Peterborough Panthers 2019

[Crump99]

52 minutes ago, JeremyCorbynFan said:

What a massive opportunity missed.

Expect the management to begin the "Peterborough needs to show it wants Speedway" after a couple of poor defeats.

An absolute joke.

We could have competed for the title. Instead, we're left with a poor side.

 

Highly unlikely. Johnson has been around long enough to know the consequences of a team that struggles to win races and meetings at the EoES. That's usually sold as trying to return to form after another away embarrassment. Problem being that virtually anyone should be able to overturn the current Panthers septet so a return to form on home shale is unlikely and a different strategy is needed.

[Daniel Smith]

If the meeting are top draw regardless of the result wouldn't that be good enough to keep people turning up, at least for this seasons return to the top flight. 

Most certainly, 2020 is a different matter all together, a lineup like this one wouldn't be acceptable. 

[New era Panthers]

1 hour ago, Daniel Smith said:

If the meeting are top draw regardless of the result wouldn't that be good enough to keep people turning up, at least for this seasons return to the top flight. 

Most certainly, 2020 is a different matter all together, a lineup like this one wouldn't be acceptable. 

The current team is not acceptable and is heading for the wooden spoon , its nice to know that Panthers are just cannon fodder for rest of the season and just in the premier league to make the numbers up , what happened to ambition .

[New era Panthers]

2 minutes ago, Crumpet77 said:

It seems to have left the club along with Ged and Neil who put together a cracking team.

It was  o/k till Chapman got his maulers on it

[stevebrum]

8 hours ago, Noodles said:

Won't they keep Nicholls to cover Morris

I’m not sure what’s Wolves promotion are planning and maybe things will become clearer after Monday night.

Thorssell appears to be ready to come back and Wolves would be foolish to lose his starting average points which they will after 1st May if they redeclare with Nicholls. That would be really silly move. 

The issue appears around Morris as to what’s happening with his injury and how much longer he has.

Nicholls could technically be a short term replacement for Morris, although I’m not sure what his current CMA will be but he may now be over the 6.60 of Morris.

My take is that Thorssell will be back after Monday, RR continues for Nick with Nicholls released and signs for Peterborough.

If I’m right, you heard it here first! 

Time will tell I guess.

[SteveLyric2]

2 minutes ago, stevebrum said:

I’m not sure what’s Wolves promotion are planning and maybe things will become clearer after Monday night.

Thorssell appears to be ready to come back and Wolves would be foolish to lose his starting average points which they will after 1st May if they redeclare with Nicholls. That would be really silly move. 

The issue appears around Morris as to what’s happening with his injury and how much longer he has.

Nicholls could technically be a short term replacement for Morris, although I’m not sure what his current CMA will be but he may now be over the 6.60 of Morris.

My take is that Thorssell will be back after Monday, RR continues for Nick with Nicholls released and signs for Peterborough.

If I’m right, you heard it here first! 

Time will tell I guess.

Who will Nicholls replace at Peterborough then?

[DC2]

3 minutes ago, Skidder1 said:

Who will Nicholls replace at Peterborough then?

 

Lol. The wheels have just come off Brum’s insight.  

 

[NeilWatson]

It is possible that revised team declarations have been submitted that have not yet been issued by the BSPA, to take effect prior to 1st May. 

[LagutaRacingFan]

1 hour ago, NeilWatson said:

It is possible that revised team declarations have been submitted that have not yet been issued by the BSPA, to take effect prior to 1st May. 

So there's hope? Thank god for that.

[stevebrum]

2 hours ago, Skidder1 said:

Who will Nicholls replace at Peterborough then?

They have 3 extra points to play with till 1st May. Who isn’t to say these deals aren’t already done?

2 hours ago, DC2 said:

 

Lol. The wheels have just come off Brum’s insight.  

 

Clueless post alert. You just need to know the difference between 1st May and before it. 

Edited April 28, 2019 by stevebrum
Added word.

[Flappy]

Thorssell to Panthers maybe he did sign a couple of years ago after all and then had it pulled 

[Crump99]

5 hours ago, Daniel Smith said:

If the meeting are top draw regardless of the result wouldn't that be good enough to keep people turning up, at least for this seasons return to the top flight. 

Most certainly, 2020 is a different matter all together, a lineup like this one wouldn't be acceptable. 

The meetings are not top drawer though so no it will not. For me personally it's better than where we were but we're just back where the club should be so that was the easy bit; hans fan summed it up nicely on the previous page. 2020 looks a bloody long way away with that side and the possible consequences.

[Bald Bloke]

If I have read it right, Lasse Bjerre's average goes up from 4.72 to 6.14, effective from 1st May ? 

