Crump99

I think that it's aimed more at the top league to get better quality and more stability. Ironically it's probably what Peterborough needed for a long but now we're in the northern lower league and don't know whether to stick or twist. It will leave plenty of days free for second tier clubs and should help their product.

Even the glory hunters only tend to take one look: Bratters adds - "I will never forget that the 2006 Grand Final, arguably the greatest modern day meeting ever, watched live by over 6000 people and by thousands more at home, was followed by a Craven Shield fixture attended by less than 700 people. If that Grand Final won’t pull people in, then what will?!?!" I seem to recall that it was Belle Vue though and at that time you'd struggle to cross the road when Belle Vue, Eastbourne or Lakeside were in town!

Bratters always worth a read on such occasions: During my time at Peterborough, I have done everything humanly possible to attract newcomers to our sport and all I might add on little or no budget. I have presented to over 2500 kids in various schools road show initiatives, I have invited and hosted whole organisations along for free and whole streets along for free. I have put up banners and posters, I have given away 1000’s of (sponsored) car stickers and more kids goodie bags than you can shake a stick at. I have offered free admission to members of the thriving local Polish club (one person came – once), 2 for 1 offers, Kids for a quid and Kids for free. We have on occasions been overrun by hundreds of Scout groups and I have undertaken umpteen radio interviews and quite a few local TV vox pops. I have put leaflets in newspapers, I have put leaflets through letterboxes, I have handed leaflets out in shopping malls and I have put 1000’s of leaflets on cars (with apologies to the owner of the Blue Vauxhall Astra in the Peterborough Railway Station Car Park in September 2007, honestly, it really did come off in my hand, so it must have already been broken). You name it and I’ve pretty much done it and all the time, our attendances have remained constant. Constantly poor. A successful team will bring you big crowds, but this is only a short term fix and as all Speedway aficionados’ know, and only to well, success in Speedway will never happen, year on year, it can’t, for the sport would simply die. from 2010 Bratters' final Panthers blog on "Lovespeedway24"

The point is that if the EoES says that that Weds is the day we have available to use then if the fixture is to be completed then that's tough unfortunately, it's damage limitation. It's about time people realised after all these years that Peterborough have to make the best of what they are given by the landlords. It's not by choice is it and it never gets any better.

I admire your optimism. We have had 3 or more good attempts so we could be in the 9 lives phase since we've had the lucky phase.

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.