Steve Shovlar

So it’s all down to Glasgow v Oxford on Tuesday. A ten point lead is not enough imo and Glasgow with their powerhouse top 5 will prove too strong against a battling Oxford team. I am hoping for Oxford in the final as it’s a track up the road and we can have a big Pirate contingent, but a ten lead is small.

Pretty awful meeting. Redcar so weak it was a going through the motions meeting to get it done. Guessing Poole on Wednesday against Edinburgh might be similar.

Thats terrible news. Ray C was quite a prolific poster on here. Condolences to his family and friends.

Surely they can refuse. Bailey is British. British fixtures come first. Just say no to them.

Allowing Bailey to go to Poland waives a big white flag for Redcar.

Toft was disqualified for second tapes infringement. On the track walk Lambert said the track looked fantastic and that Godfrey had spent some money on new shale. Not sure why Kemp didn’t get heat 8 but he was poor tonight and a shadow of the rider he was at Poole last Wednesday.

We don’t yet know. He was knocked off, hit the ground at speed, slid a long way then hit the fence awkwardly at speed. Didn’t get up and was placed in the ambulance. Danny Ford indicated to BSN it was his wrist.

Then it should be moved to Friday or Sunday.

You were right all along Neil.

With due respect to Edinburgh, I think we will win up there and at home to them next Wednesday. Glasgow or Oxford? Oxford please so we can all go. No other reason. Glasgow too far to attend. Should be a classic battle between those two to get to the final.

Such a likeable lad, as is his father. Very friendly and chatty pre meetings. Good gater, just needs to build himself up a bit and be tougher on track.

First of all, I think I speak for all speedway fans no matter what club they support when hoping Anders Rowe is going to be OK and able to continue his impressive season. It was a nasty fall after being bashed off his bike by Mountain and the ref made a terrible call. With no IRR the situation looked bad for Pirates but both Newman, with a special mention to Joe Thompson, paid 10, dug deep. Zack returned to form at 4 with paid 10 beating Douglas and only Ben slightly struggled tonight but even he was getting stuck right in. Our top two were excellent. As Steve Worrall has just said, the injury to Anders fired the team up even more. A completely different look to their faces as they stood around after the meeting at WR looking forlorn. He said the teams has a great team spirit and it showed tonight. For Scunthorpe Douglas was good but not as good as he is around Poole. But he had no real back up. Palm Toft faded and then made a howler by rolling twice. Lambert started well but when Cook came charging under him he bailed out. I thought for a moment the ref would excluded Ben Cook but he called it right, no contact just hard racing. Allen was unlucky blowing up his bike. I watched the Scunthorpe v Glasgow meeting and Ablitt was terrific. Tonight we dealt with him with relative ease. As for Kemp. The reason Scunthorpe drew at Poole but tonight he was very poor. Completely went missing when he was needed. Some great racing on an excellent race track. Worth watching back. And looking forward to visiting for the KO Cup Final should Scunthorpe make it through.

You still here?

Well that was against all expectations. What a win. I am well know for being pessimistic and after last Wednesday and the abysmal performance I thought the writing was on the wall. So happy to be proved wrong. Now we mustn’t mess it up at Edinburgh.

Cook didn’t touch him.

Douglas fencing his own rider.

Roynon hasn’t said there’s anything wrong with the track. lost a 5-1there because of the loss of Rowe.

Make the most of it. It’s a rare occurrence.

He should know better.

Danny Ford infuriated. Ref said he didn’t watch replay of crash. Ford offered to go to ref box and show him. Ref declined.

If there was a big enough gap, why did Mountain wipe out Rowe?

Sounds like the ref has excluded Rowe! It was clear Mountain clattered into him. Looks like we are up against 8. Thought the ref had replays. Mountain took his legs away! Roynon said with speedway head on that was a very unfair call.

Rowe knocked off by Mountain heat one. Ambulance on track. Now in ambulance. Gutted for Anders, was a trump card for tonight.

https://x.com/poolespeedway/status/1705274689877090800?s=61&t=l14JvJT3cunCJmzJVpSrKA

Sad to read Havvy’s mum passed away today. Havvy not likely to be there so guessing Dan Ford will step in. Best wishes to Havvy and family at this difficult time.