Oxford V Poole 15/4/26 BSN 1st leg

[Arthur54]

2 hours ago, Neila said:

That wouldn't be the same Mr Bowes who was gonna be a world beater for the pilots 🤔. As I've said before your welcome to him and he is showing his true worth 😀

Where has it been said he's going to be a world beater 

[Arthur54]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

Always good racing at worky, ask cooper next week if he enjoys Workington track or Poole track best 😜😀

Doesn't matter which track he likes best, he's a Poole rider, end of 

[frigbo]

Well, that wasn't a classic was it!?

Any movement off the blue groove and riders just went backwards.

Took my Mrs to her first meeting since 2003 and she simply said "it's not as exciting as it used to be is it?"

You can't dish that sort of meeting up regularly.and hope to take the sport forward!

Edited 18 hours ago by frigbo

[Toady]

Enjoyed tonight, good to see some action after all that’s gone on recently. The crowd wasn't that bad, but obviously the weather played a part.

 

The Unipart car park situation was a bit embarrassing, but hopefully sorted for next week. The highlight for me was the Poole reaction when Killeen was excluded and then Wood replacing him for a 5-1 with Masters.

 

I will say for all those complaining about the track, for us to even have any Speedway to watch is something to be thankful for. 

[foreverblue]

As someone who was there, I would say the track was dire, I assume track wasnt watered due to possibility of  rain so it was very dusty and passing was almost impossible. They did go round with the water truck once but it was still very dusty. Riss was a big miss for Oxford but our riders were very poor early on, most surprising was Lawson. If Bowes rides like that again he deserves to go,awful from him. In the end we did well to score 39.

[foreverblue]

2 hours ago, Gavan said:

Well that was unexpected!!

Poole fans on here are just hilarious having the actual audacity to have a go at another track when the whole speedway fanbase knows Poole is by some way the worst track in the league 

Shovlar saying sedgeman is a good replacement for Riss either shows he is thick or simply trolling 

Let’s be fair if Oxford where at full strength they could have been close to 60

Sedgeman is a track specialist, he certainly didnt show it tonight though. 

[lucifer sam]

Cracking evening. 

Decent crowd considering the forecast - although would have been bigger had more Poole fans made the trip. Lot less Pirates' fans tonight than Coventry brought a fortnight ago. 

Track prepared for rain that didn't come, but still favoured those who attacked it. such as Mitch McDiarmid.

What a performance from Dayle Wood - masterclass in gating and also lovely team-riding in Heat 8 to ensure the 5-1. 

[foreverblue]

1 hour ago, Arthur54 said:

Where has it been said he's going to be a world beater 

What Neila making things up so he can have another go at Poole how surprising!!

[Pinny]

52 minutes ago, frigbo said:

Well, that wasn't a classic was it!?

Any movement off the blue groove and riders just went backwards.

Took my Mrs to her first meeting since 2003 and she simply said "it's not as exciting as it used to be is it?"

You can't dish that sort of meeting up regularly.and hope to take the sport forward!

I dont think they do hope to take the sport forward thats the problem. 

[Neila]

2 hours ago, foreverblue said:

What Neila making things up so he can have another go at Poole how surprising!!

Bowes would not be end of the World though as ultimately last season was his first in UK so maybe with the right attitude there may be more to come. 

Quote from a Poole fan before bowes signing was officially announced 

[Phannan]

8 hours ago, ASpeedwayfan said:

Is Amorim the most successful manager in football?

Are you the one without a sense of humour 

[Phannan]

8 hours ago, BackInTheDHSS said:

Middlo wasn't even there tonight, so shows how much attention you two paid. Danny Ford was team manager for the night.

Danny Ford .. the Ruben Amorim of the championship 

[Supersub]

Poor racing track-very slick, no grip, gate & go, virtually no passing& very boring to watch, waste of £13.99. Poole underperformed,There may well have been reasons but IMO:

Lawson-disapointing, Newman-poor, Kerr-average, Bowes-poor, Cook-Ok, Cairns disapointing but only 16,  Rushen-OK

12 points should make 2nd leg interesting but generally Poole excel at Poole

 

[ASpeedwayfan]

21 minutes ago, Supersub said:

Poor racing track-very slick, no grip, gate & go, virtually no passing& very boring to watch, waste of £13.99. Poole underperformed,There may well have been reasons but IMO:

Lawson-disapointing, Newman-poor, Kerr-average, Bowes-poor, Cook-Ok, Cairns disapointing but only 16,  Rushen-OK

12 points should make 2nd leg interesting but generally Poole excel at Poole

 

Poole were poor but, Rushen gave it 110% and I thought was impressive, sadly he’s a racer and the track was a railway. Cairns did his job, Bowes was poor. 

[Arthur54]

5 hours ago, Neila said:

Bowes would not be end of the World though as ultimately last season was his first in UK so maybe with the right attitude there may be more to come. 

Quote from a Poole fan before bowes signing was officially announced 

Still nothing about being a world beater 

[ONTWOMINUTES]

9 hours ago, frigbo said:

Well, that wasn't a classic was it!?

Any movement off the blue groove and riders just went backwards.

Took my Mrs to her first meeting since 2003 and she simply said "it's not as exciting as it used to be is it?"

You can't dish that sort of meeting up regularly.and hope to take the sport forward!

Your Mrs quote is exactly spot on , no more words needed to sum up speedway nowadays. 

[Pirates Of Poole]

Well done to Oxford, they wanted it more than majority of our boys.

Track was set up for rain, slick and not ideal for racing but that’s the way it went.

Two poor away meetings now and we need to see an improvement from a couple of the boys in the main part of the team. 
Coops should have had more than 4 rides, why we kept Newman and Bowes in their 4th ride is beyond me. It’s all good and well scoring well at home but we need them to show up away. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Pirates Of Poole

[LisaColette]

20 minutes ago, Pirates Of Poole said:

Well done to Oxford, they wanted it more than majority of our boys.

Track was set up for rain, slick and not ideal for racing but that’s the way it went.

Two poor away meetings now and we need to see an improvement from a couple of the boys in the main part of the team. 
Coops should have had more than 4 rides, why we kept Newman and Bowes in their 4th ride is beyond me, the only point they scored was because the other Poole rider packed up. It’s all good and well scoring well at home but we need them to show up away. 

Newman only had 3 rides. They took him out for the TS ride, did they not? Not sure about Bowes. Maybe they hoped he was going to gate and pin it on the inside. 

[Pirates Of Poole]

Just now, LisaColette said:

Newman only had 3 rides. They took him out for the TS ride, did they not? Not sure about Bowes. Maybe they hoped he was going to gate and pin it on the inside. 

You are correct. He was taken out for the TS

[marko]

I know we have people on here with experience of track preparation so my question is, when you have a situation like last night where the rain doesnt come and clearly from looking at the sky it isnt going to come anytime soon, how long would it take to get the track back to a state where you could get water into it and also not have a blue line?