Winners & Play Offs

[SteveLyric2]

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[Steve0]

Good luck to all playoff teams - may the best team win!

 

Swindon vs Poole and BV vs Wolves (IMHO)

[Beowulf]

Good luck to all playoff teams - may the best team win!

 

Swindon vs Poole and BV vs Wolves (IMHO)

Swindon in the final, the other tie 50/50

[krompa]

Any idea when new GSA will be available?

Starke back to reserve?

[thecoombdog]

Nothing like Poole vs Swindon especially when we have dicked them 3 times already this year. Should be easy enough in the semis. Wolves be tough in the final though and 2009 still hurts!!

[racers and royals]

Any idea when new GSA will be available?

Starke back to reserve?

They are on the BSPA website effective from 4th September.

[Odds On]

thecoombdog, on 02 Sept 2017 - 07:53 AM, said:

Nothing like Poole vs Swindon especially when we have dicked them 3 times already this year. Should be easy enough in the semis. Wolves be tough in the final though and 2009 still hurts!!

 

 

the battle of the biggest drama queens in terms of team managers...heaven forbid if Swindon lose, Rossitor will be crying again in front of the cameras!

[ray c]

the battle of the biggest drama queens in terms of team managers...heaven forbid if Swindon lose, Rossitor will be crying again in front of the cameras!

that's passion then !!!!

[ruckerroo]

Intriguing play offs now.

 

Personally i fancy belle vue if frickes back.

 

If lahtis back in the main body poole are outsiders.

 

Wolves are wolves, v consistent generally

 

Those 17 swindons count for bugger all now tho its a mighty achievement

[ray c]

With hans at the helm who knows what will happen hans has been brilliant this week there still could a few twist and turns yet.i hope rosco picks us because i reckon thats our best bet for semi's

[Gresham]

The team that will win the league, will be the one who has 7 riders on the day, that have their personal engines firing on all cylinders so to speak. As simple as that.

 

You may have well have drawn lots at the beginning of the season to see who was going to be in the top four. Sarcastic I know...but the season has been a total lottery, with teams made up of pretty much anyone who was available.

 

I'd be interested to see stats showing what team had the most settled 7 riders competing over the season.

 

It struck my mind when Rosco said last night, his concerns about Bellego and his engines not working at the moment.

 

Wouldn't it just show what a farce league speedway is, if Swindon ( the most consistent team of the season ) lost the title, purely down to a rider who has been consistent, not getting HIS engines right in the play offs.

 

How ridiculous would that be...

Edited September 2, 2017 by Gresham

[ray c]

What strength will swindon have at reserve?

[Panthers89]

Fricke riding in the GP next Saturday

[Gavan]

Swindon v Poole

Belle Vue v Wolves

 

Im going for a Swindon v Belle Vue final. I think over 2 legs with 2 full teams Belle Vue will beat Wolves

 

Swindons biggest issue is the reserve positions, get that wrong and it could cost them in the final

[Steve Shovlar]

With hans at the helm who knows what will happen hans has been brilliant this week there still could a few twist and turns yet.i hope rosco picks us because i reckon thats our best bet for semi's

We have nothing to fear from Swindon. That run of wins means nothing now. A great acheivement but its the past. The run ended spectacularly last night and Rosco must be concerned with a couple of his riders looking like they are running out of steam.

 

Against that is a Poole team who have endured a torrid mid season where our form and confidence completely deserted us. We were at rock bottom and a championship side could have beaten us.

 

But since that horrendous 30-60 defeat we have slowly but surely come together as a team. Confidence has grown week upon week. Middlo has shown why he is revered at Poole and the riders have reacted very well to his management. In the last few meetings we have seen the Poole fighting spirit resurface. At Kings Lynn we got the 4 points, then last night in a much tougher meeting and being 10 down, the team dug deep. As English Roundabout said in his meeting summary, the Poole team just all clicked together. Middlo probably got them all together and gave a now or never talk and the team reacted in a positively. On track it was a sight to see.

 

As the season has panned out, Swindon fans believe the Robins will win both legs of the semi quite comfortably and are probably more concerned about who they will meet in the final. They have seen Pirates off without too much bother in league meetings, bar Poole getting at draw at Blunsdon. They won convincingly at Poole in the B fixture. What is there to be worried about?

[Mattfordfan]

We have nothing to fear from Swindon. That run of wins means nothing now. A great acheivement but its the past. The run ended spectacularly last night and Rosco must be concerned with a couple of his riders looking like they are running out of steam.

 

Against that is a Poole team who have endured a torrid mid season where our form and confidence completely deserted us. We were at rock bottom and a championship side could have beaten us.

