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Somerset v Poole Prem B. 20/8/18


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39 minutes ago, salty said:

The meeting last night had a 2 or 3 good tussles, which was definitely more than what we got at Wimborne Road the week before. 

Not true. There was some excellent tussles at Poole including Harris blasting through, Klindt blasting through on Summers.

Proper passing, not this hug the white line crap we had to suffer last night.

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16 minutes ago, lisa-colette said:

Lines?? Really? Plural?? :rofl:

Yep, did you notice Doyle riding the boards for the whole of at least one of his rides? .. equally fast as the inside line.  And even Summers using the outside line early on to good effect. 

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22 minutes ago, speedybee said:

Yep, did you notice Doyle riding the boards for the whole of at least one of his rides? .. equally fast as the inside line.  And even Summers using the outside line early on to good effect. 

KUrtz rode wide in one race to win but that was the only time most races were one line or you lost ground.

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These are professional riders so if they can’t work out the racing lines after a couple of rides then clearly they should not be putting their leg over a speedway bike. I don’t recall the riders of the seventies moaning about tracks, they got stuck in and rode it. We seem to be making so many excuses for our riders these days but its still a motorbike with no brakes on a dirt track. We lost plain and simple and the riders have to up their game for us to be in a shout of the playoffs.

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9 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Not true. There was some excellent tussles at Poole including Harris blasting through, Klindt blasting through on Summers.

Proper passing, not this hug the white line crap we had to suffer last night.

Yet last week you described the Poole meeting as "very mediocre" with "passing at a premium". Though to be fair you did later call it the best televised meeting of the season. 

I know what I saw, backed up by the comments on Speedway Updates.

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Brady Kurtz, now I know he won one race riding the middle to outside line but jeez he isn't the brightest Aussie on the planet is he, his ride when his team needed him the most decides to run the air fence line for two and half laps, you really couldn't make it up could you?

Over rated to say the least!

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7 hours ago, foreverblue said:

Yes Jacobsen our worst rider and he struggled to get past took him all race, at Poole he would of passed with ease. 

You do realise that Holder had just been whacked by the tapes so had some discomfort. Think that had to do with him struggling to get past. 

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15 minutes ago, SomersetBlue said:

You do realise that Holder had just been whacked by the tapes so had some discomfort. Think that had to do with him struggling to get past. 

Yes but that isn't the reason he struggled to get past Jacobsen, anyone apart from Doyle would have struggled having missed the gate, it was purely due to track conditions. If the conditions were the same as the video of Somerset's previous home meeting against Belle Vue  on the BSPA site then he wouldn't have struggled. The great race between Doyle and Cook wouldn't have happened on Monday's track.

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5 hours ago, salty said:

Yet last week you described the Poole meeting as "very mediocre" with "passing at a premium". Though to be fair you did later call it the best televised meeting of the season. 

I know what I saw, backed up by the comments on Speedway Updates.

Come on, SS never lets the truth get in the way of a good argument," if Poole win it's good racing", if Poole lose, "it's from the gate rubbish.

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1 hour ago, robins les said:

Come on, SS never lets the truth get in the way of a good argument," if Poole win it's good racing", if Poole lose, "it's from the gate rubbish.

Poole won there last season. Wasn’t good racing. Tension from the score nothing more.

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