Poole Pirates Vs Edinburgh Monarchs play off Semi 1st Leg 16th September

[JanAndersen]

2 minutes ago, marko said:

Heat 1 and already dry and slick, not going to bother wasting my time watching another load of rubbish, there is football on ITV this evening.

Not to sound like a Glasgow fan and moan about tracks but I think this could be the worst £13.99 I’ve spent in a while.  

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

Put some f**king water down, heat 1 and it’s a dust bowl, there is no need for dust at all on an evening meeting 

[JanAndersen]

Double 

Edited 5 hours ago by JanAndersen

[BlueIn2Red]

Such a shame that one of the best attended tracks has such poor racing. I honestly don’t really know why the fans keep coming back, seeing heavy home wins and very little overtaking every week. But they do, so I guess you can’t really criticise the management for preparing things the way they do.

[Fromafar]

Lawson has his detractors but he does his talking on the Track.He certainly knows where to ride the Poole track.As usual away rider wins rider of the riders as it’s the away fans watching on BSN the do the % of the voting Paco.FFS.

[TheWellBehavedWorrall]

2 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

Put some f**king water down, heat 1 and it’s a dust bowl, there is no need for dust at all on an evening meeting 

What’s your professional view on this, Dean?

Having never ridden speedway, my perspective is; Poole build strong sides that have the ability to entertain, so why are their home meetings absolute brain damage in terms of quality speedway?

Is this accurate, or am I missing something?

That was a complete waste of money tonight. 

[Fromafar]

1 hour ago, BlueIn2Red said:

Such a shame that one of the best attended tracks has such poor racing. I honestly don’t really know why the fans keep coming back, seeing heavy home wins and very little overtaking every week. But they do, so I guess you can’t really criticise the management for preparing things the way they do.

They are doing something right.Good Management.

[Fromafar]

37 minutes ago, TheWellBehavedWorrall said:

What’s your professional view on this, Dean?

Having never ridden speedway, my perspective is; Poole build strong sides that have the ability to entertain, so why are their home meetings absolute brain damage in terms of quality speedway?

Is this accurate, or am I missing something?

That was a complete waste of money tonight. 

That meeting tonight was as entertaining as anything I have seen at Armadale this season.

[Fromafar]

37 minutes ago, TheWellBehavedWorrall said:

What’s your professional view on this, Dean?

Having never ridden speedway, my perspective is; Poole build strong sides that have the ability to entertain, so why are their home meetings absolute brain damage in terms of quality speedway?

Is this accurate, or am I missing something?

That was a complete waste of money tonight. 

That meeting tonight was as entertaining as anything I have seen at Armadale this season.

[StevePark]

2 hours ago, BlueIn2Red said:

Such a shame that one of the best attended tracks has such poor racing. I honestly don’t really know why the fans keep coming back, seeing heavy home wins and very little overtaking every week. But they do, so I guess you can’t really criticise the management for preparing things the way they do.

I think you've answered your own question there.

[Bitza]

1 hour ago, Fromafar said:

Lawson has his detractors but he does his talking on the Track.He certainly knows where to ride the Poole track.As usual away rider wins rider of the riders as it’s the away fans watching on BSN the do the % of the voting Paco.FFS.

Really great to see Lawson back to his usual self, bodes well for the remaining meetings. Slater is getting better by the heat, Zac is a handful for anyone, Lewis was sluggish to start yes but got it sorted, Kyle is more than was expected, Will had issues sure but can still win heats, Rushen is pulling his weight too. On top of the individual performances there was also some textbook team riding too winning more points. None of the opposition will be taking anything for granted 

The  knee jerk track criticism that inevitably follows any Pirates home win is just background noise, and the querying of why Pirate's fan's enjoy watching their team win is......kinda puzzling?

Edited 3 hours ago by Bitza

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

1 hour ago, TheWellBehavedWorrall said:

What’s your professional view on this, Dean?

Having never ridden speedway, my perspective is; Poole build strong sides that have the ability to entertain, so why are their home meetings absolute brain damage in terms of quality speedway?

Is this accurate, or am I missing something?

That was a complete waste of money tonight. 

I’m sick of dusty tracks, it’s not just Poole it seems to be everywhere in current speedway and ultimately it makes for crap racing, put some god damn water down and if the riders moan tell them to sod off and do something else, it seems no consideration is given to fans getting covered in dust these days, Poole attendance levels are maintained by their winning ethos but for a play off meeting I thought that crowd was poor 

[Fromafar]

1 hour ago, Bitza said:

Really great to see Lawson back to his usual self, bodes well for the remaining meetings. Slater is getting better by the heat, Zac is a handful for anyone, Lewis was sluggish to start yes but got it sorted, Kyle is more than was expected, Will had issues sure but can still win heats, Rushen is pulling his weight too. On top of the individual performances there was also some textbook team riding too winning more points. None of the opposition will be taking anything for granted 

The  knee jerk track criticism that inevitably follows any Pirates home win is just background noise, and the querying of why Pirate's fan's enjoy watching their team win is......kinda puzzling?

Slater is very impressive IMo.Certainly has the bike handling skills and track craft.