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A much tougher task awaits the glorious Glasgow Tigers this week , 7 days after their ruthless rout of the hapless Brummies . The Broon Ale boys roll into town and we have to tackle them without Mr Maximum . Yes Cookie has been banished to the Siberian Salt mines to take part in that silly Speedway of Nations nonsense this weekend . That leaves us scratching about hunting for a guest ( how do you replace perfection ) with only really someone like Son of God fitting the bill and available . Apart from that , we should be along the usual lines , while the Geordies have strengthened up since they were here last . They gave Jacob Buckfast a go for 10 minutes , but quickly dumped him when Ulrich Oystercard became available . Which meant Cleggy from Last of the summer wine dropped to reserve and they have a real solid look about them , plus Danny Phillips . Should be a hard fought encounter and hopefully we get the weather to do it justice . See you all in the Charlie Monk stand on Friday .

Hawkins is shocking isn't he? How did Heeps have 4 rides? Why give Scotty 4 rides? Kennett and Allen should have utilised more surely?

the latter still happens on the 3rd bend

You also forgot to say ipswich on a 5. 1 heat 8. then heeps had ef

The same Pugh that sold the stadium to Barrat Homes! (off subject I know, just wanted to put the boot in!).

They moan when he posts and they moan when he doesn’t. Unbelievable

Bit silly signing a rider you dont rate as good enough to be competitive on his new home track

Harris would have made this an away win. Looks very much like Poole got away with one here

We have been hit from the start with Bad Luck,, not for the want of trying. The decision to release riders was a good decision, replacing them with riders with a future. However we are 3 heat leaders out injured !!! who do we get in place of ?? its late in the season unless management has a card up their sleeve. Come on supporters get behind the Club, or loose it !

Happened for years , that is why it will never be taken seriously.

I don’t think they are. Ipswich still looking like the team to beat - in the playoffs!

Ok if either of them had woken up and scored like they should have we probably would of won you would have lost . Next topic nothing to see move on .

We got a point though,,, and maybe just maybe it will all come together when it matters.

Top of the league, baby!

Nice to see Dale Allitt about again and also helping out always did think he had a lot to do with our success last season.

A bit like the rollback in Asda

IN SS this week...

Perhaps he has done a Shovlar and disappeared off the planet for a while when his team loses! It happens.

Rained overnight and early morning in Poole but no more forecasted today!! Middlo flying back from Majorca today so will be extra interesting in the pits tonight. For home fans its always good to see Lawson in the pits - especially if he has his missus with him!!

More than happy for him to have another off night!

Ah that explains a lot, I never did find him in the game either.

And the racing at the AFA is equally poor. 12 from 15 heats are tapes to flag processions. Buster is even incapable of setting up a good racing track when the TV reaches any of his tracks. Is that deliberate or lack of ability? His "saving" of the TV contract has this season become an even more pathetic advert for UK speedway, with very few elderly supporters watching the four bikes play follow the leader almost inevitably. So why has it ended up like that? A statement seems long overdue Chairman Chapman. What does he think he is "selling". Excitement, speedy thrills, close racing? He is serving up none of those. even a move to One Big league ( which I would like to see ) will not improve the racing one whit unless the issue of the bikes and the tracks is addressed. UK speedway is dead in the water under Chapman & Godfrey.

That's not worrying, hopefully that's good news!!

Well done Redcar, now my team, see ya in a few week.

You didn't hear any Panthers fans moaning on Dec 20th despite Chapman. Perhaps you need to think a bit harder about it and ask what went wrong from that point and who was responsible?

Maybe the speedway is part of it, the circus, that is.

Quite likely....P'boro is Chapman's sanctuary for dumped and unwanted riders

lawson must have a problem riding against Poole as he was crap against us at Foxhall too!

A bit harsh Bash. He did it at Wolves which resulted in 2 last places for the reserve coming in.... There can be a lot of factors in the decision others than points scored. Rotchie certainly hasnt got everything right but I dont think he is clueless and he most definately has the faith of the 7 he oversees

EF while leading heat 8 for Cam so he couldve had 2 wins in his first 3 heats. Not a situation that would normally see a rider removed from ride 4 surely

Regarding Bates that’s an understatement. IMO

Time up for Jacob .

Or next month......

He has been at least at the same level as the Witches pair at Championship level for a number of years - has no excuse.

So nearly half of our race wins come from the reserves and still the only extra ride either of them gets is when KP touched the tapes.When will Hawkins ever learn to use them when they are going well? It is happening too often now to be able to give him the benefit of the doubt. I very much doubt we will ever win anything with him in charge !!!!

Wells found it tough against arguably the best two reserves in the league with Eddie K a Poole specialist and Allen quick around here. No suprise he found it tough tonight.

The management need to start fining riders who get excluded for moving at the start twice. Can barely remember a meeting at home where we haven’t had a rider excluded for moving at the tapes or touching them. the most brain dead way of gifting the oppo points and getting them back in the meeting.

Terry has left the post at Birmingham due to needing to reduce his workload as he's busy at Wolverhampton and Redcar so found it too much trying to fit Birmingham in as well. He isn't in the greatest of health but is still one of the best Trackman in the country which is why the SCB keep calling on his services to sort out ' troublesome ' track surfaces.

Many thanks for this link I have updated my favourites and hopefully it will resolve the issue I have been having for the past few weeks. It not only the Speedway Star where these results are missing. The speedway GB website may list the result of a match, but there sadly is very few details about these meetings.

Looks like they are all obsessed with everything he does. His name must be the most used word on the forum

Well done Redcar Bears, my Adopted team to do well this season

Good effort from Berwick last 6 heats done us 24 to 12

Probably why over 40000 fans attend the Cardiff GP annually. 3 hours of entertainment, good facilties, and the ticket prices haven't increased for years.

It’s all about VFM - and speedway in its current guise is miles away from that - IMHO

No idea if it was a mistake or he genuinely wanted the track like that but after the first few meetings where the track was similar to Monday it got a lot better with it not so grippy all over and no excessive grading. Monday was just like the start of the season again.

Love the spin that it is all to help NBJ in recovering from his illness

Bates fights his bike, he doesn't ride it. There will only be one winner, in the end. Difficult decisions coming up for Mr Dickson, don't envy him.

There are some great kids coming thru. Both Thompson twins, Leon Flint, Kemp, the Mcgurks, Jordan Palin to name a few. Think only Flint is 16. So yes a huge step up for them in next year or 2. IF it does go to one big league next year I hope they keep minimum one youngster at reserve for all teams. For their progression I’d like to see number 7s in the top flight all youngsters. And heat 8 protected as well, that way they get 2 races with their opposite number. Bring back the 2 point minimum average for top flight and include the kids at 7. We can all see how the Poles push their next generation. Guaranteed to stay at reserve as well. The only way clubs will invest in youth. The better clubs will cream the best kids but you only have to look at the best Polish teams who have 2 power packed reserves. The richest clubs will pay for the best kids, which is fine in my books If it means we put in a structure for the future. And not simply for a year quick fix.

I think they charge the most ££ to let them in too. Ford has been good for Poole, because it was making him money. Now it ain't he don't want to know. I think he threatened to pull out if it went to one league, not so long ago. Now he can't sell the club, so he wants it. Do me a favour

Do you not think the clubs that have already held them didn’t lose money on it then?. What a total lack of interest in British speedway the owners of Poole have shown. How you can even defend this is beyond me as it’s one of the very reasons the sport is on its knees.