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I have a holiday caravan in South Devon and, as well as following my home town team, I have followed Exeter Falcons and the Plymouth Devils/Gladiators as well as the Somerset Rebels. At the Arena I have seen some cracking meetings over the years including those when Plymouth started up again and were in speedways third tier. The track might be a bit tricky but I've seen some spectacular overtaking and there's no time for the riders to get strung out like I saw at the NSS on Monday. If anyone reading this is having a holiday in South Devon or North Cornwall this summer, I urge you to go to the Coliseum for a good night's speedway. There's plenty of free parking in the Coypool Park and Ride Car Park and plenty of seating!

In other words there is nothing wrong with it this season. Especially now they have improved it with the extra banking.

Sadly because it fits an agenda used by a minority of the people on this platform. Sadly, this minority won't be happy until they see another club fold and close, without realising the knock on effect of such a decision. It would leave an entire region, not just a city/town - the whole of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Gloucestershire without a team. Just let that sink in for a minute? Millions of people without a team to support, they'd rather that happened than see the Gladiators make a good go at things. I really feel for Mark, he's constantly getting battered from all sides (including by riders from other clubs!) despite doing what he can with what he's got. People are more than entitled to their views I get that, hence why we are on a public forum discussing it however most of the time, it's not constructive, it's not helpful and it's hurtful what people say about the Gladiators.... However, it's us against the world and we're going to embrace that!! "No one likes us, we don't care... We are Plymouth..."

It is the annual "Leicester already need to make changes" thread.....

Have I missed a forum directive that members have to put their holiday details on the forum?? Surely this would be of no interest to any other poster and pointless!!

Unless you live within easy driving distance of Manchester- 4 nights hotel to be added on and it becomes a different proposition.

I used the Lions stream for the Ipswich match the other week - that started about ten minutes before tapes up - have to say it was very good, am tempted to do so for this match too.

Well done the witches. For tiger.

Nothing to do with rustiness if you're going to be honest.

Your own!!

Yeah, as long as he leaves the track prep to the track staff

Mention idiot & he’s straight on.

Done on both. Sanitised, de-personalised and re-pointed.

Just got home after a nip and tuck match - thought Sheffield had done enough to throw away what looked at various points to be a routine win, between engine failures and a fall when in points scoring positions, and Tai having a bad night I feared the worst… but hats off to the Holder brothers, they did the business when they had to. Not the most exciting meeting racing wise, but the scores being within a couple of points all night kept it interesting.

Can't agree that's an easy decision. Sedgemen may score more than Kemp, but Riss would score less than Masters.

Can’t wait for this one tomorrow! Big support for our lads and lass !

Hopefully

Sticking with Dan Thompson looks like great business from the Witches. Does Kerr ever get any luck when he starts going well?

Lewis withdrawn at Oxford hope it's not to serious

Good luck.

Well I am now going to miss two meetings rather than one unless lucky. Flight from Venice to Bristol at 2pm. Get to Bristol by 4pm. Clear customs and baggage by 5pm. Two hour drive. Highly unlikely I make it. Just for you Poolekeith.

Charles Wright +0 vs Danny King Niels Kristian Iversen -2 vs Norick Blodorn DOUBLE

Hagon isn't a complete novice. Rode half a season for Birmingham last year & scored double figures for Poole in his only match so far this year.

At least the weather is looking good over on the east side, looking poor over here on the west again, looking forward to the trip over on the sold out supporters bus UTC

Some Poole supporter you are fancy going on holiday in the speedway season will be down on the 15th with worky

There is a car park at the stadium but gets full pretty quickly if your not there by 6.45 ish Alternative is to still follow the signs to the stadium but park in the shopping complex car park. no charge and four hours limit. We use it all of the time without any problems. Then follow folk to the stadium which is about a 10 minute walk. Enjoy.

They've had ONE match and that was AWAY on a less than perfect track for gods sake !

Would like to see Robert lambert and riders like him at Poole every week tho lisa

Robert likes a bit of oil as well

it will only get worse as the lower limit is going to falsely inflate averages so the leagues "better" riders won't be as good as they were 10 years ago and the competition at the bottom will become poorer for it. British Speedway needs strengthening from the bottom up not top down if its to have any chance of surviving.

