has done this before and had time out. This time its even worse. He hasn't learnt from the first time he was banned. Whilst it may be ok for some on here to bully and verbally attack other members whose opinion differs from their own, in my opinion posts like that are completely unacceptable and clearly against the rules of the forum. People who think it acceptable are no better than the person who made the abusive post in the first place. I am not defending anything Robert72 has or has not said, yet this post from Gavan is a disgrace.

Yes very nasty. He did the usual back straight wheelie come around to tapes, but when his front wheel came down it caught him out and he wobbled then went over the handlebars. He was caught up on the bike and ended up with it crashing down on him. Not sure if the front wheel suspension gave away which caused the crash or the front wheel gave way. He got up but was clearly hurt and went down again. Finished off his teams chnces of a result.

Again you show your complete lack of knowledgement or you are trolling. Poole fans know our track produces excellent racing more often than not. Unlike you I actually go to speedway every week it is run and go to every EL track in the country at least once and maybe twice a season depending on when Poole ride there. I also watch every Sky meeting. Taking off any blue blinkers I would say Poole produces some of the best racing I have seen anywhere in the league. We are lucky the Wimborne Road track shape allows full throttle action with passing inside and out on every bend. Rarely if ever do we get meetings where heats are strung out. Perhaps its because Poole have a team of racers who can pass but so far this year we have been treated to some wonderful action. True the track had issues, which have now been resolved, but even the Poole V Belle Vue meeting on Sky, derided by many on here, was far superior than the majority of meetings on Sky this year. The Result was crap and we lost, but there was a ton of passing in most of the heats. Would I swap Pooles track for another in the EL? The jury is still out on Belle Vues track. Hopefully it will settle to be spectacular. Looking forward to Pooles visits. Other than that I would keep Wimborne Road hands down. Just my opinion of course.

Do you purposely leave out Holder because he rides for Poole? Holder has a record around Cardiff better than anyone including your beloved Tai. Noddy to win would bring the house down. Hugely popular amongst all speedway fans as his reception at Cardiff every year shows. If Woffinden wins then fine, but every interview he is piping on at just how better than everyone else he is and just waiting to pull away. Then after saying that he ran two lasts and crashed out. Tai winning the championship is fine by me, but he is far from popular. Loram had the support of nearly all British fans. Woffinden disrespects us and because of this has lost a chunk of support. Having said that if Holder fails to make the final and Woffinden does, I am happy for him to win it. Surely you cant expect to have a different opinion to Gavan and not be a troll. Thats his favourite word for me as I am completely at odds with his way of thinking. His way or you are a troll. Lol! As for tickets, we buy the cheapest ones on the day from the ticket office by the stadium up those stairs. £25 wont get cheaper, then after heat 4 move to better seats. This is fine until the event becomes a sell out,which will probably never happen unless the nationals or mainstream tv pick up on the event. Hope bsi get some riders together for Thursday night. Everyone should be in town so no problem giving a few demo rides. Get thenriders pass each other on every bend to make it look like all racing is like this. But of course this is all pie in thensky. Bsi probably havent even thought about it.

Also to have a few British lads go around on the track with some demonstration races to entice people along. Wouldnt be difficult to attract 8-10 riders.

Someone had their fingers in the till. If that happened over here the fraud squad would be investigating. £50,000 raised from Poole, £4000 from Torun. Beyond belief. Torun have many more fans. Would have expected £100,000 + at least even with cheaper entry fee. Wonder what Torun fans or Polish fans in general are saying? More than £4000 was raised in the bucket collection at Poole for gods sake!

So what would hou suggest? Ban Holder, Zagar, Iversen, Jonsson, Lindgren, Doyle etc? Good servants to British speedway. Drop the standard across the board to PL level so Britain never again produces top class riders. Or if one comes through he is banned from riding here because he has got too good? We need to raise the standard not dilute it to PL level. Squad system is the way ahead. Ten riders in a squad. Still have a team 'points' limit of some form. Riders who are not used by their club are automatically available for all other clubs to sign.

Spud it matters not. Master Ellis has been touched by the Poole rubbishty stick and thats it as far as Gavan is concerned. Nothing against young master Bates (sorry couldn't resist that one) but Adam is a better all round rider. Bates is known as a gater and it was a gaters paradise tonight. Gated in his first but was awol after that. When you consider Adam beat Andreas Johnson on his home patch on Friday it shows the difference. Anyway back to the meeting thread and Coventry are still crap an hour after the meeting ended. So there you have it. You admit you were trolling by telling an untruth. Your hatred continues. Long may we continue to laugh at you and not with you. Is your arse jealous at the amount of crap that comes out of your mouth?

Then reserve only rides in the case of an injury. Not a tactical position. Bates is rubbish again. Not seen Ellis do that all season. A no brainer for Rosco.

Careful it wont be long before someone says KK is doing it to get a ride at Poole next year. Truth be told it really doesn't look like he is trying judging by his poise on his bike. No aggression.

Coventry are truly a sorry looking team. Swindon finding it all too easy.

Three bad meetings on the bounce now after a good start to the speedway on sky. Not Swindons fault Coventry are so bad. One thing to come out of the meeting so far is that Rosco can see first hand Josh Bates should not get the reserve berth for TeamGB. Clearly now it must go to Adam Ellis, who is a better overall rider and showing good form. Young Bates time may come but certainly he doesnt warrant the reserve pick for this year.