[tellboy]

6 minutes ago, Bald Bloke said:

If I have read it right, Lasse Bjerre's average goes up from 4.72 to 6.14, effective from 1st May ? 

It certainly does.I find the averages quite strange in a way a rider gets a new average and then it takes effect a week or so later.To me it should start as soon as he attains a new average.Like in this instance Peterborough can now sign Thorssell for Barker before May 1st but after they can only sign Thorssell in place of Tungate or Andersen unless multiple changes are made.

So Peterborough need to make the signing before May 1st whilst 3pts under the limit,then come 1st May and they will be 1.5pts over the limit

[Arch Stanton]

Under Ged you just knew he’d take full advantage of being 3 points under the limit and strengthen before the averages changed. 

Buster? Could end up eating humble pie, but I highly doubt it’s even being looked in to. 

[scoobydoo]

1 hour ago, Bald Bloke said:

If I have read it right, Lasse Bjerre's average goes up from 4.72 to 6.14, effective from 1st May ? 

Think this is the average times his bike packs up per lap per meeting 

[NeilWatson]

46 minutes ago, tellboy said:

It certainly does.I find the averages quite strange in a way a rider gets a new average and then it takes effect a week or so later.To me it should start as soon as he attains a new average.Like in this instance Peterborough can now sign Thorssell for Barker before May 1st but after they can only sign Thorssell in place of Tungate or Andersen unless multiple changes are made.

So Peterborough need to make the signing before May 1st whilst 3pts under the limit,then come 1st May and they will be 1.5pts over the limit

There has to be a delay in implementing new averages to allow for teams to be declared for meetings, guests booked, programmes printed etc. A new team line-up needs to be at the BSPA for approval 72 hours before becoming valid.

[Gambo]

1 hour ago, Bald Bloke said:

If I have read it right, Lasse Bjerre's average goes up from 4.72 to 6.14, effective from 1st May ? 

I believe that Lasse was on a converted 2018 CL average as he didn't ride in the Premiership last year.

However... His 2017 Leicester stats (19 meetings for 6.10 average) ARE used in his 20 match Rolling average.

Please don't shoot the messenger as I didn't make the rules! 

[NeilWatson]

33 minutes ago, Gambo said:

I believe that Lasse was on a converted 2018 CL average as he didn't ride in the Premiership last year.

However... His 2017 Leicester stats (19 meetings for 6.10 average) ARE used in his 20 match Rolling average.

Please don't shoot the messenger as I didn't make the rules! 

That’s my understanding too Dave, and a similar situation applies to Ben Barker.

[wtf]

I think the reality of the last 6 months is that the previous promotion put together an exciting team, that would have ridden the old showground well and have been nailed on for the play offs and a good shot at success. However, they sold the club for reasons best known to themselves.

Buster comes in with a whole load of motives, and from that moment the Peterborough fans have been fed whatever information would keep them quiet and content for the longest time until the truth started to come out.

The Team started to get dismantled to fix other Suffolk based problems as the current owner is balancing 3 plates not one, and was further dismantled due to an employee thinking he was bigger than the employer. That was never going to work as both sides refused to compromise.

Then comes the track. Since press and practise the track was treated to at least 90 tonnes of (Busters finest) mix of clay and granite, which funnily enough is what is primarily on the Kings Lynn track. Shock horror the track now rides very much like Kings Lynn, sucking horsepower and remaining quite grippy all night and not developing an outside line so readily as the inside fails to slicken off as the meeting progresses. The strength of the original team with Wright BWD, Barker and Lasse was always the ability to ride the fence. That is no longer the quickest way round the showground. A forceful move up the inside or a cut back is now the overtake of choice.

The final slap in the face was last Monday. Buster apparently spent the day preparing the track for the local derby, and then spent the entire meeting in the pits as the Peterborough owner wearing his Kings Lynn jacket and when asked if he had a Peterborough one simply said, "No" "I'm Kings Lynn through and through"  Not sure what we were expecting, but I would have hoped he would either wear the colours of the home team when at home, or remain neutral. Oh hang on a minute, it's Buster

Scott Nicholls I would have thought is unlikely to come in. The wage offer won't have changed since the winter. The Riders have (probably) been working harder on getting a replacement rider in to use the extra 3 points more than the owner. There are very much two divisions in the Premiership I would suggest. Best of Busters clubs, and then the  real Premiership. I think the biggest problem buster has at the moment is that Ipswich have gone from looking dreadful before the start of the season, to a bit too good for Busters liking and might become a threat. So watch out witches fans, keep looking over your shoulder, you're doing a bit too well right now.

One Man is both saving and destroying speedway in equal measure right now.