mc131 Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 11 hours ago, iainb said: Why so? Pointless all for gp qualifier, hes nowhere near that standard anymore 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappy Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 3 minutes ago, mc131 said: Pointless all for gp qualifier, hes nowhere near that standard anymore Have to agree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 12 hours ago, iainb said: Great! Captain misses the meeting to chase his own deluded personal dream! Personally I'd strip him of the captaincy for that! Or... was this a fixture change? If so why on earth did Leicester accept it knowing their captain would be missing? Because they are away so their crowd won't be impacted? And/Or, because the league doesn't really matter anyway so just have any septet there representing you..? UK Speedway should be in the dictionary as the perfect definition of irony.. It only "doesn't really matter anyway" due to things like this being allowed to happen, which means that it then "doesn't really matter anyway"... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 53 minutes ago, chrismorton said: Have you ever followed speedway mate?...riders miss meetings every week for GP's and this is no different...send Bomber our way if you want and you can have Worral back.. Yes I have... he supposed to be our Captain! Just makes a mockery of the position. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishersGate Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 I like howarth but Stewart must be pulling his hair out knowing our captain and our best rider at Peterborough is out today. If we lose then Im going to be slightly disappointed with bomber. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishersGate Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 13 hours ago, iainb said: Great! Captain misses the meeting to chase his own deluded personal dream! Personally I'd strip him of the captaincy for that! Or... was this a fixture change? If so why on earth did Leicester accept it knowing their captain would be missing? Really disappointed with him. He's in his 40's and we've just started to click so he decides to go to GP qualifier. Morris always should have been captain from the start. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 1 hour ago, iainb said: Yes I have... he supposed to be our Captain! Just makes a mockery of the position. Welcome to Lublin... Bartek tonight is riding in an FIM meeting which was scheduled eons ago, but, instead of not arranging our meeting knowing he was missing, we have instead got Tai "Woffy" Woffinden from Wroclaw riding for us... Let's give Tai a big Lublin welcome... Next week Bartek is off to Venice for a few days so Jason Doyle will be riding for us instead on that night... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 This meeting was only arranged six days ago so you can hardly blame Harris for being elsewhere. Whether he should be in the qualifier or not is up for debate but if he was asked/qualified then you can't blame him for accepting. Good for him that he's still ambitious in the twighlight of his career. I expect he has his eye on the SWC and why shouldn't he? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamish McRaker Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 14 hours ago, Gasser90 said: This was a fixture change. Pboro was due to face Sheffield. But Sheffield had 3 riders missing due to gp qualifying, I’m guessing as they are both bates family clubs they arranged for Leicester to race instead So, that's what was meant when Leicester stated that Premiership is more suitable as a business model as their reason for changing leagues! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappy Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 (edited) Panthers should win this. Hope Hans bows out with a good meeting at reserve Edited May 29, 2023 by Flappy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spiderman1 Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 7 minutes ago, Flappy said: Panthers should win this. Hope Hans bows out with a good meeting at reserve Can see lions victory, pitty Harris absent but good guest anyway ,bring it on lads Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Bagpuss said: This meeting was only arranged six days ago so you can hardly blame Harris for being elsewhere. Whether he should be in the qualifier or not is up for debate but if he was asked/qualified then you can't blame him for accepting. Good for him that he's still ambitious in the twighlight of his career. I expect he has his eye on the SWC and why shouldn't he? Somebody is at fault. Harris was scheduled to miss the original staging apparently as he's chasing his equally deluded dream of becoming World Longtrack Champion. It's going to take a truly exceptional set of circumstances for him to become world speedway champion... or even make the GP's. He should really be showing some loyalty as Captain of the team to Leicester and British Speedway and the leagues that provide him with the majority of his income at the expense of the credibility of the sport in this country. Leicester should not have taken the fixture but as @mikebv said it's not effecting the home gate so stuff the Leicester fan! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 4 minutes ago, iainb said: Somebody is at fault. Harris was scheduled to miss the original staging apparently as he's chasing his equally deluded dream of becoming World Longtrack Champion. It's going to take a truly exceptional set of circumstances for him to become world speedway champion... or even make the GP's. He should really be showing some loyalty as Captain of the team to Leicester and British Speedway and the leagues that provide him with the majority of his income at the expense of the credibility of the sport in this country. Leicester should not have taken the fixture but as @mikebv said it's not effecting the home gate so stuff the Leicester fan! I have sympathy with the Longtrack thing it's a completely different sport IMO and he shouldn't be missing speedway fixtures for that, nor should any kind of facility be granted. The problem with today is that teams can rearrange meetings willy nilly because guests are handed out like confetti, if it was R/R or a junior then I suspect they wouldn't have accepted the booking. Chris Harris is and aways was racing in Germany or wherever today, as with the majority of speedway's issues the problem lies with the system and the governance of the sport. It all needs tightening up massively. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobydoo Posted May 29, 2023 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 (edited) Get the feeling as well that the Bates family have thrown Leicester under the bus for today's meeting just to help Sheffield, The Tigers were the original visitors but were missing 3 riders, they no doubt requested a postponement, but were told find another club to take your place and its ok , Edited May 29, 2023 by scoobydoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 6 minutes ago, scoobydoo said: Get the feeling as well that the Bates family have thrown Leicester under the bus for today's meeting just to help Sheffield, The Tigers were the original visitors but were missing 3 riders, they no doubt requested a postponement, but were told find another club to take your place and its ok , I often see a Bates walking around the terraces at Leicester... he's usually on the phone and very rarely watching the racing... makes you wonder what they're in it for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bald Bloke Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Flappy said: Panthers should win this. Hope Hans bows out with a good meeting at reserve Believe it or not he is joint top with Basso for home heat wins up until now on 4. Nothing to shout about i know. If it is his last meeting for you, i hope he can add a few more wins to that tonight riding at 6, and bow out on a good meeting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 8 minutes ago, Bald Bloke said: Believe it or not he is joint top with Basso for home heat wins up until now on 4. Nothing to shout about i know. If it is his last meeting for you, i hope he can add a few more wins to that tonight riding at 6, and bow out on a good meeting. We'll have him at Leicester... at least he's a captain that turns out for his team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrismorton Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 Jesus, Let it go mate...no one can ever question Bombers commitment...I wish there were more riders that I'd pay to watch like him...plus Panthers need all the help they can get so I really hope your guest has an absolute stinker.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 (edited) 14 minutes ago, chrismorton said: Jesus, Let it go mate...no one can ever question Bombers commitment...I wish there were more riders that I'd pay to watch like him...plus Panthers need all the help they can get so I really hope your guest has an absolute stinker.. I'm not the messiah... you're telling me to let it go lol... coming from somebody who's contributed to over 400 pages of drivel on the Peterborough thread I'll take no advice from you. Btw we'll still give you a beating without our so called skipper Edited May 29, 2023 by iainb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hackney Posted May 29, 2023 Report Share Posted May 29, 2023 10 minutes ago, iainb said: I'm not the messiah... you're telling me to let it go lol... coming from somebody who's contributed to over 400 pages of drivel on the Peterborough thread I'll take no advice from you. Btw we'll still give you a beating without our so called skipper Fighting talk ! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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