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Post by Hodgy on Jun 18, 2013 18:38:21 GMT
Always like an afternoon at the fours.
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Post by admin on Jul 4, 2013 11:57:35 GMT
GROUP A:
BERWICK: Kozza Smith, Edward Kennett, Robin Aspegren, Matthew Wethers, David Bellego (res).
IPSWICH: Morten Risager, Ben Barker, Rohan Tungate, Leigh Lanham, Cameron Heeps (res).
WORKINGTON: Kyle Howarth, Richard Lawson, Rene Bach, Rusty Harrison, Tero Aarnio (res).
SCUNTHORPE: Josh Auty, Ashley Birks, David Howe, Thomas Jorgensen, Michael Palm Toft (res).
GROUP B:
SOMERSET: Jason Doyle, Nick Morris, Alex Davies, Josh Grajczonek, Kyle Newman (res).
EDINBURGH: Derek Sneddon, Theo Pijper, Claus Vissing, Craig Cook, Jozsef Tabaka (res).
LEICESTER: Magnus Karlsson, Lasse Bjerre, Kevin Doolan, Kauko Nieminen, Alex Edberg (res).
NEWCASTLE: Stuart Robson, Christian Henry, Andrew Tully, Ludvig Lindgren, Richie Worrall (res).
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Post by admin on Jul 4, 2013 11:59:57 GMT
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Post by Hodgy on Jul 4, 2013 18:28:00 GMT
Looks like a competitive line up. Hope we don't have the all too common late withdrawals.
How can R Worrall be reserve?
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2013 7:17:59 GMT
Looks like a competitive line up. Hope we don't have the all too common late withdrawals. How can R Worrall be reserve? PETERBOROUGH are building up to a big Sunday afternoon of racing at the Showground – with the club delighted to again be staging the Premier League Fours (2.30pm). The meeting is one of the most popular on the domestic calendar, and with the glorious weather predicted to continue supporters are set to flock from all over the country for a bumper 28-heat programme, with eight clubs taking part. Berwick are back to defend the title they won in dramatic fashion last season, with former Panthers doubling-up man Ricky Ashworth having just returned from a lengthy injury absence, and the Bandits star is a huge fan of the Showground circuit. There are plenty of other Panthers connections in the line-up with club assets Rene Bach (Workington), Claus Vissing (Edinburgh) and Lasse Bjerre (Leicester) all taking part – and other ex-Peterborough men include Morten Risager (Ipswich), Richard Lawson (Workington), David Howe (Scunthorpe) and Great Britain World Cup debutant Craig Cook (Edinburgh) who had a spell doubling-up with the Panthers in 2010. The semi-finals are run over eight races apiece with the top two teams in each group progressing to the 12-heat Final. One entrance will be open to the public from 11am on Sunday with the remainder opening at 11.30am to allow supporters who have travelled long distances early entrance to the Showground. Online ticket sales from www.peterboroughpanthers.co will be available until midday on Sunday. GROUP A:BERWICK: Kozza Smith, Ricky Ashworth, Robin Aspegren, Matthew Wethers, David Bellego (res). IPSWICH: Morten Risager, Ben Barker, Rohan Tungate, Leigh Lanham, Cameron Heeps (res). WORKINGTON: Kyle Howarth, Richard Lawson, Rene Bach, Rusty Harrison, Tero Aarnio (res). SCUNTHORPE: Josh Auty, Ashley Birks, David Howe, Thomas Jorgensen, Michael Palm Toft (res). GROUP B:SOMERSET: Jason Doyle, Nick Morris, Alex Davies, Josh Grajczonek, Kyle Newman (res). EDINBURGH: Derek Sneddon, Theo Pijper, Claus Vissing, Craig Cook, Jozsef Tabaka (res). LEICESTER: Magnus Karlsson, Lasse Bjerre, Kevin Doolan, Kauko Nieminen, Alex Edberg (res). NEWCASTLE: Stuart Robson, Christian Henry, Andrew Tully, Ludvig Lindgren, Richie Worrall (res). ADMISSION: Adults £20 Concessions £15 Children (12-16) £5, Under-12s Free. |
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Post by Bigcatdiary on Jul 14, 2013 7:29:41 GMT
Looks like a competitive line up. Hope we don't have the all too common late withdrawals. How can R Worrall be reserve?
