philfromcov

i wonder if ward will have "an off night"?

perhaps they will buy a complex with a track already around it? just a thought!

i look forward to the play off final, which year was it that the poole leg got postponed many times? clearly that cant happen anymore........... but lets wait and see shall we its a sorry mess that will be glossed over again, they should just have come out in heat 10 and that would have been it. it will make no difference to the league standings anyway. no it shouldn't have gone ahead, i blame myself for entering the stadium

can we have a competition on how much his average will drop? ill kick it off by saying he will drop 1.20

because we were not there perhaps and cant comment!

think there is n normally more than 2000, but as the stadium holds 8000 not "packed" then! there were more than 100 in the main bar not sure how many actually turned up. it was all set for a big friday and then got stuck on sky so i would say he probably lost about £40,000 because of the change

agree with the statement except the bit about the points, in the playoffs they will be irrelevant anyway

the go speed statement asking 48 hours if it should be postponed , if true (?) confirms that it couldnt be postponed on the day because of sky. the disturbing thing for me is that the track is prepared not by the home guys but by go speed/sky team. If you find the tweet from Harris and the picture of the track "looking good" was his phrase and then compare it with the track that was there at 7pm, all the top layer had been removed and the starts had been completely ripped up, essentially destroying any home advantage, so what is the point, so we can get to ten heats. This is the real scandal ignoring all the handbags. so unless your track is normally bald as a coot (poole) essentially SKY can determine if you have a home advantage or not, which is not right its all about home advantage, take that away and it becomes farcical

problems is "deemed to be fit by the powers" actually means SKY TV, the ref has no power on the matter when sky is in town. i am not justifying coventrys actions clearly dummys were being thrown out, just the fact that it started knowing it was only going ten heats which means me as a paying punter no one gives a S*&t about me

it was raining before heat 1! in your world do you ever look outside and look up at the clouds and the wind and rain and think "you know what its going to get wet" or do you sit in the armchair with a nice fire and think "its not raining here" The pictures do not show how bad the weather was. the point of this as someone who went and through loyalty to the sport still went in knowing i was getting mugged off, it wont be happening again!

sorry i was told at the gate that it was going to be ten heats, but i still went in! the track looked woeful. the last point the track is set up by the SKY team for the TV and not done locally.

as someone else who threw his £18 in the gutter, not an armchair fan, the life blood of the sport, first off, i totally agree with game ons three points above however... It was VERY obvious this was going to be a ten heat meeting from the off, so as a paying public: It should never have started, im already being ripped off, second there is no good complaining about the track when you are losing and KNOW it was going to be ten heats. Why do Sky set the track up?, it had been completely ripped up to provide no home advantage, the start gate was shockingly bad even before the start. the bigger issue is if the ref or the team has no control over the event then we need to pull out of the SKY contract. a complete farce but also not very happy with the way the coventry team approached it either. No blame can be put on Poole for this, no matter how much we would like to blame them!

so this track is far worse than warsaw, but they are still riding!

a number of riders clearly were not happy with the track. it is however difficult to know the truth as these were also riders carrying injuries and did not want to make that worse at the start of the season. I think its clear that a full medical now has to take place before they are allowed to race, i sorry but they cant have it both ways. AJ, pulled out because of an injury bachelor clearly wasn't fit, so should have been ruled out Holder, is understandable nervous after numerous bad crashes, but again you know what you take on in the Gp's so unless you are fully fit you shouldnt be allowed near the track. just wonder if they would have been so quick to rule the track unsafe, if it was Melbourne and the title on the line? i think not im not excusing the complete farce of the rest of it, we have come to expect it! cardiff a couple of years ago nearly got called off, for poor track, again they raced so what is the difference? so any rider who is having a bad GP can now blame the track and get it stopped, why would cardiff be any different?

interestring now after a nght sleep, its the riders are being questioned now. lets be frank the whole thing was a shambles, but that includes the riders attitide too! we have all seen worse its a one of track what did they expect? has this now set the precident? certainly already thinking twice about cardiff, because it always has ruts

think its more to do with the takings for drink and food than having a pee!

it was great to see PK at his best. but apart from four heats 1/9/10/11 wolves were not up to much. disappointed in Lindgren giving the ref the finger, it wasnt his fault that he came off the bike with no one near him was it!

im sure we went round this loop last year and if i remember tight you cant have a guest for a rider that has not made an appearance, with robbo out just as well jamroll made his farewell/first appearance last week. mind you if we cant beat this wolves team we should pack up and go home..... famous ;last words

surely a carrier pigeon would be required?

I watched Kennet do a passing move once... 1976 for white city pity it was his dad Always looked like he was going to but just never did

thanks neil, thought so. that will be mine name on it then! as im doing the ride n slide in September a good opportunity to crash into myself!

me too, i assume it will be owned by the club and not the stadium? can someone confirm? the stadium can Foxtrot Oscar

didnt think we were discussing Darcy Ward

thats just appeared on facebook from cameron, im guessing we already have a rider lined up? hence the press release

yes i can see the headlines now "British workers thrown out of a job because non EU migrants cannot get a work permit" discuss.. Nigel Farage will love that