New era Panthers Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 5 hours ago, Mike.Butler said: oh the irony...….other fixtures featuring complete sides postponed to allow other teams to use their riders as guests..and then its off... The gods have more power than Godfrey , consider it a way of justice. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylcream boy Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 10 hours ago, New era Panthers said: The gods have more power than Godfrey , consider it a way of justice. It seems to me most posters on here worship the God of the bitter and twisted or attend the Church of Moaners, where the Communion wine glass is always half empty and never half full. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New era Panthers Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 1 hour ago, brylcream boy said: It seems to me most posters on here worship the God of the bitter and twisted or attend the Church of Moaners, where the Communion wine glass is always half empty and never half full. Most of us on here don't alter the rules to suit or benefit our own causes , that why we have a moan when someone like your beloved Godfrey thinks its o/k to inconvenience others just so he can get his own way by using the powers handed to him as vice chairman inappropriately. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronScorpion Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 Have you read this weeks SS. It explains the action taken for Friday fixtures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New era Panthers Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 10 minutes ago, IronScorpion said: Have you read this weeks SS. It explains the action taken for Friday fixtures. No i haven't bought that magazine since the winter of discontent involving Peterborough and Coventry as i found it had a very one sided view and followed everything the BSPA told them but the mag has no view of its own . So i stopped my subscription and vowed never to buy it again and to be honest i don't think i have missed much . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 I drive to Scunthorpe via the A46 and A15, and it started to rain incredibly hard on the last stretch of A15, reducing visibility down to next to zero. After leaving the A15, the road all the way to the Ashby Ville roundabout was underwater. Lots of car deciding to stop. Then alongside the steelworks, there were at least two fallen trees, with greenery along all road - I was a bit concerned about picking up a puncture. Got to the stadium, where it had clearly rained very hard very recently (called off around 10 minutes before I arrived), but glad they didn't get what was a few miles down the road, because otherwise there could have been stadium damage. Went home via the longer (but drier) M18 and M1. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 2 hours ago, brylcream boy said: It seems to me most posters on here worship the God of the bitter and twisted or attend the Church of Moaners, where the Communion wine glass is always half empty and never half full. I do like that, though I have a weird sense of humour. Or so I'm told. In Hull it was absolutely lashing down, wind, thunder & lightning (actually it was pretty cool) though no fun and probably a bit scary for those caught out in it. Circumstances dictated I was never going to make it last nite but at my usual setting off time of 6ishPM I could easily have been tempted. Then the weather changed 180 degrees and then some.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 2 hours ago, martinmauger said: In Hull it was absolutely lashing down, wind, thunder & lightning (actually it was pretty cool) though no fun and probably a bit scary for those caught out in it. Circumstances dictated I was never going to make it last nite but at my usual setting off time of 6ishPM I could easily have been tempted. Then the weather changed 180 degrees and then some.... It was also pretty cool to drive through, although at the same time there's an anxiety of what happens if the car gets stuck on the flooded roads or what if I pick up a puncture from one of these branches which are all across the road? The annoying thing is that the weather forecast looked absolutely dreadful on Thursday night, but looked far, far better at around 3.30pm yesterday, which is why I set off. Someone got that badly wrong. The heavy showers were only supposed to come back at around 10pm. Thankfully, I don't think the EWR had the worse of it, even though it tipped down enough to call off the meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylcream boy Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 3 hours ago, New era Panthers said: Most of us on here don't alter the rules to suit or benefit our own causes , that why we have a moan when someone like your beloved Godfrey thinks its o/k to inconvenience others just so he can get his own way by using the powers handed to him as vice chairman inappropriately. I was not commenting about you in particular because although you frequently comment on Scunthorpe, I don’t know what you write on other threads. My point is I could go on every forum subject from Berwick to Wolverhampton and guarantee 75% of the comments will be moaning about anything from plastic spoons to stir their tea to their teams performance. I find the other 25% either informative or humorous. I am sure someone will moan about my moan, but I can live with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New era Panthers Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 17 minutes ago, brylcream boy said: I was not commenting about you in particular because although you frequently comment on Scunthorpe, I don’t know what you write on other threads. My point is I could go on every forum subject from Berwick to Wolverhampton and guarantee 75% of the comments will be moaning about anything from plastic spoons to stir their tea to their teams performance. I find the other 25% either informative or humorous. I am sure someone will moan about my moan, but I can live with that. The forum is for people to air there views, no matter if you believe they are being honest or warped, it's a point of view which we are all entitled to participate as long as it doesn't contain fowl language and is not of a threatening nature and you have to expect these comments as we are only human beings at the end of the day . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 (edited) 21 minutes ago, New era Panthers said: The forum is for people to air there views, no matter if you believe they are being honest or warped, it's a point of view which we are all entitled to participate as long as it doesn't contain fowl language and is not of a threatening nature and you have to expect these comments as we are only human beings at the end of the day . Thanks. I'll remember that and not talk about chickens again. Your constant whingeing does get a bit tiring, although I largely ignore it. Panthers are having a great season - just enjoy it! Edited July 28, 2018 by lucifer sam 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New era Panthers Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 23 minutes ago, lucifer sam said: Thanks. I'll remember that and not talk about chickens again. Your constant whingeing does get a bit tiring, although I largely ignore it. Panthers are having a great season - just enjoy it! It's not whingeing, it's a point of view. