Tom Turner

I quite like to stand on turn 3, you tend to see a lot of action on the first 2 corners and turn 3 covers it quite nicely. There is a town centre less than a mile from the stadium with a range of fast food outlets if you'd like something to eat. KFC, Subway, McDonalds, Burger King, all the usuals and then some. If you are the quiet kind you may enjoy a picnic down Poole Park, again less than a mile away from the stadium, with plenty of greenery to sit on and play area for the little ones. If you want something a little more exciting there is a decent out door karting track at Matchams raceway, although it's about a half hours drive away. If the sun is shining don't forget to check out Sandbanks, not only the largest natual harbour in Europe but also the seaside home of many people with much more money than I'll ever have! And of course there is plenty do in between. Our local paper is http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk and they usually cover various different activities in town each week. Enjoy your stay!

I wouldn't want Kennett to replace anyone!! I would be interested in signing him next season but not now! Video Clip I wouldn't swap out any of our team for Eddie, but would be interesting to see how things pan out next season. He is a capable rider when he isn't cheating or sulking.

Poole to win by 8 pts.

Chris Holder v Edward Kennett - Poole Pirates vs Eastbourne Eagles

Is there a link to the rules and regulations for this season?

Elite league speedway at it's best, as always.

I didn't say there were no young fans, that is the exact same way I was introduced to the sport by my parents. I am saying there is not enough being done to attract younger fans and would say a large majority of fans must be 50+. Even if somehow every single adult fan had a child, introduced them to speedway, and ensured they like it and attended weekly it would still only match the current attendance rates.

The point of the fast track system (I don't for one second believe it was really to support British youngsters) is to operate speedway in the UK at a lower cost so that clubs can run at a profit. Sure this has probably saved the clubs a fair bit of money but when you offset that against the fans lost they are making as little, if not less, than before. "Some of the best riders in the world" isn't enough, every year more and more of them are turning their backs to us. You hear riders talking in interviews all the time about how riders abroad have tried to persuade them not to waste their time with our country. Diluting the product is not the way forward, innovation is. First and foremost we need to sort out our tracks. The number 1 complaint from foreign riders is that our tracks are dangerous. When they ride here they get injured, and they never give it 100% like they do abroad. 9 times out of 10 they will simply hold their gate position because it is not worth trying anything anymore adventurous with track surfaces like a neglected gravel car park. If it were my decision at GSI, BSPA or whomever is in charge, I would of focused my attention on several key areas of development: 1) Investing in the development of quality race surfaces across the UK so that riders can ride to their ability without fear of injury. 2) Investing in the development of high quality speedway websites, with a strong social media presence. Making an abundance of speedway videos and materials available online. 85% of youngsters aged between 13 - 21 in the UK go online every single day and It is those we need to be targeting, showing them just how brilliant and nail biting British speedway can be. The best heats or moments from every match, jazzed up and stuck online. Like a Ken Block video (Google Ken Block Gymkhana and look at the video style). Sticking a couple of bikes in a shopping centre once a year won't do a thing. This responsiblity should be given to young, uni students who want to prove themselves, not the old fogies who currently manage speedways abysmal online presence. 3) Injecting additional entertainment in to speedway to give more bang for your buck. For example, my grandfather would talk of golden heats at the end of a meeting in which the number one of each team would run off against each other in a 1v1 race. That is something I would love to be a part of. 4) Getting rid of stupid rules. Why do we still have double points? It doesn't make a meeting more entertaining, it leaves fans feeling robbed and crestfallen when their hard earned leads are stolen by one or two decent riders. Everytime I watch my team win with double points I can't help but feel we didn't deserve it. (And I'm a Pirates fan!) I'm not saying this is a golden fix for speedway, but it's a hell of a lot better than the current proposition. When you have taken these steps you have: 1) Given riders a surface they can race confidently on. There will be less processional racing, and therefore a more entertaining product with more appeal to the world class riders that have abandoned our shores. 2) Generated a new fan base to replace the older generation that is currently propping up the sport. They will not be there forever and if we don't replace them soon, there will be very few left to attend speedway at all. 3) There will be more to look forward to in a match, a little extra zing for your buck. 4) The sport will start to make more sense. I have introduced speedway to many friends and spent the whole time trying to explain and justify the overly complicated rules. Their faces alone speak a thousand words.

