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Meetings between these two rarely disappoint and this was another cracker watched by a huge crowd with plenty of travelling support , from Ht1 that saw Doolan and Worrall passing and re-passing right up to Ht15 that saw a typically spectacular ride from Chris Harris there was value for money in every race. Big crowd, great racing, close score, value for money and a meeting done and dusted in good time, more of the same each week please, the speedway season has started.

Following the injury to Martin Vaculik on Thursday I’ve been looking for any official details of his injury I come on to the thread ( not very often these days due to the drivel that some spew out) to find out only to read 10 pages of Swindon bashing and the same sh**e over and over again,by the same offender Pretty sad really when your not even a Swindon supporter hey Facts are nobody forced them on to the track,accidents happen and that’s speedway just a shame that we’ve lost Martin Get well soon and look forward to the next time he’s on the bike Shirl

I want to see 2 evenly matched sides in most matches not NL rider to stand in for stupid rules

Lakeside's average crowd is probably a fair bit lower than it was 5or 6 years ago, but that is symptomatic of many clubs, these days. I put that down mainly to the disastrous way the sport has been mismanaged in recent years. I see the rule that stopped riders from getting off the bike to prepare the start has been dropped already, barely a month into th e season, the latest example of how Chapman & Co stagger from one crazy idea to the next. Ipswich are fortunate in that they are apparently one of the very few clubs whose attendances have gone against the trend, but many others were in dire financial crisis at the end of last season. One thing that hasn't been mentioned on the thread was timing. Parade was at 8.pm, first race a little before 8.15, last race finished 1hr 20 min later, so credit to the ref for keeping it moving, as last weeks ref did well, so credit where it's due. I think a lot of Lakeside's supporters stopped going and maybe got out of the speedway habit as a result of last years disatrous decision to drop to NL, not that the club had much choice at the time, but some work has to be done now to win the missing fans back.

Only reason Swindon won the league last year was because you got lucky in the final. And nearly made a complete mess of that as well!

Says someone whose home track is Blunsdon. You rarely see a good meeting at Swindon. Nearly always spaced out. Come down Wednesday and lets see how our newly laid track does.

Bet Gavan is getting excited, Kurtz v Morris

Max Fricke is going to be some rider, he's brilliant now, future world champion in my opinion

Probably yet another victory for the Robins down in deepest darkest Dorset. Poole 44-46 Swindon

The problem at Lakeside is that the spectators spread themselves out so much that even a decent crowd can look scanty. Certainly, compared to last season, it was a bumper crowd. The crunch will come when we have decent weather which always, at Lakeside at least, puts a lot on the gate.

Gavan a question for you, would you like Matt Ford as your promoter at Ipswich

And his home average this year?? Near unbeatable. RR won't cover him and weakens the Aces significantly home and away. You would have to know very little about speedway to to not see that.

The irony of this is unbelievable....Wasn’t you the one who said “i’ll Believe Hans over a riders Dad who was there” & now this....you can’t make this up.

Have to laugh at you. On Wednesday you stated Belle Vue would have won at Poole but for Cook and Worrall missing. Now Cook is back and r/r covers Worrall very well, Belle Vue are at home and Poole, with the same team, are going to win away by at least 10? The trouble is Gavan you can be read like an old book. This post was made for the sole purpose of coming on here on Monday night after the meeting to say how Poole choked against a “so called” weakened Belle Vue team. The Aces aren’t really weakened at home. Worrall can be covered easily with r/r. Etheridge is no loss at all. A rider from the Colts team could easily strengthen the Aces. If Poole win it will be hard won. We have a chance, yes, but Belle Vue are still favourites to win the meeting. They are a likely playoff team. You will have to do better than that.

Typical numpty comment from a no nothing.

Poole fan??? Definitely not a Poole fan!

So who has ultimate responsibility for speedway meetings? I'm presuming the referee by authority delegated to him/her from the ACU. Has to be someone in command, otherwise you get chaos with every Tom Dick and Harry trying to lay claim to being in authority. By all means the referee can listen and seek opinions, but they should be able to intervene with full authority and take charge when these situations exist, where so many variables are at play. I won't shift from my view this was caused, as most system failures are, by weak management and fully agree that it needs prompt investigation with Crystal clear directives.

796 tickets left for Motor - Start tomorrow, it will be a sell out again

There’s not an automatic right to all four back no - but standing on the second bend it was clear to see all four made a good start together it got nipped up and Bowtell from gate two made clear contact with haertel and haertel with Morley on the outside - both continued on trying to save it and subsequently fell of on their own but it was a clear case of first bend bunching and the ref denied the paying public of a speedway race with all four riders back in! Wouldn’t have made much difference to be result but just seemed a very harsh decision on the two young lads racing hard for the first corner!

