bigcatdiary

Well that’s 19 out of 20 Cardiff GP,s I have attended and yesterdays was easily the worst one so far, the track was dreadful, Ole Olsen was an excellent rider and World Champion but if that’s the best he can do track wise then they need to find someone else. This is the bloke who owns and runs Vojens, another crap track that produces little if any racing other than the gate and go variety. The heat inside as Dodger says was uncomfortably throughout and got worse as the second half of the meeting was dragged out after countless tractor grading amid repairs to the bends, it got a bit tedious if I am honest. What saved it from being a complete disaster was a Dan Bewley win, which was warmly appreciated and applauded. The attendance was markedly less that I have seen before and I would say about a third less than recent events in 2018 and 2019, after this borefest I am seriously considering if the expense of Cardiff is really worth it., and judging by the crowd I am clearly not the only one. I spoke to Paul Bellamy early Saturday morning and stated I hoped we had a good GP, unfortunately it wasn’t although I accept the weather wasn’t something the organisers could do much about.

Certainly appears a strange decision to me.

Pretty much the same team won the league last year and whupped your asses in the final.

Well bearing in mind his position at Peterborough and the fact he put last years title winning team together, I think it fair he celebrated after playing a part in the clubs success. I do see that it’s not nice to see other teams officials celebrating especially when you haven’t won anything of note for a quarter of a century.

Firstly what do you know about Peterborough finances, clearly nothing so this kind of throwaway comment does little credit to you, it’s not helpful to Peterborough and does not help the image of your own club either. The Showground management postponed the meeting because they wanted to use the Showground for something else, nothing to do with Peterborough Speedway and as tenants we had little or no say, the fact that they have re arranged it promptly for BHD Monday at the end of August shows they clearly were trying to help re arrange it as August meetings at the EOES in recent years have been as rare as rocking horse poo.

I have known Dale for quite a few years now and he is undoubtedly a Kings Lynn fan first and foremost, he is in a difficult position in helping to run both Lynn and Peterborough and gets a lot of stick because of it, but first and foremost he is a speedway fan and although his loyalties lie with Lynn he does his best for both clubs

I would suggest his signing for Ipswich answers that question

I somehow don’t think their will be a problem with Tungate getting approval.

Well it’s clear now why Kerr didn’t ride in yesterdays defeat v Ipswich.

He is still in the Ipswich team

But they do serve scrag end with healthy portions of guests and rider replacements.

It was watchable only because it was close throughout, the racing was pretty much gate and go which is consistent for Vojens because it’s a shyte track for proper racing, clearly the rain didn’t help but it did improve later on. I thought Lambert and Bewley did very well all things considered especially after losing Woffinden but like others I seriously question why we went into a final with just two riders, that’s down to the management. I suppose cost comes into it but why did we fly Vatcher in for the SON 2 when we had 2 managers already there. If their were doubts about Woffy then surely Brennan should have stayed or Ellis should have flown in. Interesting that Tatum mentioned it was a good crowd, let’s be honest it was bloody woeful.

That drizzle looks remarkably like it’s pissing down

I just heard Tatum say good crowd here tonight, he must be bloody joking their is no one there. And it’s raining, what a surprise for Vojens.

An utter shambles, this should have been postponed, it just shows the sport up for ridicule.

I think Ermolenko has a degree in talking complete bollox

You must have thought this is like Wimborne Road

According to the rules yes, unless they have issued a supplementary which I haven’t seen.

Let’s be honest I can of a few riders who play that game

Let’s be fair the rules are just a rough guide and always have been. With MPT and Hans out, Scotty is currently number 3

Nothing new though is it, the BSPL are completely not interested in generally what their fans have to say, if they did they would ask instead of completely ignoring the paying public. Most of them (not all) work on the assumption they do a wonderful job in providing the fan base with something to watch thinking it’s mostly wonderful and exciting racing when in reality 90% of the time it’s boring gate and go utter shyte.

Early doors the track was wet and grippy, when it went slick we couldn’t live with them from the gate, bottom line is two riders got 32 between them and the other 4 got 10, RR got us 8 which is fairly reasonable to be honest. But you cannot generally carry 4 riders and that’s the bottom line. What can you say about Bomber, the blokes been absolutely on fire this year and Basso has been the newcomer of the season for me.

It’s not yet decided but we should know something fairly soon. As for Panthers using the AFA, that’s a complete non starter in my opinion, something I think the management are fully aware of.

No just in general to the Premiership

If it’s any consolation I have heard they are dropping the RS slot next year