bigcatdiary

I agree Blackbird could be just fitted in if they lose Hall, on the September GSA. Win win all round.

To be fair Max CLEGG was originally replacing DILGER but pulled out on the day as did Hall so all in all I think they made a fair effort, bearing in mind the PR didn't come out until midday tells us they were still phoning around in the morning. PHILLIPS is sponsored by Motive and has guested for us before.

Bearing in mind they didn't sort it until lunchtime it isn't too bad, EDBERG guested for RH against us Wednesday and got paid 9 so not too bad all things considered.

Anyone got any info on team line ups for tonight, I see Aaron Fox is in for Mills. Neither web site lists teams.

Getting old, the blokes 82.

Should have stuck with Longtrack because on Small, Technical, Big and Medium tracks he is hopeless.

Blackbird should be the first name on the team sheet for 2015 assuming we run.

And have you given any thought as to how we would get him back, even if the desire was there.

Well we certainly haven't gone to see that pants of a display.

The FIM jury at Latvia had the power to suspend him for 28 days.

I think you are giving far too much credit to the FIM Let's be honest he should have been banned by the FIM jury at the Latvian GP, who had the power to give him a straight 28 day ban as well as a fine, the fact that it's taken the FIM nearly 2 weeks to do what should have been done immediately doesn't show them as ultra professional either. It's a PR disaster all round because Ward is a great rider and deserves to be in the GP,s on merit.

Correct, my mistake I did mean fail a breath test.

Phil Is it procedure to take a blood sample if riders fail a blood test, a subsequent properly taken blood test would quickly either clear or determine a riders intoxication.

TBH I doubt many miss because it's PL, a fair bit is down to the Tuesday race night and I dare say a weaker team now doesn't help. Panthers fans were used to some regular success but nothing now for the best part of a decade has also played its part. Cost is undoubtably another, speedway is a £10 sport not a £15 to £17 one. If the racing was generally good, reasonably priced and we had a clear set of rules that were adhered too and fairly administered I think a lot more people would attend. At the end of the day people want entertainment on the track not meetings ruined by poor track prep, poor teams or crap refereeing.

A friend trackside told me the track has dried so well today they are now watering it.

Didn't have a lot of trouble at your place

I was told Jacobs was very disappointed to be dropped by the Panthers, I think its fair having seen Dilger ride now most of the Panthers fans are pretty disappointed he was dropped as well.

Which begs the question why they didn't mention it when releasing him, but at the end of the day he could only ride in one meeting and if not Peterborough we could have had a guest.

We have run RR since May so I don't see another month making too much difference and won 2 matches away using it, Hall is currently averaging 3 pts a match from his 2 home matches so far, We likely wouldn't have lost twice at home with RR. JACOBS commitment at Mildenhall was never mentioned, the official line was they didn't want to burn him out, clearly that's a real concern as he signed for Workington within 48 hours.

Roynon for Blackbird accepted, they could have kept Fisher in the team and continued with RR, that would have meant Bjerre, Ostergaard, Dryml and most likely Roynon would be taking rides currently filled by Hall with the likelihood of at least 7 or 8 points per meeting, Hall wont get anywhere near that. Not convinced Dilger for Jacobs was worth the change either.

Horton, Swales, Johnson and Rathbone obviously thought so.

Can you amend that to just Peterborough Management, I doubt many Panthers supporters think that.

KURTZ has a broken arm apparently and ALLEN bruising, Somerset appear to think ALLEN will be ok for this match, we will see.

I wouldn't bet against it

Unfortunately this is a Horley decision and they can sometimes be very strange, she once awarded a rider second place in a race at Peterborough and at the time of the announcement the same rider was being interviewed by the meeting presenter in the pits. Bloody clueless springs to mind