Steve Shovlar

To have a "periscope type app" behind a paywall could bring thousands of pounds into club coffers over the course of a season. Charge a fiver to watch a meeting of Say, Wolves v Poole, if advertised, could have 300plus people watching not just from Poole but many other fans from other clubs. The money could be split 50/50 between clubs involved. That 1500 quid on one stream. 300 people should be easily achievable. It doesnt need hi tech for this to work, just a 4g connection and a camera hooked into a link. Very simple to do.

I will check it out.

I would have filmed a few heats on Periscope last night for all to see but the powers that be say they will ban any fan so I am not filming amymore. A shame but thats the way they want it.

Newman failed to gate once tonight.

When we were six up i thought we looked a bit wobbly and so it proved. Not disappointed more angry with the application of two riders.

No excuses better team on the night won. Some of the Poole team need a talking to. Its okto lose but Poole are known for fighting all te way and just couldnt cope with Lakeside tonight. In the scheme of things it matters little but Watt needs to get his head sorted or Bjane might be looking for a ride.

Well beat tonight and by a bigger score than I thought. Outgated, out battled. Well done to Lakeside. Doubt anyone will get a result here. Watt a complete disgrace and Holder not much better. Brady can be excused as his first vist but Lakeside were just so much better around here. Some decent racing as well.

No. I have now arrived but most Poole fans have not. Rob is 3 miles south of the tunnel at 8.12pm. And the usualguys are not here. Took me 5 hours.

I have moved 20 metres in45 minutes. I can see the bridge but its complete car park. Just non moving traffic the whole way. Got two hours to go less than 4 miles but I am begining to think I wont make it. Riders could also be caught. Left hand tunnel is closed. Edit. Just moved 5 metres.

JC The reason I asked the question is because many on here think Matt Ford runs the whole show and I cant believe for a moment it is true. The bspa members do have a brain and I am pretty sure they dont follow like sheep to the slaughter house.

Nice to wake up to a forecast of a dry day and no worries about making the rotten Friday afternoon trip around the M25.

Could Leicester be having problems and cant put a team out?

Happened directly in front of me and the ref didnt spot that Ermolenko was not under power. That ref miss won him his title.

It makes no sense to cancel due to the forecast. Its not bad. Again more to this than the rubbish coming out with that press release.

This has to be a wind up, right? Forecast for tomorrow is ok. Best drainage as well is what we have been told. Perhaps they dont think anyone will turn up and want to launch against Poole live on Sky?

I believe sparkafag is being sarcastic Lisa. Ignore the good riders he beats, (many) and the points he scores, (many) and what would you have? Its the same as saying ignore all the goals Messi scores........

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So in your book he can't win! He beat Swiderski and Lawson from the back. Riders of much more experience. But he should be beating them with ease? Surely thats a sign of a rider improving? What has he got to do to show he is improving, win the British Final, get the Cardiff Wildcard and go through the card to win the British GP? He is no second coming but is capable in the future of being a good second string or third heat leader. Many on here see Robert Lambert as the next superstar but I have not seen much to show thats the case. Hope I am wrong. When Newman moves up he will take scalps. He will abeat riders like MadsK, Morris, Garrity, Swiderski, Josh G, Frike, King etc. You should be cheering on any young determined Brit regardless of who he rides for. I even wish Garrity to improve (except when he rides against us) Newman is extremely determined and when I spoke to him pre season he was disappointed with his form last year and saw 2016 as a big year for him. It seems to me and many on here you are hoping he will fail so you can say, "I told you so". And thats no way to support local home grown riders.

Latest forecast is a dry day with the occassional shower. More rain about today. Should be OK.

To pass off the first bend riders normally dive under and then drift out and push the other rider our ala Janowski, Ward, Holder. Rarely see a rider after lap one bend one try and hog the inside all the way around and make a pass when the faster racing line is further out. although Hans did it last night to a Lakeside rider and nearly fenced him down the. Back straight to make sure the move stuck.

60-30.

No. There are others also using periscope, one of them does the Poole online podcasts. Its a shame its being looked at in this manner as it will not stop fans coming to meetings but could bring in people new to the spor. hey ho no more filming.

We now have the Hammers V Pirates return A fixture after tonights meeting at Wimborne Road. I think the result of this meeting will be very different to tonights. For starters the Lakeside boys are very solid around the tight turns of their track and some of the Poole riders may struggle big time. Holder is OK around the track but can have the duff ride there. Kurtz has probaby never ridden there. Watt is a track specialist but is in terrible form at the moment. Buckowski scored big tonight but around Lakeside? Doubt he will score many. Hans should do ok as he must have been there dozens of times. Newman is usually pretty good there, and Ellis is pretty good there. I personally think the Hammers will take some beating around their own place and expect them to get revenge for tonight. 48-42 to Lakeside. Thoughts?

The meeting started at 7.30 and was wrapped up at 8.56. Well done to Paul Carrington for not keeping the crowd standing around in the bitter cold wind. A meeting full of thrilling racing and the scoreline doesnt show the closeness of the racing. Heat times were a good two seconds slower than usual but that didn't ruin a meeting that would have gone down a treat on Sky. A good crowd, good racing, a Lakeside team that came for a fight and what more could you want? For Poole Holder was solid. Kurtz is getting better by the week. Still learning the racing lines. I could see he was trying to pass going on the inside entering bend one. That wont work and try as he did, Swiderski was not going to be caught using that line. He will learn soon enough and is very talented. Watt was woeful. A confidence crisis going on? Certainly looks like it and was wobbling arounf worse than our reserves. Needs to get his head sorted. Buckowski was rider of the night. Fast and passing riders like they were standing still. Best I have seen him ride. Hans started slowly (late arrival) but had some super tussles, the best with Jonsson where they went over the line with a tyre width between them. Ellis battled well. Not as good as previous weeks but still good. Newman was excellent and but for lifting in heat two would have scored a max. Lakeside. Jonsson was excellent entertainment and never gave up. Swiderski had a gate and win with the two Poole riders climbing all over his back wheel. Nilsson has had better meetings here but got a win. Bridger was poor. Never really got stuck in at all. The northern lad with the Skornicki haircut, Lawson thats it, didn't do as well ad expected. Kerr was Ok but has scored better at Poole. Have to feel a little sorry for Mear. Nowhere near a point then, in the second reserve race he pops out and is leading and Lakeside are on a 5-1, before Newman comes charging through, then a lap later Ellis comes from last to second. A bigger win than I anticipated but still a meeting that was full of entertainment. The return on Friday will be a very different story, not by entertainment, but by scoreline.

DKyle would have probably have had a max tonight but lifted badly at the start of heat two and had to battle to get a point. After that he was excellent.