Steve Shovlar

Hume through the bloody tapes. 112 now watching. Looks like Basso coming out.

Well the stream is up and running. Currently 64 watching it. Overcast breezy day. Track looks well watered and fine.

I do believe in the playoffs. Poole are not Champs until we win the final. But top 4 teams only, not 6. Much time has been wasted with the quarter finals. Unnessasary. These playoffs could and should have been already finished.

Gives a little wriggle room if there’s a rainoff. Downside is Poole will have to travel from Glasgow to Poole Tuesday night, get some sleep, then race on Wednesday evening. Riders could well be knackered. The 2 main finals, crammed in at the arse end of the season like this is rubbish, and will affect attendances.

Sullivan was never a Poole legend. Terribly underperformed imo and went back to Peterborough in 2006.

I don’t own a laptop. I am Apple all the way. Haven’t owned a laptop since about 2011. Apple iPad Pro for business.

Your post was completely flawed in the first instance!

The size of the club has nothing to do with what league we are running in. Looking forward to watching the stream. However last time watching Edinburgh v Poole the stream played up and wouldn’t work on the iPad Pro, but worked on my iPhone. Hopefully no issues this time.

What a ridiculous comment.

Well even a simpleton could work out that Poole have to do it twice while the other clubs only have to do it once.

No not for Glasgow or Edinburgh. Just Poole. We have to go Edinburgh, back to Poole, then a few days later all the way to Glasgow, then back to Poole. Big carbon footprint and knackered riders.

Could have caught that new train service down to London. Meant to be £30 return. Then Waterloo to Poole, every 30 mins, takes 2 hours 20. Train station 4 mins walk to stadium. Plenty of b&bs. Or fly down tomorrow for a mini break, returning on Thursday.

You prefer rough places instead? Poole is a really lovely place to live. Miles of golden beaches, resteraunts, second biggest natural harbour in the world, Jurassic coast on our doorstep. And the biggest speedway club in the country. What’s not to like?

Call up Danny Ford and ask him.

No stream sorry. Wish all clubs streamed but don’t think it was a viable project the way it was done with outside company. Needs to be done in house and could be cheap to do. But promotion wants fans through turnstile, which is obvious.

Not enough time to advertise it for Sunday. My guess is next Thursday or Friday, leaving us whatever is left. Probably next weekend.

Dates are now confirmed. Glasgow on the 26th October, followed by the second leg on the 29th October at Wimborne Road. So the final is now officially known. Both teams scored victories in their home meetings. Neither team has met recently. Should be a thriller. Too far for most travelling fans though there are bound to be a sprinkle. Luckily Glasgow stream their meetings so expect a lot of Poole and neutral fans to buy the stream, myself included. I feel Pirates are favourites and fancy our chances, but an injury or a brilliant performance from an opposition rider can swing the pendulum the other way. Let the best team win.

Edinburgh riding the track tonight gives them super practice before tomorrow. Our boys could be rusty. Not making excuses just stating some facts. Looking forward to the stream.

One things for sure. ‘To cut a long story short” it won’t be “Gold” for Monarchs.That’s definitely “True”. Perhaps they can use “Chant Number One” for their local rivals.

No team at the top will lose 57-33 in a playoff semi final second leg. They might lose by 12-16 but they know the track and won’t let a lead like that be lost.

Game over. No chance Glasgow will let that lead slip.

22 point victory. Game over. No chance of Monarchs pulling that back. Terrible capitulation mid meeting.

We are used to it. Everyone against Pirates has been the norm for the last 20 years. Doesn’t affect us. Going to be a tough final but Pirates for the double!

Poole v Glasgow in playoff final. Lots of driving up and down the country for our boys.