Aces High

5 considering he has been doing our heat 15's

Most riders nowadays will carry at least one fast engine good for our place so no surprised. Probably the reason why the track is such an advantage for the Colts but not the Aces.

My bad, thanks for spotting. Title now amended Also think that this will be closer than the monmore leg unless we are significantly better than previous visits.

Can't see a match thread anywhere for this. The weather is forecast to be glorious for this for a change! Shame Wolves will be without Lindgren this time around but the teams look fairly well matched in their 1-5 so should be a close meeting. Reserves should swing it our way.

It appears that way but I would have thought that having a league of second tier riders dedicated to riding in the UK would only accelerate that regression. If this was the solution wouldn't the Championship clubs would be doing a lot better than they are?

With more British riders trying to ride in Poland isolation would be problematic as we would risk becoming a feeder league to Poland. Losing your promising riders every year is no way to build loyalty from new supporters. I would argue that this is solely lacking already because of lack of continuity from year to year. It would be nice to go back in time to when the popularity of the sport overseas wasnt such a huge problem but unfortunately that isn't going to happen. There are other issues that would help first...addressing non existing marketing would be a better one. I was a lapsed speedway fan living in Manchester for sixteen years and i didnt know the NSS had been build until June last year when randomly catching the British final on Bt sport whilst channel hopping.

BV: Bewley/Fricke

Drozdz back for Mondays meeting vs Somerset. Looking forward to seeing how he goes.

Is Holder back for this meeting or still waiting on his visa?

From speedwaygb website, definitely supports the idea of him being level headed. Nice to see from Max Fricke too, he has been brilliant so far both home and away.

Two heat 15's in a row for Bewley, everyone in the team chipping in. Very happy with how things went tonight.

Early days, stick by them. Growing pains but Poole will walk the league this year

Is Etheridge riding in this meeting or do we have another guest in as well? (apologies in advance if this has already been posted)

Man on a mission at the moment. Somehow exceeding expectations this year despite them already being high.

Kildemand?

Shame about the result but about as expected given our injury problems. Seems Dan Bewley is already outgrowing riding at reserve too.

Same way as on Monday, by Max, Cookie, and DB picking up the slack. Away from home that is a much bigger ask though so, as usual in speedway, home win is the only prediction that makes sense. Fingers crossed we can pick something up.

Nice one, Lasse is good value as a guest rider as you know you're still going to get 100% out of him.

Good post. I think amongst the pre-season hyperbole it got lost that Poole are only retained two young riders from last years team. With such a young team, containing 3 riders who haven't raced in the UK recently, a young lad at reserve and an inexperienced number one it is only right to allow time for the team to gel. Holder has always been the key to this side and it is unfair to judge them until he is in the mix as his experience will be invaluable. Despite that they have been pretty good so far.

I thought Woryna looked decent for Poole and Josh G had a good meeting. Thought it was weird that they were all wearing their own gear though. Max and Dan were the stars of the night for BV but Cook looked a bit quicker tonight as well. Lasse Bjerre was involved in loads of close racing so was good value for money as a guest. We really missed Worrall and that made the meeting a lot closer than it should have been.

10 point away win

Dan B flying tonight, very impressive.

Woryna with a great pass on Lasse Bjerre on the last lap to get a 5-1 for Poole. Spring Rohan has turned up it seems, very frustrating.

17-7 BV after 4 heats. Poole with a lot of work to do.

Cloudy, not particularly warm, with some tiny patches of blue. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a shower around lunchtime but looking ok for the this evening at the moment.