PETERBOROUGH are building up to a big Sunday afternoon of racing at the Showground – with the club delighted to again be staging the Premier League Fours (2.30pm).
The meeting is one of the most popular on the domestic calendar, and with the glorious weather predicted to continue supporters are set to flock from all over the country for a bumper 28-heat programme, with eight clubs taking part.
Berwick are back to defend the title they won in dramatic fashion last season, with former Panthers doubling-up man Ricky Ashworth having just returned from a lengthy injury absence, and the Bandits star is a huge fan of the Showground circuit.
There are plenty of other Panthers connections in the line-up with club assets Rene Bach (Workington), Claus Vissing (Edinburgh) and Lasse Bjerre (Leicester) all taking part – and other ex-Peterborough men include Morten Risager (Ipswich), Richard Lawson (Workington), David Howe (Scunthorpe) and Great Britain World Cup debutant Craig Cook (Edinburgh) who had a spell doubling-up with the Panthers in 2010.
The semi-finals are run over eight races apiece with the top two teams in each group progressing to the 12-heat Final.
One entrance will be open to the public from 11am on Sunday with the remainder opening at 11.30am to allow supporters who have travelled long distances early entrance to the Showground. Online ticket sales from www.peterboroughpanthers.co will be available until midday on Sunday.
GROUP A:
BERWICK: Kozza Smith, Ricky Ashworth, Robin Aspegren, Matthew Wethers, David Bellego (res).
IPSWICH: Morten Risager, Ben Barker, Rohan Tungate, Leigh Lanham, Cameron Heeps (res).
WORKINGTON: Kyle Howarth, Richard Lawson, Rene Bach, Rusty Harrison, Tero Aarnio (res).
SCUNTHORPE: Josh Auty, Ashley Birks, David Howe, Thomas Jorgensen, Michael Palm Toft (res).
GROUP B:
SOMERSET: Jason Doyle, Nick Morris, Alex Davies, Josh Grajczonek, Kyle Newman (res).
EDINBURGH: Derek Sneddon, Theo Pijper, Claus Vissing, Craig Cook, Jozsef Tabaka (res).
LEICESTER: Magnus Karlsson, Lasse Bjerre, Kevin Doolan, Kauko Nieminen, Alex Edberg (res).
NEWCASTLE: Stuart Robson, Christian Henry, Andrew Tully, Ludvig Lindgren, Richie Worrall (res).
ADMISSION: Adults £20 Concessions £15 Children (12-16) £5, Under-12s Free. |
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2013 7:37:02 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 7:55:36 GMT
expect a report from anyone going - c'mon Panthers - oops, we're not there are we i'll be there really fancy the monarchs to win this , I won't be giving a blinkered view how great premier league racing is |
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Post by Hodgy on Jul 14, 2013 9:48:41 GMT
Looks like a competitive line up. Hope we don't have the all too common late withdrawals. Doyle, Birks, Henry, Kennett and possibly Nieminen all out. All have genuine reasons but its dam frustrating. Toft must be another as been axed from their 7 man team in place of Klindt. |
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Post by Hodgy on Jul 14, 2013 10:11:12 GMT
Looks like Toft is now in for Scunny - how confusing is this sport.
Ipswich could be up there depending on Tungates fitness. He missed Fridays meeting at Plymouth after that nasty looking crash Weds.
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Post by Bigcatdiary on Jul 14, 2013 10:35:53 GMT
expect a report from anyone going - c'mon Panthers - oops, we're not there are we I will do an update later as we are going this year. |
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Post by Bigcatdiary on Jul 14, 2013 19:09:30 GMT
Some good racing but too many hold ups made it drag on a bit.
