Steve Shovlar

Why on earth would we agree to scratch the first leg? Not Poole’s fault this has become the farce of all farces. Have the Cooks ever ridden at Kings Lynn?

I would bring CH back on 11.7. It is his only chance of ever riding for Poole again. He needs to get a Championship average, same as Sam Masters did. After the first set of GS he would be down to 9.5ish and we could then re-declare up to whatever the points limit is.

Well I should be shocked. Not at the obvious decision to use a different venue when the track couldn’t be fixed, but to use Kings Lynn? It’s a 5 hour 30 minute drive from Poole with one stop. Put it on a Friday with extra heavy traffic and it’s up to a 7 hour trip up. I have driven it many times in the past. Add in the price of fuel and that’s £150, plus £20 entry. Plus food. £180 for a trip up from Poole for the day. Rob is now not going and I would be surprised if there is no more than 30 Poole fans in attendance. Compared to the 300+ who would have been at the original running if it hadn’t been for the weather. But why on earth Kings Lynn? Poole fans have an easier trip to Belle Vue Manchester, at the other end of the country, then KL. We can get to BV in 4.30 mins, albeit slower on a Friday. Why wasn’t Oxford asked? Two hours from Poole, and less than that from Leicester. Oxford is closer to Leicester than Kings Lynn. Be lucky if there is 500 in attendance.

Me and Rob always do an almost circuit of the stadium before the meeting so will look out for you. Going to be a knife edge meeting. Don’t be too disappointed.

You there? Come and say hello. Will be on first bend.

People can post what they like but although I am very active on this forum I do try to make sure my posts are accurate. Flagrag has a good reputation on here and has posted for many years so there was no reason not to believe him. I am sure his post wasn’t intentially misleading. Hopefully, and judging by the picture posted earlier it’s all systems go for Friday.

So Flagrag was wrong and posted misleading information? I have always found Flagrag posts spot on and accurate but clearly not this time. Perhaps you should have picked up Flagrag on his post as most on here believe what he posts as correct. As you are the trackman at Leicester there is no reason not to believe you. But I am sure Flagrag didn’t post his information to mislead everyone.

There you go. Or is Flagrag making it up? I have always found him spot on.

It was said on here the track was going to be bladed back to base and then a light dressing added so that the meeting would go ahead and any rain would be swept off. If you go back several pages the post can be found. Might have been Flagrag who posted it, who is very reliable. In which case I apologise to you.

You! You posted on here about the track and what you were doing! I repeated it!

Poole did win in 2011. Coventry finished rock bottom. Poole finished 24 points about Coventry in 2010 but they had Shamek at reserve after some very dodgy manipulation.

No, they didn’t. But they were all contacted to tell them they need to make their own arrangements to get to Leicester as there are no coaches running. The Poole promotion took a hit in the thousands with the double cancellation of 3 coaches. Still plenty making the journey up but not in the numbers of last Saturday or Sunday. My guess is BSN are the big winners.

Lewy, you need to get back down to Poole. Plenty of dirt on the track, perhaps too much at times. Track has been great thanks to Terry the track man.

Even though there are now no coaches coming up,( there were three full coaches) will be lots of Pirate fans taking a day off and making the long trip north to Leicester. We are congregating on the first bend to cheer the boys on to back to back titles. The NID boys will also be there. (Never In Doubt) If both teams ride to their potential, the title is hopefully coming south again. If Lions pull back the deficit and go on to win it, well done to them and I will be one of the first to congratulate. Lets hope there’s plenty of hard racing, some controversy, ad a result that will have enraged some and pleased others. As long as Poole are on the right side come heat 15, that’s all that matters. If not, then we woz robbed!

That’s a massive improvement. Looks like the Poole track though a little slicker. Not surprising considering the weather due tomorrow. Feeling confident this will go ahead. Come on Pirates, no mistakes. Back to back titles. We deserve it.

Well seeing as my info came from one of the Leicester trackman who actually posted this info on here, perhaps you should catch up with the thread. That’s exactly what they intend to do.

It doesn’t matter how much it rains in the next two days if the track has now been bladed off to base. Thursday and Friday are dry days. They can put a dressing down on Friday morning and be good to go. No reason now why this won’t go ahead.

As I said yesterday morning, the meeting is scheduled for Friday. A shame no coaches now coming up, so a loss of at least 150-200 Poole fans due to a work day. Still think we will have over a hundred Pirates fans making the arduous journey north. Poole at full strength. Are Leicester going to bring back Howarth from his honeymoon? Has he got any energy left? Is Morris riding or arriving in Aus? Hopefully both are ready to ride and we can (Final)ly celebrate back to back titles.

Next Friday was the touted date.

Global warming for all to see. Weather patterns have changed dramatically. In October 2017 I flew my Paraglider 12 hours, 2018 I flew 10 hours 20 mins. In 2021 it was 6 hours and this October 2 hours 40 mins. I log every flight. Weather is getting worse with stronger winds and more rain. I fly at nearly every opportunity and haven’t missed an opportunity this month. No chance of flying in the next 7-10 days. Believe it or not there are still climate change deniers. They see snow one winter morning and say, if there’s snow, there’s no global warming. There’s not enough words in the Oxford English Dictionary to describe their stupidity.

It could possibly have been run yesterday but the track needed to be completely bladed off. And Leicester clearly don’t have a blade and one is being shipped in this week. As the trackman has been taken I’ll, this has clearly delayed any decision making, delaying things further. As for scraping the playoffs, that is never, ever going to happen. It’s a huge money earner for promotions with huge crowds. Nearly every sport has playoffs, even football. It brings in welcome income. To say there’s a league champions and a playoff champion is utter nonsense. Agree that the season could be shortened slightly so that playoffs take place in September with the final beginning of October and the KO Cup after playoffs are completed.

Judging what’s now moving up the country, it would never have been on even if the track was good to go. Very heavy rain due to hit the area in the next couple of hours.

It seems I have upset a few on here for posting it was off as soon as I heard. Thought the point of a forum was to inform. Should I have just kept it to myself until the news was posted on official channels? Or should I give out the info so that people can change their,plans for the day? October is generally a dry month with cooler conditions. This year is has been exceptionally warmer with a low pressure system stuck to the west of the U.K. due to the position of the jet stream, and this is feeding moist air up over the U.K. and with it setting off heavy rain over the country. This happening is quite unusual but not rare. It still doesn’t look like this weather pattern is breaking down soon.

Well I posted it was off nearly an hour before it was made official. I don’t understand why there was such a delay in getting it online. Takes a few seconds to type it and post on Twitter, then a few minutes to get it on the website. Next Friday is the date at the moment though surely next Saturday would mean a bigger crowd with more travelling support. As for getting a blade in to remove the slop, why has it taken so long for the bleeding obvious to happen?

I think the Jubilee meetings are destined to be axed. As for the nonsense of running the playoffs on August Bank Holiday, what utter drivel. Why run a meeting, guarenteed to bring in a big crowd, on a date when a Bank holiday meeting will bring in a big crowd regardless of it being league, cup or testimonial? Some just don’t have any business savvy. On another note, it looks like tomorrows pairs meeting at Leicester is biting the dust. Or should I say slop?