semion Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Sorry for asking, but was last nights meeting called off because of the rain or because of the massive hole on the first bend, that Poole diodnt have the equipment to repair ? Been away, so its a genuine question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) Goodness me there are some uninformed posts on here in the last few pages - mainly from non-Poole fans and those that weren't anywhere near Wimborne Road last night!!  Having spent a fair amount of time at the track yesterday, the track staff did an incredible job once it stopped raining from around 1.15pm!! In bright sunshine and a strong wind they got the track into a raceable condition but all the work was wrecked by an unexpected and un-forecasted torrential rain downpour for around 10-15 minutes at approx. 4pm.  After that downpour the decision was made to blade off the top surface - a decision made at most tracks in similar circumstances - unfortunately the blade cut into the base on the first turn and 'gouged out' a hole or trough of approx. 5ft in length which was right on the racing line and went down at least 6 inches - maybe more - in depth. It was attempted to fill it by just using the top surface material and packing it down - but it wasn't enough!  This was the only issue the riders had on the track walk - as was reported on Sky - as the rest of the track was and looked raceable. Incidentally the senior meeting co-ordinator Ronnie Allan, was very keen to get the meeting on - unlike the meeting referee Christina Turnbull!!  OK, blame Poole as it was their track - blame the Poole tractor driver as he was controlling the blading - but don't blame the Poole riders or management, it wasn't solely their decision to call the meeting off!! All riders were very vocal - some more than others from either side - about NOT riding, once again as Rory Schlein and Middlo explained in interview.  As for the delay in announcing the rearranged date of Thursday, I do feel for many of the crowd but its not just a case of checking riders availability. Thursday is Poole's official 'rain-off' day, but a number of things need to be checked/confirmed before an announcement can be made - Stadium staffing; trackstaff availability; Sky availability; how long it might take for a proper repair of the 'hole', etc etc  Thursday is forecast to be a better weather day - but not without a lot of rain still to come beforehand on Tuesday/Wednesday - not something that will lend itself to the use of track covers. And we know plastic sheeting or tarpaulins don't work either - although imo it might be worth trying it over the start line as we don't want what Swindon had to cope with!! Edited October 7, 2014 by Skidder1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jive Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Just looked on sky, this match is not listed yet but it is listed on Bet 365 for Thursday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poole Quay 7 Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Just looked on sky, this match is not listed yet but it is listed on Bet 365 for Thursday   Thanks for the heads up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Smith Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Just looked on sky, this match is not listed yet but it is listed on Bet 365 for Thursday Sky ain't showing, confirmed last night their next meeting will be Monday's final 1st leg. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speedwayfun Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I don't get this obsession with poole from this stevebrum and gavan characters - some of it is just childishness - one post from the swindon thread And do either of these people support speedway - why not go and support your own teams on their own threads - so much you seem to do is carp and criticise. But then it could be jealousy. Â Members 2,548 posts Posted Today, 08:59 AM Plain and simple Coventry had riders who like the track like that where as Swindon dont. Riders like Batchelor and North are gating tarts who arent prepared to do the rough stuff. Track was never going to suit Worrall either. Greaves shouldnt really be riding at this level as every time i see him he falls off at least once. Morris flatters to decieve a lot either brilliant or awful. At least Gustafsson gave it a go. Â What i will say is full credit to Swindon promotion and management who made every effort to get the meeting on even knowing that it may cost them. Â Shame the same cant be said for the Poole promotion and their constant cheating The above was posted by gavan on the swindon site. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebrum Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Goodness me there are some uninformed posts on here in the last few pages - mainly from non-Poole fans and those that weren't anywhere near Wimborne Road last night!! Â Â Â And for those of us who watched it live on SKY , saw the state of the track and problem, heard from the horses mouth what the issues were are `uninformed`? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavan Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I don't get this obsession with poole from this stevebrum and gavan characters - some of it is just childishness - one post from the swindon thread And do either of these people support speedway - why not go and support your own teams on their own threads - so much you seem to do is carp and criticise. But then it could be jealousy.  Members 2,548 posts Posted Today, 08:59 AM Plain and simple Coventry had riders who like the track like that where as Swindon dont. Riders like Batchelor and North are gating tarts who arent prepared to do the rough stuff. Track was never going to suit Worrall either. Greaves shouldnt really be riding at this level as every time i see him he falls off at least once. Morris flatters to decieve a lot either brilliant or awful. At least Gustafsson gave it a go.  What i will say is full credit to Swindon promotion and management who made every effort to get the meeting on even knowing that it may cost them.  Shame the same cant be said for the Poole promotion and their constant cheating The above was posted by gavan on the swindon site. and your point is?  The fact is Swindon busted a gut to get the meeting on and obviously have track staff that can prepare a track. Poole did not bust a gut or have incompetent track staff. Goodness me there are some uninformed posts on here in the last few pages - mainly from non-Poole fans and those that weren't anywhere near Wimborne Road last night!!  Having spent a fair amount of time at the track yesterday, the track staff did an incredible job once it stopped raining from around 1.15pm!! In bright sunshine and a strong wind they got the track into a raceable condition but all the work was wrecked by an unexpected and un-forecasted torrential rain downpour for around 10-15 minutes at approx. 4pm.  After that downpour the decision was made to blade off the top surface - a decision made at most tracks in similar circumstances - unfortunately the blade cut into the base on the first turn and 'gouged out' a hole or trough of approx. 5ft in length which was right on the racing line and went down at least 6 inches - maybe more - in depth. It was attempted to fill it by just using the top surface material and packing it down - but it wasn't enough!  This was the only issue the riders had on the track walk - as was reported on Sky - as the rest of the track was and looked raceable. Incidentally the senior meeting co-ordinator Ronnie Allan, was very keen to get the meeting on - unlike the meeting referee Christina Turnbull!!  