SteveLyric2

Its not just about Poole. Belle Vue have given guarantees to their paymasters that they will provide top class speedway including National and International stars and events. I can't see them accepting a lower level product. If Coventry and Swindon and Lakeside had no issues with their stadia then they would want senior speedway too if it can be afforded.

Darcy isn't going to complain - he's extremely grateful to receive any financial support!! However I can tell you that there are those connected with the administration of the Foundation that are far from comfortable with the apparent 'final figures' from Torun, so presumably are not taking the club's statement at face value. 'returns for the players'?? Whats that meant to mean when the riders rode for free? I accept there will of course be some stadium costs but why would they be 'very high'?? Questions still need asking of one of the sport's supposedly richest clubs??

And the new Sheffield promotion are quoted as having similar aspirations -especially now that Mr Machin is nothing to do with them!!

I think there is something distinctly 'iffy' about what the Torun meeting is claiming to have raised. And its not the first time unfortunately that doubts have been raised about other Darcy Ward fundraising in Poland!! There are several Poole fans (and sponsors) beginning to ask some very probing questions about this - bearing in mind the equivalent Poole benefit meeting announced it raised about £50k from an attendance of 2,500 ish!!?

The squad would be no more than 10 riders (assuming 7-man teams) or say 8 riders for a six-man format. If there is a limit on the number of heat leaders/2nd strings, then the asset system is irrelevant anyway if a club can only declare a squad of 8 or 10. The extra meetings (if anyone actually bothered to read the articles) would come from 2 or 3 more teams in the top league - MF named Glasgow plus a couple of others (unnamed) with similar aspirations - plus a new Cup competition which would have the full backing of the BSPA, unlike previously, and a possible sponsor!! Clearly there would have to be some financial stability for those clubs in the senior league - also mentioned in the article - but lets not get ahead of ourselves as MF is yet to seek the views of Poole supporters to get their overview and preferences, which may be entirely different to any of those expressed on this thread/forum, including mine!!

Just to be clear, despite the knowledge way back in January that riders would be missing, if Lakeside had stuck with Bjarne, would he still have been missing on Friday?? If Poole's meeting on Wednesday hadn't been rained off, he would have been in the Poole side not Denmark! Poole had a similar problem to Lakeside with Bjarne's fixture clashes but have worked with him to reduce the clashes down to 3 fixtures - not sure if Friday's was one of them as I believe they were concentrating on home meetings?! As for Buzckowski - he didn't 'rather decide he would ride in a re-arranged Polish fixture'!! It was the Polish Championship and he would have been banned if he hadn't taken his place.

Do the likes of Mercedes and Ferrari actually sell or expect to sell more cars as a result of their Formula 1 involvement?

Oh well..........!

With Woryna. Sargeant still in the 1-5. Those 2 plus Bates and King to take the r/r rides.

With the track becoming 'dangerous' after the 2 hefty rainfalls, Poole would have been quite happy to call it after Heat 10!! :-) ;-)

Why should it be any surprise that there are 'likes' for Poole posts, by Poole fans on a Poole thread? ....and that you have actually gone back to count your 'likes' as if it actually justifies your existence?!

Can't imagine Summers being allowed to race?! Not after Masters was stopped from riding at Belle Vue when Edinburgh was called off similarly a couple of weeks ago!!?

Kelvin?! I say Kelvin.........!! Anything to say Kelv?? KELLLVYYNN!!! ;-) Davey Watt is available.................

Not forgetting Holder and Ellis who scored half of the Pirates points between them!!

Don't usually come onto the forum this late in the evening, but couldn't resist just to see which posters were saying 'it wasn't really a Poole win because of the team they put out'!! I wasn't surprised having read all the posts!! I refer to my opening post #4 above - no issues for me at the meeting going ahead - its the home promotion's prerogative whatever the rights and wrongs. Well done to the Poole Seven this evening - that's six riders plus Middlo (great idea that afternoon phonecall to Eddie ) Great performance in difficult and challenging circumstances.

Jason's comments have made some of the national sports pages including his claim that Nicki didn't show all the pictures. He is not a happy man!!

Can I wish the new supporters club every success. In broad terms it seems very like Poole's R.E.F. (Riders Equipment Fund) with many similarities in aims and benefits/discounts. If I may make one small suggestion - I think £10 for an annual membership is incredibly cheap!! The Poole R.E.F. has its own bank account with a membership fee of £5 per month payable by direct debit. One benefit of this is that money is still raised over the winter months as well as during the season. Poole riders have regularly benefitted from substantial monies over many recent seasons. Just a thought and no criticism intended. Well done to the fans,

What would be interesting to find out is exactly what pre-meeting promotion the Glasgow management did?! I know they gave out flags and airhorns, but that surely wasn't all that attracted a huge crowd in midweek?! Was there an admission charge offer? Were kids free or is that usual for Glasgow? OR maybe it was just because it was a big local derby? Agree the atmosphere created was great especially for TV, but as others have said, the actual racing was pretty poor and aside from the extra difficulties caused by the rain, 3 or 4 of the riders said in interview that you can't normally pass at Glasgow anyway!!!!

Should check your 'facts' again then!! Poole beat Swindon at home on June 1st. Incidentally, its not only Poole that have had a big break in fixtures - although admittedly one of the longest breaks. Whoever does the BSPA fixture schedule is responsible for the gaps - many of which were done to avoid clashes with other sport on TV. As I've said before there will always be greater issues with fixture clashes especially in the 'even' years when there are other major international sporting tournaments taking place.

I think after last night's TV meeting, this thread could be closed?! Wednesday evenings are clearly the best speedway nights!!

Holder, Wells, Summers, Ellis, r/rAndersen; Wilson-Dean, Starke.

Not that I want to prolong this thread unnecessarily but just to correct one or two of your 'opinions/facts' :- Kyle Newman has not ridden for Poole for 6 seasons. His first season was 2011 at the age of 19 (when he also rode for Newcastle and Dudley). He next rode for Poole in 2014 and 2015 and this season as part of the fast track/EDR system. He has not ridden at reserve for all that time. He rode as a heat leader whilst carrying an injury this season. Agree with Steve Shovlar - Garrity is an accident waiting to happen that has happened much more often than Newman!! Just saying.

Meeting finally called off at 11.30 am. Occasionally Poole harbour area does have its own micro-climate but today has been exactly as forecast - been raining consistently and more heavy rain still forecast for later today. It'll be a challenge for both clubs to agree a rearrangement date with full teams!!!!

It was A1 last time we raced on it. It was put right the day after the BV loss!!

BSPA EL averages....Newman 6.00 (as a EDR and a Heat Leader) Garrity 5.16 (as a 2nd string) Next............!!