bigcatdiary

Buster rarely ever gets on a tractor at Peterborough unless their are real pre meeting problems he leaves it to the track staff Dean and Luke, it’s them that make a super grippy white line which inevitably means the outside rarely works well before the interval. Its been like this for years and the high clay content doesn’t help but the bottom line is the racing isn’t as good early doors but generally improves during the meeting as the dirt line gets wider. Attendance last was pretty good and much better than most thought it would be, I would estimate between 1200 to 1400, the meeting was also good I dare say the Peterborough fans enjoyed it more because their team won and clinched the aggregate point as well, I certainly did. Clearly Sheffield were handicapped by having to use RR for Musielak which only got them 5 points, it’s likely Musielak would have doubled that but Peterborough have had that sort of luck for the best part of two years so you just have to take it on the chin although Stead did a good take off of Ritchie Hawkins face like a slapped arse when interviewed. Woffinden did his job and was backed up by Pickering and Kerr who both had their moments but Ellis was dreadful and Howarth after winning heat 1 did little else. Panthers on the other hand we’re rock solid all the way through and had a free scoring reserve and never looked threatened for the points although the aggregate was a real bonus and the team got a richly deserved ovation afterwards.

So will Panthers put a dent in Sheffields play off push and win their second match of the season, or will Woffinden inspire the Tigers to victory. Teams Peterborough - Chris Harris, Vadim Tarasenko, Ben Basso, Ben Cook, Niels K Iversen, Patryk Wojdylo, Jordan Jenkins. Sheffield - Tobiasz Musielak, Kyle Howarth, Adam Ellis, Josh Pickering, Tai Woffinden, Lewis Kerr, Dan Gilkes.

Any support would be appreciated

It’s no great surprise is it, Cardiff fans have been totally ripped off by ticket and hotel prices for years now and after last years rubbish show it appears many have called time on the event, for the first time in a long time I don’t know anyone amongst my circle of friends who is actually going this year.

Sometimes it’s just plain crap

On the basis of what’s gone in this year with GSA I would be surprised if it’s not as I have said.

His last gsa is 7.03

He has been a target for years and despite several offers he clearly prefers Wolves, I don’t think I have ever known him to have a bad night at Peterborough.

When has Foxhall ever served up great racing

Clearly your interpretation of racing is different to mind if you find follow the leader decent.

Most fans just want their team to be competitive and have a decent race track which allows racing and overtaking, it really doesn't matter whether it’s Premiership or Championship. Unfortunately I am told lay-downs react to grippy or deep tracks more causing more problems for the inexperienced riders. Predominately the better riders like slick conditions especially the better trappers who can then win more easily when they make the gate. But you of course this makes for boring gate and go meetings which doesn’t encourage supporters to attend. If the racing was decent then I dare say more supporters would attend and you wouldn’t see stadiums 90% empty like this weeks World Cup so far.

And to be far that’s the whole way speedway is going all over, lay downs produce so much power that any type of deep or grippy track makes them almost impossible to control. But everyone loves gate and go crap because it’s exciting and the fans love it. And the powers that be wonder why this sport is dying on its arse.

I would bet their looking for fans as well

The track was dreadful, on that showing I don’t see many rushing back tomorrow to watch that load of rubbish again

If it does I have never been aware of it.

In years gone by we had a racetrack that didn’t contain a significant amount of clay, unfortunately that isn’t the case now.

It chucked it down all day and was still raining at 10pm last night

It rained hard practically all day yesterday, more later today and overnight and a shocking weather forecast for Monday. I would guess the racetrack is a quagmire.

Peterborough had a lot of heavy rain yesterday and more is forecast this afternoon and tomorrow morning. I would strongly recommend checking the respective websites before travelling for this match.

After having my star come on time pretty much every Thursday by their alternative deliverer the second week back to Royal Mail it was late arriving.

Zach Cook would have been my choice, could have travelled up with his brother

Cracking effort from the Panthers

The whole season has been horrible

Story on the Peterborough Telegraph website covers his absence

Pretty much par for the course for this sport