One can never have any complaints over the delays caused by crashes and injurys to riders and we had 2 of those but a 30 minute delay to sort a defective start gate out was bad (especially as it wasnt installed until 15 minutes before the start and tested just once) but we then had a 40 minute delay while they sorted out a tyre dispute between the teams following heat 8 of the final.
The track staff got a vote of thanks for what was a differcult day in that heat and the track held up pretty well until half through the final before a tyre line appeared on the inside.
It was well watered with little dust until late on and some of the racing was very good.
I left just after 7pm and the final got finished just around 8pm.
Crowd was good probably better than the Lynn match on the Friday but it wasn't much more.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 21:00:17 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 21:14:05 GMT
Didnt go today, couldnt be bothered and by the looks of it I might have made the right decision. Peterborough and the ref are coming in for a lot of stick on the BSF. Justified?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2013 21:48:49 GMT
Always like an afternoon/evening at the fours. Corrected. |
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2013 21:54:19 GMT
expect a report from anyone going - c'mon Panthers - oops, we're not there are we i'll be there really fancy the monarchs to win thisI won't be giving a blinkered view how great premier league racing is Well done that man: speedwaystar @speedwaystarmagEdinburgh (21) win the PL Fours final from Ipswich (18), Somerset (17) and Berwick (16). |
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2013 21:59:02 GMT
Didnt go today, couldnt be bothered and by the looks of it I might have made the right decision. Peterborough and the ref are coming in for a lot of stick on the BSF. Justified? BSPA organised event isn't it? These things always drag on, especially on a Sunday so it's no different to normal which is the main reason I never went. |
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2013 22:18:46 GMT
Thank God Alex Salmond was poncing at the golf this weekend:FOURS WINNERS FOR THE THIRD TIME - Sunday 14 July 2013, 20:44 UK (BY MIKE HUNTER) The incredible Scotwaste Monarchs thrilled their travelling support and those at home watching updates when they battled through the tightest of semi-finals and final at Peterborough to win the Fours for the third time. It was in every way a team performance and another display of the power of team spirit. Craig Cook and Claus Vissing may be the big guns, and boy did they do their job, but there were absolutely crucial points from all the others as well. It's not good for the old ticker. To begin near the end, with the final four heats to be contested, the scores were Somerset 13, Edinburgh 12, Ipswich 12 and Berwick 11. The inside two gates were working far better than the outside two, and we had gates 2 and 1 in the last two (higher scorers) races, so what we needed was points from heats 9 and 10. Theo delivered a point from gate three in heat 9, won by flying reserve Bellego for Berwick, so it was Berwick and Ipswich 14, Edinburgh and Somerset 13. We made a big decision for heat 10, to replace Derek with Jozsef off the dreaded gate four. Derek had crucially won heat 2 of the final, whereas Jozsef had had just a single ride for a point in the semi. However the decision was vindicated as Jozsef missed the start but came from way back to pass Barker and Ashworth late in the race! It was now Somerset 16, Edinburgh and Ipswich 15, Berwick 14 but we knew we were strong in the last two heats. In fact Craig wasn't away well in heat 11 and he was involved in a titanic three-way tussle with Tungate and Bellego, when going into lap two the Frenchman misjudged his entry to the first corner of lap two and collected Tungate's back wheel. They both went down and into the fence very heavily. The fence was in a mess and we had a big delay while the injured riders were looked after. As ever, the fans waited with great patience till the racing resumed. Everyone of course accepts that the welfare of the injured riders comes first. Eventually the riders emerged, Bellego ruled out of the rerun. Reserve Heeps replaced Tungate, and made a great start even though it was his first race of the day! Grajczonek was right in there as well for Somerset, but Cook hit the wide outside line as he had twice previously, and pulled off another stunning move to get to the front. Breathtaking. So now it was Edinburgh 18, Somerset and Ipswich 17, Berwick 14 and we were in the driving seat. However Claus still needed to beat Lanham and Davies to keep us in front. He powered to the front, withstood a strong challenge from Lanham and raced home to complete the job - for once it wasn't Cookie who had to Perform the last act! Claus met a dancing group of Monarchs on his victory lap, and was thrown high in the air. In the semi we had been in FOURTH spot with two races to go, but Claus won heat 7, leaving Craig a tough task from gate three in the last heat, needing a win. Sure enough he gated last and was still at the back going into the third bend. That's when he produced the first of his wonderful wide-riding heats, passing all three to get us into the final. Did we think we'd win it? Well the team believed they could, and they did. www.edinburghmonarchs
