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2 hours ago, Lukas said:

Yes the track is smooth and fast but the racing is not better, It's gate and go so far.

 I am shocked that they are settling for a team 3 points under the limit and to me it shows a lack of ambition and is not fair on the season ticket holders who bought in thinking we had a title winning team but unfortunately now we haven't.

Not sure I agree that it’s gate and go. It does seem more difficult to get an outside pass done but heat 8 against wolves was one of the finest I’ve seen at the showground with passing inside and out , and there has been plenty of overtaking in the 3 meetings so far. It may be riding slightly differently so the big blast round the fence isnt as effective at the minute but the riders may just be having to think out their overtakes a bit more. Certainly Tungate hasn’t had a problem overtaking which is a good thing considering how poor his gating has been. 

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4 hours ago, scoobydoo said:

Troy Batchelor has his sponsor Roger Warnes Transport on his red kevlars in colour with a white shadow around, makes your blood boil at the ridiculous stand off stance between Chapman and Cook. 

Firstly, Troy doesn't ride for Buster, so I don't see what that has to do with it. Secondly any employee who wants to dictate terms to their employer better be pretty sure they are irreplaceable before they do so. and cut their nose off to spite their face. This whole thing is about who thinks they have the power. I'm no fan of a lot of what Buster does, but I would not employ someone and then have them tell me what they are going to do and how they are going to do it and that I should be grateful for it.

If Cook is such a messiah, why did Belle Vue decline to use him. 

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On 4/17/2019 at 5:53 PM, Ben91 said:

Faster doesn’t mean better though. 

True but I prefer fast with extra bite and the potential to improve further on that. That's what Chapman has bought to the EoES in 2019 so I'll settle for that at the moment.

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1 hour ago, wtf said:

Firstly, Troy doesn't ride for Buster, so I don't see what that has to do with it. Secondly any employee who wants to dictate terms to their employer better be pretty sure they are irreplaceable before they do so. and cut their nose off to spite their face. This whole thing is about who thinks they have the power. I'm no fan of a lot of what Buster does, but I would not employ someone and then have them tell me what they are going to do and how they are going to do it and that I should be grateful for it.

If Cook is such a messiah, why did Belle Vue decline to use him. 

They had to lose about 2.5 points from last year's team. Fricke, Bewley and Worrall are assets and Bjerre is likely to do at least as well as Craig but on a lower starting average. 

Keeping Craig would have meant no Bjerre and weaker second string/reserves.

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4 hours ago, wtf said:

Firstly, Troy doesn't ride for Buster, so I don't see what that has to do with it. Secondly any employee who wants to dictate terms to their employer better be pretty sure they are irreplaceable before they do so. and cut their nose off to spite their face. This whole thing is about who thinks they have the power. I'm no fan of a lot of what Buster does, but I would not employ someone and then have them tell me what they are going to do and how they are going to do it and that I should be grateful for it.

If Cook is such a messiah, why did Belle Vue decline to use him. 

Im aware that Batchelor doesnt ride for Buster ,  i used him as an example of the fact he has mostly red kevlars and that hes got coloured sponsor logos still highlighted by the white shadowing that makes them easily visable,   my point was that if both Chapman and Cook had a bit of give and take then they both would of been better off in the situation, there both to blame 

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9 hours ago, scoobydoo said:

Troy Batchelor has his sponsor Roger Warnes Transport on his red kevlars in colour with a white shadow around, makes your blood boil at the ridiculous stand off stance between Chapman and Cook. 

I don’t believe a word of it - spin or a cover up in my opinion.  

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1 hour ago, scoobydoo said:

Im aware that Batchelor doesnt ride for Buster ,  i used him as an example of the fact he has mostly red kevlars and that hes got coloured sponsor logos still highlighted by the white shadowing that makes them easily visable,   my point was that if both Chapman and Cook had a bit of give and take then they both would of been better off in the situation, there both to blame 

Buster would not accept logos as Troy has them. What could Craig have done by way of compromise? 

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12 hours ago, maneacat said:

I don’t believe a word of it - spin or a cover up in my opinion.  

Certainly looks that way now for sure as Ipswich and Lynn have colours other than white on there kevlars and Batchelor didn't have a problem with his main sponsor being in different colours on his bike or his kevlars, 

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14 minutes ago, scoobydoo said:

Certainly looks that way now for sure as Ipswich and Lynn have colours other than white on there kevlars and Batchelor didn't have a problem with his main sponsor being in different colours on his bike or his kevlars, 

 

Craig was advised that all his personal sponsors had to be in black and white. 

The only coloured one on Ipswich is Tru Plant and I can’t see any on the Lynn kevlars. 

Troy can do what he wants as he isn’t a Chapman rider. 

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15 hours ago, scoobydoo said:

Im aware that Batchelor doesnt ride for Buster ,  i used him as an example of the fact he has mostly red kevlars and that hes got coloured sponsor logos still highlighted by the white shadowing that makes them easily visable,   my point was that if both Chapman and Cook had a bit of give and take then they both would of been better off in the situation, there both to blame 

Nonsense imo. If Buster had allowed Craig coloured sponsors then he'd of had a game with the other 6 rider's. 

Buster in this case 100% right, and Craig has made himself 110% poorer.

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13 hours ago, NickH114 said:

Wouldn't surprise me if Cook ends up at Poole, with whoever he replaces Holder or Kurtz coming to Peterborough.

With blood being thicker than water, I can't see anyone called Holder having much to do with anything belonging to anyone called Chapman

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On 4/20/2019 at 12:18 AM, NickH114 said:

Wouldn't surprise me if Cook ends up at Poole, with whoever he replaces Holder or Kurtz coming to Peterborough.

Let's be honest, any rider could end up at any club and it wouldn't be all that much of a surprise.   

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On 4/21/2019 at 10:52 PM, PE7Panther said:

Let's be honest, any rider could end up at any club and it wouldn't be all that much of a surprise.   

Let's hope panthers end up with somebody after hearing Johnson on mic last nite he commented he just needs to get them all going at same time trouble is they have there averages because there in consistent panthers look like wooden spoon winners with there line up

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