CUP FINAL SATURDAY COMES TO WIMBORNE ROAD

Scunthorpe Scorpions are able to hold on to their first leg advantage for a little longer, thanks to the inclement weather forecast for Wednesday, as the second leg of the Knockout Cup final has been re-scheduled to Saturday 21st October with a 7.30pm start.

Making the call to delay the final, Poole promoter Dan Ford said "it doesn’t matter how many different weather forecasts I look at, the story remains the same. Wednesday is set to be a horrible day weather-wise and certainly not one to try and risk staging an important cup final on. So I have been in touch with Scunthorpe and they have agreed to defer the second leg to Saturday evening at 7.30pm. Our normal start time, will I hope, still give those fans who like to follow us and both  AFC Bournemouth followers and our near neighbours Poole Town FC enough time to get to the stadium after their respective home matches. 

It will be the first time in over sixty years that a Poole side will have ridden an official fixture at Wimborne Road on a Saturday, when on 13th April 1963 the Pirates beat Exeter 48-30. The last time a speedway meeting was staged at Poole on a Saturday was just over ten years ago when the Poole promotion hosted the FIM GP Challenge in 2013, which Neils-Kristian Iversen won.