When these situations happens, it should be essential that the BSPA learn from them and make amendments to address any issues that became evident. It is wrong to place the blame squarely on the Referee. Track conditions can change and riders opinions can as well. We need to have guidelines in place to react when these situations happen...

You've basically said everything I was going to say. Great meeting, some superb racing, Harris amazing moves, big travelling support, close meeting, juniors racing afterwards, in other words a great advert for the sport. What I would give to see Chris Harris racing here every week. A pure racer.

Don't think the outcome would have been any different if Bach/Klindt had been in instead of Jensen/Bewley; I was expecting a 1-5 in heat 13 from Wells/Riss which almost happened and there would probably have been a repeat or worse in 15 had Bach/Klindt been nominated. To be fair, Jensen was probably our best rider of the night and Bewley could do with any extra track time available.

Tracks should have a 2 minute clock on the centre green..Do what you like within the 2 mins. Note that don't mean 2 mins of doing the garden in nearly all cases.Most riders get up to the tapes with a minute or less on the clock.Well if there was one, that is..

Mate, any NEW track is far easier to maintain than an old one, you just have to keep on top of it. if you have a curator that knows his stuff it will not be a problem.

the last time you saw any decent racing at Swindon was when Darcy rode for you

Poole track is awful. I left half way through. I knew it was bad but watching on tv you just fast forward after bend three lap one. Being there in person and not having that option was mind numbing, just terrible. Monday can’t come quick enough.

Already ridden it and said it was excellent. Swindon lucky he is not back for Wednesday.

never seen anything like that hook up before

The Clerk of the Course offered the riders the chance to try the track out b4 the meeting. Nobody took up the offer.

Gavan isn't that bothered about Ipswich so I don't think he would mind.

Many years ago, in what might be called the "Good Old Days" of Speedway in the 70's, one of my best friends was a promoter and with that association, I learned about a lot of the problems that he faced. One of them was wet and rainy days. What he told me was that in spite of, maybe, working hard to get the meeting on, far too few people attended anyway, so money was lost in spite of all the effort. So he changed his whole attitude to such situations and called a meeting off when the weather looked "Iffy". He still got criticised, but at least kept his bank balance intact.

Its like saying James shanes is a world beater after scoring a maximum 15 at the begining of last season for Poole against Wolves. At least ten meetings needed to show a true average. A meaningless 90th anniversary meeting where riders are testing etc and one home meeting against Swindon are not a true reflection of a riders average.

What are you Actually doing on a Poole thread if you don’t like Poole? If I don’t like something I don’t set up camp there. I avoid what I don’t like. If I set up camp on the Ipswich thread and posted the same drivel you post on here, they would think I am some kind of nutter needing assistence from the local loony bin. The only reason you post on a Poole thread is quite simply because you are an internet troll. There is absolutely no other reason. I know it, you know it and so do the majority of fans who frequent the Poole thread. oh, and the last time I looked James Shanes is a young Brit.

He has a visa, he needs some bit of paper to go with it to allow him to ride in our league. He had got the same to ride for Kings Lynn before the Meet the Riders night and expected to to receive clearance to ride in our league in the next few days. Anyway he turned up for P&P so that must count....lol

On the whole Proctor situation, how can a rider be declared in a teams 1-7 even though he doesn’t have clearance to ride in the country and a guest be allowed to take his place.

Pila v Gdansk should be on here http://kino-tv.info/eleven3/

Thought you would be crying on the Lakeside V Ipswich thread trying to work out how your so called team got humiliated. But no, we find you on the Poole thread as usual. As a matter of interest Skidder said the virtually same as me. But his was “unbiased”. Lol.

Nope, I don't have his number! Fingers crossed for Sunday.

To confirm this Franz Heck of Berlin was indeed the rider who won at the Nürburgring in 1928. If he had been practising "dirt-track" in Berlin before making his debut at Hamburg-Lokstedt in that 1929 season, he can only have ridden on one of the Berlin horse trotting tracks at Mariendorf and Ruhleben (long-tracks of 1,000 and 1,200m length), which were used for motorcycle track racing at the time. In 1929 there was no shorter "dirt-track" speedway in Berlin. Such a track was eventually opened in Berlin in March of 1930, but was not a great success. It was a much smaller oval compared to Hamburg Lokstedt. The Berlin Dirt Track was only 333m long and was built inside the existing 400m cycle track at the Olympia-Radrennbahn in Plötzensee. Other tracks for dirt-track racing in those "boom" years of 1929 and 1930 in Germany were opened at Breslau, Munich, Stuttgart, Oberhausen, Cologne, and a number of other towns, but soon the novelty factor wore off, and most of these enterprises did not last very long. In fact , Oberhausen was the only pre-war track track that was still used (revived) for Speedway after WW2, and well into the 1960s.

