Crump99

Well as they've got a plan of sorts now, although a season as proposed is unlikely, here is some education for them on this topic regarding new rules https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55221474

Peterborough Panthers Speedway@PboroPanthers Sep 7 EVENT | Young Driver Peterborough will be at the East of England Arena on Saturday September 26. On arrival at the East of England Showground please follow the main road around to Gate 17, turn left and immediately left again at Gate 14. Parking on-site and is free for all customers. Once parked, it is short walk to the reception area. Please following the Young Driver signage. There are also some disabled parking spaces. Site is floodlit.

Good: " there are no verifiable statistics on the ultimate fate of Greyhounds who survive racing but are disposed of each year when injured or no longer competitive."

Short air fences coming off the turn do seem quite common these days but that one looked a bag short at least and an accident waiting to happen, as it proved. Instead of taking out a fence panel with his back after just missing the air fence he should have had a much softer, albeit relatively heavy having bailed out at speed, landing.

I got caught out by this when I tried to suspend my BT subscription at the same time as Skysports. They (Sky) said ok they would do that but the BT bills kept coming. I phoned BT to ask why because I said that I'd suspended BT Sports through Sky but they didn't explain that my BT Sports wasn't actually anything to do with Sky. They did suspend the account although I've now cancelled their more expensive £29.99 account because I can do it through Sky for £25 if needed.

Ouch, must remember not to reply to you again Panthers Hawkins' era was a pub operation so that bit computes anyway. I can't recall too much about the presentation. I can only remember meeting starts delayed as debts were allegedly being paid out of the night's gate receipts.

Didn't know that you could drop that wasn't used? Don't recall that ever being used? It could have been but passed me by if it was. Would have been dropped pdq because it's crap in that context.

Playing the national anthem pre-introduction at Peterborough was bad enough via Horton & Watson. By the time most supporters had risen from their seats the anthem had finished.

Don't get your hopes up. If they had any of that then they'd have considered their actions more carefully and not tried to sneak in the unique action (historically Panthers management support their disabled customers) through the back door. Hopefully they'll sneak in the reconsideration of their error in the same covert way. With Covid-19 and its restrictions being with us, as it stands, for the foreseeable future you'd hope that Pratt, Johnson & Chapman would want to start 2021 in a positive manner encouraging as many fans as possible to consider attending within any potential continuing supporter capacity restrictions?

Well let's start at the beginning. Doing a Sweden/Covid-19 search on Google today doesn't make pretty reading if you're using that as a benchmark. South Korea and Japan are chalk and cheese compared to to UK and South Korea had a head-start after its inadequate dealing with an outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2015. Japan is a funny one but (Coronavirus: Japan's mysteriously low virus death rate) makes interesting reading. A tenuous SARS type of herd immunity from the off and their pretty standard use of face masks regardless is arguably not comparing like with like.

I'm bored, so which ones are those?

Well this is not the thread for stats, theories and conspiracies on Covid-19 so we'll leave it there

As people return to some sort of normality (within the current restrictions), socialise more in groups and spend more time indoors then review the statement after New Year. The UK is not alone is it? The whole world has to be seen to have gone mad.

Given that there could be a second spike during close season (the real one), social distancing and/or other restrictions could be with us for the foreseeable future until or unless a vaccine and better treatments appear then I'd still wouldn't bet on viable speedway as we know it happening in 2021 anyway?

Given that BBC Radio Cambs have run a story this week (that now links to the Pratt website article that also ran in the Peterborough Telegraph this week) it might, if you have a contact, be worth bending their ear again now that many of the customers they've displaced would probably be vulnerable under Covid-19 on top of the original reasoning which looks weaker now given that there will be a lot less vehicle traffic and footfall in the unlikely event of anything happening in 2020.

That's Northampton. Ippo not cancelled as far as I can see.

In terms of Peterborough it could be scuppered in an instant "Today’s update (14/7/20) on the rate of new coronavirus cases across the country has shown another increase for Peterborough with the city eighth in the national rankings" (source Peterborough today) so it would be a risk to start anyway. Who's going to put time, effort and money in under the current circumstances?

Bit too much credit there as that would indicate some appreciation of the cock up he presided over which thankfully hasn't been tested in 2020 and can be binned for 2021 if the club still runs.

You know my opinion of them for one reason of which we are of the same mind, but what else have they done that's so bad? It's just like a close season with the addition of a pandemic. From the top leadership, communication (apart from the guff ones) and actions are lacking but surely any speedway fan has factored that in by experience over the years.

They must have phoned him up based on the update the link takes you to and that was what he said. Unless they are working furiously behind closed doors and keeping up with the ever changing guidance then it's not gonna happen. If there isn't a concrete decision in the next 2 weeks then that we be the final nail IMO?

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If people wanted to press the case then I'm pretty sure that they could argue what the definition of a speedway season always has been and that it hasn't been delivered and isn't going to be. It's a local issue based on terms and conditions at each track. Peterborough is quite unspecific in terms of numbers but does say in the press notice " Why not secure a full season of Premiership action at one of the fastest tracks in Great Britain? " and that hasn't happened and isn't going to happen so higher up confirmation isn't required IMO.

I see. I take that back in that case. A very worthy pursuit for an excellent reason

Bicycle always gets more sympathy than moto-x bike during the season

No it isn't. Even during normal times it's often only a matter of time before a post brings us back to where we started. The only surprising thing is that you think that there's a reason for it which is different from arriving late to the party