poole keith

Big step for the young man ,wish him well,british speedway needs all the young riders it can get,to avert real problems in a few years(hope the aussies can keep baling us out lol)

dont think theres any less commitment or effort but would be stupid not to keep best equipment for premiership and overseas,remember when chris holder won world championship he had one engine that year that was so quick he never used it in league meetings anywhere just the gps

mid week track probably helps

Would make sense

Was hoping a season at belle view would bring him on considerably,riding with and against the top riders regularly compared to when he's at Poole in lower division must be good for him,and poole will benefit from his belle Vue experience

Re ht 13,went to the glass grandstand tonight(to avoid the dust)had a perfect view of the second bend exit and lawson ran kerr to within an inch of the fence,kerr had to shut off,I assume he thought it was masters coming round the outside

would be real backward step for ben cook returning to poole

You've got to admit steve done a great job in getting forum members to post about some soccer competition in a far off land on the poole thread

Re your question marks Phil,would Cluff not become a Plymouth asset???

Can't blame the promotion for trying to develop their asset base

marson is no concern at all,hes helping the pirates out for a few weeks,just the formality of having a seventh name on the team sheet,hope all his expenses are well covered and hes given a few quid in his pocket .

When 14 premier league football clubs are in american ownership that will be the end of promotion/relegation, gets better and better for non league football haha

Apologies

Thanks cat ,you'd know much more than stevie (aka clive)

Good news Arthur,nobody's ever been able to predict Mr Osbornes plans,so who knows about the future,pretty obvious something has to happen at the stadium site but what and when ??Matt could well be one of the last to find out knowing Clark.Nothing supporters can do just enjoy

your almost certainly correct there neila,but a decision that makes perfect sense ,giving cairns some competitive experience around wimborne rd before his championship debut,also fords know these level of events are poorly supported at poole but there will presumably be a good turnout to see this much hyped new poole signing,also im guessing he would have a good chance of winning the event , thus also keeping our many pot hunters happy !!!ha ha

Overlapping posts there, need to type quicker!

I know some will but its difficult to disagree with your thinking steve hols,would think though its difficult nay near impossible for a lad still in full time education who can't drive to compete in the championship, but like you say it would have been good to give a British youngster a go or maybe a couple sharing the gig

Exactly clive ,as you say the ambition is to win the competition they're in,not the top competition ,that would be ambition.I fully understand all the reasons for staying where they are and if it was my decision I would do the same however going back I don't think matt would have been content with lower league speedway

Doesn't say much about poole supporters lisa if there's only two Premiership teams they'd turn up to watch

Gambling company's, stadium owners or developers don't have any responsibility or probably interest in providing a venue for speedway, it was up to speedway to protect its own future but sadly bar a few exceptions it didn't,most promotions just went for the cheap option, you reap what you sow!!

Well that's exactly what they're having to do bitza but when you do that it's no longer a championship team is it,but back to your initial point I maintain ther is a massive and possibly widening gap between the two leagues

theyre not so similar though bitza if the regular poole team raced sheffield , poole would be annihilated ,hence the need to bring in two top riders in order to be competitive.If it did go ahead with usual teams sheffield wouldnt be interested.Tho a decent enough crowd would turn up at poole to watch tai and the holders im sure most sheffield fans wouldnt bother to watch a poole champioship team especially if sheffield had easily won the away leg

Disagree pinny,2026 a championship club has to move up to replace brum,Plymouth drop down as you suggest means remaining championship teams would have only six teams to ride against,that's pretty sh-t, It's up to british speedway and other championship clubs in particular to make sure its a competitive league, uneven teams make for boring speedway