Seems very unfair on Buster to expect him to foot the bill for restructuring the Peterborough team (Harris, Tarasenko and Laguta) while denying the opportunity to recoup those costs.
Seems some people only want promoters to run loss making meetings, a guaranteed recipe for the sport's demise.
I hope that next Saturday is:
1) profitable for Buster
2) a suitably fitting emotional event befitting the ocassion; and
3) not the last we see of speedway in Peterborough
Being proactive in replacing injured riders
Dropping out of form riders
Ruthlessly casting aside solid performers in order to accomodate changes elsewhere in the team
Booking decent guests
None of these are objectively 'wrong' and are they not exactly the things Poole fans praise Matt Ford for doing?
I can't see it makes a hap'oth difference which was signed first.
If both commit him to show up then he simply has to decide which one to break and take the consequences.
... unless Oxford get a special 'special dispensation' to use a guest. (And because of restrictions around guests that would probably be Laurie Jye Etheridge)