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the announcement says ten league matches, so are they saying there are 6 teams?

Think the Clubs in positions 1-5 are all capable of winning the League tbh as they've all got a Rider or Two in their 1-7's that could have a breakout season. 1. GLASGOW 2. POOLE 3. OXFORD 4. REDCAR 5. PLYMOUTH 6. WORKINGTON 7. EDINBURGH 8. BERWICK 9. SCUNTHORPE

No idea where the Jack Shimelt rumours have came from, and I really hope there's no truth to it. You could go pick 10+ NDL riders from last season who would be 110% better than Jack at this stage in his career. No idea who it'll be, but hopefully they surprise us like the previous signing.

No idea where the Jack Shimelt rumours have came from, and I really hope there's no truth to it. You could go pick 10+ NDL riders from last season who would be 110% better than Jack at this stage in his career. No idea who it'll be, but hopefully they surprise us like the previous signing.

I’m not sure now that a national marketing campaign would do much good, I think clubs need to market better in the local area to get back lost fans. My local track is Oxford, now when I buy a ticket I need to input my email address. I have never received any email from them advising me of what meetings are coming up or asking me how my experience was. They must have thousands of email addresses that they could reach out too and have so many potential customers they could contact in one easy way with offers to get them to attend again. I will say the information they supply on the WhatsApp group is very good though.

Poole 5th lol

Yeah I thought this too, when he said on FB he’s signed a contract. It must surely be for Buxton, as he’s knowhere near Championship standard 😂

Poole 5th lol

Am I correct in thinking a 10 meeting ticket has been announced yet Sheffield will only have 8 home meetings unless they get drawn at home in the cup ??

Jack Shimelt is being named as No.7, but you've accidentally posted this on the Workington thread instead of the Buxton thread. You've confused people by mixing up the Buxton release with a Workington one.

Really oh dear.

Not really a must win as they still qualify for the play offs and even winning didn't guarantee a top 8 finish.

Glasgow do a very good job in giving out tickets to fans to bring people they know along... The key being "not just one meeting" and "not just one person".... Getting a group there can be very much key to encourage them to keep attending when they are required to pay... Although going from free to £25 could also need some looking at...

If I may defer back to the effort that is put in at Leicester , during the off season I stay in contact with Stewart Dickson and he's a very open & honest bloke. He & Jen Crossland but in a crazy amount of work to make Lions what it is . If you honest feedback on stuff , check out the Q&A in the Leicester Lions Speedway fans group. Maybe this can give some insight & but the belly aching on pause .

When it comes to budgeting Rob is on a par with what Jesus could do with a loaf and a fish when he fed the five thousand.

There is more than enough people know about speedway to fill tracks to capacity every meeting. They choose not to attend because they don’t like speedway. I don’t visit away tracks now because I don’t like it. You can do all the conventional advertising methods you want and it will achieve very little in the long term. We need to focus on why people don’t like speedway and not about telling them it exists. Belle Vue have several slots on local news but the 250k-500k who watch it don’t come along once they know about it. This fact is true of ALL the marketing methods we have used. The only thing I see working is some modern day social media guru working their magic to create the fomo effect. I have now idea how this actually works, unfortunately. I disagree about your view on getting friends onboard. Refer a friend and recommendations are a massive part of businesses push for custom. Monzo, Octopus energy, Sky plus many restaurant chains do it and with sites like Trustpoilt and Tripadvisor looking at customers reviews to help bring people in, we will have to agree to disagree on this point.

If it is him, I’ll be disappointed. No disrespect to the lad but nowhere near ready for the step up.

Imo jack is not ready for championship think he only averaged around 3 points in the NDL updated found true average of 3.23 in the NDL so definitely not ready for championship

No7 named tonight and strong rumours it's Jack Schmelt now that would be a huge step up from what he been showing riding in the NDL.

The CL game was a "must win" to get into the seeded top eight... citeh!...

I would say that less than 0.1% of the population (80,000?) know who the GP riders are.. And of that 80,000 around just circa 20,000 actually visit the 14 tracks regularly.. And as for fans bringing others along? Do businesses who I use expect me to bring in customers to them? Or do they advertise themselves nationally so people know they exist?

That was my point regarding cup games or less meaningful matches.

Even i was surprised at the amount of empty seats on Wednesday at the emptyhad

They had over 20,000 empty seats on Wednesday in their CL game so probably not...

Ive never understood the comparison with football, as you say fans turn out season after season even for clubs who are only making up the numbers and really have no chance of ever getting any success clubs like Fulham, Bournemouth, Burnley have next to no chance of getting top four let alone winning leagues fa cups, Palace only won their first trophy last season, no manipulation of team strengths to try to have all teams equal, but fans of the lower reaches clubs are there in numbers home and away, speedway lost that tribalism a long time ago.