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Last Updated: Nov 28th, 2010 - 10:22:29 |
Having completed their full schedule of home league matches the Poole Castle Cover Pirates now face a wait of 19 days before their next home fixture.
It is a situation that ideally Matt Ford wanted to avoid, hoping to provide some form of meeting, not least to keep his Pirates sharp in the saddle but he has explained the decision not to run on the next two Wednesdays". "Quite frankly I do not feel it right to gamble with the club finances and I have been reading a lot of negativity about what supporters consider 'meaningless' fixtures. I believe that if we were to put some racing on it would not be that well supported and that would hit the club's finances. I don't feel that I should put the club into the position where it loses money."
"We had planned a challenge match between Poole and the Australian SWC side, which in the end we had to cancel due to the problems with the weather in Poland that meant three of the riders would not be available. We had that meeting set up with a new sponsor, GD9, which would have of course covered a large proportion of the costs, but the feedback that I was sensing from the supporters is that a fair number of them would 'give the meeting a miss'."
"That would expose the club to a financial loss and the long term future of the club is far more important than that. Ideally I would have liked to have had some home meetings to keep the lads riding and I do accept that we could now be going into a very important semi-final second leg a little bit rusty which is not an ideal situation."
The Pirates' run-in to the end of season sees them travel to Coventry on Thursday 9th September for their last meeting before the play-off cut off date. Then on Monday 13th September they will be racing away at their chosen play-off opponents in the first leg before completing their outstanding league fixtures with a trip to Ipswich on September 16th. Four days later they return to Wimborne Road for the second leg and if they qualify on aggregate they will then ride the first leg of the final away on Monday September 27th and then stage the final a week later on Monday October 4th.
The Pirates are also awaiting the completion of the quarter final KO cup second leg between Peterborough and Swindon to learn of their semi-final opponents. The Panthers are due to stage that second leg on Friday September 17th.
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