TheWellBehavedWorrall

Feel like Berwick get absolutely pumped with injuries every single season. Good win tonight, Bandits.

I said I didn’t rate Rowe, based on seeing him race several times. What’s wrong with that? I was delighted with his contribution last night. Thats the beauty of sport; it’s a game of opinions.

Don’t buy this whatsoever and I’m a Glasgow fan; arguably the biggest victim of the play-offs. Finishing top of the league demonstrates consistency; winning the play-offs demonstrates you can perform when everything is on the line. Additionally, if there were no play-offs, the league as a competition faces the risk of being concluded with weeks remaining. The league table tells you who has been good. The play-offs tell you who has the bottle, composure, mentality, character, etc. I thought heat fifteen last night one of the best pieces of speedway strategies I’ve ever seen (Harris unusually off one with Flint off three, subsequently blocking the Pirates with a switch off the second bend for a 5-1), but if that’s late September/early October and there’s a trophy sat in the middle of the centre green, are Lawson and Cook going down without a fight? I don’t think so. I’m not suggesting they didn’t give it a go last night, but top riders thrive under play-off conditions and we, as the fans, are rewarded with a spectacle. The 2025 final which Poole won at Ashfield was one of the greatest speedway meetings I’ve ever witnessed.

Painful to see sides ravaged by injuries and absences, especially at this end of the season. Jason Edwards isn’t a number one and Dayle Wood isn’t a number four; he’s a reserve. If Morris is out too, then it’s verging on ‘what’s the point’ territory. I’ve no idea what the solution is. We have a key fixture against Poole tonight and we’ve got Anders Rowe who is highly probable to give us a Drew Kemp level of guest performance. Meanwhile, Poole are missing Rushen and no-one seems to know why. The losers are the fans and when that keeps happening, the sport is edges closer to somewhere we don’t want it to be.

Looking forward to this, but gutted Rushen won’t be riding. Can’t see past a Pirates win. They’re so strong from top to bottom and even without Rushen, don’t have any weak spots. I think our best hope is that Lightcap and Newman struggle. Don’t rate Rowe who is a serious downgrade on Howarth IMO, but I hope I’m wrong and that he can carries his British final form into tonight. We need a massive improvement from Hagon and Hodder if we’re to take anything from the meeting.

Hate that this is in regard to easily one of the most exciting young riders in the world, but all noise aside, this is the risk Cooper Rushen faces; he may hurt someone very badly one day. I absolutely love watching him. He has breathed life into British speedway this season, but far too often, he’s a health and safety hazard. I’ve only saw the crash; I haven’t saw Poole/Berwick fans’ comments in here or online, so I hope Havelock, Forde and/or Middleditch are defending him in public, but advising him behind the scenes because nobody wants to see riders hurt. He’s such a bubbly character too. Ironic that this pleasant boy is putting people in the dirt.

That might be the best and funniest thing I’ve ever saw in a speedway meeting.

@JanAndersen @Mr Blobby 😂😂😂

What an ars*hole response.😂 He asked if the meeting had been called off; he didn’t sh*t in your kettle and punch your mother. It will never cease to amaze me how argumentative people are on here.😂

Well, this has been a pleasant exchange. Kids, don’t engage with imbeciles.

What a bizarrely argumentative post.😂

Wimborne Road used to be one of the best tracks in the country, if not the best. The 2004 World Cup - hosted by Poole - produced some of the best speedway I can recall. Domestic meetings were pure entertainment too. I’m not sure what’s happened, but I didn’t even tune in last night, despite paying for a BSN season pass. Wimborne Road has somehow become the speedway equivalent to a sleeping tablet.

I was speaking to a club representative at the derby meeting a couple of weeks ago and the person indirectly referenced Howarth’s imminent “break” and Nagel’s return. Whether or not there’s any truth in that, I can’t be certain.

I can’t help but feel you regularly quote me to criticise or complain which is ironic. Which part of my post do you interpret as whinging? Absolutely. In my experience across 30+ years, 99% of speedway fans are pleasant.

“You can’t hold a candle to this classy Dane” in reference to Brian Andersen.