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i know i have not been on many( if any ) panthers supporters christmas LIST but i do hope something can be worked out for the fans. not just the panthers fans, but all speedway fans in the uk who love the showground.

maybe if a deal cant be struck to keep it open . there will or could be an option to run maybe the fours/plrc and any speedway finals. it qould then be classed as a neutral track and give the local supporters some form of entertainment at least once or twice a season. ..

would love to see you in 2015 in the pl. even if its just to winde you up. stick in and hope for the best.J/

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i know i have not been on many( if any ) panthers supporters christmas LIST but i do hope something can be worked out for the fans. not just the panthers fans, but all speedway fans in the uk who love the showground.

maybe if a deal cant be struck to keep it open . there will or could be an option to run maybe the fours/plrc and any speedway finals. it qould then be classed as a neutral track and give the local supporters some form of entertainment at least once or twice a season. ..

would love to see you in 2015 in the pl. even if its just to winde you up. stick in and hope for the best.J/

 

Your harmless, its just banter/laugh :P anyway, both our seasons headed south for the winter.

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Typical. Blames everybody but himself for the short-commings. Product may be "great" (although not as great as he thinks it is!) but a spectacular failure to do any actual PROMOTION is clearly a massive part of yet another failed ownership.

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Why doesn't Rick employ someone to manage and run the club for him if he's not got the time Peter Oakes would of been ideal so someone along his type of speedway roots could be his front man with him just pulling the strings ,

 

Horton was a nightmare last time he was involved in the club and many fans had said they had no trust in him and so it's been proved that the fans should be listened to at times

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Horton sounds like a clown or someone who just continues to bite off more than he can chew..He has dumped more clubs than I've dumped women!..am I right in saying he messed up Oxford, Mildenhall, and now Panthers? and probably Coventry next when he gets bored of them!..specialy looking at the crowds they get now.

Sad times for us...Hope someone can come in and put us back in the elite where we belong.

And hello its not rocket science...give us a good team and regular race nights and there would be a 1000 plus there every week!...The fact is we have had a crap team in a tinpot league on the worst night possible.

Some weeks no meetings then 3 double headers on the trot which leave you bored out of your skull..and when they made the ridiculous changes that they did it made even me miss a meeting which I never do..The season started O.K but when Horton lost interest and Coventry started doing well it became a farce.

If there is someone out there who is thinking of saving our club or if Rick Has a change of heart maybe look at the stats from 2006 regarding team building and crowds and then you have a viable business...I mean as much as we all hate Poole and Mat Fraud...he gets it right every year and the truth is...we are all jealous!

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Horton sounds like a clown or someone who just continues to bite off more than he can chew..He has dumped more clubs than I've dumped women!..am I right in saying he messed up Oxford, Mildenhall, and now Panthers? and probably Coventry next when he gets bored of them!..specialy looking at the crowds they get now.

Sad times for us...Hope someone can come in and put us back in the elite where we belong.

And hello its not rocket science...give us a good team and regular race nights and there would be a 1000 plus there every week!...The fact is we have had a crap team in a tinpot league on the worst night possible.

Some weeks no meetings then 3 double headers on the trot which leave you bored out of your skull..and when they made the ridiculous changes that they did it made even me miss a meeting which I never do..The season started O.K but when Horton lost interest and Coventry started doing well it became a farce.

If there is someone out there who is thinking of saving our club or if Rick Has a change of heart maybe look at the stats from 2006 regarding team building and crowds and then you have a viable business...I mean as much as we all hate Poole and Mat Fraud...he gets it right every year and the truth is...we are all jealous!

All very confusing until the last line. Poole were going nowhere until he took the reins, they are now the best supported club in the EL. Like or loathe, he's succesful at promoting. Maybe, just maybe that's the direction Frost should have taken.

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If Matt Fraud ran Peterborough he would face the same problems as Rick does in terms of the revenue coming in hes been fortunate that the people of Poole have stuck with speedway .

 

If the poole fans stopped attending and the rules didnt favour his team so much he would of been no better than any other promotor

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If Matt Fraud ran Peterborough he would face the same problems as Rick does in terms of the revenue coming in hes been fortunate that the people of Poole have stuck with speedway .

 

If the poole fans stopped attending and the rules didnt favour his team so much he would of been no better than any other promotor

ford would get of his arse and get sponsors tho , jeez even stanair who have been sponsoring panthers for years have deserted this year , Horton runs his own printing company and what a bloody joke it was getting a programme in the later 1/2 of the season ,

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ford would get of his arse and get sponsors tho , jeez even stanair who have been sponsoring panthers for years have deserted this year , Horton runs his own printing company and what a bloody joke it was getting a programme in the later 1/2 of the season ,

 

Didn't Stanair say that he couldn't agree a deal though which shows willing and not desertion through lack of effort? Horton hasn't done any worse on sponsors than Rick and Julie? It could be said that he did better as we did negotiate a deal with TC Harrison to be main team sponsor which is something Readypower Panthers never had? However, I'd imagine that TCH are as happy now as Muscle Finesse were in that glorious 2008 season. Probably scared off for life likewise :shock:

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Sadly for a number of reasons, no genuinely successful individual will invest in UK club speedway. Rick & Julie fall into this catagory and after all they have put into the club, how far did they get?

 

i do not blame either the fans (speedway fans in general), nor the people of Peterborough in this case. It's more that the wider issues surrounding the sport mean that investment is a non starter.

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If Matt Fraud ran Peterborough he would face the same problems as Rick does in terms of the revenue coming in hes been fortunate that the people of Poole have stuck with speedway .

If the poole fans stopped attending and the rules didnt favour his team so much he would of been no better than any other promotor

Think the 17 trophies since his take over might have something to do with the support. Many will only come out to support a winning team. Peterborough are masters at that.

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Think the 17 trophies since his take over might have something to do with the support. Many will only come out to support a winning team. Peterborough are masters at that.

 

Plus Poole Stadium is in the centre of town with not much else in competition with it, as well as speedway being well publised locally in the holiday destination. If our motorsport masterplan had come to fruition then we'd have been playing on a level playing field apart from having a football team but not a beach.

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ford would get of his arse and get sponsors tho , jeez even stanair who have been sponsoring panthers for years have deserted this year , Horton runs his own printing company and what a bloody joke it was getting a programme in the later 1/2 of the season ,

 

Seems very ironic then they pull out when Rick is no longer involved he was doing something right then, he used his own company to sponsor Panthers, this was no doubt for a valid reason ,

 

Think the 17 trophies since his take over might have something to do with the support. Many will only come out to support a winning team. Peterborough are masters at that.

 

Being successful helps but if the product thats produced is of a good standard and the racing is good people will still pay to come in, the Peterboro press in the past few years has been shocking to say the least H&S rings loud, poor track prep and more , god knows how then any team survives if you have to be successful all the time,

Perhaps speedway has had its time now in Peterboro 30 odd miles each way and you have EL speedway to watch at Lynn or Leicester so the die hard speedway junkies can at least get some speedway fix

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