Crump99

You've clearly never upset the BSPA MC.

By the sounds of it that's the least of our worries. I'd me more concerned about if there is a next year. If there is then those issues may sort themselves out anyway.

Spot on The race to the bottom gets the racing (or lack of it) that it deserves.

Didn't think the truth of the matter was in the public domain? Only thing that we do know is that the bloke doing the chastising is having his own credibility horlicks this evening!

Not what he said: And Rathbone admits the prospect of potentially being able to lead Panthers back to the top level, where they rode with success between 1999 and 2013, is an appealing one. He added: “We did consider applying to go up for next season, but we felt that this was not the right time to do it. “We’re already completing the final purchase of the club from Readypower this winter and it would have been too much of a commitment to step up into the Premiership as well. “But that doesn’t mean we don’t want to get there in the future, and it would be nice to go up by the old fashioned way of earning it. “I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t compete in the top flight in the new climate in speedway.” And with a fixed night in prospect which Peterborough has always needed over the last 15 years I'd say the time is ripe if we have another winter restructure.

And yet Fridays were seen as the club's salvation. If we really have any real ambition of a return to the other league in future then we shouldn't get too used to Sundays.

Indeed, would expect you to get it Do ants go to discos?

Apologies, I'd forgotten that humour, however vague, would be wasted

Now you knew that anyway and we don't care, so where's the surprise? Why hero's welcome? He hasn't done anything for the club in this instance! If they've got any sense and the brown stuff hasn't, or doesn't hit the fan before then, they'll keep it low key with just the usual introduction lap and announcement from the pits. I wouldn't bother with a victory lap or tune until it calms down a bit. If they don't do that, which they'll not, then that's possibly disregard although the Facebookers will still be clapping away.

Agreed but it depends how much notice anyone takes of this forum?

We seem to have done a pretty good job of that on our own over the last decade or more tbh without the resident looney. Colin Horton winning the 2006 EL was the start and it's been a rollercoaster ever since, with Holdergate just being another low point that the club didn't need.

Plus the situation is still ongoing "We may be prepared to allow him to race for them on two further Sundays when we ride at Newcastle and Scunthorpe."

I'm not sure of the confusion either because the Suffolk dialect sounds very similar. Anyway, back on thread "I take it it's as you were chaps" - until Sunday.

Get back to entertaining your sheep and stop dissing Mr Unwin

Windy stairckey up to the ceily, fine glinty scintillabe up the dangly chanderlabies...

He's just deflecting the thread away from its title.

Don't feel bad, he's used to it.

What is the agenda?

And then people say why bite. It's because some will believe and actually use as their evidence what the looney posts. It's often tw*ttish to ignore. That's true so why feed the fire. Rathbone didnt want to explain why and Chapman said that they had evidence of the reason but that's it. The only place that money was mentioned is on here wasn't it? Not the most reliable source for facts.

Yet. They'll have to do something, even if it's just tightening wish washy rules so that it doesn't happen again. Going by Chapman's Sunday rant they hadn't benefited up to that point and will look less than toothless and incompetent if they don't act on their statement.

Rathbone's quotes is the first statement (5/8/17) suggest that there was some benefit to the club although the PR was missing any detail.

Trouble is that amongst all of the hot air, whatever contract was allegedly in place it wasn't worth the paper it was written on, If "Contractually and by agreement the rider should be at Peterborough, not in Poland." then I'm sure that he would have been and the action by the authorities would have been swift and decisive if he wasn't. It wasn't, Holder has missed another fixture and we're still waiting one week on which suggests that there's a big loophole to close off.

Are you, why's that?

Jeez, nothing like getting your facts wrong.

Certainly not but he didn't because the rule wasn't there was it. That's why they seemingly got away with it. Holder should have got 28 days regardless of who gives permission. Rathbone should have been put on licence for 12 months and warned of future conduct. If he chooses to then walk then that's his choice. If he's a speedway man (as Tsunami says) then he'll take it on board and carry on. If speedway's not for him (Tsunami's verdict on Rick Frost) then he'll move on. The point that you seem to be missing is that we're only discussing this because Rathbone kept peterborough running in the first place when the sport was already dieing a slow death, so that's a funny way of being part of the cause of it!