Sure reserve switches are still allowed, could have cost Eastbourne the win. Not sure what happened regarding Kelsey's bike, couldn't understand why he didn't use someone's else bike in his scheduled 2nd ride and then came out late and missed the 2 mins in Ht8 on Marks bike, mistakes like that could have cost the Eagles the win. Devils unlucky with Cockle having a off night but overall a good meeting with Eastbourne deservingly just edging it. Edwards a fine young prospect.

Geoff I think u owe the management an apology...the news about Ty being replaced by Charles Wright was posted on their official site at 1016hrs...20 mins BEFORE your remarks !!

They won`t drop any points tomorrow- 52-38 will be the score

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It’s embarrassing when your last sentence is actually accurate!

After the event & what is said is not a fact. It’s hindsight which has been explained to you. Pls come along to the Abbey to watch your beloved Poole & perhaps you can call the Swindon promotion liars to their faces rather than hiding behind a keyboard. Bring all the facts with you. Oh, MPT also said that the track was fine on the track walk...I can also pick out what I want from social media.

If the riders arrive in dry weather at a place that has been dry for 36 hours plus, why would they be racing in a swamp? If a track can't be prepared with 36 hours of dry weather, the SCB need to be looking at the competence of the track curator. Or are we now to call off any meeting at any track where it has rained within the last two days or so? Why is Stoke always the club struggling to complete their fixtures because of an extraordinary number of dodgy call-offs? Amazing they can find enough gullible riders to make a team, when it's always the same story.

I think we can all agree the Promoters are in a no win situation regarding the weather.

How long did it take Poole to sort their pot holes out?And this was where 4 riders were going at 65mph

My thoughts on stadium. PR should start at the beginning ie car park which in my opinion is good enough to use as a motocross track first sight of it is enough to put any nubies off. If you get past that although there are alterations inside stadium from when Len was there I wouldn't call them improvements. From where I sat in the stand on the home straight the view of the 2nd bend was slightly obscured and the mist and rain last night made matters worse. If you have mobility problems and usually watch from near the fence on the flat I think you may have trouble seeing the riders going down the back straight (especially if you have to sit in a chair/wheelchair). The seating that was under the referees box last year has been rebuilt with scaffolding and wooden steps which are definitely not user friendly for people with mobility problems. The ref is now in a porta cabin and hopefully can see all the track. Oh well perhaps thing's will look better when the weather improves, I will go again but am not impressed with "improvements" hopefully the team can make up for that.

Tried to post a couple of photos but the forum doesn’t seem to like the urls from the image hosting site I use. Here’s my waffle on the MotoX track copied from the Rye House fans page on Facebook : Ironic that after all the worries about views we lose a meeting (at least partly) due to visibility from mist. My experience was this, after getting to the track 75 minutes before tapes up and squeezing in to the very last spot at the front of the viewing platform next to the ref’s box I actually had an OK view. Though being 6’5” and getting a spot at the very highest viewing point in the stadium (with the possible exception of the last row of the bleachers on the second/third bend) certainly contributed significantly to that. However, I can’t see how everyone in the stadium can have had a satisfactory view without those advantages. I’m certainly concerned I won’t have one if I don’t manage to get a spot in the same place for future meetings (and there will, hopefully, be plenty of busier ones where good spots will be even more at a premium). I had hoped to try out a few other spots in later heats but obviously that became impossible. At the very best, the moto-cross track is a distraction from the racing, at worst I can see it being a real obstruction to viewing at points around the track. The concerted PR campaign about it from the track announcer (even dragging Scott Nicholls in to tow the company line) was an irritation too, albeit a minor one. I’m reserving final judgement until another meeting or two and see how things settle down (speaking of which, I wouldn’t be surprised if some work had been done to level off some of the bumps in the MotoX track since the original photos and videos were taken, which is a good move if so). A pity that we lost a meeting featuring some good, promising racing - Leicester’s much hyped new stars seemed ill at ease on our track and our riders seemed to be coming together well before conditions got too treacherous.