bigcatdiary

What apart from the uneven gates all night and very little racing or passing. Yes brilliant, that and a totally incompetent referee, yeah superb entertainment, fans will be flocking back.

They were all shocking decisions by someone who has been a referee for years, basic errors that shouldn’t happen. And yet as someone mentioned we had two grading breaks when no grading was done, gate 4 was a shocking advantage whilst gate 2 was dreadful, this matter needed sorting out early doors, they did nothing which unfortunately made racing in the first half generally from the gate and very predictable.

Is the correct answer

I watched it courtesy of BSN who I am pleased to say again made a very decent show of it. The track was dreadful, the starting area was just ridiculous, gate four was so good nearly everyone won from it, you could count the number of genuine passes on one hand and gate 2 was as bad as gate 4 was good. Clearly both teams were suffering from match practice and it was close so it kept the meeting watchable. The Referee “Dave Watters” had three decisions to make all night and cocked them all up big time, the first when Kemp totally locked up and was collected by Thompson in heat 2 was frankly embarrassing, how on earth that wasn’t Kemp excluded, Thompson awarded second and Wojdylo third is anyone’s guess. Then we had the starting gate pole left out on track in heat 3 when it clearly obstructed Palm Toft, my understanding is these are not allowed any more, so that was missed by the start Marshall and the referee who both should have known that. Interestingly it wasn’t used again after that. And the third cock up was Kemp hitting the tapes in heat 14 which should have resulted in his exclusion but again the referee did nothing. BSN announced a FIM referee was also watching near the booth and was approached for his comments but declined to comment, I bet he did. Clearly the previous days weather didn’t help track preparation but why isn’t this track ever a decent racing strip which allows some kind of passing and close racing, despite many years and quite a few changes. I was also surprised that their didn’t appear to be too many watching for the first match of the season.

It’s Dave Watters, this is usual standard for him

Any Leicester fans able to give a weather report please, we had a fair bit of rain in Peterborough yesterday so I wondered if it hit Leicester and what the forecast is for today.

I suppose it depends how long AEPG can hold out with limited finances or how long the EOEAS decide they are going to give AEPG to sort the whole matter out. I do agree that it could take years to sort out.

No one is giving up, AEPG are clueless if they are thinking we are. The pressure is being kept on the PCC.

It doesn’t matter what the supporters want they are not considered, if the BSPL were interested they would ask, they haven’t.

Norfolk n chance

The grandstand has been decommissioned not demolished.

Wouldn’t we all when we are in a similar position

Of course the factor that also needs taking account is it depends whose doing the asking.

I suppose he is speaking from personal experience (Rye House) which had a crap track, crap seating and most notably crap watering as it was always dusty and under watered, which ultimately served up crap racing.

No argument from me

So basically he is a gating tart

Tolley also thinks Ermolenko will make a good TM It doesn’t exactly inspire anyone with confidence does it. They will struggle, it’s an awful team led by a clueless manager. Zach Cook is the exception I actually rate him.

Belle Vue - Good top 4 but will need regular points from Blodorn to improve their chances, Reserves are suspect. Birmingham - Not enough top end strength and they will struggle on the road, battling out with Lynn for the Wooden Spoon I fear. Ipswich - Quality top 2 and good middle order, Jenkins and Rew are the keys and I expect them to shine. Kings Lynn - Solid enough on paper but a lot of question marks as Saddlebox is chalk and cheese to Alwalton. Leicester - Good no 1 and a very solid top 5 but have paid the price at reserve. Oxford - Another solid 1-5 on paper but big question marks for some of them, especially Tungate & Klindt. Sheffield - Heat leaders are good and reasonable back up but reserves are suspect, a lot depends on how Chris Holder and Pickering go. I think Ipswich look the best based on top end strength and potential closely followed by Belle Vue, Leicester and Sheffield with Oxford, Lynn and Birmingham fighting it out at the other end.

I am sure that’s Butterfield's plan to convince all supporters their is no chance of speedway ever returning to the Showground, what I did find interesting is the EOE Agricultural Society’s decision to open the Showground up for the local hunt brigade for a dog show, that surely weakens their argument that they had shut the Showground down to everything to enable the planning application to get approved. What he clearly hasn't taken into consideration is the supporters plan to stop the planning application from ever getting approved, at the moment we are still awaiting what the Environmental Agency findings will be in relation to the recent poisoning of thousands of fish at Ferry Meadows, it’s likely the local water courses have been contaminated by something, I do wonder what could have possibly caused this, local farmers or local businesses that work near Ferry Meadows.

I should think a lot of people will now see why Laguta mostly only rode home matches for Lynn and Peterborough.

2007 was his last GSA which was 6.51

Or Ermolenko style Straightaway

No they are bloody not, my postman told me years ago when my star was late more weeks than on time that the problem was local sorting offices holding back mail that was clearly catalogues and magazines as they were not important, funnily enough I complained to my local RM manager and funnily enough the problem dramatically disappeared for a while. But it always returns on a regular basis.

If you look at the gates Lynn were getting last year it must have been obvious Brady was subsidising Laguta’s deal in sponsorship, once Brady effectively jumped ship Buster was picking up the shortfall, I never saw more than 400-600 at Lynn last whatever meeting I was at or watched online/Eurosport etc, Peterborough were getting well over twice what Lynn were getting which is why Laguta was switched to us and then only did some home meetings.

Since when has British Speedway ever been run for the fans.