Steve Shovlar

Why didnt we win at Leicester? Wolves? Lakeside? Coventry? We havent travelled well at all this year. If meetings were raced on paper we would be top.

A dry day, two teams at full strength, a bank holiday, more more could you want other than the first Poole away win of the season? Don't have much faith currently that we will get it but I shall be there regardless, cheering on the champs. Hopefully this meeting will have captured the Swindon publics imagination and a huge crowd will turn up. There should be a good turnout coming up from Poole.

Have Coventry dropped him?

Bad luck to Leicester after a fantastic fightback. Klindt paid 21 a remarkable acheivement well done to him. You couls see it coming in heat 15 though.

There has to be a gap between boss and riders. Without it everyone would take the P. I guess the riders know who the boss is and know they cant gret away with it or the old guillotine will come down regardless of who you are. Watty, Boycey, Loram and others have all felt the chop. The pressure of knowing not giving your best could result in losing your place certainly concentrates the mind. No one is safe yet overall the Pirates ship is a happy one.

Matt is firing off at the riders for underperformjng away from home. We should not be scrapping a last gasp draw at Leicester and not trying at Wolves.

Pretty strong talk from Matt Ford and rightly so. Its pretty clear who his remarks are aimed at. Truth is we should be doing better away from home.

So the same as saying no Nick morris. Surely Swindon can compensate? Well they have Tungate.

The rules themselves are not complicated. Its all the addons to seal up holes that are being exploited. No good having a set of rules a team can dive through like water through a seive. The average fiasco must be number one on the adjenda. Secondly, as someone else posted the other day, there only has to be two more rules. 1. Poole to win. 2. If Poole are losing, see rule one.

No absolutely not. Bjarne is part of the team as is every other rider but the loss of one of our top scorers certainly cost us big time on Monday. A guest is not going to cover for him. And who will be available on Monday? Not making excuses just saying it as it is. As for the weather the BBC are currently saying they cant predict it yet as it is uncertain what is going to happen with the weather patterns. Could be heavy thundery rain or a bright sunny day.

I hear the Trans MF Pro Race Team scarves have sold out so many are cheering them on......lol. What a load of old crap this tournament is. Who gives two hoots about supporting team boll or Fogo Power? Its pathetc and completely and utterly meaningless.

Time to revive this thread now its getting closer. After Pooles defeat on Monday its not looking good to get anything out of this meeting. Swindon ripped Belle Vue apart and they could well do the same to us on Monday afternoon. Pirates on paper look strong but meetings are not won on paper and on track the team have yet to click at all. Swindon has never been a good hunting ground and we often come away just missing out on the bonus point for keeping it close. Not sure if Buckowski is back but we missed him badly on Monday and a guest is not likely to do better, as was shown against Belle Vue. 49-41.

Trolling at its best. Apart from Newmand and Buk we are a team of gating tarts. Guess I must have imagined hans a couple of weeks ago passing two riders at the same time. And Holder I guess never makes a pass. He won the world title from the gate. Sure. The track has produced some super racing this season. Wednesday it was difficult and definately over watered and bumpy. It will be sorted.

Needed another season in the PL imo. Still a very raw talent.

Yes we did it on purpose, with a large crowd and Sky in attendance. Dont be ridiculous, everybody wanted that meeting to take place.

Shame that 5-1 app isnt available on the main phone platform, iPhone. Had a look at it last night on a friends phone and it looked impressive. Shame its not available to the wider market.

Lol! Thing is no one bothers to listen to him as its the same anti Poole drivel every post. Did you really expect him to say anything different? His hatred coulds his judgment and now he is joined by drop a cog or Fred Flange or whatever he now wants to call himself. It wasnt a tape infringement so no reserve could be used. It was for delaying the start. If Cook Didnt jump, why did half the grandstand yell out and the ref call it back twice? No amount of slow mo replays will disprove what the naked eye saw in real time. All slow mo will do it take away what happened in that split second. Agree there should be yellow and red cards. That would be good.

Yes agree. And that 3-3 surrenderd by Cuppacoffee would never have happened as Buk would have been out in the dirt and not hugging the line inviting the passes.

