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Plymouth v Poole BSN, Sat 26/04/25


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Just now, LisaColette said:

Not sure you can blame it all on him though. 

Well you can blame it on gate one, as it caused us problems when it mattered, but a second heatleader scoring 2 points is ridiculous. 
You can blame Matt Marson but that would be harsh. The rest more or less did their jobs, Rowe and Cook affected at the end by gate one. 
Plymouth just did their job and deserved it. 

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8 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

I think you can blame most of it on him, 2 points from your second best rider! Who do you blame then?

Why do you need to blame anyone? It's a team sport. Everyone has a bad meeting occasionally. Don't remember you two reacting like this in the playoff final when Tom only got 4 at Oxford.

But as you say you don't want Lewi at Poole so it suits I guess.

Maybe they should put him at 4 whilst settling in. But shame to split up Zach and Anders partnership which is working well already. 

 

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1 minute ago, LisaColette said:

Why do you need to blame anyone? It's a team sport. Everyone has a bad meeting occasionally. Don't remember you two reacting like this in the playoff final when Tom only got 4 at Oxford.

But as you say you don't want Lewi at Poole so it suits I guess.

Maybe they should put him at 4 whilst settling in. But shame to split up Zach and Anders partnership which is working well already. 

 

Tom had proved himself throughout the season. Kerr hasn’t proved himself and looks right off where he needs to be. When he was announced I was disappointed. Just feel his best days are behind him. Want to be proved wrong. Tonight felt like my opinion was about right. Let’s see how he does in the next few meetings. 

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56 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Kerr a disgrace tonight. Not acceptable as the second heat leader. Well done Plymouth. 
 

We had gate 1 in the last two heats and had no chance around Plymouth.  Rowe was off gate one in heat 15 and tried everything but without a chance.

Kerr needs to be read the riot act. Had all winter to prepare and rides like a dog.

Plymouth HL = 9pts

Poole HL = 27pts

Maybe Kerr isn't the problem ?

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18 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Tom had proved himself throughout the season. Kerr hasn’t proved himself and looks right off where he needs to be. When he was announced I was disappointed. Just feel his best days are behind him. Want to be proved wrong. Tonight felt like my opinion was about right. Let’s see how he does in the next few meetings. 

Kerr is still settling in. If he does it halfway through the season then I might agree with you. Plus Lewi has it harder than Tom as they put Tom at 3 for first few weeks of last season whilst he was settling in. 

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2 hours ago, LisaColette said:

Why do you need to blame anyone? It's a team sport. Everyone has a bad meeting occasionally. Don't remember you two reacting like this in the playoff final when Tom only got 4 at Oxford.

But as you say you don't want Lewi at Poole so it suits I guess.

Maybe they should put him at 4 whilst settling in. But shame to split up Zach and Anders partnership which is working well already. 

 

A heat leader of Kerr's stature scoring 2 is awful,  why not blame him,  it was his fault,  Why should he need to settle in? He has ridden all the tracks many times. I didn't say I did not want him, I said he was not a favourite of mine but while he rides for my team I will support him. He will come good I am sure, probably just an off night as he rode well for Sheffield the other day. 

I may have made a derogatory comment about Tom as at the time I felt he was doing too much and was obviously worn out. I was at Oxford that night so I may have commented, I cant remember but he certainly didnt let anyone down in the second leg so I expect Lewi will bounce back, better to have a bad night than get an injury or a re-occurrence of an old injury and he has had some bad ones.

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20 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

A heat leader of Kerr's stature scoring 2 is awful,  why not blame him,  it was his fault,  Why should he need to settle in? He has ridden all the tracks many times. I didn't say I did not want him, I said he was not a favourite of mine but while he rides for my team I will support him. He will come good I am sure, probably just an off night as he rode well for Sheffield the other day. 

I may have made a derogatory comment about Tom as at the time I felt he was doing too much and was obviously worn out. I was at Oxford that night so I may have commented, I cant remember but he certainly didnt let anyone down in the second leg so I expect Lewi will bounce back, better to have a bad night than get an injury or a re-occurrence of an old injury and he has had some bad ones.

Lol……those two highlighted comments did make me chuckle…….🤣…….I’m sure Lewi will relish your undying support.

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Think Kerr needs to move to number 3 imo takes the pressure of ht13 off him and give that no5 spot to Rowe who is much more consistent.

Kerr away form is very alarming 7pts off 8 rides at this level a rider of his experience should be getting atleast 7/8pts,I must say I had my reservations aswell when I heard rumours just hoping the order is changed and he finds some form soon as in the big heats I just feel like we can’t rely on him.

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3 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

I guess I will get some grief from Gary tomorrow when I see him at Vitality. 😀

No doubt Plymouth benefitted from Barkers withdrawal but really Pirates should never have lost that. Heat 14 was so important and we had Zack on gate one. No way he was going to be able to out gate either Plymouth rider but what was a disaster was that Starke was in third and we needed Zack there. Race was lost after a lap. Rowe did everything in heat 15 to pass Thompson but he was such a disadvantage off the start he just couldn’t make up the ground.

In the scheme of things not a complete disaster as we just need to beat Oxford at home to progress.

Your Captain won the toss and chose 1-3 in heat one. Maybe he should have gone for choice of gate in heat 15 instead. It's a bit much to blame gate 1 for your loss.

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11 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Tom had proved himself throughout the season. Kerr hasn’t proved himself and looks right off where he needs to be. When he was announced I was disappointed. Just feel his best days are behind him. Want to be proved wrong. Tonight felt like my opinion was about right. Let’s see how he does in the next few meetings. 

Also you never get a full season out of him, extremely injury prone .

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13 hours ago, LisaColette said:

Why do you need to blame anyone? It's a team sport. Everyone has a bad meeting occasionally. Don't remember you two reacting like this in the playoff final when Tom only got 4 at Oxford.

But as you say you don't want Lewi at Poole so it suits I guess.

Maybe they should put him at 4 whilst settling in. But shame to split up Zach and Anders partnership which is working well already. 

I wouldn't agree with that reasoning, he's been a Champ heat leader for about a decade, so shouldn't need time to settle in.

If you think the team would be stronger with Zach or Anders at 5, by all means do it though.

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