Because it was awful for years Glad to hear it's been much better the last couple of seasons. Hole free tracks are the future

Certain people will always want to criticize the track.

Change the record, there is nothing wrong with the track, it's called the great british weather, how many meetings have been lost to the weather all ready across the country

Grudziadz v Lublin Grudziadz 9 Fricke 10 Pludra 11 Lidsey 12 Tarasenko 13 Doyle 14 Lobodzinski 15 Malkiewicz 16 Lublin 1 Kubera 2 J Holder 3 Lindgren 4 Cierniak 5 Zmarzlik 6 Przyjemski 7 B Banbor 8 Gorzow v Torun Gorzow 9 Wozniak 10 O Fajfer 11 Vaculik 12 Miskowiak 13 Thomsen 14 Paluch 15 Stojanowski 16 Torun 1 Dudek 2 Lambert 3 Lampart 4 Przedpelski 5 Sayfutdinov 6 Lewandowski 7 Affelt 8

IMO as the rider is missing due to a Non Negative test then the club should only be allowed a guest upto his average

It will but surely thats the wrong way round? Once he is proficient in the NJL then he graduates to the NDL. Im not picking on Parker, thers plenty of riders who have been dropped into the league far too early, i can't even blame the riders for grabbing the opportunity its the promotions who go with the sink or swim mentality.

Excellent.

Think you're being a bit harsh why would Edinburgh sack anyone if they lose by six?

It seems that more Scottish football clubs were happy to share their stadiums with speedway than South of the border. One of the few I know is Halifax, and of course, they have been out of the EFL for a while now...

I fully expect to be six up after heat 2.

I visited his Museum in Loanhead a number of years ago.It was amazing.I suppose Ian will be fair age now.Hence the sale.Shame really that it has to be broken up.

Would love to see a Ipswich victory dedicated to the memory of Suffolk and Ipswich legend John Louis. RIP tiger.

Probably just a typo error Don't think it that big a deal mate

Time to rack up as big a score as we can and keep momentum going. Nice to feel positive and happy going to meetings... It's been a hard few years as a Berwick fan!

I disagree, can't see any major sponsorship deal being scuppered by the use of guests. If guest use were sold by virtue of Speedway needing the system because it is so dangerous and the injury rate so high it is impossible to keep a reasonably level playing field without them it could even be seen as a positive by some brands. Where it would be a more difficult sell could be if guests are used to cover riders who are competing elsewhere.

Visited Riga a couple of weeks ago and really liked the place. Just over 2 hours flight from the UK and the airport is only 20 mins by bus from the town centre. I asked the guy on reception at our hotel how far the track was and he said it's about 20/25 mins by bus from the centre. Will definitely go back for a GP, but not this year. Wroclaw as said above is brilliant. Close airport. Track is served by direct trams taking 10/15 mins and a great town centre. Going to Warsaw in May and will report back.

well, i am glad that i am not the only one!! i collect programmes, only fill in the meetings i go to thou, and i also note passes, falls and where they occur, what lap, and the position in the race they are. also note at the bottom/top/side any warnings, fines etc dished out by a ref. yep..can relate to that! oh yes, and sometimes there can be some handy and useful news in those notes too!! if your looking for club rumours!! thanks Beowulf....you have put my mind to rest..there was me thinking i was the only anorak !!!!

As a programme collector, I of course have to purchase a programme. Not only do I fill in the usual details but I also note the passes i.e. lap and bend that they occurred. I find this very useful when dissecting the match afterwards over a beer when I can back up what I say! Each to their own but I find filling in a programme is part of the enjoyment. Also if you use a programme board, it is useful to wave at the riders on their victory lap. Finally and overlooked, it is nice to actually read the programme and see what the management have got to say for themselves

I think you are wrong there porky, My friend thoroughly enjoyed the meeting inc. the programme filling. If you don't want to fill one in then that's entirely down to personal discretion. I very rairly fill a programme in when I go to Iwade.............I wait for Sean to post the results in on here and then copy it down so it's nice and neat, and then placed with the rest of my collection, that incidently have a value to some people within the sport, eg: World Finals, GP's and for me Wimbledon NLRC back in the 70's nice to look back on and reflect days gone by.