I publically said many times before that Tai Woffinden would never be a world class rider, I even said to myself he only won the world championship because he didn't have much competition. How wrong was I?

If the product continues to be watered down, as you mentioned, then there cannot possibly be many years to come. It add's to the league for a very small few, whilst damaging the league for the vast majority. I love speedway but I have not paid to go attend a single match this year. I know I am not the only fan who feels this way. And before somebody kicks off, I am not any less of a fan by not attending matches this season, I am not paying an expensive entry fee to attend a sport that I have watched get worse and worse every year whilst the ticket prices continue to rise. I am not talking about a forum of obsessed fans, I am talking about real people I have spoken to in the real world. Unfortunately the overwhelming opinion is that people are no longer happy to pay to watch sport of this standard. Next time you go to speedway take a look at the crowd. The vast majority of attendees are of an older generation. A poor product, getting worse and worse in quality, getting more and more expensive, losing more and more customers and failing to make any impact whatsoever on the younger generation is a recipe for disaster. Many clubs are already on or past the brink of viability and will simply be unable to continue and developing a handful of substandard British riders to elite league second string level isn't going to change that.

Nonsense. Let's host an opinion poll and see what the fans really think? To think the league will ever go back to being strong after this shambles is blinkered. Draft riders will stay until British Speedway's ugly demise in the not too distant future. There will never be a strong league in Britain again. Sorry to disappoint you

There's nothing wrong about it, it's an opinion. I know you would rather everybody back down and adhere strictly to your will but unfortunately that's not how debate or opinon works. The draft system is a terrible idea. The notion that it has been created to help British riders is a fallacy manufactured to illude fans into thinking they're getting value for their money in an era of corner cutting and desperate money saving. You are being conned. You cannot call Elite League speedway a competitive sport (define competition: the activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others) when the outcome is decided by trainees who aren't fit to compete at that level and of which their inclusion is mandatory regardless of their ability to perform. We are now left with a majority of teams who are unable to match the performance of the league leaders as their ability to make tactical changes at reserve level have been been stripped from them. Unfortunately Lewis Kerr, and the "few more" you mention were certainly not worth the irreparable damage this farce has inflicted upon the sport.

The fast track system is ridiculous, the Elite League is not the place for them. You cannot have "trainees" in a professional sport, especially when their results can make or break a team. It's nonsense and is no wonder British speedway is heading down the tubes.

No amount of "entertainment" is worth the risk he places on other riders. One day he will go for a gap that doesn't exist and another innocent rider will end up spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair, or worse. I'm sure you'd all be calling him "totally box office" when that happens.

Nicki should be banned. Dirty, nasty piece of work.

Poole have it in the bag.

You're deluded. Like I said, I give the administrator of the website full permission to publicly identify me. If plain evidence isn't enough for you then you must be mad.

Ask the admin to identify me by IP address. I give my full permission. Get stuffed.

Stop embarrassing yourself. I don't even know who KKS is ffs. Give me a break!

Davey needs to have a long hard think about where he want's to go from here, but he is still without a doubt the best rider for this position.

Davey Watt is still the best man for the job.

Sport is about winning, there is no prize for second place. Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser.

Genuinely shocked with Davey's performance. There is no excuse for it whatsoever. He knows Poole like the back of his hand and should easily of scored 10pts tonight. MJJ just isn't that good yet. He puts in the odd good race, apart from that he's very average.

I apologize for speaking figuratively, I wasn't expecting a (B)witch hunt. I will ensure I communicate only literally to accommodate those with a lower IQ. I look forward to seeing (as in observing the performance, either directly through watching or indirectly through the reporting of results) Bech in action.

Thank you very much!