Steve Shovlar

Hang on its on periscope now

He was corrected!

A bit of tonights quiz. https://www.periscope.tv/w/aXkfYTFtTUVQZVdxTm1RR2J8MWVhS2JvbGxYdlpHWJGobbAXGaoTZH5YwfRMbhUn_vqY9egGrUzV-nb1i06q

Two weeks tonight at Poole. An evening with Middlo in aid of Darcy. Using the glass stand to get more in. £8 entry. Come early. Lots of stories never heard before!

Hi Barry yes I have decided to come along.

Big crowd there though. Could have been up the A2 and I am pretty sure you can see the coast/thames estuary just before the riders come into the bend. This is part one of three 15 minute clips of the Gravesend area in the late 50's or early 60's. As a kid who lived there until I was six i remember parts of it.

Speedway quiz tomorrow night at the stadium. Always good for a laugh.

I was just having a look around youtube and discovered some very interesting grass track footage from the late 50's or early 60's. http://youtu.be/zNPuBto758Q Take a look at around 11.20 seconds. Somewhere near Gravesend in Kent. Anyone have any idea about it?

Great news on the much needed changes to the Leicester track. On both my visits there the racing has been pretty diabolical And the issue with the shape was plain to see. Really though, if this work was to be carried out, why wasn't it started after the end of the season, which would have given it ample opportunity to bed in? Was it a late decision to make the changes by the Leicester promotion? Regardless of timing though it's great news for fans of speedway. The Leister stadium is very good and the track was the only thing to let it down. Hopefully these changes will bring proper racing back to the town and with it the excitement the sport is known for.

What a load of absolute trash talk from all the usual subjects. The forum has finally hit rock bottom. It perhaps wouldnt be so bad if it was a bit of windup banter but this is simply all pathetic.

I am bewildered to know what cheating Poole and Matt Ford have gone and done now?

I don't think Matt even attends the AGM but has representatives there for the club. Matt Ford has no need to act in the way you imagine. He is clearly the most professional and experienced promoter out of the lot of them. Some have been in the game longer but don't have their finger right on the pulse, which is needed to be successful in this day and age. It is truly the golden age of Poole Speedway but take heart that it will not last forever. Other clubs have dominated in the past before slipping back into the pack and the same will happen with Poole. Just hope not for a good few years though!

No its not correct as that is most certainly NOT my account. I do not use Twitter and it was clearly made up a fair while ago by someone on here. Tried to get it removed but impossible.

So it gives you a right to bully him, because others do? Like a bloody school playground.

If the place isn't sold out at those prices it never will be. Have a feeling with a capacity of only 10,000 both days will be sold out before the event. Touts at speedway?

Jesus effing Christ. This forum has completely gone to the dogs. Starman defending everything Poole including Matt Fords farts, and Gavan and his band of not very merry honchos in there usual slagging off mode to try and score a few brownie points. For heavens sake give it a bloody rest the lot of you and talk about the blinking speedway. If you are wanting to post about a grammar mistake of Starmans life as a hospital porter or someone's bad eyesight take to the kids section. I know it's winter and not much to discuss but bloody hell some of these threads are beyond banal.

It has to be a sell out at that price on both days. Think i will take the Renault trafic up and kip in the back on the put you up.

So it's £25 to stand which is £12.50 a meeting? Absolute bargain! What is the capacity of this new stadium?

So we have our full side and as yet I haven't seen a team to match our 1-7. Could we smash more records no make it four on the bounce? We certainly have a very good chance. I for one am very happy with the team for 2016.

Great news for Kyle. I mean, the lack of ambition coming from him must have meant a lot of arm twisting by Pila for him to get off his ass and bother to say yes. Thanks for the heads up on tomorrow. I was going along to this.

And that's Pooles fault?😳 If other promoters were on the ball like Matt Ford the sport would be thriving.

I think we can be fairly honest and write Coventry out of the title race next season judging by the 7 they have put together. Woryna a is certainly one for the future but a rider with EL experience was required. Coventry go into 2016 with 4 reserves in their lineup. The two reserves, Garrity and Woryna. Where this team will fail IMO is that when one of the reserves moves up, if indeed they get a high enough average above Garrity and Woryna, they will be replaced by one of those two at reserve, so not making much of a difference. In the case of Poole, when Newman moves up, he will likely be replaced by Kurtz, who with due respect is a rider of higher ability than Garrity. By allowing Garrity into the 1-5 instead of insisting he starts at reserve, the Coventry management made a right faux pas. Still I shall be looking forward to my two trips to Brandon in 2016 for the A and B fixtures.

And just like the Starks they will fail. Matt Ford always pays his depts.

RIP Pete a very sad loss indeed. Remember back to the mid 80's when Pete 'n Merv bought the Wildcats to Poole to save the sport to the town. A really nice guy who will be sadly missed.

The usual moronic suspects have to find a way of blaming something on Poole when its clear to anyone with an ounce if intelligence that the rules are made up by the BSPA and NOT Poole or Matt Ford. If the rules for 2016 are there for all clubs to use, then I am sure if Poole cheated, the remaining clubs would be jumping all over it and the 1-7 would be rejected. The problem is at this moment in time, there is no one better at working within the rules and producing champion winning teams than Matt Ford. And until another promoter comes along to challange Ford, it will remain this way for the foreseeable future. Dont blame Poole for cheating when they are working within the rules, no matter how good or bad the rules are.