Peterborough Panthers 2023

[allthegearbutnaeidea]

9 hours ago, Siggytastic said:

Who are the first?

He’s always been a big Oxford Spires fan, been going on about the Spires for years.

[Daniel Smith]

13 hours ago, Gambo said:

Phew! Was dreading him re-aligning with Leicester!

They did say 2nd team in the league, may not of gotten away with it yet 

[TTT]

17 hours ago, LagutaRacingFan said:

Ipswich will be my 2nd team in the league now.

I'll cheer on Ipswich too (Not as a Witches supporter but as a neutral fan) I'll nip down to Foxhall a few times to see some live Speedway next season.

I was going to cheer on everyone but King's Lynn in 2024 but I hope Ipswich go one better purely due to the fact that Richie Hawkins has supported us during the toughest time our club will ever face.

[TTT]

In other news Carl Johnson has just outed Buster Chapman on facebook.

What great support the savepeterboroughspeedway has, and that proved that yesterday at our rally. Huge support for the survival of the club and a massive thank you to everyone that turned out in not the best conditions but I’m glad that didn’t stop you. A little disappointed that we’ve had no backing whatsoever from the official Peterborough Panthers Speedway, but it looks like we fight on alone for now.

Edited November 19, 2023 by TTT

[Panthers99]

Buster downed tools half way through last season, so not much of a surprise. He can't wait to wash his hands of the club/situation.

[TTT]

2 minutes ago, Panthers99 said:

Buster downed tools half way through last season, so not much of a surprise. He can't wait to wash his hands of the club/situation.

Yep, I'm convinced he's already done a financial deal with AEPG that see's him assist the bulldozers by demolishing the place.

 

1. Encouraged everyone to give up from the get go instead of putting up any kind of fight.

2. No progress has been made in selling the club to the consortium (I wonder why)

3. Buster couldn't sell the floodlights to Workington quick enough.

4. Buster assisting AEPG by slowly demolishing the place.

 

If he wanted the club to survive then he would've made a quick sale to the consortium who are willing to fight tooth and nail to secure the clubs future, The fact that he hasn't sold the club and refuses to even put up a fight to secure the club's future tells me he's a corrupt pig working for AEPG.

[Bald Bloke]

1 hour ago, Panthers99 said:

Buster downed tools half way through last season, so not much of a surprise. He can't wait to wash his hands of the club/situation.

I thought it was CJ after his rant about the fans only paying to get in, or something like it. Leaving Buster to pick up the pieces. 

[eric i]

1 hour ago, TTT said:

Yep, I'm convinced he's already done a financial deal with AEPG that see's him assist the bulldozers by demolishing the place.

 

1. Encouraged everyone to give up from the get go instead of putting up any kind of fight.

2. No progress has been made in selling the club to the consortium (I wonder why)

3. Buster couldn't sell the floodlights to Workington quick enough.

4. Buster assisting AEPG by slowly demolishing the place.

 

If he wanted the club to survive then he would've made a quick sale to the consortium who are willing to fight tooth and nail to secure the clubs future, The fact that he hasn't sold the club and refuses to even put up a fight to secure the club's future tells me he's a corrupt pig working for AEPG.

I think your right, it doesn't make any sense why is he holding onto a club he considers to finished/value less. He has stripped the assets (fence and lights) so the sale should be really straight forward unless of course he has taken the brown envelope.

[Bald Bloke]

2 hours ago, TTT said:

In other news Carl Johnson has just outed Buster Chapman on facebook.

What great support the savepeterboroughspeedway has, and that proved that yesterday at our rally. Huge support for the survival of the club and a massive thank you to everyone that turned out in not the best conditions but I’m glad that didn’t stop you. A little disappointed that we’ve had no backing whatsoever from the official Peterborough Panthers Speedway, but it looks like we fight on alone for now.

 Isn't that common knowledge already. It certainly seems to be on here.

Edited November 19, 2023 by Bald Bloke

[Bald Bloke]

6 minutes ago, eric i said:

I think your right, it doesn't make any sense why is he holding onto a club he considers to finished/value less. He has stripped the assets (fence and lights) so the sale should be really straight forward unless of course he has taken the brown envelope.

This is Mick Bratley's post on 11th Nov, page 624......... He is one person on here who is respected and close to this, and 1 of the 6 in the consortium.

"The fence needed replacing during this close season anyway, it was rotten and held together by various bits and pieces.

It’s important to note that AEPG instructed Buster to do this otherwise they would have employed contractors to do it and send him the bill. It’s been estimated that the removal of everything will cost £25k to £30k. Buster is most definitely not the bad guy here."

As for that brown envelope theory, only time will tell. Everyone is just guessing right now.

