Pirates Of Poole

I also wonder if the 1 eight point rider will be rubber stamped in January and a u-turn on that could happen as could mean more premiership team riders can double down like Pickering.

Matt will be on it I’m sure.

Yes and that’s a worry, how many clubs have they been involved in and been on council planning hearings. Reading, Swindon, Birmingham, Coventry and Poole - my message would be, you come for Poole but you will be up against one hell of a fight, we won’t be push overs. We need to keep winning trophies and be well supported, get a commercial manager in place and attract some big money sponsors.

That is why Poole Speedway and BCP need to be on their toes, they are preparing the ground work.

Birmingham speedway also had Osborne involved, he has an associate called Christopher Lewis of steel life Perry Barr. He also has businesses registered at Poole stadium. We know what’s just happened at Perry Barr. He also has association with Abbey Stadium at Swindon.

BCP will see right through him, he’s done it far too many times now.

If Cala homes win a bid to build on the stadium site, they must find an alternate site for the stadium built before any works can take place the new stadium would need to be finished. We all know what will happen with Osborne involved if that didn’t happen.

Sounds like The Showground could be an option for 2026 if things can fall into place quickly, a lot of work to be done but not impossible.

I rest my case, this is a sport like F1, football, rugby it’s played out in the public sector and decision or lack of them are discussed. I’m sure people wouldn’t give 2 hoots about my company’s agm but happy to help, or other private owned companies. We are talking about a sport that has an AGM every second week of November and that hasn’t happened with no update. Fail to plan, plan to fail comes to mind. Forward planning is massively important in any business, but time and again British speedway lets its self down.

It's an absolute disgrace and shows the regard the BSPA (Clubs) have for their fans and complete lack of respect. Speedway star announced it was obviously 12th November then changed to the 6th of January via the speedway star. Nothing on the official BSPA website, which is poor and before the goody lot start coming back with 'its delicate and confidential' and that's why nothing can be said. Come on! they don't need to give details just give the supporters some basic information instead of radio silent and hope! Lets face it, Oxford and Birmingham didn't close yesterday! We have known since August (promoters knew longer than that) have they sat around for 8 weeks hoping someone will wave a magic wand and hope everything will be sorted, get real! It's a poor show and the fans deserve better.

Yeah his girlfriend comes from Poole

Thankyou!

Exactly what has happened no riders around in that window of averages, by bringing in the 1 over 8 it stops clubs from brining riders in who our new or ridden in the past for a Champ side but average sits between 8-9.

So where is Swindon currently for the planning? has planning been approved for the old speedway site or not gone through? I would hope that the council will delay until the new speedway home is built or its refused and speedway can return to the Abbey under new ownership!

Fingers crossed the council see through this attempt and kick the planning out immediately without it even getting that far. Reading, Swindon, Coventry and even Poole soon enough, anything with Osbourne involved or as an advisor I would be very concerned, he is trying it at Poole but the council and standing strong with strict criteria at the moment, the speedway has to be relocated and new site built and finished BEFORE and works could happen. In Coventry case as everyone can see, the houses will be built all around the stadium then it will be decided the speedway will be too noisy or makes no money so we shall put another 200 houses on the Brandon site, people involved must think we came down in the last shower! the same people keep doing this and it never ends well for Speedway. Good luck to all involved as I look forward to returning to Brandon to watch speedway soon!