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Blunsdon should be packed to the rafters, then

Totally agree Mikebv, but speedway is not the only sport to have dwindling crowds, it’s a tough competitive time and people have lots of options to spend there leisure time and money. BUT the BSPA and Clubs are lazy and clueless, they couldn’t promote themselves out of a paper bag. We have a young triple World Champion and against all the odds built a fantastic NSS with a world class track but who knows about these achievements, most people have never heard of TW and don’t even know of the NSS existence. You hear so often “oh is speedway still going” or “I used to go but got fed with all the daft changes” The people at the top running the sport and the club promoters are completely to blame as they are more interested in petty jealousy, inward thinking and tinkering with rules rather than listening to fans (customers) and vigorously promoting the attributes of speedway and attracting a new young fan base. All to late now as the sport is bust and irrelevant today as it has little or no widespread appeal and sadly will never return to the ‘glory days’.

The bottom line is simple.. It doesnt matter what you are trying to sell if not enough people know you actually exist.. It could be the greatest product in the world that you have, but if you dont advertise that product, where it can be purchased from, and when it is regularly available to be purchased, you wont make any success of what you are doing.. Because it's simply just not possible to do so using that 'plan'... Getting a proper, professional national marketing campaign going, which highlights the sport and its teams, is the only way to get the cut through required if the sport wants to prosper and thrive.. The core product of the racing today is a product you can certainly 'sell' if enough people get to 'sample it' I would say.. The last "Golden Era" as Steve says was the 1970's which was very much delivered by a very successful 'England' team, a very regular slot on Saturday in a prime time TV slot when there were only 3 channels to watch, and a true "perfect for TV" superstar in Peter Collins to keep the watching millions amazed and enthralled at what could be done on a Speedway bike.. In short though, fundamentally, the message was out there of its existence and many would follow their local teams on the back of the international success and high profile meetings they watched on Saturdays during the summer.. Get something like that message out there again and, given its low starting base, even just 25000 or so more a week would more than 100% increase its income.. What an opportunity that really is when a great many of the 65 million population live around no more than an hour from a venue, and that track is often pretty much usually the "only one" within that travelling distance.. Opinions and arguments about stadiums, team strengths, rules and regulations, race nights etc etc etc and how they negatively impact the crowd levels, (no matter how valid), pale into insignificance against the impact generated by the very fact that literally millions live within an hour of a Speedway track and dont even know the sport exists.. Sort that as a priority and the size of the prize potentially is huge given the starting point..

The F.I.M. North America Speedway Final of the 2020 season will be staged at the Perris track in California on Saturday, December 12, 2020. https://perrisspeedway.com/schedule/

He's probably thinking of, say, Norwich and Yarmouth. Wasn't such a huge number of years between closure and reopening at Birmingham and Redcar (Middlesbrough, in reality).

Yes I’m sure he did and pigs might fly! The truth is Godfrey and his mate Chapman are clowns, they couldn’t run a booze up in a brewery!

Promoters have officially stated that they all aim for an Easter weekend start to the 2021 season. Incidentally with regard to rider availability Adam Ellis is a case in point - he has a team place in Poland, Sweden and Swindon so is unlikely to be available for Poole, even though its his closest track to his UK base!

The F.I.M. Oceania runs their contiental speedway championships for solos and sidecars this season at the Gillman Speedway in Adelaide, South Australia. OCEANIA SOLO SPEEDWAY CHAMPIONSHIP on January 30, 2021. OCEANIA SIDECAR SPEEDWAY CHAMPIONSHIP on April 17, 2021. https://fimoceania.org/2020/09/04/fim-oceania-speedway-sidecar-championship-delay-action-at-gillman-speedway-until-2021/

Football should not have any Government because if they can run a full season of matches and not get a penny in through the gate and the money that many of the Stars are said to getting for playing Or are they playing for next to nothing I DOUBT IT. The top clubs must be rolling in cash.

I doubt you will see any Polish riders in Britain in the future, if the Polish leagues insist on riders signing for only one team, which is on the horizon the way things are going. I think because of cost cutting, British clubs will need to look for home grown riders.

But probably there will still be a shortage .

Danny Ayres provided plenty of entertainment for a fraction of the cost

I do understand that, but it’s a bit of a knock on effect isn’t it. A rider in the premiership may not be able to ride over here anymore, so someone currently in the championship may move up and potentially drop their championship team, so I would say Glasgow do need to worry about it

The product is the racing not the names

Ahhhh this arguement about the 45 point average always gets me! If ‘rider averages’ were calculated purely on average points scored, then there would be some legs in that arguement. Because rider CMA are calculated using points X rides / 4 - when you take into account heat 15 and riders taking 5 rides, it’ll work out that the total team points based on that calculation should be about 42.00-42.50. Years ago back in 2002 it was 45.00 including bonus points which is about right. Lowering the team total CMA year on year just weakens and weakens the product year after year. The strength of the second division is nothing compared to what it was, probably even 10 years ago let alone even further beyond that.

Hmmm can of worms, can see Glasgow’s point of view ....Poland and visa issues, British speedway stick to 41 points otherwise might as well just go junior racing

I see no credible reason to change any rules for 2021, I thought all the clubs had agreed that. Seems Glasgow arent to happy https://www.glasgowtigers.org/club-statement-bspa-21/