OK, blame Poole as it was their track - blame the Poole tractor driver as he was controlling the blading - but don't blame the Poole riders or management, it wasn't solely their decision to call the meeting off!! All riders were very vocal - some more than others from either side - about NOT riding, once again as Rory Schlein and Middlo explained in interview.  As for the delay in announcing the rearranged date of Thursday, I do feel for many of the crowd but its not just a case of checking riders availability. Thursday is Poole's official 'rain-off' day, but a number of things need to be checked/confirmed before an announcement can be made - Stadium staffing; trackstaff availability; Sky availability; how long it might take for a proper repair of the 'hole', etc etc  Thursday is forecast to be a better weather day - but not without a lot of rain still to come beforehand on Tuesday/Wednesday - not something that will lend itself to the use of track covers. And we know plastic sheeting or tarpaulins don't work either - although imo it might be worth trying it over the start line as we don't want what Swindon had to cope with!! Uninformed lol  Sorry did you need to be there!! I watched it on tv and listened to the riders. Nobody is saying it shouldnt have been cancelled due to safety (didnt listen to Middlo i turn the sound off when he opens his mouth)  What EVERYONE is saying that it was piss poor preparation from a so called big club.  If the club and Matt Ford are as successful as we are supposed to believe then surely he should have the right staff / equipment to guarantee the meeting went ahead. Its not hard to suspect Pooles promotion were not to bothered if it did or didnt.  But yes its my hatred of all things Poole and not what was actually in front of our eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peatbog Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Im an Ipswich fan. My team are not in the elite league so it dont affect me. Gavan, you say you are an Ipswich fan so how come you didn't make a posting on the PL play off Scunthorpe v Ipswich thread. Perhaps you were too busy trolling Poole! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 and your point is?  The fact is Swindon busted a gut to get the meeting on and obviously have track staff that can prepare a track. Poole did not bust a gut or have incompetent track staff. Uninformed lol  Sorry did you need to be there!! I watched it on tv and listened to the riders. Nobody is saying it shouldnt have been cancelled due to safety (didnt listen to Middlo i turn the sound off when he opens his mouth)  What EVERYONE is saying that it was piss poor preparation from a so called big club.  If the club and Matt Ford are as successful as we are supposed to believe then surely he should have the right staff / equipment to guarantee the meeting went ahead. Its not hard to suspect Pooles promotion were not to bothered if it did or didnt.  But yes its my hatred of all things Poole and not what was actually in front of our eyes. No, I'm not going to bother!!  And for those of us who watched it live on SKY , saw the state of the track and problem, heard from the horses mouth what the issues were are `uninformed`? Feeling guilty SB?? Did I mention you?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I wasn't at Swindon last night but from what I saw on twitter it looked to me very much as though they had just moved the greyhound track covers onto the speedway track. If that's the case then the "speedway" track covers should have been available for Poole to use unless these are the same covers and Ronnie the Spiv is renting them back to the Swindon greyhound people Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzAssStar Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014   ............................always "like" each other's trolling posts  Somewhat like you and Skidder !!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Â Somewhat like you and Skidder !!! Â I like what I like and like what is factual! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavan Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Â I like what I like and like what is factual! And the FACT is Pooles track was an embarrassment last night as mentioned by decent Poole fans! Or are they all wrong as well??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grachan Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 I wasn't at Swindon last night but from what I saw on twitter it looked to me very much as though they had just moved the greyhound track covers onto the speedway track. If that's the case then the "speedway" track covers should have been available for Poole to use unless these are the same covers and Ronnie the Spiv is renting them back to the Swindon greyhound people  Swindon used the "BSPA" track covers. There were pictures and a description of what was done on the trackstaff's blog.  It seems that there is only one set of these covers. Swindon didn't use the plastic sheeting from the greyhound track.  It was said at the meeting that without these covers the match at Swindon would have been cancelled.  Poole didn't have these covers so Poole was cancelled. It all seems to make sense to me. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 It could have been a gate and go bore fest even without the weather - it could have been bone dry and slick. Why say its a shame for the home fans - clearly it was brilliant for the visiting fans. Swindon, a supposedly very strong team, have only got themselves to blame - not the weather or the track. Â PS: postponed, not cancelled (as in suspended, not banned). Â And that's supposed to take place on the first bend at Wimborne Road! Â It's ashame for them because of the 'racing' that was served up and the vast majority of those fans who stumped up the money to watch it live would be home team fans, thought that would be obvious. British speedway needs all the paying fans it can get to survive and for some that may have been one of the few meetings they'd been to - will they go again? Any fan of speedway should be able to realise that the meeting was dire and would not attract casual fans to watch again on TV either. Â Thanks also for the rather childish correction when I wrote 'cancelled' instead of 'postponed' - and actually it's p.s. as in postscript, not PS: as in whatever....... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreverblue Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Don't slate me if this turn sout to be wrong but according to oddschecker site, the small meeting on thursday is on sky sports 2 at 7.30 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star Lady Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Don't slate me if this turn sout to be wrong but according to oddschecker site, the small meeting on thursday is on sky sports 2 at 7.30 Â LIVE greyhounds on Sky Sports 2, no live sport on SS3 or SS4 tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jive Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 Now showing Live on Sky Sports 2 7:30pm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Midland Red Posted October 7, 2014 Report Share Posted October 7, 2014 (edited) Just looking at the Sky planner, and Thursday 7.30pm, SS2 Channel 403, Live Elite League Speedway Oops, MartinH beat me to it! Edited October 7, 2014 by Midland Red Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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