 

 

[Flappy]

Not one word on the official pages supporting yesterday's rally or the save Peterborough Panthers quite telling if you ask me 

[Bald Bloke]

1 hour ago, Flappy said:

Not one word on the official pages supporting yesterday's rally or the save Peterborough Panthers quite telling if you ask me 

I've not seen anything Flappy tbh. I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but  to be fair, I've never said he has done enough or anything to help the Panthers cause with regards to campaigning . I back him on some things ,if i think i'm right, but not everything.  Mick Bratley has stood up for Buster twice within a week on here, on stadium issues (page 624) . And he is well respected, as you know yourself. As i have always said, he's far from perfect, but i believe he gets some undeserved slagging off at times. Which i guess is the case if MB has stuck up for him on the stadium situation.

Edited November 19, 2023 by Bald Bloke

[Flappy]

10 minutes ago, Bald Bloke said:

I've not seen anything Flappy tbh. I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but  to be fair, I've never said he has done enough or anything to help the Panthers cause with regards to campaigning . I back him on some things ,if i think i'm right, but not everything.  Mick Bratley has stood up for Buster twice within a week on here, on stadium issues (page 624) . And he is well respected, as you know yourself. As i have always said, he's far from perfect, but i believe he gets some undeserved slagging off at times. Which i guess is the case if MB has stuck up for him on the stadium situation.

Did he really need to announce Rob Lyon and Basso on the day of a rally, may be a little thing to many but comes across as insensitive 

[Bald Bloke]

4 minutes ago, Flappy said:

Did he really need to announce Rob Lyon and Basso on the day of a rally, may be a little thing to many but comes across as insensitive 

If i was a Panthers fan, then yes it would of come across as insensitive to me.

Do you agree he gets blamed for some things undeservedly. As i explained in the previous post.?

 

Edited November 19, 2023 by Bald Bloke

[Goldhawk]

Note to Mick Bratley : Mick you and the club were absolutely incredible in helping honour the memory of Panthers fan David Pratley there after his sudden passing aged just 52 in 2007 ( Dave was my best mate and got me into Speedway as a kid at Rayleigh and i still am a fan now 50 odd years later ) His family along with my self are eternally grateful to you for all you did. We all met up to remember him in August at the track. Must have been over 20 of us there . His ashes were scattered on bend 3 back in 2007. Was wondering if we might be able to recover some shale from the track to give to family to remember him by ? I hope you and others in the consortium are successful in bring back the Panthers to the Showground very soon. Any help gratefully received. Sounds like shale at Kings Lynn ??

Edited November 19, 2023 by Goldhawk
correction

[Haza]

1 hour ago, Flappy said:

Did he really need to announce Rob Lyon and Basso on the day of a rally, may be a little thing to many but comes across as insensitive 

I agree it wasn’t timed well at all but in Kings Lynn defence it had already been reported via Polish website regarding Basso signing before the KL announcement . 
But I agree doesn’t look good . And it definitely doesn’t look good when the Panthers owner doesn’t turn up in Peterborough City centre yesterday . 

[JoeW436]

43 minutes ago, Haza said:

I agree it wasn’t timed well at all but in Kings Lynn defence it had already been reported via Polish website regarding Basso signing before the KL announcement . 
But I agree doesn’t look good . And it definitely doesn’t look good when the Panthers owner doesn’t turn up in Peterborough City centre yesterday . 

Wouldn’t of expected him to go based on the past few months and I doubt he would of been very welcome.

[Crump99]

1 hour ago, Haza said:

But I agree doesn’t look good . And it definitely doesn’t look good when the Panthers owner doesn’t turn up in Peterborough City centre yesterday . 

Agreed, but it tells you all you need to know. His job is done, he's got what he could out of it, left bugger all and a mess for genuine Peterborough Speedway people to try to salvage something from. He's not been interested in pushing anything during 2023 but the AEPG narrative. Unless he had a bombshell bit of positive information then staying well away was the sensible option.  If he feels that he gets a rough deal then it usually appears to be well deserved. He can always clarify the situation if he wishes. Effective communication isn't too difficult apparently.

[castrolargh]

9 hours ago, Haza said:

I agree it wasn’t timed well at all but in Kings Lynn defence it had already been reported via Polish website regarding Basso signing before the KL announcement . 
But I agree doesn’t look good . And it definitely doesn’t look good when the Panthers owner doesn’t turn up in Peterborough City centre yesterday . 

Do you blame Buster for not turning up ? He's been publicly slagged off repeatedly by a " consortium member" and others who have basically whipped up a public hate campaign against him, turning  everything negative that has happened into busters fault. The term " witch hunt" springs to mind.I wouldn't have gone either if it was me 

[Haza]

43 minutes ago, castrolargh said:

Do you blame Buster for not turning up ? He's been publicly slagged off repeatedly by a " consortium member" and others who have basically whipped up a public hate campaign against him, turning  everything negative that has happened into busters fault. The term " witch hunt" springs to mind.I wouldn't have gone either if it was me 

No I don’t blame him but he’s bought a lot of it on his self - all saying is when you have a gathering like Saturday to protest the closing of the showground and the current owner of the club doesn’t turn up it’s not a good look - it says to me the true owner of the club is the fans and the real  owner couldn’t give a rats arse if Peterborough Speedeway continues.