Plymouth v Poole 1/08/2026

[lewy]

So anze grmek rode last night at Plymouth then caught the same flight to Poland as Dan Thompson who rides for the same team as zach cook. Cook could have rode at Plymouth and got the same flight but Poole thought they could bring in Edwards who rides Plymouth better than cook but the powers to be were wise to this hence the reduced facility i.e 75% average blatantly caught out trying to cheat or complete lack of commitment from cook or maybe both you decide but these are the facts. Win at all costs backfired on the cheating pirates. 

[LisaColette]

2 minutes ago, lewy said:

So anze grmek rode last night at Plymouth then caught the same flight to Poland as Dan Thompson who rides for the same team as zach cook. Cook could have rode at Plymouth and got the same flight but Poole thought they could bring in Edwards who rides Plymouth better than cook but the powers to be were wise to this hence the reduced facility i.e 75% average blatantly caught out trying to cheat or complete lack of commitment from cook or maybe both you decide but these are the facts. Win at all costs backfired on the cheating pirates. 

We dont know what time Poland want Cook there for. Dan T sometimes doesnt even get a ride, so slightly different. 

Anyway I am sure Poole would rather have Zach there as a first choice! If Zach doesnt want to ride Plymouth, can't say i really blame him.

[lewy]

13 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

We dont know what time Poland want Cook there for. Dan T sometimes doesnt even get a ride, so slightly different. 

Anyway I am sure Poole would rather have Zach there as a first choice! If Zach doesnt want to ride Plymouth, can't say i really blame him.

Have you ever had a ride at Plymouth?

Edited Sunday at 08:31 AM by lewy

[Arthur54]

17 minutes ago, lewy said:

So anze grmek rode last night at Plymouth then caught the same flight to Poland as Dan Thompson who rides for the same team as zach cook. Cook could have rode at Plymouth and got the same flight but Poole thought they could bring in Edwards who rides Plymouth better than cook but the powers to be were wise to this hence the reduced facility i.e 75% average blatantly caught out trying to cheat or complete lack of commitment from cook or maybe both you decide but these are the facts. Win at all costs backfired on the cheating pirates. 

Perhaps Zach was booked on the same flights that Klint used to get 

[lewy]

5 minutes ago, Arthur54 said:

Perhaps Zach was booked on the same flights that Klint used to get 

Only talking facts

[Arthur54]

5 minutes ago, lewy said:

Only talking facts

Does it really matter now, Plymouth won and Poole lost, let's just move on to the next meetings.

I personally don't agree with it, specially as the meeting in Poland was not until Sunday, they will be the death of speedway in this country 

Edited Sunday at 08:39 AM by Arthur54

[Bluekevin]

At the end of season Poole in play offs. Plymouth  in bottom 3. Luke very un lucky last night,a crash and mechanical. Hope to see him guesting for us again soon. Why are Plymouth so jealous of a good team.

[Arthur54]

1 minute ago, Bluekevin said:

At the end of season Poole in play offs. Plymouth  in bottom 3. Luke very un lucky last night,a crash and mechanical. Hope to see him guesting for us again soon. Why are Plymouth so jealous of a good team.

Not just Plymouth, it's the old saying, everyone hates winners 

[foreverblue]

32 minutes ago, LisaColette said:

We dont know what time Poland want Cook there for. Dan T sometimes doesnt even get a ride, so slightly different. 

Anyway I am sure Poole would rather have Zach there as a first choice! If Zach doesnt want to ride Plymouth, can't say i really blame him.

Dan T isnt  listed as down to ride  today in Poland.

[Arthur54]

6 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Dan T isnt  listed as down to ride  today in Poland.

Perhaps he miss took it for his brother 😂

[arnieg]

20 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Dan T isnt  listed as down to ride  today in Poland.

That's pretty normal, no 8's are often named on the day. But let me amend your original post:

Dan Thompson isn't down to ride watch today in Poland

[Neila]

1 hour ago, lewy said:

Have you ever had a ride at Plymouth?

Well it is a navy base so one does not know the truth 😜 sorry couldn't resist 😀

[foreverblue]

1 hour ago, lewy said:

Have you ever had a ride at Plymouth?

Have you? Im guessing you have or you would not have asked.  I assume you think you  need to have ridden there in order to voice an opinion 

Edited Sunday at 10:22 AM by foreverblue

[LisaColette]

1 minute ago, foreverblue said:

Have you?

It is just the typical line trotted out when an argument is lost.

Anyway back to the debate, Will Cairns is also riding in Poland today after riding at Plymouth last night. 👀

[Jonnybegood]

9 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

Have you? Im guessing you have or you would not have asked.  I assume you think you  need to have ridden there in order to voice an opinion 

Lewy rides regularly at plymouth tbh 

[Robinh88]

2 hours ago, arnieg said:

If that's keeping averages down then Poole are shockingly bad at it.

Lawson, Cairns, Newman and Kerr basically rode to their average, 4 from four will cause only a small drop in Rushen's average, and Harrison/Ward are irrelevant.

If a team is dropping averages they will be going for narrow wins and the occasional big defeat, not narrow defeats.

Lol aye

[Bagpuss]

All this missing meetings here to be in Poland stuff has to stop next year, as I've said several times before the BSPL need to grow a set and veto signings where riders are going to be absent regularly, and in the case of FIM meetings organise the fixtures much, much better.

[SteveLyric2]

2 hours ago, foreverblue said:

Dan T isnt  listed as down to ride  today in Poland.

Are you sure? Its one of Lewy's 'facts'!🤣

Maybe, just maybe Zach was assisting Brady Kurtz in the SGP Lodz pits??😇

[Neila]

1 hour ago, Bagpuss said:

All this missing meetings here to be in Poland stuff has to stop next year, as I've said several times before the BSPL need to grow a set and veto signings where riders are going to be absent regularly, and in the case of FIM meetings organise the fixtures much, much better.

If they do sign for polish teams any replacement can only be NDL should be a new rule

[poole keith]

4 hours ago, arnieg said:

If that's keeping averages down then Poole are shockingly bad at it.

Lawson, Cairns, Newman and Kerr basically rode to their average, 4 from four will cause only a small drop in Rushen's average, and Harrison/Ward are irrelevant.

If a team is dropping averages they will be going for narrow wins and the occasional big defeat, not narrow defeats.

Almost impossible for a" team "to drop the average,can be done individually eg supposedly lawson but only by penalising a team mate,as a team how would you work out or agree on who's going to get the bonus point,even 3 -3s could get feisty,and of course could be dangerous (of course a teams average can go down if they're rubbish)