Crump99

Assume that you're remember this one? It's the one that came to my mind: Now that the reality of the last 7 months has been laid bare to the previously unknowing audience, do you you think that they might get where some fans are coming from? For the record, I may wretch at times but have only missed one home meeting in 2019 despite the last line of the quote. Funnily enough I'm not bothered whether or not Chapman owns it. He needs to be hands off as much as possible as he would have been if he'd left Rathbone and Watson in charge.

Yup, looking forward to the season starting in September with 3 in 10 days in potentially worse weather, the football season in full swing, speedway all but forgotten after an unprecedented summer break and Panthers at the foot of the table with nothing to ride for. Good luck with selling those meetings.

Clearly: or the history of the EoES and its administration.

If the locals got a bit upset by a bit of noise from Truckfest then they'd need therapy for stockcars but Posh have more chance of winning the Champions League than stockcars. The Arena sits on the Banger track so that tells us much.

Given that Panthers are generally poor from the tapes and often get beat up on the first turn then I doubt that they manufactered that in those terms.

And that was the thing that I really noticed tonight. The outside run off turn 2 where Sullivan would shoot round opponents and fly down the backstraight has completely gone. Anyone who tries it goes backwards. They slowed the track down for two fantastic meetings and suddenly that turned into a season of quality whereas as a whole, tonight was a better example of 2019 if full.

Like minds. I said to someone tonight that I can't recall a worse Panthers side and 2008 was my suggestion as well

Have we ever heard from him? Bearing in mind that I never buy a programme.

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Every village needs an idiot and along with JCF et al we've now got 2

As I explained to PE7, a conversation with you invariably leads to one potentially topping themselves so to save that and yourself looking a bigger berk, which is some skill, I'll bid you G'day on the subject.

Jeez you're bloody hard work. I didn't fall for anything. You keep making statements without evidence, or evidence that's superceded to show the opposite of what you say but you dig your heels in, never admitting defeat or even just withdrawing gracefully due to your know it all superior attitude. We'll call it a draw then although even that might be a bit too much for you. Now that zonkers has left us you're the only BSF member outside Peterborough that I know so I slag you off with greatest respect of course

Rathbone seemed pretty competent working within budget and it wasn't exactly a secret so when did it become an issue, surely someone noticed these press notices: PANTHERS SWOOP FOR HARRIS 4/12/18 - ANDERSEN MAKES PANTHERS RETURN 6/12/18 - PANTHERS IN COOK SWOOP 10/12/18 - WRIGHT MAN FOR PANTHERS 13/12/18 - DOUBLE SIGNING FOR PANTHERS (Bjerre/Barker) 17/12/18 - BRAD BACK WITH PANTHERS 20/12/10 inc - PANTHERS 2019 (Team subject to normal BSPA approval): Chris Harris, Hans Andersen (c), Craig Cook, Bradley Wilson-Dean, Charles Wright, Lasse Bjerre, Ben Barker. - note it doesn't mention anyone else's approval which one assumes had already been agreed.

Well you said we'd have no speedway without Chapman and that he was the only show in town. This indicates that both of those are wrong so on the basis of what we know (and I agree that the truth could be somewhat different but we're not discussing assumptions or guesswork) it's fair to say that you were wrong both times: Three ‘serious parties’ are interested in buying Peterborough Panthers

No speedway is the nuclear option though, so Chapman, or anyone with similar gripes which are pretty standard over the last 15 years, is preferable to nothing. At least that gives future options, closure does not. As for NL, that wouldn't last a season. Nobody will turn up for 4 riders 20 yards apart at the pacey EoES.

As a cv for the BSPA press officer position then I must say that that's a bloody good effort

Best just to give him his 5 minutes of glory. Orion never admits that he's wrong and will keep replying until you top yourself! He said that there would be no 2019 Panthers without Chapman. Rathbone said that he would run Panthers 2019 whether or not the club was sold. Couldn't have been more wrong there but will still argue that black is white. In terms of a losing business, if he's talking about speedway generally then most will probably agree. If he's talking about Rathbone and Panthers then he should have scrolled further down the news item that he quoted because Rathbone also said: “Don’t get me wrong, we’ve probably broken even over the four years and maybe even made a small profit ". Personally I think Chapman was the only offer on the table and not wanting to lose his investment in the future or particularly wanting to carry on in 2019 he pinched his nose and signed a deal that seemingly started to unravel before the ink was dry.

Isn't 11th of October after October the 9th. The point is that you were wrong, as much as that sticks in your throat

Doesn't really work any more. That threat's been an annual occurence. We survived the Hortons, 2010, 2013 etc so what will be will be.

11/10/18 - Rathbone said: “Regardless of what happens this winter - whether or not the club is sold - Peterborough will definitely be racing next year. “There is absolutely no threat to the future of the club and it is important our supporters all realise that.

He can't be surprised though unless he's been on the moon for the last 15 years. Enough people have said what you don't do at Peterborough but he's done it from the off. You can't compensate for injuries to be fair but when you run a weak team that's so fragile then you ask for trouble. On TV is it

I just meant no it's not good. It may have sounded harsher than that but I agree with all that you say. There is no right answer here and I guess if he gets full fitness back then Andersen will want to carry on.

No. There's more to life than speedway, and at 38 after a great career with a few too many bangs on the head I'd be thinking that I got away (to some extent although he's not out of the woods yet) with that one and perhaps it's best to bow out in one piece? It's their living though and they don't think like that as the article shows.