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Poole Pirates Vs Leicester Lions Play off semi Final1st Leg 13th October


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38 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

King not had the meetings unfortunately and prob lost a bit of match fitness. 

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41 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

Zach cook probably scored more than neilsen so that's lady luck for you Shovlar :t:

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Well first of all well done to Leicester who held us to a very measly 6 point advantage. I hate to say I told you so but a treble mistake was made. First of all in picking Leicester when they were the last time to ride here. No way were we going to get close to what we scored last time. Their riders would have known setups etc and would be at it from the first heat. And the fact that some of our riders are stale while Leicester rode last night showed up clearly.

Secondly having the first leg to ease other clubs fixture congestion was a bad error. Doing favours for clubs doesn’t help us as it’s never or rarely reciprocated.

And thirdly, why the hell didn’t we pick Edinburgh? I know a Derby for the Scottish clubs means bumper crowds for their clubs but this is the title at stake, not helping rival clubs at the pointy end of the season. Their riders would have had to travel down all day and we could have smashed them. I have said all this over the last week and my predictions have been spot on. 

Back to tonight and our staleness at the gate was clearly evident. Lions heat after heat having a bike length heading into bend one. Poole battled hard but if you give riders like Morris, Harris and Howarth a lead they love the track and are almost impossible to pass.  Some very good races tonight as Pirates attempted to pass and stay in the meeting.  

Is 6 enough to defend? No, if tonight was anything to go by. Not having track time showed riders like Danny King to look a little rusty. He tried all night but never saw a lead in any of his heats. 

Advantage Leicester to go through to the final. It should be very tight but riders like the Thompson twins, who were nowhere near a point tonight, are likely to score, as is Kennedy who battled tonight.

Well done to them. 
 

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1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Leicester mullering us out of the starts in virtually every heat. Poole look rusty in comparison. No complaints Lions deserve it. King in particular looking stale.

Harris so much better than Andersen would have done but thats lady luck for you for Leicester. 

Talking out of your backside again …. Harris so much better than Andersen lol

Harris scored 8 tonight 

Hans has scored 6 and 9 at Poole this season 

Hmmm please tell me how 8 is much better than 9…..Oh and Zach Cook scored more than Nielsen would have done so how the heck can you say Poole were weaker

Nice to see a Poole choke though 

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22 minutes ago, BTFC LION said:

Oh so he is going to claim injury for sat night then, interesting.

Well I was told last night that Rory wont be at Leicester on Saturday as its "his party" on Monday night.

 

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5 minutes ago, Gavan said:

Talking out of your backside again …. Harris so much better than Andersen lol

Harris scored 8 tonight 

Hans has scored 6 and 9 at Poole this season 

Hmmm please tell me how 8 is much better than 9…..Oh and Zach Cook scored more than Nielsen would have done so how the heck can you say Poole were weaker

Nice to see a Poole choke though 

How did we choke if we won the meeting and 6 was the most we were leading by all night? If anyone choked it was Leicester, after all they had a 2 point lead at one point.

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8 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Well first of all well done to Leicester who held us to a very measly 6 point advantage. I hate to say I told you so but a treble mistake was made. First of all in picking Leicester when they were the last time to ride here. No way were we going to get close to what we scored last time. Their riders would have known setups etc and would be at it from the first heat. And the fact that some of our riders are stale while Leicester rode last night showed up clearly.

Secondly having the first leg to ease other clubs fixture congestion was a bad error. Doing favours for clubs doesn’t help us as it’s never or rarely reciprocated.

And thirdly, why the hell didn’t we pick Edinburgh? I know a Derby for the Scottish clubs means bumper crowds for their clubs but this is the title at stake, not helping rival clubs at the pointy end of the season. Their riders would have had to travel down all day and we could have smashed them. I have said all this over the last week and my predictions have been spot on. 

Back to tonight and our staleness at the gate was clearly evident. Lions heat after heat having a bike length heading into bend one. Poole battled hard but if you give riders like Morris, Harris and Howarth a lead they love the track and are almost impossible to pass.  Some very good races tonight as Pirates attempted to pass and stay in the meeting.  

Is 6 enough to defend? No, if tonight was anything to go by. Not having track time showed riders like Danny King to look a little rusty. He tried all night but never saw a lead in any of his heats. 

Advantage Leicester to go through to the final. It should be very tight but riders like the Thompson twins, who were nowhere near a point tonight, are likely to score, as is Kennedy who battled tonight.

Well done to them. 
 

Yes I thought you would have picked Edinburgh.

Don't think you would have ‘smashed’ us. A bit disrespectful. Yes you would probably have won but I think we would have run you a lot closer than you anticipated. 

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1 minute ago, Endeavour said:

Yes I thought you would have picked Edinburgh.

Don't think you would have ‘smashed’ us. A bit disrespectful. Yes you would probably have won but I think we would have run you a lot closer than you anticipated. 

Last time you only lost by 6, so going by that not much difference! 

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1 minute ago, Endeavour said:

Yes I thought you would have picked Edinburgh.

Don't think you would have ‘smashed’ us. A bit disrespectful. Yes you would probably have won but I think we would have run you a lot closer than you anticipated. 

Just another disrespectful, contradictory post as usual. Edinburgh more race fit than Leicester lol. Couldn't pass but was good passing. Absolute drivel lol

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4 minutes ago, W9 Lion said:

Well I was told last night that Rory wont be at Leicester on Saturday as its "his party" on Monday night.

 

 

Oh lord! I can't go through another "illness" saga :drink:

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3 minutes ago, Endeavour said:

Yes I thought you would have picked Edinburgh.

Don't think you would have ‘smashed’ us. A bit disrespectful. Yes you would probably have won but I think we would have run you a lot closer than you anticipated. 

Travelling all day with an early start to a track you haven’t ridden for a while would not have helped you. Smashed is perhaps the wrong word but beaten relatively easily might be a better use of the English language. This has been my stance from the get go and nothing had changed my mind. Unfortunately proved to be completely correct, more is the pity.

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