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He's announced in the line-up for Tuesday v Edinburgh.

Have they lined up a major 'Loads-a-money' sponsor then?

So could Worky run on a Monday or Thursday evening in Premiership? Poole have tried it, won the titles but lost money! Supporters prefer Wednesday racing and the club's finances and attendances are much improved with Wednesday racing. Don't know about Glasgow but presumably they also don't want to move away from their regular racenight?! Of course if Premiership racing was on each club's preferred racenight - and had priority -, then who knows.......?

'That landlord' is only the leaseholder. The Poole Stadium site is owned by the Council.

A brand new Pirates Promotional video set to drop on Monday, 1st July (just in time for the summer holidays)!! The teaser makes for great viewing should there be any future doubts about how popular speedway and the Pirates are in Poole and surrounding areas! The full version tomorrow should be excellent to spread the word further, especially if its needed in the future for any reason....................!

Congratulations to Tobias Thomsen on the birth of his 2nd son yesterday

Yep quite an impression so far.

Max by his own admission had lost confidence but proved in the NDLRC Individual on Wednesday that his head is back in the game.. Now as long as he can improve his gating at Championship level........,.

Pirates team to face the Monarchs:- 1.Richard Lawson; 2. Tobias Thomsen; 3. Ben Cook; 4. Zach Cook; 5. Tom Brennan; 6. Sam Hagon; 7. Max Perry(G). Edinburgh 1 Josh Pickering 2 Kye Thomson 3 Lasse Fredriksen 4 Michele 'Paco' Castagna (Capt) 5 Justin Sedgmen 6 Max James 7 Connor Coles.

With the SoN squads announced this morning, whats the latest on Adam Ellis' injury?

Wayne's World!!

Plymouth clearly waited to see how Tate did at Oxford before offering him the guest booking!

...as opposed to you being the equivalent in Devon - with much bigger turds to polish!

Is that Henry ATKINS? Asking for a friend....

Joe Thompson and Stene Pijper added to riders participating in place of Scott and Hodder.

They had a meeting last Wednesday at Oxford. They would be hosting their KO Cup semi final this Wednesday but Scunthorpe refused the fixture, hence hosting the NLDRC instead. Edinburgh next Weds at home.

Was the attendance a lot better as the Promoter had requested?

Poor crowd. The Eurosport director needs to tell his cameraman not to use the wide shots of the main stand!!

Poole have announced that the glass grandstand, bars and restaurant areas will NOT be open for this fixture. All visitor access will be via the entrances to the rear of the East (main) grandstand. Champs bar and snack bars on the bends will be open as usual

Let's hope Sam Hagon can take his place after his crash at Berwick! He's withdrawn from the Leicester team at BV today - presumably to get all his teeth fixed up?!

Not if Osbourne offered to fund the building development in partnership with a property company eg Taylor Wimpey or similar?! The Council cant afford to fund new buildings themselves. Having said that, if/when the time comes there will be a helluva fan protest.........!

So now that the riders have been announced, whatever the meeting is called, will that affect attendance or people buying the PooleTV stream then? Just asking?

Oh well!! One would think that members of the BSPL Executive Board (cough - Dan Ford) would know what's what and do their best to maximise promotion of the meeting? He states in the SS today ' Some clubs have chosen to run a one-off individual meeting but are not part of a series. Each one is it's own standalone meeting and ours is billed NDLRC because I got permission to call it that!' Bearing in mind Poole can't run a NDL level team due to stadium costs, I guess the majority of local fans attending will just be happy to see a meeting featuring some riders with current or previous Poole connections. 20 heats - with run-offs if required - plus a 'winner' to be 'crowned', all for £15 max - whats not to like?!

Development Series?! Rider Championship?! Same riders - what's the problem? most of those attending (mainly regular Poole fans) won't give 2 hoots.

REGULATIONS: NATIONAL LEAGUE RIDERS DEVELOPMENT SERIES WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 2024 THE following extract from the SCB Regulations confirms the qualifying criteria for the National League Riders Development series: 013.2.1 Qualifying Criteria Each National Development League team must declare 2 riders from their Team Declaration plus 4 wild card riders and 2 reserves who are eligible to particate in the National Development League, selected by the staging promotion. 013.2.2 Race Format The 16 rider, 20 Heat format is utilised. Any ties for the top 3 positions after Heat 20 will result in a run off. 013.2.3 Racing Regulations All starting offences will result in disqualification and a reserve (if there is more than 1 reserve then the reserves will alternate) will take the disqualified riders place. Reserves may take a maximum of 5 rides, with all points scored counting towards final classification. The method for deciding the hierarchy will be as per these Regulations. This system will also be used if a meeting is abandoned after the completion of heat 12, the result will stand at the last point when all riders had taken the same number of rides.