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I will this season, like last, attend more meetings overseas than in the UK... Why? Because I love watching Speedway... But love watching it more when (pardon the pun), something is "riding" on the outcome.. If the UK could deliver the same level of jeopardy, consequence and prestige in victory that other countries, and organisations do, then I would attend more in the UK... The sport now is very much followed by the die hards who will happily go along and collude with their promoters that the meeting is relevant and great to attend... Sadly, many, many more thousands than those who currently still go, don't agree with that outlook and have drifted away from attending regularly, but, crucially, haven't lost touch and still follow the sport... Given little is spent on attracting "newbies", through national marketing, getting those who still follow the sport back attending regularly really is the key to success... I am amazed no market research gets done so as to ascertain the thoughts of the regular fans and those who have lapsed... ie Why do you go? Why don't you go? Etc. etc.. There are dozens of fans Facebook pages that have current regulars and non regulars on them, which could be perfect to use .. When any business receives feedback, both good and bad, it can then make changes to the top reasons why the bad feedback was provided.. UK Speedway would benefit enormously from this...

I rarely go anymore, I go to more to have a blast round than watch nowadays but it’s because I’ve got no track locally to me, the West Midlands was the center of British speedway and still has a huge fan base from wolves and even cradley but sadly now it has nothing and sadly this is the case for the majority of fans, they simply have no track to call home, I think more to the point is of those who still have a home track do they go ?

It was always taxed as an entertainment, which is why it should be compared to the cinema on price

Unbelievable action in all races at WSB today.

We should do a poll on this forum asking how many on this forum actually go week in and week out supporting their club, I bet not as many as people think. And before people even think about talking about our tracks and quality, it’s the same people who moan about Polish tracks too. Maybe it’s because we are a nation full or moaners and negativity and instead of always having something bad to say… just get your arse to the nearest track and support your club.

I think jack has to be showing he can improve and at least up his average to what he originally joined on. Can’t be too hard on Reid until he has a few home matches under his belt but he needs to be proving he is worth the 4 point spend or it negates Morris’s bargain average. I think it will be closer than last night but as you say we will need some stand out performances to take the win.

There's not enough bandwidth for the forum to cover that off!... The three 3rd tier meetings in Poland last week had crowds over 3,500 with 5,000 the highest.. Germany had nearly 5,000 for their international meeting on the 5th of April.. Vastervik in Sweden averaged over 4,200 last season with the league just under a 3,000 average.. As you say, "where are we going wrong?"..

Surely the only people saying that 'speedway at the Abbey was financially unviable' were Osborne (the stadium owner - who also ran the greyhounds) and the previous speedway promotion of Russell and Park. Maybe there was some sort of financial incentive (brown envelope?) offered to Russell/Park to say that speedway was unviable at the Abbey. And surely it would only become 'unviable' because of the exorbitant rent and stadium costs charged to the speedway promotion by the owner (Osborne)?! Pure supposition on my part of course....!😉 NB, Hasn't Rosco declared he would be in a position to front a new consortium with financial backing, for the Robins to continue at the Abbey - assuming of course that the running costs (stadium charges etc) were of an acceptable level?!

Can see a Tigers win unless one of our reserves has a very good night.

Didn't know you done the pitch 😂

That strengthens the bandits imo

Challenge final live on TVP Sport.

Final in Rzeszow on May 9th is live on TVP Sport.

It's called having an opinion.

sunny atm just cut the grass

Track looking in good condition, Steve Lawson is on with the watering. Looking forward to some cracking racing, Pickering probably going to get 6 rides but hopefully not 18 points 😃. UTC 👊

Forecast is a bit of rain and sun until around 4PM/5PM, then glorious speedway from there.

Just saw that on the website. Lasse on Norway duties.

Football on, Weather not to bad

R/R for Lasse. Nick, Jye, Jack & Reid can take his rides

No not anymore

What's the weather like,is there football on today? Cheers

YouTube had 23,000 viewers of the one live meeting most of Poland have canal as part of their tv package bit like our virgin or sky,I do too, it says 130,000 watched the 2 division matches too, it says the fiqures were from their tv and streaming services and were their biggest ever numbers and all those fiqures won’t include everyone watching on illegal streams, makes the £millions they give the sport every year justified doesn’t it

To be fair though I think those figures are due to the match that was shown live for free on YouTube. No chance that there were over one million people paying to watch!

She also likes the spanking aswell