Steve Shovlar

Another little improvement, if possible, is to have “chapters”, or bookmarks in replays so we can scroll directly to the following heat and watch a recorded meeting in less than 30 mins. Would save time and BSN bandwidth.

Entertaining meeting and hope the Monarchs are back for next year. Wonder where Pickering is going to end up? A few miles to the west?

Is this on BSN?

Be interesting to know just how many subscribers BSN had this season. Matt said it as in its infancy and was doing well. How to increase the subscriber base is tricky. Where to advertise to get signups is limited. There are probably more speedway fans unaware of BSN than know about it, and in these harsh Tory economic times funds are tight for many families. On top of that is piracy which is a bane for many sports networks. Finding a way to eliminate accounts that are shared is not easy.

Can’t agree more. Those that don’t have it are certainly missing out and for those that can’t afford a big lump sum, they do monthly direct debits. Only thing they could improve on, is to have more meetings!

When is Vissing returning to Glasgow?

I don’t think Oxford have a chance, but will be pleased to be proved wrong as it means an extra meeting to attend. They are 6 points short imo.

There are world class riders who are not in the GPs, as there are a few riders in the GPs who imo are really not world class riders. Tarasenko is a heat leader in the Polish Extraleague. Not writing us off in the final. We are Poole and Pirates know how to win against adversity. I shall be there cheering the boys on regardless of win or lose, with the same team we started the season with, bar Roynons injury. Same as last season. Get the team right from the start and no need to replace. I am sure the team will give it everything they have got, but just as Lambert coming in at the death for Belle Vue made a mockery of last years PL playoffs and final, so could Tarasenko in the Championship this season. I am not blaming Glasgow as they didn’t write the rule, but whoever thought Tarasenko could have a 5 average in both the PL and Championship should be struck off from the sport for total incompetence.

Watched the stream late last night and as expected a completely one sided affair only kept slightly closer due to Poole riders having bike issues when in scoring positions and the efforts of Pickering and Castagna. The other 4 Monarchs may as well have stayed in bed. So now we wait for Glasgow and Oxford to finish their meeting next Tuesday, to meet Glasgow in the final again. Getting in the Tarasenko has completely changed the Tigers from making up the numbers in the playoffs to outright favourites. But Pirates will give it 100% and hopefully the good guys will win. Feel sorry for Oxford who should really be in the final but for dodgy 5 point averages given to world class riders. Bring it on!

You could always run one tonight. The rollover from last week will go to the next home meeting.

Neil, I won’t be there tonight so no sweepstakes this week. Will have to roll over to next meeting.

Shame Ipswich won that. Crap track compared to BV for the neutral. Some decent racing tonight and heat 15 was good fun.

Glasgows to lose. Should deal with this with relative ease. Tarasenko the big difference. 54-36ish.

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.