TheWellBehavedWorrall

Called it. Bin Cami Brown. Bin Kyle Howarth. Bin Max Perry. Actually, bin the whole top heavy team building approach. Bin these riders like Nagel who are taking the utter p**s out of the club. Well done Poole. That’s a champion’s performance. Listening to Brown is painful. Unlucky? Poole didn’t have Lawson and lost Kerr. Palm Toft tried? Honestly, be quiet. You gave it big licks to Neil Middleditch in the media and you’ve ended up with egg on your face. I hope Freddie Hodder or someone who knows him reads this because that young man gave it tonight and exceeded anything that was remotely expected of him. He looked scunnered there, but you should hang your head high, young man.

Jeppesen doesn’t lift, Harris doesn’t win that. Look at that from Jeppesen. He’s risking his safety going that wide around Harris at Ashfield. Where’s that effort from our guests this season?

Game over. Well done Poole. We’ve rubbish the bed. Second prizes for Howarth all night, a guest who should be embarrassed by his input and a reserve who couldn’t buy a point if he went to the points shop with a voucher for unlimited points. You don’t win trophies with that.

Absolute shambles from him. If Nagel was riding, we’d be at least level on aggregate. 100% and that includes if Lawson was riding, or Kerr hadn’t crashed. He isn’t riding though and that’s the reality. Poole must be confident.

Brilliant from Flint and Thompson. So what’s the nonsense script with Nagel? In the line up at 12PM, but out at 6PM? Tigers’ social media said he’s receiving ”extensive treatment”… but they were unaware of this at lunch time? Come on…

Let Palm Toft get changed and go home. A complete waste of a race suit.

It’s nowhere near over. You have to fancy Poole’s reserves over ours, plus Jeppesen and Rowe smoked Harris and Howarth, so they’re big threats. No idea what Cook was thinking in heat three; Stevie Wonder could see he had to ride wider. He won’t make that mistake again. Remember, Pirates, we prepare a track for racing, so you’ll have every opportunity. It’s all to ride for.

Nightmare for the Pirates, losing Kerr. Sadly the risk when your team aren’t used to riding on dirt.

Have I just paid £250 for a BSN season pass, been told they’re not covering the KO Cup semi-final, so paid Glasgow £12.99 for what is nothing more than a BSN production with red packaging? Honestly, f*ck this sport.

Top man, Steve. I didn’t know this and can’t make it, so thanks. Lawson is a huge loss, but if that’s the Jeppesen from Berwick, then that guy took one ride to work out Ashfield and started flying around it earlier in the summer. That’s a great guest. My heart says we’ll do it, but my head can’t see Poole scoring less than 39 points, I’m afraid.

Not a great result, but it’s a win and all to play for tomorrow night. Our team building strategy dictated that we just can’t afford for Harris and Howarth (I appreciate his was a retirement while third) to run last places. If they do, we need double figures from elsewhere. Credit to Redcar as that’s a great result. Add that to the result at Poole and the Bears are looking at a strong end to the season. I haven’t saw any team news, but I can only assume we’ll be missing Nagel tomorrow night to Danish commitments, Thompson to SGP2, Flint to German commitments and Perry to karate lessons. More guests than a Beckham wedding.

The BSN semi-final isn’t on BSN.😂 This sport is the gift that just keeps giving.

Brilliant from Howarth, but Flint.🤮 52-38 flatters us. That should have been 60-30, at very least.

Spot on. I’m watching and he shouldn’t have. Hodder was doing 15MPH though and Palm Toft was only doing 12MPH though, so it happened. Having said that, all credit to him.

Delighted with that, but for the purpose of consistency, these sorts of meetings can’t be allowed. You’ll have seen more comfortable riding at one of Scott Nicholls’ novice training schools than Palm Toft chasing Hodder there.

Who is on co-comms with the usual BSN guy?

I’m by no means an expert on bike set-up, but how are these conditions identical for both sides, yet the home side are cruising? Workington, I understood. Those were fair conditions that the home side prepared to their advantage which they’re within their right to do. However, Edinburgh couldn’t have prepared for the rain, could they? Either way, it’s disgrace of a speedway meeting. This is two long-time Scottish rivals in a key, end-of-season fixture and what we’re watching is follow the leader. Blur out the race suits and I’d think a few of these races were NDL heat twos.

Between the depleted Glasgow line-up and this track, it just makes a mockery of the sport. Abandon the meeting and replay it on another date. I couldn’t make it due to work, but this even renders my BSN subscription a waste of money.

I wouldn’t even entertain them mate. Ignore them. If you’re a neutral and that’s your first meeting, you’re never coming back. End of.

Very true. This track has made me wonder whether it’s Chris or Cruz we’ve got at number one. You’re not allowed to criticise this track though. Accept it, tolerate a sub-par product and watch the sport die in this country because if that’s been Workington’s racing this season (a Comet on the last page said he gave today a miss for that very reason), then no wonder gates are low and funding challenges exist.

A grown adult telling me there are proper fans because I’m calling a spade a spade and criticising the track.😂 Sorry if I hurt your feelings, little man. 10 races, 1 pass after the first lap. Speedway in this country will die thanks to this sort of thing. Fair play to Workington though. They’ve managed to make Chris Harris’ bike look like a sleeping tablet.

This, 100%. Track to one side, that is the difference between us and Poole.

It’s utterly painful to watch. Ten heats, one pass beyond the first lap.

Heat nine and we witness the first pass beyond the first lap. Is this sort of issue even a topic of discussion with British speedway’s powers that be, or are they fully focused on merely surviving? We’re getting battered here, so I’m conscious this may come across bitter, but you can’t hide from reality. Stene Pijper, God love him, should not be in this meeting. He’s nowhere near it.

What’s the script with replacing Max Perry this afternoon? Are there any restrictions in place for replacing a 2.00 rider or one on such short notice? If not and with all due respect to the young man, Stene Pijper is drastically out of his depth and will not score a point today, barring excisions and/or mechanical gremlins. There’s an entire NDL. Surely there are better options.