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I love the way Cook "talks a lot of sense" when his team is at the wrong end of the table.

I think if the SWC had been anywhere else he would have been in the team, in place of Lambert. As much as I like Craig I would pick Lambert ahead of him at Saddlebow Rd.

One thing that doesn't sit right with me is the fact that a meeting steward or Sky stooge has so much say in the running of the meeting. You end up with meetings in the same competition being handled differently and dependant on the amount of Sky broadcast you take part in you can be potentially helped or hindered dependant on this guys input, a guy with influence who isn't at all fixtures. I just think rules or administrative practice should be the same across the board.

Belle Vue are building him a nice big Polish sized track that he can ride to his hearts content.

I've said it many times over the years, that the most effective why to stop people calling you a cheat is not to cheat. A simple concept, lost on some. Sad.

The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing

The answer was Poole or to use the modern term cheating scumbags.

Not true actually. A few years back Joe Screen was signed off sick with a back injury. It was all an average fixing scam. The authorities investigated and stopped the team involved from gaining the advantage they were after. As a bit of fun, do want to play guess the team trying to cheat?

Missing passport? Copywrite Ford/Ferjan

It's like Aces v Colts tonight. I think Swindon could do well.

They did the same thing against us last year with Ljung.

I'm missing something here. Numbers 3 & 5 ride together in two of their races so no change there. Number 3 then faces the oppositions number 1&5 then 3&4, whilst our number 5 faces their number 3&4 then 1&5. I don't get how it makes us a lot stronger?

I don't think they would want to change the system to be honest. How many Slovenians ride in our league? Who recently held the track record at Leicester? What team do they both ride for? Some would say, job done.

If I was Aces manager I'd have made a fortune in fines.

Aces need their gating gloves to secure the points. Fingers crossed.

Aces need their gating gloves to secure the points. Fingers crossed.

Here here. My mate is a chef and if he gets complaints he asks if they've ever worked in a resturant kitchen. Soon puts them in their place. Dad was a roofer and as not many folk venture up onto their roof any complaints he had were soon dismissed. Speedway fans stop moaning for Christ sake!

If you're going to start sticking asterisks against Poole whenever they don't win something "fair and square" then you'll need at lot, as the cheating scumbags haven't managed that since 2003!

Jesus, it's never any different with the cheating scumbags from the South Coast. You seem to attract this kind of thing even when you're not knowingly being dodgy. Is there something in the water or is it, like I'm hoping just the scummy speedway club it effects in the area? Whilst British speedway fans know anything you've "won" over the last decade has been due to extremely questionable tactics your infamy is spreading outside speedway circles. I travel all over and mention speedway quite often. People reference Ivan Mauger, Belle Vue or Peter Collins but now if Poole come up their cheating is mentioned. If the Darcy's ban makes the papers people will say he's attached to the cheats at Poole. I know a few of you like Ford and can turn a blind eye to cheating in the quest for honours but the Pirates have been around for years and will hopefully carry on long after Ford has gone but you will be saddled with the "cheating scumbags" tag for a long time to come, which is a shame for you and speedway as a whole. Grim times.

I've often wondered over the decades why they didn't have a rule to stop riders using spades to take dirt from another gate position and then use it whilst preparing their starting gate. In a lot of respects the rule book is far too sparse and needs padding out to take into account things like this before they happen.

Can see Holder having low scores during the early season fillers. He averaged six point something last year but rolling averages saw his average stay high. The more good scores drop off the end then the lower his average will fall. It makes no odds early season as you only need finish half way to win the league. Sure it cheats the fans but hey it's Poole so get use to it. Expect them to bolster their team at the business end of the season. Poole to win and thus join that illustrious group along with Wimbledon, Cradley and Bradford. Other play off teams baring injury are Coventry, Kings Lynn and The Aces.

I blame agents!

I think that's just for Belle Vue.

Jason Lyons

It's fine that you stopped going due to the play offs as due to their incredible popularity we've seen loads of fans replace you.