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Ipswich my local track are one of the better on social media activity & also have a great tie up with the football club. An indicator of how much work is need last night match report on Facebook. A big local Derby with king's Lynn the Facebook match report gets a total of 47 likes & 5 comments.

Why is speedway failing? The video at the start of this thread is pretty spot on add that to views that have been aired on any number of threads on here then the answers are all here to see. Too much doubling up, too many guests, poor racing, lack of value for money & a rule boom that is a complete farce. Just a quick visit to the Ipswich thread and the arguments & disagreement between different fans on who can & can't guest for who & when. The arguments about what average is used or not used for team building when replacing a rider makes the whole thing a joke! However in conclusion the issues the sport has today have been around for the last 20 years at least & the powers that be seem to do nothing. Do I have hope that they will start to address the issues now? No not really sadly the result will be an extinct sport by 2030.

Fee options to be honest, it's ride this season out & turn attention to 2022 although I think there needs to be a change of direction throughout British speedway next year. As for Ipswich 22 for me Crump is a no go even if he wants to carry on. The one surprise this year is the form of Kemp I didn't think he would struggle as much as he has.

I think Eurosport were the only ones willing to even give a token amount for the rights. Let's not forget that the BSPA had a very lucrative TV deal with Sky for many years and did absolutely nothing with it. The result sky terminated the last deal a year early.

I would have thought running on a bio fuel like methanol has got to be a positive if the sport ever decided to market itself in these environmentally sensitive times. If you're looking for alternatives then electric is your only option. Development of petrol engine for speedway now would be a huge step back.

Interesting read this. Surely the time has come for a major overhaul from top to bottom including the rulebook, machinery, league structure race format etc etc. I'll possibly be better placed to comment further after my visit to Ipswich next week. The scarry thing is how many times have I read that so & so meeting was a bore fest with crap racing on this forum in all honesty I've lost count! And this is supposed to be a supporters form.....if your own customers think that you ain't got a hope of bringing new ones in & more importantly keeping them!

It wouldn't have anything to do with him refusing to ride for team GB all those years ago.... 🤔 not unheard of for the BSPA to hold a grudge!

I'm still unhappy with the doubling up rule and would like to see it banned however to bring back a rule that seems penalise only one or two riders is mad. They would have been better off bringing back that rule for the start of 2019 thus allowing all those that want to double up the chance to while also putting aline in the sand to start phasing it out.

That looks good to me. I was disappointed that Gino wasn't coming back I think he could have done a Heeps. However the German is an exciting signing 👍

Well if the team is signed hopefully we shall have an announcement soon.

We could regret that I think a forced year out and a more determined Gino could have massive improvement in him next year.

I'm happy with the tac sub rule change however I fear even more double uppers and possibly guests. These two issues should have been tackled or at least a plan put in place to scrap both of these over the next few years.

Speedway GB on twitter has 24000 followers compare that to the cricket ECB who have 740000 followers the sport

Hopefully we can get major change and then with a better product go out and promote. Awareness of is a major issue but no point in trying to market the current micky mouse sport that we have.

I first went to Ipswich as a 10 year old with school the next day and I remember lots of kids my age being there every week Thursday racing was not a problem. Almost always home by 10 to 10.15 after 20 to 24 races every week.

Didn't we get to keep the BL trophy for winning the league title 3 times? I'm bored but how about this 2018 top flight Hancock Manzares Nicholls King Heeps Covatti Hume

Take it or leave it could be right but there are those in the BSPA who believe that televised speedway is actually detrimental to the sport here The above taken from Philip Rising.....that just shows stupid some in the BSPA really are. Speedway must be the only sport that hasn't managed to harness tv for the good of the sport. Take it or leave it could be right but there are those in the BSPA who believe that televised speedway is actually detrimental to the sport here The above taken from Philip Rising.....that just shows stupid some in the BSPA really are. Speedway must be the only sport that hasn't managed to harness tv for the good of the sport.

Thing is only those that attend or watch speedway on tv on a regular basis are aware of who these international big name riders are. Speedway supporters might be getting excited about Vaculík signing for Leicester however I doubt that 99% of the UK population would have any Idea who he is. Point being that the product needs to be right to attract newcomers big names won't achieve that.

Should have done it years ago and gave the job to John Berry. I can't understand why they don't want it. I know it's their trainset however the way they are running it they won't have anything to govern in a few years at least if they had a independent person who could shake the sport up they might have a chance of saving what they have. Should have done it years ago and gave the job to John Berry. I can't understand why they don't want it. I know it's their trainset however the way they are running it they won't have anything to govern in a few years at least if they had a independent person who could shake the sport up they might have a chance of saving what they have.

Watering down does not work. It's been done pretty much every winter for the last 25 years and the sport is almost dead.

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Let's hope that something more far reaching comes out of this one than the league name change and rubbishty new logo that was decided at the last one.

The rule book!