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I thought that there were signs at the back of the stand?

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From the tone of that I doubt that you'd be sympathetic under any circumstances.

Despite my previous post, it's hard not to bite on this one. When anyone from Norfolk or Suffolk visits it's best to go on the slick side of good, because having just left the middle of nowhere they do like a ploughed field analogy to remind them of home so it's best to play safe.

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Local paper often calls them the Phantoms (local ice dancing team) so I wouldn't worry about it. Technically we were the Pirates until Readypower jacked in both.

Fair point on the last bit I agree, but a grippy Peterborough track that is there to be attacked all too easily becomes a convenient ploughed field these days.

And here we have the two sides of the coin: when it's your track it's "The track was a racers track and was there to be raced, for those that were actually prepared to attack it and race!", but when you get that as a visitor it turns into a ploughed field. We don't do ploughed field any more, so my money's on slick one line after not too long. Whether that turns out to be good remains to be seen.

Don't forget to tell him that Peterborough's midweek home meetings start 7.30pm (for everyone else, it's 3pm )

You're thinking of the fans. Everyone else likes a slick one liner.

Just need to look in the right place.

Well that's not too bad then considering. However, given those incidents come with the territory, it's important to get on with it when there isn't an incident. That rarely happens these days and consequently when there is an incident then that waffle and wasteful time suddenly becomes an issue. Given that Lambert is just back from a nasty injury, it was his first away league meeting and it sounds a bit like Wacky Races with self preservation the main objective for the visitors, I'd give him a break. At the end of the day, what he scores when in the main body of the team is a bonus, the better riders should be scoring the big points.

Standard comment these days. When will promoters ever learn? I'd allow an efficiently run 90 mins though as the standard. 60 mins is too tight.

Don't know what you're looking at but Monday is fine.

Don't know who told you that but if they offer advice again then I'd ignore it.

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Grow up mate, it's only a speedway meeting.

Problem being that they've got to make a decision and despite endless rule changes year on year it's amazing all four back hasn't been extended to the whole race. Much of the time they are guessing and just give the easy home decision imo. Even with video replays it's often been fairer to call it a racing incident and give the punters another 4 rider re-run, but we have to throw someone out because the rule says so - crackers!

C'mon Dick, you wouldn't have Vardy in the car park taking a quid, let alone making important decisions. The ref couldn't see the lines or gaps on the back straight anymore than I could. That was the only decision that logically could be made. As for Barker, good job that there was no grip on the inside going into the first turn because his kamikaze dives would have wiped out half the field and severely tested the airfence.

It wasn't just falls though. It's pretty standard these days (not just Peterborough so it's not a particular dig although we do need improvement) that meetings are drawn out and run without a level of urgency.

Not quite sure of the relevance there.

Sky provided the platform and opportunity, it's not their fault that the opportunity was wasted. Football is organised and stable; that could never be labelled at speedway.

He's not though. It's just an example. Unfortunately speedway had it's chance to up its profile in the last 15 years but blew it. It could start afresh but that horse has bolted.