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As DD says it's currently blowing a hoolie in Poole at the minute. No rain so far, but what it will do later is anyones guess. Only thing I can suggest is keeping an eye on the good old Met Office Rainfall Radar for the latest update. If you run the animation all the rain is heading northwest and so far it's dodged us, but these showers seem to bubble up and die all the time so it's tough to call.

Sue - just in case you don't find anyone, the Poole site will no doubt be doing them if you need to link anywhere.

Thanks Bob...tomorrow will be a challenge, but nothing as bad as the Craven Shield meeting which I ain't looking forward to. Thanks for the updates on Brendan - I'll text how it's going from this end to you - or delegate that little task anyway.

Same as usual I'd assume - 6 heats is your deadine. Anything else would be at the discretion of the promotion. To be fair to Poole, if this one gets rained off it would be unheard of for a further concession to be made for any re-staging. Would think they would have to have made a loss after the last one. Still cross that bridge when it happens and just pray to the weather gods for tomorrow.

Afraid not.

Bloody typical Season goes from cr@p to worse.

So with Pepe being in dispute with Ippo over the Craven Shield matches, is he still down to ride on Sunday?

Paul, don't even go there! It's going to be bright and sunny...it has to be!

£17 for adults, £14 for concessions. Can't remember the kids prices offhand but if anyone wants then I can find out.

Would say it's no different to any other rider appearing in a meeting in another country the night before another. And he got to the Final - not as if he bummed out in the PLRC.

Congrats to Mango! Cracking result and really pleased for him. Well done to Havvy in 3rd as well.

Aha - I did hear that through the haze of the rest of his comments and wonder if it was you. Nice one - fame at last eh?!

What like the bits when he was silent?

Next time that sad excuse of a commentator Millard blights our sport, I'm going to make a note of how many times he mentions variations of the world 'disappoint'. I swear I was ready to hurl the TV out of the door by the end of tonights meeting. I was waiting for even the winner of a race to have bloody 'disappointment'!!! And wtf was he on about at the rostrom presentations...first the flowers were genuine, then the smiles and then the celebrations. Arrgghhhhhhhh! In spite of his abomination of a commentary (the Final heat has to be the worst yet) there was some cracking racing tonight. Definitely one of the best and heat 7 has to rival the Gollob/Nilsen heat from a few years back as my all-time favourite GP race. Now the wait on the wildcards begins...

I have no problem in believing he has a knee injury - my problem is him riding in the GPs to the exclusion to everything else. However this has been done to death in other threads, so best read those and leave this to the actual GP maybe?

Have copied this from my post on the Poole/Wolves thread To be fair to Anton and him seeming to be OK in the pits, having suffered knee injuries frequently in the past, often walking is fine - it's as soon as you put pressure on the knee at an angle or twist that either you get excruciating pain or the knee gives way. He may well have the knee strapped right up to try and keep it straight, but the problem may arise when in actual competition if he has to make an unnatural movement on the bike. So although he' s not showing visible signs doesn't mean there's not a problem.

Hold yer horses...no-one's yet said Antonio won't be back. There's a lot of positioning going on at the moment so don't take everything you read literally. Just because Matt has said only Bjarne is certain of a team place, I think it's just a warning shot to certain riders not to take their futures for granted. I'd not be surprised to see Anton back at Poole in '07. He's good value both in terms of exposure for the club and points so as long as he doesn't make any stupid demands and can do a deal I don't see why he'll miss next year. It's all down to how much he wants to ride over here imo.

Nah that's just cos your lot were crap that night. Tonight got better - I've seen worse. Felt sorry for Antonio but that was a mistake down to inexperience, you could see what Hancock was trying to do riding the wide line. as soon as he goaded Anton off the inside, he snuck down the gap. He's young, he'll learn. Good to see Scotty riding well despite his injury. There's still time to salvage a top 8 place. As for poor old Rico, think it's back to the drawing board for '07.

And if he needs any guidance along the transition to full pro, there's enough on here to offer advice.

Have to say Johnno must have the patience of a saint. I gave up screaming at Millard's cr@p halfway through and just mentally blokced him out. The odd mistake is fine, everyone makes one, but this guy does it constantly. Reckon Johnno must have had to have sat on his hands to stop himself from throttling the bloke.

Referee was a total joke - even made Ma Vardy look decent with some of those decisions. Hope Rico isn't badly hurt - that was a nasty couple of incidents and was amazed he came out for that penultimate ride. Bjarne was well out of sorts tonight - think carrying Poole for the last couple of weeks is catching up with him. Amazing how fresh a break can make a rider...

Don't see why Sube. AFAIK no approach has been made and my comments were based purely on a Poole free basis as my friend hails from Glasgow.

Had a mate who was living out in Central Europe for a while this year who alerted me to this lad, and told me some of the riders he was beating on a regular basis. He said he was awesome to watch. Definitely a talent, that's for sure. Was amazed at how young he is, and doing his stuff in the Polish league. One for the future and hope he manages to build on the impressive start.

Meeting delayed by an hour so the latest text says - still hammering it down out there.