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Got to take your chances whilst you can.Speedway will be around next year, the Rolling Stones on the other hand ......

Dyed in the wool supporters need to know.

Calm down everyone! Like watching WWE - not World Wrestling Entertainment - rather Wrinkly Wresting Entertainment.

Eh ... true. But speedway suffering as a result like everyone else.

Royal Bank of Scotland? Oh forgot. They are one of the bar stewards who caused this frigging mess.

LOL!

Typical EU Migrant then. BTW - Happy New Year Mr. B

Did he not have his best season when he was on the vodka? Maybe sobriety is the real issue?

Why all the impatience about the SKY deal? By all accounts there is one. OK we don't know the finer details, but so what. Speedway will be on telly this year and surely that's ultimately what matters. Keep Calm And Watch Speedway on TV

Even our pub is no longer an asset.

Of course they have.

Yup.

My prediction for 2014 is that crowds will be down and SKY are to blame.

Good post. One key factor the anti-SKY league have missed is the country is in the worst recession it's ever experienced. Forgive my naivity, but I'm sure that must have had an effect on crowds.

Pity, maybe one day he'll see the funny side.

They are brilliant aren't they. Wish I'd known of them before today.

You said in a previous post you want debate. Well where is it then? You make the same point about falling attendances with each post ad nauseum. Where is the debate in that? I've suggested to you there is more ways to measure success/failure than just attendances. But have declined to debate that. I could even suggest more ways than I have, but feel it's a waste of my time as you'll just comeback with the same argue several of us got many moons ago. Whoosh! OK let's stick with attendances then. Let's draw a comparison with football. Compared with the good old days attendances are down. Yet the sport is flourishing with more world class players in the English Premiership than ever before. There's more money slushing around in it than ever before. There's more TV coverage than ever before. Explain your logic about reduced attendances and SKY based on that. And while you're at it, explain to me why reduced crowds is an indication of failure as I've still not seen you explain that logic. BTW - Labeling a post as stupid is an indirect reference to the poster.

I agree. And remind me who used the word "stupid" first?

What a stupid reply. You are measuring attendances at how many tracks and including what TV viewing figures? No, let's ignore how to measure things accurately for the sake of sticking to a point. However, you are the marketing and market research expert so you know best. Multi-national companies and advertising agencies around the world take note and stop spending billions on research, advertising and publicity. You stupid people have been wasting your money all these years. An unqualified member of a speedway forum knows better than you ..... TV coverage is bad for sales!!! Monster Energy take note and withdraw your sponsorship of all TV speedway events now!!!!! Well I have done some research of my own. Watching the online videos of the "good old days" I see there's a lot of cloth flat caps and mackintoshes in the crowd. Going on the "Flat Cap and Mackintosh" website, they are blaming the massive decline in sales nowadays on SKY's speedway coverage. Funnily enough, I thought it was just a sign of the times. Their products just don't have the same mass market appeal. Never mind they have Sunday drivers to sell their products to. Over to you Sir Alan Sugar.

Fright? Nearly sh4t myself.

Ah right, so we're not talking factually then. More Jackanory. Sorted.

Have just gone to the Twitter account and its just a pee take. Panic over. Now to get back to enjoying ma holidays.

Please someone tell me what I'm supposed to believe! Can't imagine Stewart would be so indiscreet. Please someone tell me we are not signing Henning! My hopes are up after our first 5 signings and Edinburgh's Lidl team (sorry no offence intended Lidl). Please don't take that hope away!

Love it!