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Every other TV meeting that has offered a decent promotion.

Don't promote the sport on TV, continue to whither away and die. Or promote the sport and help it to grow. For 15 years they've opted for the first option, the sport has continued to whither away in this country. You've missed the point entirely regarding WWE. It wasn't a massive business, it was a fairly successful regional promotion in the North East of America... turned into a massive World Wide business primarily due to its use of TV and ensuring its product appeared to be the place to be. I do agree however there should be some sort of centrally co-ordinated strategy for TV meetings.

I am sure promoters of some of the most successful sports/entertainments/businesses in the world know far more than Buster. If you are going to be advertising your product on TV, which effectively what a live screening of a match is, then you should be making your product seem worthy of peoples attention. If there are very few people watching it the immediate message it will send is, not worth of attention. If it looks like there is a decent crowd and atmosphere, the opposite. That IS a laid down right theory. One of the worlds biggest entertainment businesses was built in that exact way. WWE. As they expanded their TV output they made sure that venues were always full as much as possible.. regardless of ticket sales. Thousands of tickets were given away for free in the days before events. Thus, the commentators could introduce the show as 'Sold out', 'Standing room Only', 'They're hanging from the rafters'.... and before long they no longer had to give tickets away as the sheep effect kicked in. Or we can go down the speedway model of do absolutely nothing for 15 years of prime time tv coverage and see the sport sink further into obscurity.

No it didn't, hence it being changed.

That particular rule has absolutely nothing to do with the reason the sport is dying. It actually does the exact thing you would want it to do, keeps a meeting alive and encourages teams to race harder as last night demonstrated. Early on Poole were hit hard and down, they set their target at getting at least a pt and continued to battle hard.. that battling soon brought them into contention for actually winning the meeting. Without it, they may well have just gone through the motions and we wouldn't have seen the exciting end that we did.

Wolves should win this. Ermolenko will go through the card tonight, can't see any Robin touching him. Correy, although not his favourite track, is flying and should score well also. PK will back them up and Jonah will score his usual 6-7. Wayne Carter will clean up at reserve. 50-40 to the Wolves.

The most flawed argument ever. Your promotion and all the others have lost hundreds of thousands of £££'s during the Sky coverage by not reducing admission.

Current form? Harris scored a maximum away from home in his last meeting, riding as a heat leader. You clearly don't like Pearson, I'm not a major fan myself.. however there is NOTHING wrong with his commentary in that last race. I've just watched it again and he conveyed the excitement and indeed the surprise of the race brilliantly. Anyone who understands speedway would know that the leader hadn't been passed after the back straight lap 1 all night. Anyone who understands speedway would know that Janowski, once in front is nigh on untouchable. Of course it isn't pointless conveying the situation after lap 1, that's his bloody job. He stated "It looks as if Kings Lynn's home record will go"... he was correct. It did look that way and you will find very few fans who expected Lambert would pass Janowski after he blocked his initial dive on lap 1. What his commentary conveyed was the sheer importance of the pass on Lambert and he did it well. That race IS one that would make a casual observer sit up and take notice that something amazing had just taken place and Pearsons commentary added to it on this occasion.

Where did I say I didn't enjoy it? It was an enjoyable meeting.. primarily due to the scores being close and the fantastic final race. Overall the racing was average.. but to a speedway fan, average racing is enjoyable so no qualms there.

A night like what? A meeting contested in front of a sparse crowd with little atmosphere. Only speedway fans would be still around to see the end. It doesn't matter one jot how good the racing is.. and last night the racing was NOT good, it was average at BEST. There was ONE lead change all night. ONE, that being in the final heat... as said, it doesn't matter, if there's hardly anyone watching it won't capture the attention of anyone bar the existing fanbase. You've not watched many then

I must agree that Maciej Janowski is really growing on me, rapidly becoming one of my favourite riders. Not only that he's winning me a lot of money The meeting was good last night purely from the sense of the scoreline which just shows that the much maligned Tactical ride did its job. It galvanised Poole and ensured we had a well fought meeting. The racing was average until the final couple of heats with no lead changing hands except in Heat 15. There were a few scraps for pts in the minor placings, enough to keep it interesting so I'm not saying it was bad. Once again though, a pretty average crowd on hand with zero effort from the promotion involved so although it may have seemed good to a speedway fan, not many others are likely to have stuck around to see the finish. Speedway loses again.

Quite the opposite actually in this case.. it actually made the turnaround in the race more dramatic. Which it was, nobody would have expected it. Quite how you work that out I don't know.

There was, it was in the 3 year contract extension news.

It'll be another case of rules are applied and the fans moan about it. BSPA actually done their jobs correctly this time!

And still find a way not to win:)

Wolverhampton get much bigger crowds when the team is doing well. When they are struggling, they fall away.

Actually yes, it pretty much does just that. For a play off final, it would quadruple the fans through the gate.

Yeah you're right. Let's not bother keeping score, it means nothing. Scrap league tables. Those two changes will see the fans flocking in. In fact, do away with teams, you don't seem to like that either.. after all they're irrelevant if we're not going to keep score or bother with trying to win anything.

He's made you look a clown again on this thread, but once again you're not adult enough to hold your hands up and admit you were wrong. Interesting.... How many times have you seen Duggan, Wilkinson, Young and Huxley ride Sidney?

So what you are effectively saying is, you go along to watch meaningless speedway all year long? And you're happy you've got another 3 years of meaningless speedway to look forward too.

I think the point being made is many speedway videos are on Youtube, but not named particularly well and therefore perhaps difficult to find in searches.. For some, the fact that they are all collated and listed in one place will prove beneficial. For others perhaps not.

Did I mention the time when we rode Birmingham in the playoffs....

We're nearly there Wolfsbane. Not long till 2017.

Peter Adams confuses me to be honest. He is, without doubt, a very intelligent guy and is very well respected within the sport and has had success working both with teams and individuals. Yet at times he seems to make such basic errors and doesn't think outside the box at all. Then again very few speedway managers do. I often refer back to the Wolves/Birmingham play off meeting a couple of seasons ago. Wolves had Nicolai Klindt guesting at reserve. Used correctly Wolves could and almost certainly would have made the final, despite way below par scores from Iversen and Cook guesting for Woffinden. Over the previous 3 seasons at Monmore Green Klindt had averaged 8.50 from gates 3 and 4.. 4.00 from Gates 1 and 2. He was riding at reserve. EVERY single one of his rides should have been from gate 3 and 4. His reserve partner at the time was Ludvig Lindgren who actually was better from the inside gate! Of course, nothing was done, they weren't swapped round at all. Klindt won 2 heats from the outside gates, posted 2 lasts from the inside gates to further emphasise the point.

I don't disagree with much of what you say there E I to be fair. Personally I just think there is a complacency that has settled around the club. I have always supported the 'family' approach and retaining riders from season to season so I won't knock the club for that at all.