SteelShoe

Thank you. I haven't seen any of our home streamed meetings so i'm pleased they are providing worthwhile entertainment. The weather during the meeting was lovely, but you could see the dark clouds to the east were not far away.

This is the big question, I'm hoping we will be more competitive than our early season displays at Scunthorpe, Redcar and Edinburgh. Hopefully we can attack these and the remaining tracks with more self belief.

In light of the close match in the BSN Trophy I admit to being a little uneasy before the meeting today and felt we would miss Antti . The uneasiness proved unfounded as both Fraser and Batch produced their best performances of the season to see us home with relative ease. 7 points from R/R was a decent return while the team produced a solid performance throughout with 11 heat winners and only 3 last places. Scunny proved not to be the same force as they were in that BSN meeting with only Steve Worrall and Connor Mountain winning races. Hard to gauge how good this win was when Jake Allen , Declan Kennedy and Simon Lambert score only 2 points between them . Declan was particularly impressive on his last visit scoring an impressive 10 points on his own. The Scorps today were probably as bad as we were on our BSN visit to the EWR so would have been hard watch for any of their fans that made the journey. Thanks to the Plymouth Fans who made a visit following the cancellation of their meeting at Berwick 👍. Thanks also to any other fans making the journey to take in the meeting. I believe we were lucky with the weather today as the north east has apparently been deluged. Tough match coming up at Poole midweek followed by an attractive home fixture next Saturday against the Redcar Bears. They have had the better of us recently and I'm sure the boys will be looking to reverse that trend. Should be a cracker so get down, bring someone if they're willing, make some noise and create some atmosphere. UTC !👊

Need to get double figures from R/R to compensate for Antti missing but what guest would have achieved that ?.

think it is an International Pairs meeting

If Scott had been riding for you guys at Worky when the score was 51-39 the result may have been different. Nikolai with his 18 point max was untouchable but had no real back up. Great signing !

how do you know?.

your unbalanced scales suggest a lack of fairness , objectivity and impartiality here . Please lay bare your behind the scenes knowledge.

Do you know anything is getting 'conveniently brushed under the carpet' or is this pure conjecture. Who are these ' creditors of the old trading company who will have lost out financially'?. Who won't get a penny back? . Perhaps you can clarify with examples what you mean by 'so many business practices are accepted as normal and acceptable' . if this is all assumption then with respect you should keep it to yourself instead of trying to make out the Comets have cheated fictitious creditors out of money.

If the Polish U24 league is no more next year will they be looking to come to the UK to ride?.

Some of the Premiership Clubs must be haemoraging money if the TV crowds are properly representative of actual attendances. With rumours about the likes of Max Fricke being on £5k plus a meeting I would say there is very little chance of Glasgow or Poole who probably have the best crowd in the UK wanting anything to do with big financial losses and who would blame them?.

I didn't turn it off, ended up on my phone and discussing something with my wife though so didn't really watch the latter heats.

think you might have a vivid imagination.

And indeed Speedway has a good future !

Could it not simply have been that, because relevant documents for Northside Speedway Training Track had not been submitted since Comets joined the NDL the regulator concluded that that particular company no longer existed following the absence of response to warnings.?

dull to the point were one could have turned it off and not missed it in the slightest.

Even rider of the night Leon Flint called it very one liney.

No it won't .

The quality of on track entertainment tonight is pretty dire. This has been repeated too often on televised speedway this season for me personally, just not a good advert. When Lewis Kerr can score 9+1 in the 'Premiership' and only 2 for Poole at Worky on Saturday in the so called 2nd tier Championship it makes you wonder. Difficult to hear Kelvin call that racing there wasn't much of that.

Even a panic attack can cause a high heart rate. I remember Peter Karlsson who rode for the Comets at the time having tachycardia at one meeting. It was eventually put down to him having drunk 6 tins of Red Bull 🤣

Unexpected win today against the league leaders. Thought 44-46 but was delighted to be wrong. Some cracking close races with every point being scrapped for, which is how it should be. It takes two teams to make an entertaining meeting and Poole played their part so thank you. It was the Comets fantastic start that ultimately proved too much to overcome on this occasion which was nice after being put to the sword at home twice last season by the Pirates. Congrats to the mechanics, not one mechanical failure during the meeting. Thank you to members of the wider Speedway fraternity who turned up to show their support for the Comets, it was much appreciated. Let's hope we can get the message to more local people to give it a go while trying to improve the quality of entertainment on offer during the 2hours or so of the meeting. It was great to see the riders coming round today almost without exception when winning races. Congrats to the Comets on a solid team performance without exception- brill ! That performance was just reward for Andrew Bain who has had a tumultuous couple of weeks, thank you.

I certainly will 🤣

Easily Tate's best performance of the season at the GT Tyres Arena. Looked like the 2024 Tate today, really great to see him racing so well again.

as a team they are doing just fine looking at those averages.

yeah Poole didn't want him