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Poole track is awful. I left half way through. I knew it was bad but watching on tv you just fast forward after bend three lap one. Being there in person and not having that option was mind numbing, just terrible. Monday can’t come quick enough.

Kurtz 8.08 Josh 7.34 Sundstrom 7.75 Kildemand 9.00 Woryna 6.50 Scz 6.50 Shanes 2.95 48.12 Cook 8.45 Steve 5.80 Rohan 6.18 Starke 5.08 Max 7.39 Dan 4.59 ???? 2.50 39.99 When applying the correct averages to the Poole team and factoring in our injury ravaged teams replacements an away victory is a forgone conclusion. A team totalling nearly fifty against a team in the thirties doesn’t make for a thrilling encounter but much like last week Poole can only beat what’s in front of them. Should be some good racing though and I’m sure I’ll stay till the end this time.

He didn’t finish a race due to bike problems for his only home match. He scored 8 from 4 at Swindon. He was poor last night but your opinion of his season so for (3 matches) is a bit out imo.

Trouble is it goes on and on. It might just be funny the first time but these kind of comments have gone on for years. And yes it does effect how we see poole. If a pub had a load of irritating knobheads I’d choose to go elsewhere. The trouble is this is the only BSF so if you want to chat speedway here’s where you come. There is a very serious debate to be had about last night in the context of British speedway as a whole but it would very quickly descend into farce, so as with last night why bother?

I’m off to the chippie and I’ll catch DIY SOS in the hotel I salute you pirates fans, I thought I was a speedway diehard but I couldn’t do what you do.

More grading. Fingers crossed they get it sorted. Playing monopoly on my phone, even when the “racing’s” on. Zzzzzzz

Track grade call after only two heats. Not looking good. Stay safe lads.

Can you pay by card and is there decent food available inside the stadium?

Unfortunately the rules don’t allow us to substitute a 8.66 rider in place of a 6.77 rider though I agree that if we could, it would go some way to addressing the massive disadvantage we find ourselves in. Being benevolent I’d happily go with your previous assessment of Steve using his scores over the years, around 7 I think. That’s from four rides whereas with Steve being our best rider at poole he’d line up in heat 15 and ride the double for us again. A 7 point average over 5 heats gives a figare of around 9, then add in the extra 3 TR points brings his match contribution to 12. I’ll go with your 7 point average and say if Lawson scores 12 or more then we haven’t lost out, much.

Saved me a job with the figures. It shows an impressive growth rate especially looking at the two most recent seasons. Casting that forward just reinforces the view the Steve is utterly irreplaceable. Gutted. Advantage poole

You can’t really take one meeting as a guide to a riders ability. Looking at Steve’s scores from last year you see he is our second best away rider nearly a point higher than Max, so every rider who is eligible for R/R is weaker then Steve on away tracks. Steve averaged 6.89 away from home last season. Lawson averaged 5.40 away from home last year so when you look at things over many meetings rather than just cherry picking here and there it shows we are considerably weakened.

Yep.

Gavan, don’t fall for this Walter Mitty character as A. when you copy his posts I see them and B. he knows nowt about speedway and just chats BS all day bloody long. He doesn’t even know how R/R works for your third heatleader. Cook can’t take a ride ffs. Look I’m falling into it now.

Ever thought of doing a poster in the middle pages? Action shot or team photo. Something I could put up in my man cave.

I’ll be coming down for this as I want to have a look at the old place while I can. I’ve not been during the Fraud era for obvious reasons but the current rumblings have stirred me into action. I’d booked this when we had our pre injury/broken heart line ups as I could see an Aces victory. Now it’s just a run out for the patched up Aces against an already strong pirates sides bolstered by the addition of PK. It’s just me coming along as the cost for the family can’t be justified at this famously gate & go venue. Looking forward to it anyway, just needed to dig out my Simmo rosette.

A SGB Premiership Team’s initial Declaration must not exceed 42.50 and may include ONLY one rider with an MA of 8.00 or above.

If we had Patrick at No2 I think he’d average 6.77 or above so Steve could slot back in when fit. The problem in going back to the original line up is could Zagar fit us in now his schedule for the season is set and will any new “rule” come out of BSPA towers?

I think if they redeclare then I’d opt for the original lineup.

Hope he’s not out long, big blow that. Maybe get Zagar, Hougaard & Smith in place of Worrall, Drozdz & Etheridge. Lol.

Charity Shield.

7 & 9 has also seen a slow start in the UK. Craig has changed his back room set up massively so I’m putting it down to early teething problems. The people he has now should be able to react quickly and they will be aware more than Craig how cut throat the Poles can be. I’ll remain optimistic for now.

It wasn’t discussed at the AGM. It surfaced following Zagar’s tweet about returning at the end of November.

Funny, when all I post is fact. Over to you.......

You say discretionary I say fluidity. Glad we can agree. Sole purpose - no, that’s just silly. I like it when speedway fans call you out and you say show us the rule. We then quote a rule for you to find and suddenly it doesn’t matter. Discretionary way to stick to your guns, lol.

It’s next to the rule that says you can achieve an average after only 2h & 2a meetings (Max Clegg) or the rule where a club is fined and docked 3 points for a bogus call off. Last year a rider was stopped from riding for seven days after missing a meeting due to illness. The rule is in the rulebook in bold meaning its new for this year, even though it was applied last year? Some “rules” are written some are not as this allows fluidity in their interpretation dependant on which team is involved.