Steve Shovlar

Yes I know that. I have a lot of friends who are big sports fans but think only one of them is actually looking forward to watching it. I love sport myself and watch many sports but rugby isn’t one of them. Tried to watch a match with England recently when a player got sent off for accidentally clashing heads with an opposition player. A nonsense call, as are so many of the rules in that sport. Hard to watch and even if it didnt clash with the speedway I wouldn’t watch it. I know it has a following and some like it but it doesn’t have a decent following compared to the footy. If I as given free tickets for Twickenham I wouldn’t go. But that’s just me. Rather watch footy, cricket, speedway. Same goes for American Football. Attended a match once at Wembley New England v Tampa Bay. Was boring and nearly left at half time.

Do people in any great numbers watch rugby? A fraction of what watch the football. Yes a lot more than watch speedway but probably wouldn’t affect the crowd by more than a handful.

I am out tomorrow until late afternoon/early evening. Ordered the live stream. Does it work until midnight like the Edinburgh one? Can I watch it after the event?

You have me very wrong. I congratulate Glasgow on their win. But if I point out that the signing of Tarasenko completely changed Glasgow from playoff candidates to clear favourites, it seems to upset their fanbase. When it was clear for all to see.

No I certainly don’t think Nowak would have scored very many if any. He was woeful at Poole in the BSN final. Tailed off by miles.

Because it’s the reason you won! With Nowak you wouldn’t have got past Oxford.

https://x.com/speedwayscunny/status/1712532278885151149?s=61&t=l14JvJT3cunCJmzJVpSrKA

I have mentioned it from the day it was announced and have been proven to be completely correct. I have always said Glasgow didn’t break the so called rules, so why are Glasgow fans so tetchy about it?

Would think team racing take precedence over an individual meeting, so Thompson should be at Scunthorpe.

Poole fans who attended Glasgow on Monday said the crowd was about a third of the size of Wimborne Road last night. I wasn’t there to verify but the supporters have no reason to fib. Perhaps the crowd wasn’t huge due to off night?

The Glasgow owners are happy to run at a loss. Most other promotions are not.

Not upset at all as writing was on the wall back in August.

You think Tarasenko was on the same money as Nowak? Treble it and half way there. Big money. Poole definitely run within budget. Not run to lose money.

Harsh calling him a no hoper. But that was what he was at Poole. 2.. Marcin Nowak - 0,0,0 = 0

But nothing like bringing in a 5 point ringer just before the playoffs. Or like when Coventry brought in Shamek then avoided him getting an official average by saying he was sick/injured so he was at reserve for the playoff final and rattled off an 18 max.. Poole just build rock solid teams year after year without the shinanigans. Last year the Premier league became a joke with ringer Lambert coming in for BV. Within the rules but stunk the place out. Danny and Matt knew the rule was there, though it never should have been. Would they have sacked either Anders or Kyle to bring in Tarasenko? No. There’s winning and there’s winning. Like I have always said, Glasgow did no wrong as it was ridiculously within the rules, but it ended the league comp stone dead back in August.

You asked the question. I gave the answer. Though I gave it the day Tarasenko was signed. I wrote, on the Glasgow 2023 thread, Posted August 24 Ridiculous that Tarasenko has the same 5 average in both Premier and Championship. There’s really no doubt whatsoever that Glasgow with this signing will win the Championship this season. They won’t need decent reserves as the top 5 will be overpowering. It’s a signing similar to Lambert coming into BV last season to win the playoffs for them. But if it is within the rules, then so be it.

It would have made no difference. As soon as Glasgow signed the ringer, the title was theirs. It made no difference which teams Poole had picked. Glasgow upgraded from a rider lucky to get a couple of points away, to a rider who topped the averages, on what, 9.4? . A second string no hoper to an Extraleague heat leader on a “legit” 5 points. From that moment the title was decided and no team, Oxford or Poole, could compete with a team who had got a huge points injection. It was “within the rules”, no matter how ridiculous the rules are for allowing an assessed 5 point premier league rider into the Championship in the same average, so Glasgow did nothing wrong, but as a competition, the Championship as a competition was at that moment killed stone dead.

Weather showing rain slowly dying out by round 3pm to leave a dry evening. Can tractor guy get the track in order within a few hours or is it best to postpone until Sunday?

So I give Glasgow deserved praise and you try to diss my post? Totally bizarre. I support Poole, not Glasgow. I was trying to take positives from a very rare defeat.

Yes but we can’t say too much about it for a couple of reasons. 1. It was allowed, god knows why, but it was, so is legit. 2. If we moan about it, it looks like very sour grapes. So best not really use it at the moment and let Glasgow fans have their moment of glory. Totally agree about your final line.

Wonder where I was? Just got back and first of all congratulations to Glasgow on their title. By far seemed to want it more, and although Pirates rallied in the first leg, the damage was done when the Glasgow track suited the home riders. We were the better team through heats 9-15 of the first leg, and all of the second, but meetings are run over 30 heats and not 22 and Glasgow fully deserved it this year. Bomber was a second faster than any other rider on show tonight. He would have gone through the card like he did in the first leg if he had really had to. But the job was already done and it was raining quite hard. Why take an unnecessary risk? Brennan and Tarasenko backed him up and it was job done. Pirates by comparison seemed languid in both meetings. Poole again threw points away but even if it had been all four back when Worrall was excluded, it wouldn’t have made any difference, just narrowed the size of the victory. Since the signing of Tarasenko, Glasgow have been by far the strongest team in the league and as I predicted when he was signed they would go on and lift the title. Proved right unfortunately for us. Next up the KO Cup and a trip to Scunthorpe. Better raise our game or that will be heading up north as well. Well done Tigers.

Parade 7.15 tapes up 7.30. Tracks looking good.

Unless Anders is feeling 100%, it’s too risky to use him, even though he’s a big loss. We must do it as a team and whether victory or defeat it’s as a team. The crowd must make up with noise for being a rider down. Looking forward to tonight.

Latest weather radar shows rain close by. A large cell of light rain has developed over Devon and is pushing east. Fingers crossed it passes to the north of Poole. https://www.netweather.tv/live-weather/radar

I think all of Glasgows riders will be up for it and give their best. But Pirates riders just have to be even better.