Why is it embarrassing that Morris was last in his races?
Someone has to finish last, and with the lowest averaged rider on show, it was no major surprise it was him.
Good call by Lyon to get Thorssell in as a guest for Milik. Otherwise it would have been really messy!
Congrats to Leicester on their first away win
Eklof was absolutely woeful last time he rode at Scunthorpe. Think of Edberg at Ipswich, just worse.
I can really see things going down to the wire. 11th September: Scunthorpe V Plymouth could well be the decider.
Michelsen had 2 non finishers. Was thrown off his bike in the titanic scrap with Bech thanks to the huge hole on first bend. An interesting race where Michelsen first had to avoid the Russian then the 2 Danes were throwing bikes at each other. Not for the faint hearted! In his final ride his chain went at the start. The times he finished Michelsen looked quick. Just wasn't his day
Must admit to being surprised more has not been said about some of the passing moves by Poole riders, especially after the way that Cook got roundly booed last year! The moves were largely identical.
Overall not a bad meeting at all. Poole track has it's critics but thought the track rode pretty well last night. You can normally get a decent meeting when there's bit of an inside and outside line.
Belle Vue were as good as Poole in second half of the meeting but effectively lost the tie in the first 4 heats, which I personally put down to misjudgement of track conditions.