StevePark

So, again, the icon to back up your non-existent argument, choosing to totally ignore the and icons I posted, to show that it was a tongue in cheek comment and therefore not to be taken seriously. Well done. I have given (rough) figures to the attendances of matches I've attended. By the end of the week (weather permitting) that figure of 12 matches attended will become 15. I will update on the approximate attendances at Scunthorpe and Ipswich after I've been, to, hopefully, help the thread. Something, unfortunately (and yes, I mean that in sincerity), you are unable to do.

Perhaps he's banned from speedway!

Mainly because I didn't see it. And to resort to the icon towards me is hardly going to help your argument. I've attended 12 matches this season and maybe, just maybe there was 1,000 at just the one of them (but I doubt there was 1,000 there, I say more like 800). Otherwise they range from about 350 to about 600 in the other 11. That's in the SGB Championship. Granted that was the week I was there and don't know what the attendance was like the week before or after, except in the 6 home matches I've attended, but it gives you a rough idea of attendances in that league. All I'm saying is to know (roughly) how many are attending, is to be there (you might not be able to tell on the TV due to camera angles etc.) and do a rough head count yourself.

Not to worry. Workington's James Sarjeant's +5% average (for home guests), is lower than his GSA, according to issue 12 and 13 (GSA 5.66. +5% = 5.38!)!!

In other words, a figure plucked out of thin air. I think, as has already (kind of) been suggested, you should actually visit some tracks and see with your own eyes how many people are actually attending speedway these days.

Can I ask where you get this figure from?

According to the end of season averages Tero's average was 6. something (6.14 I think!!), but as you say, that has now been changed on last seasons ending sheets to the 5.28 he's come in on at Scunthorpe. Very confusing (but this is speedway after all!!) !!

Tero was interviewed by Roy Clarke (during the second match of the season against against Workington) and Tero said he'd got a reduction on his average then, so it was already reduced by then.

Tero got a reduction before the season started.

Averages (effective from 28/05/17): Robert 8.70, Stevie 8.47, Ludde 7.06, Lewis 7.06, Ash 5.58, Ben 2.00, Connor 2.00 (Total 40.87)

I'd certainly agree with the first part of that statement.

OK. Whoosh moment there then!

And p**s them off even more? Brilliant idea.

I think he was supposed to reply to your "Lighting" quote #1319, but clearly the owld fool got a bit confused...

No (at least not at the current stadium).

https://www.racingpost.com/news/arc-buys-newcastle-and-sunderland-greyhound-stadiums-from-hills/286579

Yes

Liam Carr wouldn't be at 7. Ben Hopwood would. Liam Carr will have a 3.00 average, as he can't go any lower than that, as he's not a "new" NL rider.

Brady Kurtz was Plymouth's number one who chose to ride in Poland. They also had Stuart Robson and Mason Campton guesting for them that night.

http://www.newcastlediamonds.co/news/article.asp?id=100711

Not what I was told. Because Belle Vue were "in limbo" at the start of the season, when the Diamonds signed Stevie, he was an asset of the BSPA and were told that they (Newcastle) would have preference over any team that Stevie signed for in the Premiership. It seems, yet again, that the "goal-posts have been moved."

I was thinking more Workington, than Belle Vue (sorry, I should have said that in my original post), regarding Craig Cook. Replacing a 9.50 - 10.00 rider with a 2.00 NL rider is, in my opinion, bound to effect the attendance and, in all likelyhood, the outcome of the match.

So, if a team is missing their number 1 (let's say Craig Cook), he has to be replaced with a 2.00 NL rider? You reckon fans would turn up for that? What would happen if a team is missing, say, 4 riders (it has has been known)? Would you expect fans to turn up to watch a team full of NL riders against much stronger opposition? The whole idea of guests is to keep it fairly equal between two teams. The only time I would advocate a 2.00 NL rider guesting, is when the rider missing is riding in a Polish Lge fixture (for instance). Guest, are, in my opinion, a necessary evil.

Howzat??

Blame George for that. I have no control over the title of the column. Same as "A Walk in the Park" last season!