Having not watched the meeting on tv, and not going to suffering it, I would say to us in the stand, that Cook deserved to be booted out of the heat. It was clear that on the first attempt he was moving and everyone in the grandstand noticed it. So did the ref. He then did exactly the same thing the second time. Easy to look at slow mo replays on tv and for it to look ok but in real time he moved on both occassions and everyone in the grandstand reacted both times. Only time it happened in the meeting. He was still in his other rides. IMO and most in the grandstand, the ref got it right. Excluded for delaying the start.

Reading through the posts puts a big smile on my face. The track was crap, the track was poor yes we all recognise that. What a terrible advert what a farce etc etc etc. Then we have others saying good meeting loads of passing. Make your minds up for gods sake! LOL! We always get loads of passing at Poole, normally Poole riders belting around or under the opposition. Tonight our riders were freaked and pop went a win. We will bounce back. We always do. And ai agree that the team is unbalanced due to riders being in the wrong positions. We also hugely missed Buckowski tonight. No need for Poole to make anymore team changes. This team is still good enough to win the league. Now perhaps people will see why Matt Ford sacked Watt and bought in Bjarne.

First of all well done to Belle Vue on the win. It was obvious from the early heats that some of the Poole riders didn't fancy it and were bucking and rearing when they usually were at full throttle. Holder losing to anaway reserve by 60 metres in his first ride gave out a large warning to what was to come. I spoke to him briefly and said I hope you have the engine from yesterday with you tonight and he said in not so many words, you must be joking. Well it was clear to every Poole fan in the stadium and watching on Sky that Holder was just going through the motions. Just 24 hours previous he was beating Woffinden three times on his way to an immaculate 15 point max in Poland. Then he turns up and is stuffed by a reserve. Not acceptable. I can understand he thinks the track is crap etc, but come on Poole fans deserve better from a rider leading the World Championship. Interestingly, the track was very heavily watered before the meeting and my footage of the track I filmed earlier, and put up a link, shows pools of water on the track. Did they over do it? From heat 13 with Poole on a 5-1 and Hans overdoing it and knocking Zagar off, the track rode far better. Zagar came out full throttle and made a sweeping move with no problems. In heat 15 Nichols did the same. But far too late from the track which caused the riders, especially the home side, serious issues. After Swindon next week, the track will not be used in June until the end of the month. Plenty of time for Matt Ford to talk to the riders, ask their opinion and do something about it. The track is one of the best for racing and there's always a ton of passing, even tonight proved that, but it really does need to be smoothed out. As for tonight, first of all Poole. Hans did his job, cant complain really. Even if Poole had got the 5-1 in heat 13 we would still have been beaten. Bjarne I thought was excellent. First meeting at Poole and battled for everything. Made a good pass as well. Kyle could not have had a harder return. In the heat leader spot and against a side who have a very strong top five. Had a good battle with Fricke. Holder scored ten but it was seriously going through the motions. Losing to Worrall is completely unacceptable. Poole fans can see the lack of effort. Kylmakorpi battled but was never a substitute for Buck. Brady was poor IMO. Should have done better. Knocking off a rider who he should beat easily summed up his and Pooles night. Ellis had his worst meeting. Bike problems didn't help. For BV Zagar started with a blip but was then untouchable. Fricke was solid Cook had one decent ride but didn't do very much. R Worral picked up points along the way. Nicholls was excellent but again he really shouldn't be beating Holder in heat 14. Jacobs was out of his depth. S Worrall gave a display of gating and won Belle Vue the meeting. Funny how he guested for Poole a couple of weeks ago and scored 2 or 3 at Leicester. Belle Vue deserved the win. No doubt about it they were up for it as the Poole riders talked themselves out of it. Well done to them.

Absolutely.

I dont know of course but was the track prepared by someone else this week. It always has the bump on the first bend but riders are normally full throttle and Hans would never have lost it there. This year we have seen some great racing but tonight the Poole riders are all over the place. Belle Vue have just got on with it and rode through the conditions and well done to them.

Nasty prang. Shows the track is bad when hans lost it. Hope Zagar is ok.

Nasty prang. Shows the track is bad when hans lost it. Hope Zagar is ok.