Relentless Poole End Monarchs BSN Series Hopes

REPORT Wednesday 10th June 2026, 10:10pm

by Graham Muncie

  Edinburgh Monarchs

Edinburgh Monarchs went down to a heavy defeat at Poole on Wednesday bowing out of the BSN Series semi final on a night where nothing went right.

You have to be at your best to have any chance against the Pirates such is their strength and things started poorly and got worse from there as stand in boss Gordon Campbell explains, 'The Pirates got away from us early on and that was decisive. We battled to stem the flow but it was an uphill struggle.

'If we can take one positive from tonight it was the return of Dan Thompson who came back well on a track that thoroughly tested his collarbone.

'Poole are a tough nut to crack but it is one we must crack to have success this season. We will learn from tonight and ensure that we come back stronger here next time.

'We return to Championship action now. We have been strong so far this season and look to continue that against Scunthorpe on Friday.'

None of this is to take anything away from a rampant home team who had the bit between their teeth from the off.

Richard Lawson who raced to an immaculate maximum taking the spoils in heat one in the fastest time of the season albeit with the Monarchs pair including returning number one Dan Thompson packing in behind him.

This was to be about as good a position as the Monarchs would be in as a trio of 5-1 heat maximums would follow before Thompson took one of only two heat wins in the night in the fifth.

Justin Sedgmen would take the checkered flag two races later but that would be the last time an away rider would see this on the night.

The race action would improve as the night progressed with Lawson showing his class as he went from third to first in heat ten followed by a lively first lap in the next race that saw home man Will Cairns go from last to second back to last all in the first lap.

Heat twelve would see another home maximum this meaning mathematically the tie was over and it is congratulations to the Pirates who now await Berwick or Redcar in the final.

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