Crump99

In an ideal world maybe but riders have to take whatever work is available and the list of available riders of sufficient standard for clubs to choose from isn't often great at any given moment. As Panthers found out with Andersen and Batchelor with Swindon in 2012: if you choose not to use riders that you think you have a claim on then tough, don't expect any favours from those riders in opposition. Premier League football has ample resources and funds not to be dim enough to follow the speedway model, although they would think twice about loaning out players who could play against them. Something speedway has got right one might say!

Hardly new though is it. That's the way it is and has been for a long time. Premier League football has taken over the comedy mantle as they loan out players who can't play against them but can shaft their rivals.

I'd give it up, they're like a dog with a bone! Plummer could get a mention in Swanny's World of Sport with that one

So you're saying that yesterday afternoon declaring that the Rockets match was cancelled but the Comets match was going ahead would have shut you up? I doubt that that would have satisfied you and your like minds

It's overcast now (hour on from previous post) and not very nice tbh. Met Office says no rain but if you didn't know that you then you'd probably think rain was a distinct possibility.

Although it's bright this morning it's not drying weather and there are still wet patches on the ground. Moving tons of wet shale from the big EOES circuit would be a major job this morning. If fans want to waste their time watching 20 people standing on the first bend for 15 mins before the meeting is called off at 2.45 then good look them. Rathbone made a difficult but sensible decision and gets crucified for it. You can't win with speedway fans unless it's the latest hurricane that halts the meeting.

Yup I'm already there awaiting my breakfast in the members' enclosure from 8am The East of England Show is no longer a serious agricultural event (you Ippo boys will know that now that you don't need to chug along the A14 in your tractor convoy these days: 10-4 good buddy, fueltaps the head Bobtail), so clay perhaps but no.2 there was no need. The only bull' is anyone who thinks calling this off was Rathbone's preferred option based on organisation, time and expense it has taken to schedule this fixture in the first place. If it had been fine yesterday then I'd have agreed with you but am prepared to give the benefit of the doubt. However, the biq question mark is that with a 2.30 start there is surely plenty of time to get the track stripped and relaid to a raceable state this fine morning? That's the communication that's missing even though not many on this thread would believe whatever was said, but if it's in any way to do with access or associated then that would be kept behind close doors anyway. You'd think that's how it works but with the pressure off and Pedersen on a charge I think 9 or below is where FF will finish in 2016

Added to that we don't know how much time the EoES have allowed us on track today or tomorrow morning and that'll never be said in public. So if you add those things together I doubt that there's anything fishy about it. I think that they should have waited until the morning, the BSF meltdown would have been good Sunday entertainment,

He's been at the dressage today Rodders and the fumes from the dung will have played havoc with his thought process so you need to make allowances.

Would make the splash screen on the website look pretty silly if he isn't so I'd say that you're correct.

Memory also going and comedy delusions, it's more serious that I thought doctor. Anyway, back on track, Sunday's weather looks spot on with a bit of natural watering on Saturday that may help or hinder.

Dr James Kildare maybe!

Certainly will not apply to Rathbone. Seems to be well happy with the affordable pricing structure so no1 cheerleader could well do that, but just in case anyone wishes to print a racecard, that line-up will be re-jigged to put a spanner in the works and scupper your attempt

Don't tell them that. Spot the underdressed newbie is part of the complete entertainment package

Depends which side of him one chose to stand: the right side or the other side

Jepsen Jensen

And the winner of the guess the Panthers riding order competition wins a Morrisey Fan mug.

That's the part Panthers Readypower management team forgot and seems to be a similar issue under the current management team!

Readypower Panthers had top notch Darren Fletcher (now of BT sport fame) :doesn't get much more expensive than that I guess. That never saved them. Good point about the PA. That's one thing Frost's promotion never seemed to address whereas the Rathbone/Swales combo seemed to have managed to get a great sound system installed. I used to moan like hell under the Frost promotion mainly because of the awful inconsistent sound system. These days though you can her everthing clearly and even the interviews are not irritating: less is good though. The music was well acceptable on Monday, as it tends to be most times at the EoES these days, apart from when Cook wins a race!

After a decade of failure, our existence being in question several times and a loss of status, it's been hard to have a full glass as a Panthers supporter. Being reactive is indeed better than not, but being proactive would be preferable don't you think so we don't fizzle out early.

If the management team had been so smart then we wouldn't still be scrapping for a play-off place would we. I still think that they are overall doing grand job and put on a good show (if somewhat lengthy at times) but the same team issues crop up and here we are with the end of season calculator to the fore. Poole's latest asset I believe.

Pretendafan.

Doubt that they'd be up to it in any term. The changes were made so as not to get mullered if we made the play offs, but even if we do then I'm not sure that half a team will change that, despite Bjerre and Thomsen being an improvement.