Steve Shovlar

Are we getting to the stage that Justin Elkins will get the nod over Anders Rowe?

Redcar can cause a threat with riders who love the Wimborne Road circuit. Danny King is a track specialist and knows all the racing lines. Charles Wright is very entertaining and always battles hard. Riss less so. Danny Hume is quick around Poole and got a 5-1 in heat one in the first encounter. I think we will have too much in the tank but Redcar could run us closer than Oxford last week.

This meeting is now available on BSN. Obviously not the crash which caused injury to the photographer. The heat two takeout of Roynon is there though.

Pirates have got to finish top. That was a real battlers performance when we were left for dead out of the starting gate. What a brilliant effort and when you consider we were missing Anders Rowe who has been in great form and is a Scunthorpe track specialist, the victory is even sweeter. Special mention for Sam Hagon who looks like a very tidy rider and one for the future.

Great meeting. Pirates outgated in virtually every heat but our team of racers battled from the back to secure a fantastic Win. We are going to finish top of the league baring a disaster!

Yeeeeessssss!!!!!!!!!!

Pirates have had a winner in 3 of 11 heats but now all square!

At last we gate and bang a big 5-1. Didn’t have us down to winning this but need to show we can keep it relatively close. Sam Hagon last two second. Great little rider.

You don’t actually read that trolls 5hite do you?

Clearly a track with massive home advantage. Doesn’t help when we haven’t gated once so far to actually lead a heat out of the second bend. Missing Anders Rowe at reserve big time.

Seven heats and haven’t got close to gating once. Left for dead every heat.

FFS Havvy. T/R against Douglas?

Watching the stream, which is very good value. Pirates being mullered out of the gate in every heat so far. Riders like Simon Lambert looking like Rickardson. Poole passing riders to score. Scunthorpe completely dialled in and Poole riders chasing setups. A small crowd at the stadium.

Heat 8 Rowe passed Heeps up the inside of bend four.

Disaster for us losing Anders for this one. Knows the track inside out and is on great form. Impossible to cover.

The crowds are very big for the playoffs as well, when there are no holiday makers.

Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch all merge into one conurbation. AFC Bournemouth dominate as they are in the Premier League. Pirates do well considering. Success brings in the fans. Nearly 3000 last night. Should be another big crowd next Wednesday against Redcar, and will be packed on the following Sunday at home to Glasgow.

If this is true then they should be banned from the stadium for life. I would call over security and point them out.

Forecast for Scunthorpe on Friday is warm, and overcast. No rain.

It certainly was and we were never going to get away with that in a month of Sundays. Ref was bound to award it. Lawson wasn’t close enough. Not a great deal of passing but kept tense for the bonus point, which went down to the wire due to Pirates dreadful performance at Cowley and a few incidents in tonight’s meeting. Ben Cooks EF when leading cost us the bonus but Scott Nicholls had bike problems. The roller in heat 13 for Masters was let go by the trainee ref, which the who grandstand saw. Sod’s Law as in the first running Poole were on a 5-1 out of the second bend when Nicholls fell. Never the same result in a rerun. A huge crowd there tonight showing Poole’s pulling power. Someone said there was only one turnstile? There are 6 in total to enter the stadium, all open. Masters and Nicholls showing their liking for Wimborne Road. But Oxford are a two man team and were easily beaten tonight. And Heeps will be back in the team come the playoffs meaning Atkins and Killeen at reserve. But congrats to Oxford in the bonus. Went to fine margins.

So they can moan about it.

Will admit racing for the neutral hasnt been great tonight. But in the stadium the atmosphere is great. Huge crowd. Still very close for the bonus. Both sides had bad luck with engine failures. Might be a golden heat.

Biggest crowd of the season.

Seriously nothing like last night. I seriously think most of the posters on here are hoping for a gate and go meeting so they can say, told you so. If its a brilliant meeting it will be like the gobi desert on here.

Very big crowd coming in. Track looks superb. Lots of dirt down out wide. In for a thriller on a perfect evening.