wtf

Average track area of a 300m track 10m wide is just under 3500 sqm. A heavy duty tarpaulin (the type they use to cover a cricket square) will cost approx. £5000 for that amount. The fundamental problem with them is fixing them in place, and getting a team of people and you need at least 10 to drop everything, go to the track, put them out, take them away, get covered in dirt doing it, and to do it on top of everything else they do for the speedway club for F##k all already. Sure covers would save some meetings, maybe half if you are lucky. Oh and by the way, if you've ever tried laying a 10m x 10m groundsheet in the wind and the rain and to do that 30 times and secure them, then take them back up without damaging them and dragging them across a shale surface covered in muck. If you'd all like to form an orderly queue to volunteer to do it for free, that would be great, answers on a postcard...………...thought not.

Might still see Lawson now guesting in the Redcar meeting for MPT

Sandwich unlikely, but you can do a lot of damage with a bottle of "clear liquid"

Leicester v Redcar would make an interesting match, because whilst you are right Leicester have riders that go well at the MPA I think the Redcar top 3 are better round Leicester than the Leicester top 3

You also have a very good idea of what 10cm is. 2.5cm more than the usual gap

No Bike problems, just a wrist problem, there were a lot of riders struggling to hold on to their bikes Monday night, and the majority hadn't recently had their wrist in a cast.

Barry Bishop, one of very few people who "get it" this is the entertainment business, that's what you have to sell, know your customer and deliver what you say your going to deliver. I wish you well sir. Love my all too infrequent visits to the Isle of Wight.

You have so got that the wrong way round I'm afraid Grip equals gate and go, slick equals good racing. I agree with the modern day lack of throttle control

I'd would imagine the track will have been prepared with one eye on the opposition, particularly their #1, problem with that is that generally Charles can make better starts than Bomber so you end up ruining your own #5's chances of entertaining the crowd. Still, win at all costs is the way down their. Result was never in doubt as soon as the rebels named their #8 Ronnie in the box. Seem to recall last time Redcar were their he declared a race on the 2nd lap when Charles was in 3rd place with "no hope of catching the rebels pair"

Cook lost the CFS sponsorship long before his pulling out of the P'Boro deal. That was left to the last minute because they each thought they had the other over a barrel.

In truth the only person who seems to escape criticism is the guy who is supposed to be getting the best out of the riders and showing them how to improve and become better

I imagine Tungate will be saving his next sick note for Monday, he hates Monmore even more than Poole

Think several riders are going to come out of this looking pretty stupid pinning their flags to the mast on twitter without even considering that there may be two sides to any story.

I think a few people need to take a breath for a minute and just think through what they are saying. I understand emotions are running high, but from the outside looking in, this looks a lot like trial by social media. All I ever hear on this forum is that people are entitled these days to their opinion. From what I can see some people have expressed their opinion in private. Whether you agree, disagree, whatever? is expressing your opinion in private bullying? I don't know I guess society will tell us. If that is not the case then maybe Phil Lanning should make public what he keeps threatening to on twitter as at the moment the some of us are struggling to see the reason for what is becoming a social media lynch mob. I'm finding it very difficult to see clearly through all the mud, and I'm trying to be rational rather than emotional. I understand completely the desire to protect your son as Jonny the Spud alluded to. But if you want to slaughter people publicly for something they have done in private I think care needs to be taken to make sure people are not over reacting. It's difficult to have an opinion when you don't know all the "facts" and no doubt people will disagree with this one. But does that make it a hanging offence? I don't know. I just think a few people need to take a breath , take a step back and count to 10 first.

Think you'll find he stuck two fingers up to the DMU

Very different showground this year though

Think that depends which Berge turns up, but I would tend to agree

No he isn't on his own, but he is an improvement on what a couple of the current riders are doing with the track you now have. If you want a magic button that's going to instantly make Panthers title contenders, why don't you trot off down the bottom of the garden, go shake the magic money tree and make everything better. Easy to stand there and tell everyone what's needed but someone has to pay for it, and it's clear the present owner isn't willing to. It's easy for Neil to say how everything would have been affordable under Ged but the fact is he DID sell the club yet Neil seems to tell us he didn't need to , everything was affordable and it would have been a bumper season. What like the last few where the begging bowl constantly came out. Panthers have a number of problems, from the top to the bottom. But it does seem to me that a number of Panthers fans seem to think they are entitled to a successful season and that the somehow throwing their toys out the pram will make it all better.

Bates would be worth a shot because he makes starts and right now with that track, that is more important than ever. As BWD is finding out, gating is much more important at the showground this year means he can try all he likes, he's struggling to make an impression.

I don't think it will last long, I just think someone found a box of wristbands and thought lets use them up

Colin's main role at the moment seems to be handing out wristbands in the pits

Pretty sure if anyone else had come up with some actual money when the previous promotion were selling up and looking to get out, then Buster would not be the owner now. I don't like the way he has gone about things, I don't like what he did, but he is also the only reason you have speedway at all right now in Peterborough. It's very easy to talk this and that, where's your actual money

I think the reality of the last 6 months is that the previous promotion put together an exciting team, that would have ridden the old showground well and have been nailed on for the play offs and a good shot at success. However, they sold the club for reasons best known to themselves. Buster comes in with a whole load of motives, and from that moment the Peterborough fans have been fed whatever information would keep them quiet and content for the longest time until the truth started to come out. The Team started to get dismantled to fix other Suffolk based problems as the current owner is balancing 3 plates not one, and was further dismantled due to an employee thinking he was bigger than the employer. That was never going to work as both sides refused to compromise. Then comes the track. Since press and practise the track was treated to at least 90 tonnes of (Busters finest) mix of clay and granite, which funnily enough is what is primarily on the Kings Lynn track. Shock horror the track now rides very much like Kings Lynn, sucking horsepower and remaining quite grippy all night and not developing an outside line so readily as the inside fails to slicken off as the meeting progresses. The strength of the original team with Wright BWD, Barker and Lasse was always the ability to ride the fence. That is no longer the quickest way round the showground. A forceful move up the inside or a cut back is now the overtake of choice. The final slap in the face was last Monday. Buster apparently spent the day preparing the track for the local derby, and then spent the entire meeting in the pits as the Peterborough owner wearing his Kings Lynn jacket and when asked if he had a Peterborough one simply said, "No" "I'm Kings Lynn through and through" Not sure what we were expecting, but I would have hoped he would either wear the colours of the home team when at home, or remain neutral. Oh hang on a minute, it's Buster Scott Nicholls I would have thought is unlikely to come in. The wage offer won't have changed since the winter. The Riders have (probably) been working harder on getting a replacement rider in to use the extra 3 points more than the owner. There are very much two divisions in the Premiership I would suggest. Best of Busters clubs, and then the real Premiership. I think the biggest problem buster has at the moment is that Ipswich have gone from looking dreadful before the start of the season, to a bit too good for Busters liking and might become a threat. So watch out witches fans, keep looking over your shoulder, you're doing a bit too well right now. One Man is both saving and destroying speedway in equal measure right now.

Sounds like a standard Peter Clarke meeting, just make it up as he goes along.

Firstly, Troy doesn't ride for Buster, so I don't see what that has to do with it. Secondly any employee who wants to dictate terms to their employer better be pretty sure they are irreplaceable before they do so. and cut their nose off to spite their face. This whole thing is about who thinks they have the power. I'm no fan of a lot of what Buster does, but I would not employ someone and then have them tell me what they are going to do and how they are going to do it and that I should be grateful for it. If Cook is such a messiah, why did Belle Vue decline to use him.