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylorj Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 8 hours ago, IronScorpion said: Have you read this weeks SS. It explains the action taken for Friday fixtures. Yes , read it ... next door neighbours ran out of toilet roll so I gave them it to use ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brylcream boy Posted July 28, 2018 Report Share Posted July 28, 2018 5 hours ago, New era Panthers said: The forum is for people to air there views, no matter if you believe they are being honest or warped, it's a point of view which we are all entitled to participate as long as it doesn't contain fowl language and is not of a threatening nature and you have to expect these comments as we are only human beings at the end of the day . I could not agree more, we all know Rob Godfrey wants what is best for British speedway, and the rest of the comments are just light hearted banter. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmauger Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) 10 hours ago, lucifer sam said: It was also pretty cool to drive through, although at the same time there's an anxiety of what happens if the car gets stuck on the flooded roads or what if I pick up a puncture from one of these branches which are all across the road? The annoying thing is that the weather forecast looked absolutely dreadful on Thursday night, but looked far, far better at around 3.30pm yesterday, which is why I set off. Someone got that badly wrong. The heavy showers were only supposed to come back at around 10pm. Thankfully, I don't think the EWR had the worse of it, even though it tipped down enough to call off the meeting. Such things are no joke. Once came across a totyally unexpected flood around a blind bend I knew well, you can tell it's deep when twigs area at window level. Don't reccomend flood driving but I knew the road rose up and it was literally a matter of life or death: arranging the funeral of a dear friend. Punctures are quite rare but getting one can make one paranoid for a while afterwards. Another time I discovered the 'hard way' what one does when copping one then a 2nd puncture in the middle of nowhere, 25 miles from civilisation, no mobile phone signal or call boxes. Firstly one can drive for 12 miles at 10MPH on a 100% flat tyre thereby destroying it unitl one gets one glorious bar of phone signal. Then one gives much praise and thanks to recovery service membership and the arrival of that lovely truck with the yellow flashing lites. The funny bit was explaining to the car rental company how I destroyed 2 tyres: "because they went down". I can look back with a tad amusment but both incedents were pretty stressful at the time. If not already: join a recovery service. Finally, like the majority I log on t'net and forums to share info and for fun, not to argue who is right and who is wrong. Everyone is right: apart from actual facts it's all just opinions.... Edited July 29, 2018 by martinmauger spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whisperer Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 16 hours ago, IronScorpion said: Have you read this weeks SS. It explains the action taken for Friday fixtures. Yes it says Scunthorpe can't get good enough guests on a Friday so they are going to cancel the fixtures for the clubs that do not have Fridays as their primary race night even though we accepted those fixtures into the official, BSPA fixture list and registered them with the International Speedway League Calendar. It also says it's unacceptable for 10 of the 11 clubs to be in action on a Friday, unacceptable to whom? Does that mean only 50% of the league (any league) can only run on any given day of the week? Hopefully that includes Bank Holidays under this made up rule. An explanation becomes justification a month after the event but it still doesn't alter the situation that 3 clubs have been disadvantaged to help 1 other, the Vice Chairman's although with Buster rapidly losing interest your man runs the show now. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike.Butler Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 sounds like we need a clean broom through the offices of power.....but who would want the responsibility?... I wish I had some answers to the problems..start again with a blank piece of paper might be best...forget the past...start from scratch as if it were a fledging new pastime able to take advantage of some existing sites previously used by something called Speedway.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tosh1218 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 When a side picks there race night the promoters should provisionally sit down and work the fixtures .At the beginning of the season Workington and Lakeside were predominantly a Saturday side ,so with Glasgow,Edinburgh and Scunthorpe Friday sides this move is a correct one as injuries plus riders continental fixtures guests are always going to weaken sides . One final thing as sides are chasing the top four how many sides would be willing to cancel there away fixture at Workington when they are without there top 3 of Bewley,klindt etc and a national league guest ruling on two I think , oh that will be Rob Godfrey in the interest of the sport allowed Workington to rearrange for another night ( some promoters aren't win at all costs) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waytogo28 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, Whisperer said: An explanation becomes justification a month after the event but it still doesn't alter the situation that 3 clubs have been disadvantaged to help 1 other, the Vice Chairman's although with Buster rapidly losing interest your man runs the show now. Anyone genuinely losing interest in the sport in which they have a serious level of influence / control, should resign with immediate effect. That sport is in major decline and needs open-minded senior officers, Both the Chairman and Vice- Chairman should resign now " in the best interests of the sport". Edited July 29, 2018 by waytogo28 typo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whisperer Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Tosh1218 said: When a side picks there race night the promoters should provisionally sit down and work the fixtures .At the beginning of the season Workington and Lakeside were predominantly a Saturday side ,so with Glasgow,Edinburgh and Scunthorpe Friday sides this move is a correct one as injuries plus riders continental fixtures guests are always going to weaken sides . One final thing as sides are chasing the top four how many sides would be willing to cancel there away fixture at Workington when they are without there top 3 of Bewley,klindt etc and a national league guest ruling on two I think , oh that will be Rob Godfrey in the interest of the sport allowed Workington to rearrange for another night ( some promoters aren't win at all costs) Because it suited him too not withstanding the fixtures were properly arranged, scheduled and officially adopted by the BSPA. He has put his club first and why shouldn't he, he must always do the right thing for Scunthorpe Speedway. You don't need to defend him it's in black and white this week in the Speedway Star, what you are trying to do is mitigate the decision it's irrelevant there's no need, he along with his colleagues allowed Friday fixtures to be arranged and officially approved and they changed their minds 5 months later, simples. You can look forward to Sheffield, Leicester and maybe Kings Lynn visiting you once a month each 'cos everybody else will be shut if such critical decisions are based on self interest, what rule have Peterborough, Workington and Lakeside broken? Does anybody know? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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