bigcatdiary

Swings and roundabouts, as you say Lynn charge you to sit on a seat which is open to the elements, Peterborough don't charge for a seat in the grandstand which affords a complete view of the racing and a roof protecting you from the weather. I think £1 for car park is reasonable considering the benefits inside the stadium.

Comments in field I was their at the opening of the gates (1030) it always amuses me that meetings are delayed a lot of the time because clearly people cannot be bothered to get to the meeting in plenty of time. As for letting York have time on the microphone words fail me.

I agree but this was effectively a paid practice and crowd wise it was extremely successful, the track went very slick very early which didn't help the home side but it was good practice and entertaining in places.

Probably too many doughnuts

The only reason Poole and other clubs use young Aussies is the frankly ridiculous assessed averages they start on, if they were properly assessed true averages to their potential we wouldn't see many being flown over as clubs just wouldn't take the financial chance. Only Brits should start off on 2.00 or 3.00, all riders not British should start on a minimum of 7.00 irrespective of where they come from.

It's certainly was being ridden hard by the team at the practice but was probably slicker than usual. I dare say it will be restored to its usual standard for tomorrow's match after today's practice meeting.

Pleased to see some clubs have some backbone, this is clearly wrong and needs standing up to. As for Holder junior does he want to race every week or not, the point made about Poland not bringing over riders and training them is a good one.

Weather forecasts for next week at the moment are all ok

Phone calls can be forgotten and are not always taken seriously, do what I did and write a complaint to your local Royal Mail area manager, delays like this are invariably down to your local Royal Mail office, someone's made a decision to put some of the less urgent mail to one side as was suggested by my local postman. My star was getting later and later being delivered until I complained and four years on my star now arrives Thursday 99.9% of the time, complaints generally are monitored and generally don't get ignored and the bigger companies don't like it, hence they do something about it.

Weather has significantly improved this week and it's generally been dry and sunny here so Panthers hopefully on track for Press and Practice next Friday (17th)

As others have said they may well be waiting for the football to finish and the weather to be more reliable.

As absolute class act and loves speedway to boot. Certainly the best presenter Peterborough have ever had.

Shame he isn't so good at getting stadiums built.

I ditched sky sports a few months ago for BT so I am well pleased.

He isn't the only one who has his posts vetted on here as any posters connected with a club in an official manner will know. Well to be fair Jonathan you are both ex members of the BSPA but it's interesting that tsunami still defends the BSPA.

As another total outsider I think it's dreadful but if the Leicester fans are happy I hope they enjoy it.

Not necessarily the case, we race on what night we like providing the stadium is free, to be fair we have tried most nights over the last few years. If tracks are restricted to one set night then they race in that particular league, I doubt it would affect that many teams to be honest.

Putting Championship and Premiership on different race nights would solve the majority of missing doubling up riders overnight. If the fixtures are required to be out much earlier than they are now then they need to start doing them earlier and if that means an earlier AGM then why not. They talk about every year and every year it stays the same.

Clearly not, personally I think Workington are one of the worst sides.

I agree it's not saying anything new apart from what Horton states that the riders haven't been released. That's not quite what people have heard and reported, that was that riders have been told if they get another offer from another club they shouldn't turn it down.

I was told exactly the same and again from a reliable source.

Excellent , Greg riding for nothing yeah that's going to happen, crikey the bloke doesn't even want to ride for his country now.

Silent Night

Quite possibly but since I complained (a few years ago) my copy has arrived pretty much on time every week, so clearly something changed.

If it takes off this could have a dramatic effect on costs which is a major plus both for riders and the sport in general.