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Poole Pirates Speedway@poolespeedway RESULT | GLASGOW 50 - 40 POOLE The tie is on a knife edge heading into the 2nd Leg of the Grand Final at Poole on Thursday Get your tickets here https://bit.ly/3pu0bF9 Unfortunately there will be NO livestream

Usually about 7.15.

Stream purchased and looking forward to what should be a classic encounter between two evenly matched teams on a great racetrack. As a neutral, and with 2 ex-Monarchs on each side, it's difficult to know who to root for, but I've got to go for the Scottish side and hope Cookie weaves his magic round the Possil Park bowl. A 10 or 12 point victory for Tigers would set up a very interesting second leg.

Yes, that's why Edinburgh have the 25 mile limit. Poole do film their matches don't they? Not sure how easy it would be but why not let Edinburgh stream the match through the Edinburgh website which is already set up for streaming and split the revenue (and make hundreds of Monarchs fans happy to be able to watch their team win the KO Cup )

Weather forecast doesn't look great for Glasgow every day until the 31st and beyond.

Are Poole streaming the second leg? Not many Monarchs fans will be able to make the trip.

Well done to the Tigers, thoroughly professional job - different mindset to last week. But a good solid all round performance from the Monarchs that gives me hope for tomorrow. Hope Edinburgh had a quiet word with Cam, while he was up, about next season.

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Very good all round team performance from Glasgow. The whole team looked like they could pass from the back and Cookie looked like he could have gone off 15m every race and still got a max. But I think the main reason the tie is now a virtual formality was Broc Nicol - after a first race last, and with Glasgow just 2 up after 5 heats, he was involved in 3 5-1's over the next 5 heats to completely knock the stuffing out of the Monarchs. No lack of effort from the Edinburgh riders but beaten by the better team on the night. Still think the Monarchs have a slight chance tonight but feel the Tigers won't let them get away from them and there'll only be 4 or 6 points in it at the end. If Cameron Heeps is in anything like his usual Armadale form then there's no chance of getting anywhere near the 22 points required.

O ye of little faith!

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If changed to play off final can't use guests from other play off teams.

Not usually like that. Seems to be a problem with the sound - commentary too loud, sound from the track way too low.

I agree. Again looking at BBC weather there's rain forecast every day in both Armadale & Glasgow from Sat 23rd to Friday 29th, so who knows when the two finals due to be raced in Scotland will take place.

Definitely not on Tuesday - which is a real shame. But Thursday and Friday look promising according to BBC weather.

Excellent performance from the Monarchs tonight and I thought the racing was pretty good too, as well as the close score on aggregate adding to the excitement. I think there were quite a few passes after the second bend that were not down to mistakes (Worrall on Wells heat 4, Cook on Pickering heat 5, Masters on Brennan heat 10, Worrall and Masters on Wells heat 13). Very impressed by Tom Brennan on his first appearance at the track. I thought he and Cookie were going to rescue the Tigers in heat 15 but Sam and Richie were very determined.

Showing as Thursday 21st on SpeedwayGB site.

Winners against Glasgow in semi-final as Poole have chosen the winners of Leicester/Scunthorpe https://www.poole-speedway.com/news/view/2021-10-10-pirates-prepare-for-the-unkown

That's a shame, was looking forward to watching this, as can't attend in person. Have Glasgow given up on live streaming this season? Nothing on their website other than "THERE ARE NO UPCOMING EVENTS. CHECK BACK LATER."

Agree, probably should've taken him straight away, especially given the current ambulance crisis. But still no guarantee it would've been back in time as ambulances often have to sit for hours outside A&E waiting to pass patients over to the hospital.

Yes, but Poole can't wait till Tuesday at 10pm to decide who they want to face on the Wednesday. So would have to pick Leicester or delay the semi.

True, but maybe too expensive? It was a horrendous crash - best wishes to Sarj. Don't know where this leaves the semi-final at Poole on Wednesday.

Curfew is 10pm at Armadale, but meeting now abandoned due to lack of medical cover as track ambulance had to take James to hospital because NHS quoted 'up to 12 hours' for NHS ambulance to arrive and track ambulance wouldn't have got back in time to run even 10 heats. Implication is that with current ambulance crisis (in Scotland at any rate) any rider being injured badly enough to require to go to hospital will mean automatic abandonment of meeting.

Weather looks very iffy on Friday. Hope they've got the Saturday booked as an alternative as it looks much drier. Cup semi-final first leg at Glasgow on the Sunday.

Great to have a live stream to watch and aside from the technical issues it was very good. If I had to be hyper-critical I would say some of the race coverage could have been better, e.g. seemed to miss the outside of bend 4 quite a lot (Josh was disappearing out of the picture) and sometimes followed the race at the back when the front was closer and vice versa, but these things will improve the more you do it. Glasgow have the most professional live stream (but I think they pay someone to provide it). Edinburgh's is in house and is great and has been improving - they have interviews with riders and others and they've recently added a pit camera and (most importantly) replays of the races.