 

But since that horrendous 30-60 defeat we have slowly but surely come together as a team. Confidence has grown week upon week. Middlo has shown why he is revered at Poole and the riders have reacted very well to his management. In the last few meetings we have seen the Poole fighting spirit resurface. At Kings Lynn we got the 4 points, then last night in a much tougher meeting and being 10 down, the team dug deep. As English Roundabout said in his meeting summary, the Poole team just all clicked together. Middlo probably got them all together and gave a now or never talk and the team reacted in a positively. On track it was a sight to see.

 

As the season has panned out, Swindon fans believe the Robins will win both legs of the semi quite comfortably and are probably more concerned about who they will meet in the final. They have seen Pirates off without too much bother in league meetings, bar Poole getting at draw at Blunsdon. They won convincingly at Poole in the B fixture. What is there to be worried about?

 

Swindon fans are getting ahead of themselves. Even if they did beat us in the semi-final. Wolves would slaughter them around Monmore.

[thecoombdog]

We have nothing to fear from Swindon. That run of wins means nothing now. A great acheivement but its the past. The run ended spectacularly last night and Rosco must be concerned with a couple of his riders looking like they are running out of steam.

 

Against that is a Poole team who have endured a torrid mid season where our form and confidence completely deserted us. We were at rock bottom and a championship side could have beaten us.

 

But since that horrendous 30-60 defeat we have slowly but surely come together as a team. Confidence has grown week upon week. Middlo has shown why he is revered at Poole and the riders have reacted very well to his management. In the last few meetings we have seen the Poole fighting spirit resurface. At Kings Lynn we got the 4 points, then last night in a much tougher meeting and being 10 down, the team dug deep. As English Roundabout said in his meeting summary, the Poole team just all clicked together. Middlo probably got them all together and gave a now or never talk and the team reacted in a positively. On track it was a sight to see.

 

As the season has panned out, Swindon fans believe the Robins will win both legs of the semi quite comfortably and are probably more concerned about who they will meet in the final. They have seen Pirates off without too much bother in league meetings, bar Poole getting at draw at Blunsdon. They won convincingly at Poole in the B fixture. What is there to be worried about?

No one I know is worried!!! If we don't make the final its a straight up bottle job. My only slight doubt is caused by some of our previous bottle jobs in play offs. But based on this season we should do it easily. Lahti at reserve has been a massive part of Pooles run in last 2 weeks. 2 big crowds and we both love beating the other more than any other team so bring it on!! In mid June I thought our only end of season play off would be against the PL winners so I'm looking forward to the play offs.

[ouch]

I don't get the Wolves thing as aside from the Leicester away A fixture they've not convinced me.

They won at Somerset but it wasn't really wolves and then had gifts against weakened teams in their other victories.

They do however have a fabulous home track advantage that can be improved upon with track prep.

 

Swindon haven't been tested until last night and I think there are in for a wake up call come the play offs even against Poole.

 

Can't discount Poole as Fords overzealous approach to winning sees the boundaries of sportsmanship pushed to the limit.

 

A fully fit Aces team should have the beating of anyone but track prep at The NSS will decide things. If it's a cracking race track then game over for the visitors. Gate & go and it will play right into the oppositions hands.

[A ORLOV]

I don't get the Wolves thing as aside from the Leicester away A fixture they've not convinced me.

They won at Somerset but it wasn't really wolves and then had gifts against weakened teams in their other victories.

They do however have a fabulous home track advantage that can be improved upon with track prep.

 

Swindon haven't been tested until last night and I think there are in for a wake up call come the play offs even against Poole.

 

Can't discount Poole as Fords overzealous approach to winning sees the boundaries of sportsmanship pushed to the limit.

 

A fully fit Aces team should have the beating of anyone but track prep at The NSS will decide things. If it's a cracking race track then game over for the visitors. Gate & go and it will play right into the oppositions hands.

Last night Swindon had r/r for a good rider, neither of our normal reserves and a rider who had had a big off on monday who scored nothing, at a difficult track, so if we can get our reserve positions sorted, write us off at your peril.

When BWD returns from injury as a reserve he will have up to 3 new engines, one already delivered so expect a major change from him, and Rosco has a decent reserve lined up to guest for Zach.

Edited September 2, 2017 by A ORLOV

[Grachan]

Everyone seems to be writing Swindon off, and that probably suits us actually. The loss at Rye House probably did us good.

 

Being league leaders could have put pressure on us, but first Poole fans and now Belle Vue fans are still just as dismissive as they were at the start of the season.

 

We know we punched above our weight in the league, but if we click again we are still as strong as any of the other three.

 

Maybe it's Poole and Belle Vue who are due a wake up call.