Poole 2025

[Arthur54]

8 hours ago, lewy said:

Good to see the new development league for next season, surprisingly Poole not supporting this or helping with the development of British youngsters, some things are more important than making a profit like the long term development of British talent 

 

The way it's looking, Plymouth look to be running 2 teams at development league level 

[lewy]

1 hour ago, Catalan said:

I'm disappointed we are not entering in development league but for some bizarre reason Poole fans don't turn out for this standard of racing.

Strange really as Poole's main team sponsor is a huge fan of the development of young riders

It is a strange one,I guess some fans are fans of winning, and some are fans of speedway. 

[SteveLyric2]

8 hours ago, lewy said:

Disappointing attitude tbh,had enough money to take the team to Las Vegas as you hinted at on the forum clive,which must of cost at least 10k which would have easily covered 5 nl fixtures. ££££££££££££

£10k?? I bet that doesn't even cover stadium rent for 5 nl meetings let alone all other costs and a massively reduced attendance income...!

[SteveLyric2]

2 minutes ago, lewy said:

It is a strange one,I guess some fans are fans of winning, and some are fans of speedway. 

Shame you get neither in Devon.🤣🤣

[lewy]

Hilarious,comic genius 💥

[lewy]

9 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

£10k?? I bet that doesn't even cover stadium rent for 5 nl meetings let alone all other costs and a massively reduced attendance income...!

Could always run 5 double headers why would this not work?

[SteveLyric2]

2 minutes ago, lewy said:

Could always run 5 double headers why would this not work?

Midweek Curfew!

[Catalan]

43 minutes ago, lewy said:

It is a strange one,I guess some fans are fans of winning, and some are fans of speedway. 

I loved the 2 years of the Bournemouth Buccaneers and they were a winning team.

Garry May at his best with those lads

[paulboy]

12 hours ago, SteveLyric2 said:

..and dear old Mark Philips and Garry May missed out on both of them!! Was it down to money or the track, or both?

Strange question, obviously money with Poole and Glasgow the other two clubs involved

[SpeedwaySlider72]

11 hours ago, lewy said:

Good to see the new development league for next season, surprisingly Poole not supporting this or helping with the development of British youngsters, some things are more important than making a profit like the long term development of British talent 

 

Never any surprise in Poole not supporting youth development but happy to cherry pick the work of others.

[szkocjasid]

Unfortunately there's not a lot of encouragement for Poole to enter a development league, what have they done since they last rode in the third tier in 2010? Run one junior meeting last year (because they had to). 

Yet they've apparently signed arguably the most promising junior since then (Cairns) for the team in June next year. If they can spend no money on developing junior riders, yet still pick up the best prospects, what incentive is there for them to do any more (than they absolutely have to)?

As much as I'd like them to enter a development league, if they run Speedway to make a profit & don't feel the need to help develop riders for the future, they don't have to.

Certainly is a shame they don't.

Edited 2 hours ago by szkocjasid

[szkocjasid]

4 minutes ago, SpeedwaySlider72 said:

Never any surprise in Poole not supporting youth development but happy to cherry pick the work of others.

Interesting, as I was typing a post, you've come out with virtually the same point.

[DJC]

18 hours ago, SteelShoe said:

Ambiguous statement for me regarding  coming away as better riders. Perhaps you could define what you mean by better riders ?. Young riders as we seen with Max Perry get dropped if not performing he certainly didn't come away as a better rider. Vinnie showed rapid improvement in his form than he had showed in the NDL the season before.

Poole tend generally to make good decisions on rider recruitment ie good eye for improvers. Such riders would become more experienced and improve wherever they ride imo.

 

 

Improved, more riders come away improved than not. Especially those at the start of their uk carers. There will always be exceptions to the rule. Perry being the most recent and obvious. 

I do agree with your point that they have a good eye which certainly helps that though.

[SteveLyric2]

42 minutes ago, SpeedwaySlider72 said:

Never any surprise in Poole not supporting youth development but happy to cherry pick the work of others.

It's called 'good club management'!! Even when they ran Bournemouth Buccaneers, with Garry May as TM, and won everything, admission was £10 (reduced to £5 for main team season ticket holders), but still didn't attract decent crowds to be sustainable.

[scaramanga]

2 hours ago, lewy said:

It is a strange one,I guess some fans are fans of winning, and some are fans of speedway. 

And the fans use to ahigh paid winni g team shout the most when things start to go wrong 

 

[Gambo]

1 hour ago, SpeedwaySlider72 said:

Never any surprise in Poole not supporting youth development but happy to cherry pick the work of others.

Perhaps a change of name to the Poole Parasites?

[Fromafar]

32 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

It's called 'good club management'!! Even when they ran Bournemouth Buccaneers, with Garry May as TM, and won everything, admission was £10 (reduced to £5 for main team season ticket holders), but still didn't attract decent crowds to be sustainable.

Agree,Berwick tried it with the Bullets for a couple of seasons and it didn’t attract decent crowds (with a very good Team on track ).

[lewy]

2 hours ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Midweek Curfew!

What time is the curfew?

[SaddlebowRoad]

40 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

It's called 'good club management'!! Even when they ran Bournemouth Buccaneers, with Garry May as TM, and won everything, admission was £10 (reduced to £5 for main team season ticket holders), but still didn't attract decent crowds to be sustainable.

i personally believe its the responsibility of all clubs to do something towards youth development and its not just poole, my own club seem to be entering the trophy but havent had a young stars side for a few years

it shouldn't be beyond any club to host a few fixtures even if they are part of double headers 

sometimes it should go beyond business/ management and just thinking about ones own club 

[HGould]

2 hours ago, lewy said:

Could always run 5 double headers why would this not work?

Unfortunately with the average age dynamic at Wimborne Road the average use time of adult nappies and lilets does not exceed the time limit to safely complete 30 heats of Speedway and the further limit of no more than 5 heats with passing* excitement (*excuse the pun)