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Post by admin on Jul 14, 2013 22:40:57 GMT
Always like an afternoon/evening at the fours. Corrected. Jeez, don't wake Hodgy up. I see that they doubled the car parking and I remenber what happened last time that happened. It seems that there were a few more cock ups along the way but the meeting was lost before it began anyway: from the BSF: " Barbara Horley who like Chris Gay (undisputed champion of reruns!) causes false starts by holding the tapes too long. Mrs Horley also has no urgency over the running of a meeting and when I saw her name in the programme, when I arrived, I knew it would be a long day!" |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 5:37:26 GMT
Some good racing but too many hold ups made it drag on a bit. One can never have any complaints over the delays caused by crashes and injurys to riders and we had 2 of those but a 30 minute delay to sort a defective start gate out was bad (especially as it wasnt installed until 15 minutes before the start and tested just once) but we then had a 40 minute delay while they sorted out a tyre dispute between the teams following heat 8 of the final. The track staff got a vote of thanks for what was a differcult day in that heat and the track held up pretty well until half through the final before a tyre line appeared on the inside. It was well watered with little dust until late on and some of the racing was very good. I left just after 7pm and the final got finished just around 8pm. Crowd was good probably better than the Lynn match on the Friday but it wasn't much more. can't you tell the diff between premier and elite riders most of the premier boys stick to the inside the classier 1s will go looking for the dirt e.g cook barker vissing robson but the rest look poor ,I thought Dean & co done a good job with the track seems it didn't break up in seering heat temperatures,the 1s on the bsf moaning are Ipswich fans about the track well they want to remember what afternoon meetings are like at foxhall =cack |
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Post by Bigcatdiary on Jul 15, 2013 6:18:50 GMT
from the BSF: " Barbara Horley who like Chris Gay (undisputed champion of reruns!) causes false starts by holding the tapes too long. Mrs Horley also has no urgency over the running of a meeting and when I saw her name in the programme, when I arrived, I knew it would be a long day!" Must be honest my heart sank a bit when I saw it was Horley in charge, she certainly isn't the quickest. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2013 7:33:40 GMT
I see on twitter the kings lynn mentalist is having his usual dig
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Post by admin on Jul 15, 2013 7:42:54 GMT
I see on twitter the kings lynn mentalist is having his usual dig Looks to have been a bit of an organisational disaster though so red meat to Parsons. |
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Post by Hodgy on Jul 15, 2013 8:31:01 GMT
Jeez, don't wake Hodgy up. I see that they doubled the car parking and I remenber what happened last time that happened. It seems that there were a few more cock ups along the way but the meeting was lost before it began anyway: from the BSF: " Barbara Horley who like Chris Gay (undisputed champion of reruns!) causes false starts by holding the tapes too long. Mrs Horley also has no urgency over the running of a meeting and when I saw her name in the programme, when I arrived, I knew it would be a long day!" Another rib gone.... It was funny as I got dropped off before the gate, all I kept hearing was Terry Nutkins telling every car "don't have a go at me, I don't set the price". You know very well not to get me started on this principle - but guess you will keep trying every year. Some good racing given the extreme heat but what an organisational disaster. Delays are always possible for the obvious reasons but 5.5 hours to run 28 mins of action. Doesn't anyone think of the supporters that have travelled from all over the country - hell of a long way home for some when drunk and sun burned. |
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