bigcatdiary

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

Panthers with it all to do again Monday and with RR for Palm Toft. Wolves have slipped a bit lately but it still looks a tight match as they have several riders that like the Showground track. Teams PETERBOROUGH: Chris Harris. Ulrich Ostergaard, Michael Palm Toft r/r, Scott Nicholls, Hans Andersen, Benjamin Basso, Jordan Jenkins.WOLVERHAMPTON: Sam Masters, Steve Worrall, Luke Becker, Ryan Douglas, Nick Morris, Drew Kemp, Leon Flint.

I can assure you it hasn’t. He definitely isn’t happy with his form this year.

Lyon makes the right decisions at the right time, tactically he is spot on.

And yet both Kelvin and Scott thought Sedgmen would be brought into heat 8 for Mountain.

Some of his engines were rumoured to be iffy as well

Seconded, please please get that Plonker off the commentary, he does my head in, he talks absolute bollox

I Used to buy one religiously at every match I went too but these days I use my iPad for matches and but for the fact I get a programme with my ST I wouldn’t bother, the reading material is awful and it’s the same old crap every week, some of that is down to the bspl fining anyone for content that’s controversial but it’s made programmes very bland and they are not sought after by collectors as much these days. I have dropped out of buying GP programmes as well, it’s pretty much the same content and front cover every round and the price is utterly ridiculous with some regular sellers on eBay charging as much for postage as for the programme. GB programmes have been £10 for years, yet the same programme a few weeks later on eBay are a third the price.

Undoubtedly, a natural at taking corners.

Seems pretty clear to me and I am not Doyle’s biggest fan, but then this is Barbara Horley’s specialist subject, (making complete cock ups on racing decisions), she has made a career out of it. Probably the only person in the stadium that thought Doyle was at fault.

I think the aim was to help the home team and it clearly favours them. Super heats would certainly solve aggregate ties but other than that I really don’t see the point.

Only this isn’t a win, it’s a draw, but a draw you get 3 points for. All thought up by Chris Louis I am told and as Roger Jacobs says above it’s a complete load of bolleaux

Not with that asking price

Havvy the too was how he was known at Peterborough, because after a crap meeting he always said it was too wet, too dry, too slick or too grippy

It was well strapped up and in a sling after the meeting.

Certainly was an eventful meeting with a section of the 3rd and 4th bends causing three crashes, Palm Tofts crash was unrelated and then we had Doyle fence Basso as he was passing him. Nevertheless some good racing overall even if we did have a few fence repair hold ups. Ipswich’s chance of getting anything from the match pretty much went with Barker getting hurt but Panthers were good value for their win. I saw the comment about Doyle apologising to Basso in the pits but that’s not the first time this year that Doyle has rode like that and their is no getting away from it, Doyle is a dirty rider, hard riding I can live with and blocking someone is fair enough but Doyle well overstepped the mark last night and rightly got excluded.

It needs a lot of co-operation between promoters in the BSPL but it doesn’t generally happen does it which is why we still have big problems. We need the three leagues to work together for the good of U.K. speedway but the facts shows that doesn’t happen, they cannot even have the same rules on how they operate or run competitions, until they start to work together Poland will be allowed to dictate things. For British riders to benefit from ACU allocations, ride for the GB team, ride in the British Championships, SON, SEC etc they should be required to ride in the U.K. and hold British Licences. I have absolutely no problem with British riders riding in Poland, Sweden or Elsewhere but they do need to ride in the U.K. if they want the benefits above.

I don’t disagree with any of that, with the bottom line being generally the racing is generally poor with just the occasional good meeting.

Neither did I

Because the referee wasn’t doing his job properly.

It certainly no better these days and your point about nowhere produces consistently good racing is a valid one. Race suits, Lay Downs, Tuning and Big vans certainly look good but the tracks are abysmal most of the time, I certainly think a lot of the promoters have got it the wrong way round. The GP circus is a prime example, looks very professional until you get to the actual racing which generally is pretty non existent.