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Poole v Leicester v Poole play off final 21/22 October


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4 minutes ago, Bojangles said:

He beat King, Lawson and Worrall when he visited with Oxford. You got other heat leaders we don't know about?

He didn't say they hadn't. Just that he doesn't expect him to tomorrow. But to answer your question, yes we have a fourth HL, Ben Cook!! Been riding like a No1 at Poole last month or so. :t:

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7 minutes ago, FishersGate said:

With track looking an absolute mess today and probable rain coming again how is it going to be raceable for Saturday?

Been a good day, dug and raked 5 veg beds so far and 3 more still to go. The ground's improved massively since when I started. Air temperature's up near 15 and should stay that way for rest of the week. There'll be more rain for sure, just needs to avoid heavy stuff and it'll be ok for Sat I think.

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3 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Perhaps the track is a mess. Perhaps Leicester do not want under any circumstances, Poole riders on their track before Saturday.

Been dry again all day. Track must have been under a foot of water. 

Poole Speedway twitter has just asked for fans to be there tomorrow night to support the team so no hint of any postponement from the club, let us hope for a dry day and a great meeting.

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10 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Perhaps the track is a mess. Perhaps Leicester do not want under any circumstances, Poole riders on their track before Saturday.

Been dry again all day. Track must have been under a foot of water. 

It’s ok to have all the conspiracy theorists  , but these  days if the track is the least bit patchy or wet the riders just won’t entertain it as has been proved a few times this season at various venues.Refs just have to agree on health and safety rules.Definitely a dry summer sport nowadays.

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15 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

It’s ok to have all the conspiracy theorists  , but these  days if the track is the least bit patchy or wet the riders just won’t entertain it as has been proved a few times this season at various venues.Refs just have to agree on health and safety rules.Definitely a dry summer sport nowadays.

Yes agree we never see riders going ahead in conditions where in the past a meeting would have gone ahead. But for the second time in a week, a meeting has been called off at Leicester with a completely dry day to sort it out.

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38 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Yes agree we never see riders going ahead in conditions where in the past a meeting would have gone ahead. But for the second time in a week, a meeting has been called off at Leicester with a completely dry day to sort it out.

There does seem to be a material problem at Leicester that they can’t cope with much rain.

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We had a heavy shower yesterday afternoon and even the footpath outside my house (in the shade) hasn't completely dried out! That's why nobody outside our country runs important Speedway matches at this time of year, there's just not enough hours of daylight for conditions to dry out before the next dollop of rain arrives

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9 minutes ago, iainb said:

We had a heavy shower yesterday afternoon and even the footpath outside my house (in the shade) hasn't completely dried out! That's why nobody outside our country runs important Speedway matches at this time of year, there's just not enough hours of daylight for conditions to dry out before the next dollop of rain arrives

Lovely day here in Poole today! Not just daylight but decent sunshine too.

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10 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

There does seem to be a material problem at Leicester that they can’t cope with much rain.

There have been several rain affected meetings at Leicester this year that have been completed quite successfully.

But let's get serious. Planning to run the play off finals at this time of year is madness. Not only is the weather generally wetter, the air temperature is a lot lower meaning tracks don't dry out. Have you noticed that "certain riders" become available to be signed this late in the year? Why? Well their "main" (foreign) club's playoffs have been completed. When are we going to stop this madness? 

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9 minutes ago, False dawn said:

There have been several rain affected meetings at Leicester this year that have been completed quite successfully.

But let's get serious. Planning to run the play off finals at this time of year is madness. Not only is the weather generally wetter, the air temperature is a lot lower meaning tracks don't dry out. Have you noticed that "certain riders" become available to be signed this late in the year? Why? Well their "main" (foreign) club's playoffs have been completed. When are we going to stop this madness? 

It all about certain riders “having their cake and eating it” and it really has to change regarding fixture planning in GB.Very few Teams can run weekly due to lack of availability of key members because of their foreign commitments.Clubs are struggling to run 15-20 meetings in  6 month season.I don’t know if crowds levels have suffered  much because of lack of weekly fixtures but 4-5 weeks gap certainly didn’t help at the end of the season.While Weather can play it’s  part but in UK you really don’t know what each month will bring.Clubs really have run weekly to make up for fixture backlog if the weather doesn’t play ball.Can’t really see things changing though.Unfortunately.Everything seems rosy to the people running the show.

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