bigcatdiary

It certainly is, 38-52.

Has it ever

Tungate tried it on, even Kelvin thought so and Bates certainly did.

Loved his pronunciation of the Premiership, just got the score wrong and called Brady Kurtz Bradley, the blokes an utter plonker

Unfortunately it’s nothing new

Nothing new is it, it happens pretty much every year.

That’s quite a collapse

Their was talk recently that the owners were wanting to knock the grandstand down, latest news suggests that’s been put on hold, for now.

Run it on another night.

Unfortunately it’s not just confined to SGP,s

To be fair both Cardiff and Vojens tonight have been dreadful

Average rigging has gone on since the sport started, the only real argument is to make all official matches count towards GSA, league, all cups and play offs etc, the more matches that count the less an average can be manipulated. Thats why it’s interesting that the BSPL have this year decided to reduce the amount that matches that count towards an average. No explanation has been provided for this so everyone can draw their own conclusions as to why it’s been done.

Which rather begs the question why if he hasn’t ridden any league matches has his Premiership GSA changed during later 2022 issues.

Under 10.2.1 The most recently established MA will be used. If a rider has an established MA in both the Premiership and Championship Leagues, established in the same season, that leagues MA will apply to that league. Premiership Issue 12 dated 26th August 2022 and effective 1st September shows Heeps on 5.07

That info came from the pit staff should be reliable

Didn’t get the superheat unfortunately 59.6 59.7 59.0 59.4 59.7 59.7 59.2 59.7 59.7 59.9 60.2 60.0 60.1 60.1 60.5

And when was the last time the sports management asked for the views or ideas from the supporters.

Basso had a puncture in heat 16 I was told

It’s simple in my mind, attendances are poor now because the racing generally is too often gate and go. You can have whatever format you like, lovely eye catching race suits, extra match points for a team arriving early. Having the most bonus points or winning despite having the most guests or the Eurosport speciality having the most boring and inept commentator (Ermobollox) but supporters want proper racing and close matches and let’s be fair it’s not too often they see it these days. The GP,s were very popular not too long ago when around 40,000 did the annual trek to Cardiff despite rip off ticket and hotel prices, but this years debacle in front of just over 20,000 has showed that even GP,s have a duty to entertain or they will die and the powers at be just don’t appear to want or desire to take on board that the racing is key as Wroclaw showed the other Weekend. A proper Grand Prix on a proper race track.

I think it’s a complete waste of time and money but I can appreciate that some like it. Early doors it was a bit processional, but half way through it livened up considerably and the racing second half was very good. Ipswich did well to come back but I thought a draw was a fair result.

Please don't give him ideas

Being perfectly honest after 20 years I am thinking of giving it a miss next year, this years GP was utter crap racing wise, and ticket and hotel prices are just ridiculous.

It appears they are just blocking booking for the 1st and 2nd September until they confirm prices.

Almost impossible to win a meeting with just three riders, even with RR and a TS available. Any half decent guest for MPT would have seen Panthers in with a big chance of winning as well as a fairly healthy amount of visiting fans but pretty much everyone on the basis of what’s happened previously all season thought this would be a heavy drubbing but sometimes the sport throws up an unlikely result. Just out of interest Theresa what was the crowd like.

A very good well earned point from tonight’s match 41 points from the 3 Panthers and 3 points from the 3 Guests. Take a bow Chris Harris, Scott Nicholls and Ben Basso, well done. Who was the referee out of interest.