Mick Bratley

Hans has left free caps on the admission gate for the first 50 children who arrive for this evening’s meeting.

Sub let to them by AEPG, a car maintenance company, they have just got planning approval for change of use to a paint shop and car maintenance, but crucially their car storage retrospective planning application has not been approved, there are currently over 100 registered objections including one from National Highways. AEPG have treated local residents with contempt over this and their decision to not cut the grass on site, indeed parts of the Showground are now like a jungle, the residents have been stirred (with a gentle nudge from me) into action.

It’s got nothing to do with any former promoter, discussions have taken place and it’s a firm no. Misguidedly AEPG do not want any sitting tenants, their logic being that it will make LP30 invalid. It won’t. LP30 will still be valid if there is no Speedway at The Showground next year, this has been confirmed to me by a Senior Independent Planning Consultant. Of course there will be ways around this, and then that is when people should start airing their voices, when we actually get to view the plans. In any case would anyone really want to endure another season like the last two at The Showground? I’m pretty certain most of the staff wouldn’t.

That’s simply not true.

Unfortunately a farewell meeting at Peterborough is unlikely due to the amount of fixtures they have left and anyway the length of time to organise anything is not viable. Thanks for for your comments though.

See below. Absolutely this.

Already signed for another British club.

Things have changed as at 10:25. Unfortunately I am not at liberty to say.

Absolutely nothing to do with Buster. https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/motorcycling/heavy-traffic-forced-peterborough-panthers-skipper-to-miss-a-welcome-win-4236413

Someone should probably tell him that then, because he has no knowledge of this as of 8am 29/07.

Caught in a massive traffic jam driving to the airport this morning, traffic at a standstill for hours. He even sent me pictures.

There’s none so blind as those that can’t see. Sadly.

I’m 400 metres from the track it has rained continuously from 11pm Sunday until about midday today. It chucked it down again at 4pm for over an hour. Given it rained all day on Saturday as well, I would say the correct decision was made.

Speedway in the U.K. has been broken for years, decades in fact, every year I think it can’t get any worse and it always does. Expectations need to be dramatically lowered, Speedway in the U.K. needs to be semi professional/amateur racing to survive as a sport instead of putting a sticking plaster on it every November.

I am not surprised the meeting is off following the rain all day yesterday. Even if the track was managed to be salvaged there would be nowhere to park as the hard standing area of parking at the Showground is being currently used for vehicle parking and maintenance for an as yet unapproved retrospective planning application venture and furthermore the Showground custodians haven’t bothered to cut the grass in the surrounding fields (where people would normally park) for weeks and in places the grass and weeds are about three foot high and obviously now hold a lot of water. It has the look and feel of an area that is being deliberately run into the ground. I have made my observations to our local councillor.

The person who said he had been dropped did so a couple of days before he rode at Leicester. He then got injured two days later practicing in Denmark and was advised to rest for seven days, he supplied a medical certificate to the club. He is scheduled to return to racing next week as long as his injury has cleared up, which I think it will have. There’s no hmmm about it.

Incorrect

The bloke running AEPG is a clown, we know it, his staff know it and his security team know it.

It’s purely and simply down to a crap website, it goes to the current date every day for several of the events.

You continue to talk utter shyte. When are you going learn numbnuts that you embarrass yourself and the club you support with your endless drivel.

The planning application hasn’t been made public yet. Any day soon I have been told for the last three weeks.

And there is nothing scheduled to take part at the Showground on Monday 5th June according to their (pretty useless) what’s on listings. There is a cycling event this Saturday and Sunday but that is only usually on the outskirts of the Arena. Begs the question why are we having to take the air fence down today?

But that isn’t necessarily so. The development plans should make provision for a new facility according to the councils Peterborough local plan (LP30). Whether this happens or not is what we are all waiting to see when the development plans are published on the councils planning portal. If a new facility is included in some way then the owner has something tangible to sell, if a new facility is not included, then a long drawn out battle will undoubtedly commence.

The hindsight weather forecasters will be disappointed to learn that it’s been chucking it down in Alwalton since 7:30pm.

It was the right call, the forecast was horrendous. Anyway it’s raining in Alwalton now, not a lot, but it is raining. Riders often have a rain off guarantee written into their contracts (if they’re smart ) to cover any wasted travel costs should they arrive in the country before a meeting is postponed. It used to be (not sure if it still is) that if you call a meeting off post midday you still had to pay rent to the Showground. It can be very expensive to call a meeting off after midday. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.