Well i'm far from PP's biggest fan, and what small amount of respect I held for his gang evaporated when they tried to Hijack the MGP, but that's another story.

The TT has definitely been given a new lease of life in recent years though, if I look back to the mid 1990's it was becoming a sad shadow of what it had been 20 years earlier.

I was staggered for example that on Senior race day all the awnings would be down, the trucks would be turned to face the paddock exit, and the teams operated out of the back doors before rushing off to the boat as soon as their rider was back, it was a case of last man home in the senior close the park gates please, I found the whole thing to be quite an anti climax when I came over from the MGP to the TT in 1995.

What was needed however wasn't rocket science, and before I pump their already over inflated ego's up any further, it just needed a couple of people who knew what they were doing to get a hold of things, it didn't need those characters who now swagger around bathing in their own perceived self importance, claiming the glory for what effectively has actually been done by the television and lots of hard working background volunteers.

From what I saw in 1995, yes the TT needed a makeover, it needed to get more professional, it needed a tidier paddock set up, someone to make a modern day film, and most importantly a television station involved to take the event out the same day or shortly after, all of which it now has, along with the added bonus of characters like Guy Martin coming along.

So overall I think its now in good health, but if you took a step back and looked at it 20 years ago, the things required to move it forwards weren't hard to figure out.