Poole Pirates Vs Workington Comets 23rd July Championship

[Neila]

Come on comets fans, and all other fans of other clubs, let's swamp this thread with a load of nonsense, like pilots fans do with all the other threads 😝🤣🏁🏁  UTC

[Neila]

33 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

We're not talking about that 

Like you did not do much talking about the worky meeting 😄

[magnus]

After Poole's comments about the Worky track, who thinks the track will be deeeeeep and rough? Just hope it's not gate and go..

[Bandit59]

I've streamed meetings from both teams and Workington definitely provide by far the better racing

[allthegearbutnaeidea]

18 minutes ago, magnus said:

After Poole's comments about the Worky track, who thinks the track will be deeeeeep and rough? Just hope it's not gate and go..

What was said?

[magnus]

4 minutes ago, allthegearbutnaeidea said:

What was said?

Said it was very slick, but to be honest there was plenty of over taking. 

[foreverblue]

3 hours ago, LisaColette said:

Well they both got the same score from same amount of rides looking at updates site. 

Yes they did but Cairns was more impressive as he is very young and the senior reserve should be outscoring him.

[foreverblue]

2 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

 

Another way to look at it, Starke beat Harrison, which Cairns couldn't do in heat 2.

Starke then had a second place behind Steve Worrall.

Starke then had the struggling Declan Kennedy taken out of a heat & lost to Zaine & Mountain.

Starke then faced Mountain & tac sub Worrall!

Who should Starke have beaten that he didn't? Worrall or Mountain (who Cairns didn't meet)? You wouldn't expect a 4 point away reserve to beat a 5 point home reserve (Zaine)!

Now Cairns obviously came on string as the match went on, beating Zaine twice, which is brilliant for a 2 pointer, I take nothing away from him.

But you can't deny Starke had harder rides & scored the same. That's not saying Cairns should have done better, just that Starke is being harshly judged imo.

As the senior reserve Starke should be outscoring Cairns plus he did not beat Zaine and Cairns did.

[Marksman]

6 minutes ago, allthegearbutnaeidea said:

What was said?

Something about it being slick, gate and go, tyres wearing out, losing the coin toss. All the excuses were coming out.

https://www.poole-speedway.com/news/view/20250712-reaction-disastrous-start-left-the-pirates-trailing-the-comets

Anyone who was there or streamed it saw exciting racing, what caught Poole out was not knowing what lines to ride. Vinnie, Tate, Fraser, Antti all made great overtakes that night and some in multiple races.

On a side note it was mentioned that 300 purchases were made for the live stream that night. Seems to be a success so far.

[LisaColette]

24 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Yes they did but Cairns was more impressive as he is very young and the senior reserve should be outscoring him.

Not really. Anytime Starke gets 4+ it's been an ok meeting for him. 

Edited Tuesday at 08:55 PM by LisaColette

[magnus]

13 minutes ago, Marksman said:

Something about it being slick, gate and go, tyres wearing out, losing the coin toss. All the excuses were coming out.

https://www.poole-speedway.com/news/view/20250712-reaction-disastrous-start-left-the-pirates-trailing-the-comets

Anyone who was there or streamed it saw exciting racing, what caught Poole out was not knowing what lines to ride. Vinnie, Tate, Fraser, Antti all made great overtakes that night and some in multiple races.

On a side note it was mentioned that 300 purchases were made for the live stream that night. Seems to be a success so far.

Yes some great racing. Having watched it back, I must admit it came over very well on the stream and a great advert for British speedway, compared to some of the racing which has been televised lately. Wonder if the Redcar meeting will be streamed?

[Neila]

15 minutes ago, magnus said:

Yes some great racing. Having watched it back, I must admit it came over very well on the stream and a great advert for British speedway, compared to some of the racing which has been televised lately. Wonder if the Redcar meeting will be streamed?

Probably not, said they would stream long distance meetings ie Oxford and pilots . Redcar meetings usually have a lot of bears fans coming over to Northside. Think the last bears meeting was streamed by comets TV but was a test streaming to make sure everything worked. Apparently 300 streams were sold for the pilots meeting 

[Gazc]

11 hours ago, magnus said:

Said it was very slick, but to be honest there was plenty of over taking. 

Was the heat that caused it.

Amongst other thing’s this heat has a lot to answer for.

[Neila]

Wad coming down for the original scheduled meeting,  but due to wife's birthday can't make this one  for some reason she doesn't fancy a 800 mile round trip for fish and chips on Poole Quay, and a evening at wimboard Road.  Can see a fairly close meeting on the bonus point decided in heat 15 UTC 

[Woke23]

The poole post stated it was "gate and go". Were they watching the same meeting as me? Yes, when we (comets) gated, we usually won. However, when we didn't, we also passed a lot to get amongst the points, something Poole failed to do.

On another note, I'm unsure how today will go. Our best result last season at Poole was 52-38 in the play offs with Starke top scoring i believe. I expect a loss but not sure how much it'll be.

Edited yesterday at 09:30 AM by Woke23

[SaddlebowRoad]

13 minutes ago, Woke23 said:

The poole post stated it was "gate and go". Were they watching the same meeting as me? Yes, when we (comets) gated, we usually won. However, when we didn't, we also passed a lot to get amongst the points, something Poole failed to do.

On another note, I'm unsure how today will go. Our best result last season at Poole was 52-38 in the play offs with Starke top scoring i believe. I expect a loss but not sure how much it'll be.

biased and sour grape filled garbage

would expect nothing less 

[ruckerroo]

13 hours ago, Marksman said:

Something about it being slick, gate and go, tyres wearing out, losing the coin toss. All the excuses were coming out.

https://www.poole-speedway.com/news/view/20250712-reaction-disastrous-start-left-the-pirates-trailing-the-comets

Anyone who was there or streamed it saw exciting racing, what caught Poole out was not knowing what lines to ride. Vinnie, Tate, Fraser, Antti all made great overtakes that night and some in multiple races.

On a side note it was mentioned that 300 purchases were made for the live stream that night. Seems to be a success so far.

Dont forget the hot humid weather that tired the poor lads clean out on the drive up .

[LisaColette]

15 minutes ago, ruckerroo said:

Dont forget the hot humid weather that tired the poor lads clean out on the drive up .

Hot humid weather up north? Surely not. 😯 

 

49 minutes ago, Woke23 said:

The poole post stated it was "gate and go". Were they watching the same meeting as me? Yes, when we (comets) gated, we usually won. However, when we didn't, we also passed a lot to get amongst the points, something Poole failed to do.

On another note, I'm unsure how today will go. Our best result last season at Poole was 52-38 in the play offs with Starke top scoring i believe. I expect a loss but not sure how much it'll be.

It was a quote from Zach. Sure he'd be happy to have a conversation about it with you 👍

[foreverblue]

35 minutes ago, SaddlebowRoad said:

biased and sour grape filled garbage

would expect nothing less 

I do not think it was said it was gate and go just that we had wrong set ups and it was slick due to the weather.

[foreverblue]

5 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

Hot humid weather up north? Surely not. 😯 

 

It was a quote from Zach. Sure he'd be happy to have a conversation about it with you 👍

I did not think gate and go was mentioned. just it was slick and they had wrong set ups etc. I think he actually said gate and hold the inside. Riders always have excuses why they did not perform like looking down at your bike when you are at the back.