Lord Lucan

Don't knock yourself down iainb, that's one of the best stupid ideas I've read all season!!

Just asking out of interest, judging by the way Pboro/Lakeside has panned out a replay was something I wouldn't have ruled out?

Should this tie end 54-36 to the Comets will it be Golden Hts or a rerun of both legs?

That's a poor effort from the Comets, I would have expected something like this IF we'd ridden both meetings last night but to go in fresh and still deliver this is very disappointing? Poor guest in Starke, surely all of the best NL rider's can't have finished for the season? We've certainly made this very difficult for ourselves at this point in time but, it's not insurmountable, we will have to be well on the ball tho whatever come Thursday so.... let's see what happens!!

Yeah, it would, but being as next Sat/Sun is their POSF v Peterborough I would think preperation for that will be more important than an outstanding league fixture?

Just keep the new found faith and it'll be alright tomorrow!!

It's doable Singy, it's doable!!

Never been more pleased to be proved wrong? Body language said everything tonight, determination was evident right from the off that this was doable and the longer it went the more likely it looked!! Rather glad that ITV/BBC only had s**te on tonight otherwise I really would have saved my £18.50, best last five minutes decision I've made this season, wudda kicked myself if I'd missed that?

This kind of performance gives credence to the necessity of having fixed dates for Cup rounds? If these meetings were during the season of the hot weather and not crammed into a few cold nights at the end of it this result would have been far different? More evenly spread fixtures, less pressure on everyone really and a lot more effort put into them? As soon as I saw this result it just stood out like a sore thumb, too many fixtures, not enough time, kick it into the long grass, job's a good un.....or bad un depending on your point of view, disappointed with it all the same, I was expecting better?

And a Townie!!

Gone to the same place as the loyalty to the supporters with that performance?

Well, Comets certainly do know how to encourage the missing supporter's back to DP in times of need? Shocking performance and pretty much smacks of the Comets answer to having too many meetings to fit in, perfect excuse in racing Edinburgh, let them have this and concentrate on the other two, frees up a weekend further along the line? Made my mind up anyway, £18.50 saved tomorrow, put it towards the meetings where we'll try harder?

Yeah, didn't have the nouse to move the club forward when we needed to and wouldn't move aside for anyone who could? Basking in the glory and couldn't see the wood for the trees?

Just think, if it all goes to plan the Comets could meet the Forces of Evil in the KO Cup final, imagine that??

That's them, couldn't remember the name, I was thinking South of France region because of Catalans? Well this thread is about Derwent Park and RL does take place there!!

Being as there is a lot of negativity about the Comets on other thread's here's some on this!! I predict that whenever the play off dates are arranged it'll rain and we'll need to have another go at it, there, I've said it!!

Nah!!!! There's no right and wrong here, it just appens!!

Is this still going on!!

Being as we're just nit picking now Town played in the First Division 1995/96 after winning promotion and just missing the play off places, due to the new SL format being a "summer" objective they carried straight on into SL1 after barely finishing their original Div1 fixtures hence why I quoted "two" seasons in the top flight which effectively it was, one after the other and another reason why we didn't survive? Oh and by the way, do you remember wondering why every time we won a match in that era and moved off the bottom of the table that French side always managed to beat someone they shouldn't have just to put us back down again, there was self interest in RL back then as well?

Pleased to read that and I appreciate your passion for your sports!! I am well aware of how Town didn't survive in SL and I visited every single ground in the country at the time witnessing the evidence first hand for the two seasons we did survive? We could and should have survived in that division, my opinion, and we had the crowds to achieve this but didn't capitalize on the opportunity? I doubt we'll ever see SL again but to achieve the standard required even in the next league up is going to take financial backing this area doesn't have!! Some things certainly have to change with regards all sports but, will any venture be supported enough to succeed? I want "ALL" sport's catered for in this town not just the one's with the scourge of modern sport....."self interest" does that sound familiar eh..marra??

Now, if you'd said Town had finished a creditable fourth in SL and averaged gates of 7000 I'd have been a lot more impressed!! I bow to your superior knowledge of 2nd Division finance's my friend, a subject not close to my heart I'm afraid?

I was being diplomatic Geoff, deliberately left that bit out!!

No is the simple answer. Reds are just a p/t outfit playing in the Northern League and I'd imagine a ton per game for any one of them would be too costly for them over a full season? As for Town any foreign players are generally of the resident type and are offered a fixed rate contract or game by game fee, highly unlikely to be massive and sponsors will be helping out with some of it, it is a tight budget for them but....they seem to keep their head's above water but it's not just crowd's that contribute to their survival? Difficult environment for all over here thesedays, not exactly awash with capital so you cut your cloth accordingly?

Sounds like another attempt to undermine the Comets, introduce some bad feeling between the rider's to put us off our stroke.....these voices that were heard, didn't happen to have a Scottish accent by any chance??

The council already owns the land the grounds are on so for them there will always be rental income as well as a sale value!! A two sports venue only would probably see the developer as the landlord if the council chose to sell the land on and that could leave both Town and the Reds with a larger rental to pay for the use of it, (usually the way with private companies) and for me that brings in the viability of either to afford it? Upgrade the existing DP site instead could possibly be a better option but...at what cost to the track, and for how long, or, take a chance that the Comets will be around for a good few years and build a three sports venue, at least you could always expand the viewing areas into the track space in the future if speedway fails so it would have options for any eventuality? In any case it'll probably take year's to sort and build so it may not necessarily matter in the long term.... hope I'm wrong tho!!