Lord Lucan

The obvious answer is to find an old promoter from the seventies and ask him how they managed to get two Leagues of twenty odd sides to race home and away inc KO Cup matches, run in the same time frame and get them completed nigh on everytime, not many motorways around then either?

Yeah, remember that situation, back and forward same day and it still wouldn't work, You've gotta laugh Steve, you've gotta laugh!!

Same old,same old TJ, Comets were the architects of their own downfall by signing too many double up riders, these guys are professional mercenaries they ride for cash wherever they can so know the consequences of what might happen should something go pear shaped? Injuries and weather go with the territory so you minimize the risks as much as you possibly can, spread yourself too thin and re arranged fixtures are going to be a huge issue to the best laid plans!! These guy's know their limitations and if, as you suggest, they are not robots, then why take on so much extra work if they can't manage it? Personally, I would rather pay a bloke a better rate and keep him here rather than pay him a cost cutter and force him to look elsewhere for another income source, probably not viable but in a perfect world... who knows!! I've been watching the Comets in all their guises since 1970 and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see us lift a Championship Trophy, get the monkey off our backs, how long that will take depends on whether we make the right choices in future on who can deliver it?

Just using your post as an example Steve but does this just show what a farcical state speedway fixture planning is in right now, we're in the middle of September and we are still waiting to produce a qualifier to make up the semi finals of a competition that started in May while their opponents for that semi have been in the position of having to wait weeks to find out who they will actually play?

Still says "scrapped" on the News and Star website, slightly modified story from the one I first read but no mention of any re runs later on?

And what about Somerset on Friday? Disappointing result exacerbated again by another 5-1 loss in Ht15, just seems on the pure face of it that we have all but given up, we have absolutely no chance in the play offs riding like this away from home, dont know what is happening, why cant we get it together? Only two pts behind Newky, 6 available v Sheffield at home so it looks like we dont give a toss about the away fixtures just getting them out of the way with minimal effort, hope that's coz we're saving it up as it's highly unlikely we'll drop all the pts on Saturday so we will probably be the sixth team and we really are gonna need to pull our finger out to avoid totally embarrassing ourselves!! Never expected this scenario when we started, it all looked so promising!!

Topaz is not actually that far short of being right anyway as it stands, season ends 31st October so we only need go back a cple of weeks and start at the beginning of March instead of the end and we're within his/her confines!!

Thank's for that Steve, been on here before looking at the fixture list on BSPA, get so engrossed in my own team that I tend to forget the same problems are affecting everyone else!!

Hope Comets will give this a good go, big track so should be well suited, dont think we'll get much change from the Bandits but I'd like to think we're no worse opponents than a 50-40 score!!

That's what I thought, plenty of room after the cut off to run them, even if they are meaningless? Only using the words allocated by the N&S headline writer, Comets forced to SCRAP two meetings?? For what it's worth, could the Glasgow match on Sunday not have been made a double header, didn't play anyone else that day, or, would it have been possible to ask Edinburgh down on Saturday instead of having two matches against Sheffield? Either way it would have looked better to a certain extent if we could have at least completed a full round of PL1 fixtures and just kept the two PL2 fixtures to race after the cut off?

Just read on the local News and Star website that the Workington Comets have been forced to scrap the two outstanding PL fixtures not currently re arranged? Matches affected are v Edinburgh (H) and v Glasgow (A) pl2. Not much meat on the bones of this story at the moment so should be more over the coming days, current data assumes no suitable dates could be found to run either fixture before the cut off? This could be a bit controversial?

Yeah, seen enough of our ambience this season!!

Nah, good forecast for the week over here, not scheduled to rain til at least Sunday!! When did that happen, I never knew our County's ambience was mobile?

Scunny definitely the "on fire" team at the moment especially at home, will be serious contenders if that form will transfer to the away tracks, dangerous!!

At least we got something out of this match, only the one point but that could be the vital one? Disappointing to see riders the calibre of Josh and Rene delivering such poor scores, a half decent performance from either and its 3pts, looking on updates its a score card that just smacks of the inconsistency the Comets have shown all season. Finally get a return from Mason away from home, good efforts from Ricky and Joe but now Lambo goes off the boil a bit along with our top two, normally the other way round but just cant get it together at the same time, we wont win anything going round in circles like this!! Could be touch and go for the last qualifiying place, Comets should be slight favourites but on this form we will just make up the numbers, not gelling as a team, too many hit and miss performers, mind you, strange things do happen in sport, plenty of lowly finishers have ended up as Champions in other sports and I've always said, you only need hang in there, perform for 6 matches and the title is yours?

No worries, had to point it out tho as it looks silly?

Yeah from your point of view that is fair comment, you haven't done particularly well there this time round whereas we haven't done particularly well anywhere, (stands by and waits for the "wot about Rye result"), and I'm clutching at straws!!

Just in case anyone is mystified by this thread, I'd like to point out that I am "NOT" responsible for starting it, why would I start a thread by commenting on someone else's theory, Mr Morrissey Fan? Just for the record though I'm hoping for points and require three please via a 43-47 victory!!

Our fixtures against Sheffield are the final two PL matches to come in under the cut off for us so we would actually need away points from anywhere to be certain of getting through, always assuming that we actually get the 6pts off Sheff in the first place? Home v Edinburgh and away v Glasgow (PL2) are our remaining matches but wont count toward the play offs and aren't re arranged yet anyway? Think P,boro are our best chance of away pts out of what we have this week, so your right, it is a match we "both" need to win to stand any chance of getting anywhere?

Well that doesn't really matter my friend, the top two teams get to pick their opposition in the play off not just the league leader!! No, it was just an idea to suggest that if all things considered, and a perfect scenario ensured Comets are in the play off, would it not make sense, (if picked by E,boro) to keep them at DP and run the PL fixture as well rather than wait and arrange another time, nothing more, nothing less? My apologies if my original post didn't convey that message properly!!

It would appear a distinct possibility, with this being a re arranged fixture his European commitments would take priority?

Just supposing then, if the Comets get into the play offs and are picked by Edinburgh, would our home leg not be suitable to run as a double header hence clearing the league fixture from the calendar at the same time, would save struggling to find another date especially as Edinburgh are involved in other competitions as well that also need to be settled?

Well I just hope we can transfer our home form to Berwick and make a good fist of things, if that is correct that we've no Rene for this then I assume our old friend R/R will be on call, could make life very tough if he's not up to the job?

It never rains on Saturday CG when Sheff are in town!!

Pleased that Millsy is in one piece, relatively speaking, never saw the crash, just heard it, and when I looked back all I saw was a piece of fence flapping around like a white flag and a big hole, no sign of him at all, really expected the worse at that point!!