Steve Shovlar

RP, I really wouldnt bother to post on this thread. Its just full of the usual Poole and Matt Ford haters and whatever you say and do will only set off another page a viterole. Best thing to do is not post on this thread. Let all those conspiracy theorists gob off and let them think what they like. The only victory they shall have is on this thread while the team will do their talking on the track. And really thats the only place it matters.

Auty roller. Not close racing yet.

A winning attitude that other fans can't handle? Think tonight will be very close. 4 points either way.

Anyway thats this weeks bitch fest about Poole and Matt Ford over and done with. There will be some other post next week which will start the usual suspects off again searching through the archives of the local rag to find something else to spew on about for a dozen or so pages. What can we expect next week? Matt Ford ate a baby?

It was Mike Golding who told me what happened. I was told Norrie Allen wouldn't budge one iota and Matt just had enough because it was going nowhere and he wasn't prepared to pay the huge increase Allen was demanding. I doubt there wasn't a single Poole fan who wasn't gutted at the outcome. Its clear where the blame lies in all this. Mark Loram should have sat down with Norrie Allen before the bargaining stared and said, get the best deal you can but don't jeapodise my team berth. Instead Allen went in there and without the slightest bit of flexibility promptly put Matt Ford in a position that left no manoeuvrability. If, after hearing nothing from Matt Ford after a couple of days, why didn't he right him and try to sort something out? If it meant backing down so be it. Instead he lost his place and ended up at Peterborough on probably a lot less money than he was on before. From then on his career went downhill. Matt Ford is shrewd but he would have wanted Loram back, especially as he was World Champion and the extra sponsorship that would have brought to the club.

Mark Loram was not treated badly by Poole. I remember having a conversation at the time with someone in the know* and was told that Norrie Allen asked for a massive pay rise which Matt Ford refusd to pay. Matt then tried to negociate a price which was fair as Mark was wold champion, but Norrie Allen refused to budge an inch. I remembering Matt Ford saying, what could he do when the other side is being completely inflexible? He said at the time he was where he was and Allen was where he was and normally a deal could be done somewhere in the middle but Allen refused. So Matt signed Trick instead on a LOWER price than Mark. I was gutted as were most Poole fans at the time. The losers were the fans plus Loram and Allen. Loram should have told Allen to be more flexible. *He was in the room.

Get down to Poole Gresham and enjoy proper speedway in front of a large friendly crowd. Plenty of noise, good racing and a knowledgeable crowd means you will have a very entertaining evening and £17 well spent.

Well this thread was overdue. We normally get one of these threads every so often but its been a while this time. The same old crap spouted by the usual suspects bringing up exactly the same old crap every time. Matt Ford...,booo hisss. Dear oh dear. Some on here moaning about Poole's winning mentality. Ridiculous moan. Its a sport. Others moaning the Poole are too strong.. What's Ford going to do? Purposely build a weak team so that someone else can win? Does anyone actually believe Trump and Sandhu were good for the sport, seriously? Trump got exactly what he deserved, a ban, and Sandhu is just counting the clock so he can close down a club to build houses. Many may not like Matt Ford but he runs the most successful club in the country, has many sponsors and does his job very well. Someone earlier in the thread said he was born with a silver spoon and it all came to him. No. He was a Wella hair rep and ran a fancy dress shop. He had to beg the bank for a loan to buy half the club and Mervyn let him buy it bit by bit from what I remember. I think the poster than started going on about the nasty tories and it got boring. He is probably outside Downing Street right now with a plakard shouting Cameron out. As it is Pooles dominance will not be challenged until another promoter really steps up to the plate to challenge, rather than just thinking of survival. I hope this season we are challenged hard. And you can be sure that Poole 2017 will also be a great looking side. Frost realised Trump wasnt all he pretended to be. In thenend Trump got rightly booted out and lost his licence. He tok his club beyond the brink.

Liecester need to get rid of the two old Poles who are wasting everyones time and money. Bjarne is available and would score a sackload more points.

Where?

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?