Crump99

It's good to know that if the resident looney goes AWOL then we've got a ready made replacement who's not averse to posting tripe from their tractor cab

That's another rib gone.

I'd go a different way, back from where we came. But that's a different argument. Panthers are joint 3rd in the PL and only really being undone by not providing a home track/advantage that would make Rob Lyon consider his future in the sport. The three home losses have done the damage although we'd probably got turned over anyway against the stronger sides. I'm traditionally the negative one so get a grip people.

You're the sort of person who'd go to Lakeside on a regular basis and be surprised each time.

That's a bit harsh. They turn up to do the best they can. It's not their fault that the task that the management team sets them is unrealistic. Any Panthers supporter should be used to that over the last decade. Any rider sitting at tapes wants to win the race don't they so what's to be ashamed about.

You should get out more.

Fueltaps, have you been eating dung again?

What, generally or just in this case.

Every time! What a joy Sunday speedway is

Get the resisident looney on the management team asap - only joking! Wouldn't want anyone from the management team reading that to divert attention from re-jigging the current 7 for the weekend.

My money's on him saying that he didn't go in the end and then turning up Friday

The resident looney lives in this world.

Lovely Friday night for speedway, we used to do that regularly once upon a time.

That's what Attwood thought.

That's the bottom line. You can have as much shale as you like, have as many spare bikes as your van will hold and be read the riot act regularly by the management collective, but if you're out of your depth and not quick enough then none of that will make the slightest bit of difference.

Both companies struggling to find their place and recover former glories - clever choice

You're thinking of a previous management collective and mouthpiece.

Couldn't say much else in the circumstances.

I keep reading such things but considering Rathbone said: "I'm a prudent businessman and this club has to break even. I'm not here to make money, but I sure as hell cannot sit back and lose it" - then another couple of wobblers, British or not, isn't going to please the bank manager.

The same Craig Cook who did the business when Panthers were still in the meeting whereas Ostrich came to the party when the meeting was lost and a share of the later heats was more than enough for Edinburgh. With 10 & 13 respectively though, those two were not the problem so I don't know why people are trying to score points with them..

Don't mind the music but anything that cuts out invisible interviews and needless interval works for me. Fans have been saying for years about the swift running of meetings but Parkinson's law of speedway always prevails in the end: "the meeting expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" - that's midnight at Brandon and Saddlebow Road.

That's true. It's a shame the ol' fuel taps can't leave it and let's the side down by proving the point.

That's the trouble down Ippo way, they will insist on thinking

No prizes for second, especially at this stage. When was the last time we won anything

I'm going by the experts who forecast disaster. FTSE at a year high even though it hardly crashed anyway so they pointed to the crashing FTSE 250 as a better indicator. The FTSE 250 is now only 80 points short of its June 23 figure - ooh, little bit of politics