Mick Bratley

I’m pinning my hopes on planning being refused and AEPG baleing and someone getting ownership of The Showground and putting on quality events that appeal to locals as well as people who travel from afar. Then again I’ve been pinning my hopes on Posh reaching the Premiership for far to long lol.

I believe he does have a small involvement with car storage there but his auction house, garages and processing is no longer on the Showground. DHL now have a huge presence on the Showground with vehicles, garage and paint shops although I’m not sure the latter are in place yet.

The new owners are AEPG but are actually only custodians for the Agricultural Society. My understanding is that they won’t actually pay for the Showground until development begins. Of course Panthers could ride there for a number of years until the track is swallowed up, but that, I believe is not what AEPG want. I engaged with the CEO at an open day earlier this year (he had no idea who I was) and I slowly turned the conversation to Speedway, it was clear he didn’t want it, he even said the rent for the Speedway was a peppercorn rent per meeting (it isn’t) and that he should be charging 10 times more per meeting (that would make the rent circa £20k per meeting)! He’s either a very shrewd businessman or he’s away with the fairies. I’m leaning more towards the latter.

DHL.

The cynic in me wasn’t surprised the meeting took place at the same time as Panthers were flopping against Belle Vue. AEPG have for over a year now portrayed this mantra that it’s all a done deal, the majority of local residents didn’t even realise that a planning application had not been submitted until last week. The underhand DHL storage deal for which AEPG have now submitted a retrospective planning application has stirred the residents, they are not happy with the increased traffic movements and they are now beginning to take more notice. It’s worth noting that the Haddon development which is about the same size as the Showground has only now started to be developed many years after the planning application was submitted. FWIW I thought AEPGs plans were fanciful and when I first saw them I thought to myself there was no chance of them succeeding and I’ve seen nothing since to change my mind. Why do they want to end the Speedway and every other event? It’s obvious really, they want it to become a desert wasteland full of cars and vans, that becomes an eyesore and so they hope the council will eventually approve the plans to develop it. All depends how big the councils balls are I guess.

They only submitted a planning application last week, they’ll be lucky to sink a brick in the ground before 2028, if at all.

Turns out the interval was held after Heat 7 to allow the riders to fit new tyres as they were all shredded by then.

GPWM LOL

If you didn’t have an interval you wouldn’t get any food and drink vendors at the meeting.

Some of the Panthers team haven’t been able to get on track for a practice this year, therefore I expect an Ipswich win. The weather could come to the rescue though, the forecast is not brilliant.

Sorted.

Didn’t have to turn any club down (although he did turn two down) as he signed his deal in November of last year.

But, But, But . . . . . you said “It's Pedersen and Andersen for sure.”

Riders rarely sign a contract it’s pretty much verbal agreements until the start of the season when they get signed and are in the country. And yes I know that’s pretty crap.

But you said Lindgren earlier

So far in this thread you’ve suggested: Jensen, Ellis, Harris, Riss, Douglas, Bjerre, MPT, King, Vaculik, Huckenbeck, S Lambert, Wright, Kerr, Batchelor, Kildemand, Schlein, Sedgeman, Fricke, Holder, Berge, Pickering, Allen, Lindback, Zagar, Kemp, Lidsey, Tungate, Nillson, Lahti, Pawlicki, C Cook, Etheridge, Mountain and Nicki Pedersen. (I may have missed a few) If you throw enough darts you’ll hit the bullseye matey. Oh and I agree, you’ll likely find out Thursday.

He wasn’t at 8:30 last night.

It really is.

Of course he hasn’t. It’s just another dart chucked at the board with the 33 others LOL

The bloke behind it lives with the fairies, it’s words and pictures. No planning application submitted as of yet, likely to be refused on the grounds of lack of road infrastructure to support the increased volume of traffic, is what I have heard. IMHO it will never happen as he currently plans it.

It has always been an option and came very close not so long ago, but with more housing close by these days, it would be difficult I would suggest. The stadium was recently sold to the Mick George Group incidentally, the main sponsors of Peterborough United.

This is all aspirational though, AEPG have many hurdles to overcome to get what they want, which will be as many houses as possible and locals know only to well how slow the planning process is in Peterborough. Even with 1600 houses which will result in 4500 to 5000 people and probably 3000 cars, good luck with finding placements with schools, doctors and dentists, and for sure the roads surrounding the area will not support that increase in traffic, it barely supports it now when major events are held in the Arena alone. I have spoken with the local Green councillor on several occasions, she is extremely supportive of Peterborough Speedway and I opened up communication channels with her and the promotion a while back. The last time I spoke with her she was adamant that the Speedway club be rightly looked after properly and 50 years of heritage be preserved and continued. Whether that happens or not obviously depends on many things. It’s all a bit of a game right now in my opinion, but suffice to say I doubt very much that the plans released yesterday will have very little resemblance to the finished project.

Awful news, Speedway has lost a great ambassador. RIP Scoop.

The local councillor (Green Party) is fully up to speed with developments at The Showground, I have had many conversations with her on this subject. She is adamant that the future of the Speedway Club must be assured, either at its existing location or elsewhere and that this must be a part of any development plans, I also understand the full council generally also supports this. She attended a fixture last year at The Showground for the first time and loved it. Additionally I understand the plan for 1600 houses is merely bluster, and has no chance of progressing as the infrastructure of roads, schools and health services could not currently support such a development. In short, she is on the case and will vehemently fight the Panthers corner. I should also add that I have put Buster in touch with the councillor and I believe they have spoken.

Why do you continually embarrass your club and its supporters by posting such utter nonsense with comments like this and total bull$hit about ‘being in the know’ which you clearly aren’t?