Poole Pirates Vs Lakeside Hammers 6/4/16

[Steve Shovlar]

Aimed at one person tho!

No. There are others also using periscope, one of them does the Poole online podcasts. Its a shame its being looked at in this manner as it will not stop fans coming to meetings but could bring in people new to the spor. hey ho no more filming.

[stevebrum]

No. There are others also using periscope, one of them does the Poole online podcasts. Its a shame its being looked at in this manner as it will not stop fans coming to meetings but could bring in people new to the spor. hey ho no more filming.

Obviously it has been more noticeable at Poole although if I was a forward thinking management and sports organisation I'd monitor it and allow limited access (say no more than the odd race but off racing stuff should be positively encouraged.

SKY obviously are being protected here and I can see the logic up to a point.

However anything that gets more people interested should be applauded.

(That said some of the people intending to watch were fans of other clubs who wouldn't have been going to Poole anyway!)

[SCB]

Or reserve

Except he won't. Newman will have 4 meetings in reserve, go up to heat leader (and Kurtz to reserve and Buzz to second string) where his average will drop significantly and he'll end up back in reserve. By then Watt will drop to second string where he proved last year he's a 7 point man.

 

Expect Watt, Hans and to play musical heat leaders and swap all season - Newman may get another spell in the 1-5 and it may co-include with Watt being the lower of the top 5 riders but I'm not convinced any of Pooles HLs (Holder aside) are capable of consistent heat leader scoring but all of them are capable of phenomenal second string scores to stop them getting low enough to drop to reserve.

[Shale Searcher]

Because at 1.30 this afternoon the track was still slush. luckly the sun did come out but we had a very cold wind, not a drying wind and the combination of that the sun and the boys turning the track over dried it out. Had the sun not made an appearance the meeting could have taken a turn for the worse.

Thanks;

 

Did you get any further rain after that or just before or during the meeting?

 

Thanks

[heathen chemistry]

so no more periscope , does that include facebook live aswell,

 

well well well ive seen it all now swiderski on a 3.87 ..

 

think teams from down south been watching too much johnny ball think of a number..

Edited April 7, 2016 by heathen chemistry

[Game On]

Has Matt filled Starman's hole in yet...anyone know?

It's on going

[chris4gillian]

The meeting started at 7.30 and was wrapped up at 8.56. Well done to Paul Carrington for not keeping the crowd standing around in the bitter cold wind.

 

A meeting full of thrilling racing and the scoreline doesnt show the closeness of the racing. Heat times were a good two seconds slower than usual but that didn't ruin a meeting that would have gone down a treat on Sky.

 

A good crowd, good racing, a Lakeside team that came for a fight and what more could you want?

 

For Poole

 

Holder was solid.

Kurtz is getting better by the week. Still learning the racing lines. I could see he was trying to pass going on the inside entering bend one. That wont work and try as he did, Swiderski was not going to be caught using that line. He will learn soon enough and is very talented.

Watt was woeful. A confidence crisis going on? Certainly looks like it and was wobbling arounf worse than our reserves. Needs to get his head sorted.

 

Buckowski was rider of the night. Fast and passing riders like they were standing still. Best I have seen him ride.

Hans started slowly (late arrival) but had some super tussles, the best with Jonsson where they went over the line with a tyre width between them.

Ellis battled well. Not as good as previous weeks but still good.

Newman was excellent and but for lifting in heat two would have scored a max.

 

Lakeside.

Jonsson was excellent entertainment and never gave up.

Swiderski had a gate and win with the two Poole riders climbing all over his back wheel.

Nilsson has had better meetings here but got a win.

Bridger was poor. Never really got stuck in at all.

The northern lad with the Skornicki haircut, Lawson thats it, didn't do as well ad expected.

Kerr was Ok but has scored better at Poole.

 

Have to feel a little sorry for Mear. Nowhere near a point then, in the second reserve race he pops out and is leading and Lakeside are on a 5-1, before Newman comes charging through, then a lap later Ellis comes from last to second.

 

A bigger win than I anticipated but still a meeting that was full of entertainment.

 

The return on Friday will be a very different story, not by entertainment, but by scoreline.

 

I disagree with that as that was one of Bjarne's favourite places to pass.

[Steve Shovlar]

To pass off the first bend riders normally dive under and then drift out and push the other rider our ala Janowski, Ward, Holder. Rarely see a rider after lap one bend one try and hog the inside all the way around and make a pass when the faster racing line is further out. although Hans did it last night to a Lakeside rider and nearly fenced him down the. Back straight to make sure the move stuck.

Edited April 7, 2016 by Steve Shovlar

[Woz01]

Has Matt filled Starman's hole in yet...anyone know?

Is that a euphemism?

[TesarRacing]

Is that a euphemism?

 

No, I think it is called a suppository!!

[Knightime]

Average age of the crowd to be about the same !

Oh to be that young again!

[Knightime]

They are announcing at the parade that anyone caught streaming with Periscope will have a permanent ban from all speedway stadiums. No more filming.

Streaming meetings free means less money in a sport that simply can't afford any loss of revenue. That said the clubs should recognise a need and set up a pay per view streaming service for people who can't make a meeting due to geography

[pugwash]

 

No, I think it is called a suppository!!

You know what you can do with that.

[Starman2006]

Thanks;

 

Did you get any further rain after that or just before or during the meeting?

 

Thanks

We had several down pours during the morning which didn't help the boys cause, but after 2pm we had nothing which was a real blessing and then the sun came out quite strongly, but we also had that cold wind. We had a few spots just before heat 8-9 but otherwise nothing.

[mdmc82]

And Bridger has soon got back to his regular form.

Bridger was always going to be a rider who did well at Lakeside but crap away and this is whilst he is motivated.

[LisaColette]

Bridger was always going to be a rider who did well at Lakeside but crap away and this is whilst he is motivated.

He has had good meetings at Poole, especially in 2014. So not like it is a track that he finds difficult.

[poole keith]

was part of the sponsers party lastnite,on the centregreen after ht13,walking across the track all the group commented on how much extra shale there appeared to be and at that late stage of the meeting still no "blue line" certainly produced great racing.

[Starman2006]

was part of the sponsers party lastnite,on the centregreen after ht13,walking across the track all the group commented on how much extra shale there appeared to be and at that late stage of the meeting still no "blue line" certainly produced great racing.

No more shale was put on yesterday mate. As i said in another post, the track was slush at 1.30, and we were probably lucky the forcast was right..

Bridger was always going to be a rider who did well at Lakeside but crap away and this is whilst he is motivated.

Would still liked to have seen Matt sign him at some point.When he was on a 5.05 average a few year ago, i know he was looking...

[markyb]

bump.

Edited April 7, 2016 by markyb

[TesarRacing]

bump.

 

....not more problems with the track!!