Steve Shovlar

Water the initial cause but perhaps if I the track had just been left alone rather than churning it up the damage might not have been so bad? So on BSN last night they were advertising the Premier Pairs meeting which is due to take place here on Monday night. Shouldn’t the Championship Final take precedence? If tomorrow is cancelled, then Monday should be the rerun date with the PP being put back a few days.

Latest is the track staff are blading all the slop off the track today to take it right back. But rain is now due tomorrow morning. An early call off would be appreciated for the hundreds of travelling fans making the long journey up.

I can’t share the photo as I was told when receiving it not to post it. Sorry I would if I could. the whole of the back straight is in the photo taken from the pits gate looking towards the third bend, with a back of a tractor in the forground. The grader is plastered in very wet slosh, and it is the same the whole way down the back straight. You would need a pair of wellies to shuffle through it.

The only riders it will affect would be the home team as their setups would be shot.

If the track had not been touched it would never be like it is today. It looks like track work has made it far worse than just leaving it alone. Rain doesn’t make a track like today. Human intervention with heavy tractors has done this.

I have been sent a picture taken today of the Leicester track. You would struggle to believe just how bad it is. An utter quagmire. The only solution if they have any chance is to blade everything off and sprinkle down a bit of dirt on the base. How it has got like this is beyond comprehension.

Playoffs have been going for 20 years and have been the best thing to happen to the sport. Bloody love them, even when we finished top in 2010 and lost to a team 24 points behind us. Massive crowds, thrills and winners crowned Champs. Nothing better.

Hearing they haven’t managed to get on the track with tractor as it’s too wet with clumps of clay. Needs to dry out for tractor to be used. Not looking good at the moment.

That’s simply not true. We want champions who ever it is. No point participating in a sport if there’s no winner. Winning is everything.

Hearing the Leicester track man Graham thinks the track is currently in a terrible state and “beyond redemption” Caused by the amount of clay in it. They have been working on it today but conditions are bad. So what are Leicester going to do about it? Or do we do the obvious and call the result after one leg? Seems unfair but if that’s the way the cookie crumbles, so be it.

If the track in Leicester can’t be sorted for Saturday, then the BSPA should step in and demand the meeting is run at Monmore or Birmingham. That way it’s not too far for the Leicester fans to travel.

Play the second leg at Monmore. Clegg knows the track well as does Mountain. Howarth knows the fastest way around there…...oops

Ward got attacked and hit his head on the kerb. Not the same as Kurtz and Jack Holder getting rat arsed the night before the most important meeting of the season. Guess that’s why both were shown the door.

Due to clear in next we mins to leave a dry and breezy day. Dry all day tomorrow. Looks like Leicester riders will be greeted by a differently prepared track on Saturday, similar to what the Poole riders had to face last night, which gives an advantage to the away side.

Poole haven’t got those couple of Aussies going on the piss the night before in the team.

What rain? The next two days are dry with sunny periods. Just watched the latest forecast. Perhaps, if Leicester can’t sort their track out, the meeting needs to be run at Wolverhampton or Peterborough.

Don’t they have a blade at Leicester? Blade all the shale off and put fresh shale down. The Leicester promotions hope that taking the meeting into November, with The idea that the Cooks disappear down under, won’t work.

Should be a NL rider in place of Howarth. Rules are clear. If it was Poole we would have 6 pages of being called cheats.

Poole lost 47-43 in the league and 46-44 in the KO Cup at Leicester this season. It really should have been a 16 point win tonight but for an EF and a rerun, when both time Poole were on 5-1’s. In the after meeting conference all Poole riders were frustrated with 8 points but said as one that the title was coming to Poole. Should make a thrilling and close second leg on Saturday. Poole are pretty good at Leicester.

Forecast is for dry weather with the risk of a small shower in the Leicester area tomorrow morning. Plenty of time to sort the track out. But it might not be what the Leicester riders are used to, the same as tonight in Poole. Guess they will just have to get on and ride it.

It made no difference as they gated on a 5-1 in the rerun and it took Ben Cook 3 laps to pass Mountain. He might have done that in the first staging.

Then using a guest is allowed?

Certainly a meeting of two halves. The after meeting press conference was interesting. Steve Worrall said his main bike had an issue and that’s why his second bike was wheeled out and used. Danny King was hurt after his third bend fall but was determined to continue but gave heat 15 a miss. Ben Cook was frustrated when he had an engine issue when on a 5-1, and Zach had frustrations when also on a 5-1 when Mountain fell on his own but was allowed back in. Mountain went and chopped up Zach, who should have put it down, as should have Ben when Nicholls smashed him out of the way in heat 10. The first half of the meeting had Leicester blasting from the gate and Pirates having little answer. 16-26 down and it looked all over but in the second half of the meeting Poole had an 18 point swing, after the track settled down. The lead to Leicester should really have been 16 points but with Bens bike Blowing and in heat 11 with Poole on a 5-1 and Mountain falling at the back, those were the way things went. I think Poole are still in with a shout on Saturday, though clearly Leicester will now fancy their chances. All to ride for. Poole have only been beat by a bigger score once this season at Plymouth, and by 8 points at Edinburgh. All other defeats have been closer. An important off track piece of information has come out about Kyle Howarth. He is getting married on Saturday. And in his contract with the club it all states that he doesn’t ride for a period before his wedding for fear of injury ruining his big day. Now, if he is not getting married on Saturday, this news is a load of rubbish. But if he is, then no facility should be granted. So a NL rider should replace Howarth. The BSPA MC should look into this as a matter of urgency.

Ben Cooks bike blowing up, and then Ben being knocked out of the way by Scott and not laying it down. Then Zack not laying it down when Mountain hit him. Luck certainly not on our side tonight but you have to make your own luck.

And the above post not meant as sour grapes. Lions the better team.