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Not really the night for leg trailing Kyle although I know its his style.

Not pretty but what can you do, the weather is not going to get any better over the next twenty days, you can't just call everything off and hope for better weather at this time of year.

I remember when I first went to speedway in the late 80s how it was unusual to see less than 23-25 home meetings each season, now your lucky if you get half that.

How many times does it have to be said that having the play off this late is asking for trouble, it must surely be costing BT Sport a ton of money in wasted production costs

I am surprised that Poole fans want to throw Jack and Brady under the bus, they were poor last night but averages don't lie, they have had decent seasons, Klindt has been a form rider this season but both averaged more than Nic. We would happily have Jack and Brady at Lakeside except we haven't got a track, actually we don't have a club either, and going by the silence, probably never will again.

It looked quite dark on the terraces so hard to see how many was there, I wasn't looking anyway, but nonetheless surely there must have been at least 1000 Poole fans there? I mean we are told frequently how big the club is when it comes to support, and you rarely see the main stand empty on a sky night, even for a fairly meaningless fixture or do the large majority of their fans not recognise speedway away from Wimbourne Road?

Track going off, no need to run heat 15, call it now.

Awesome Richard Lawson

Exactly Hagonshocker, asking for trouble running this at the end of September early October

Ha Ha Ha Kelvin is going to look like a mug very shortly

Everyone tweet BT Sport and Nigel Pearson, I have

Wont Fn learn with they?

ive just tweeted BT Sport telling them to get on with it, rain on its way and fans pay to see racing!

They prepare tracks slick because if it rains the idea is the rain runs off the track, however you cant race like that because it will be like ice, so you would have to wait for the rain to stop and then put dry dirt down or sawdust, if you have dirt down that gets wet, then you can scrape it off.

I think Poole will edge it tonight, both the meeting and therefore of course the tie, rain is expected later so I hope both clubs approach the ref and BT Sport before hand and make it absolutely clear they need to get on with the meeting, get ten heats done then you can slow it down for Ad breaks etc

Get on with it! FFS

Christina Turnball Steve, never ridden a bike in her life probably.

Not that it made any difference but if rain was looming why wait until 15 minutes in before having heat 1? always the same.

Don't like this, it will make the meeting a mockery

If the track is wavy again with a deep line out wide it will be a close encounter as Witches have the like of Bomber, NKI and King who are not afraid to ride one foot from the fence, I feel they rode very much within themselves in the recent league match there where as Poole, Especially Josh, really was going for it. On paper for me this is one of the most exciting play off series for a long time, (if your a neutral) all four teams are very capable and therefore I hope each semi is very nip and tuck, all too often in the past we have had semi finals that have been so one sided and all but over after the first leg and you just want to skip to the final itself. The Swedish finals was so boring because Smederna walked it, fingers crossed we see two epic semis and a final in our own league, Don't care which team wins, I want Speedway and the fans to be the winner.

When BT fixed the dates I assume they didn't bother to tell the weather, speedway will never learn, late September onwards, its mostly a wash out.

Didn't know about this until I got the Star this morning, very sad news indeed for those who's club it was, we have lost a lot of good clubs with long history's over the last decade or two. Stoke to me were always about the likes of Eric Monaghan and Nigel Crabtree, we (Arena Essex) had some good tussles with the Potters back in the old National League days.

Why would Witches bother with a tactical, they are just trying to get through the meeting unscathed, terrible track, would not be surprised if all the waves caused Klindts chain to come off and cause him to crash out.

Ah that's more like the guy I knew from his Hammers days, King Richard Lawson

How is it they know they will be at Poole next Monday, they assume Poole will want to host the first leg?