Daniel Smith

The whole line-up for this is horrific

That will not end well, there would be bigger crowds if Peterborough City Council closed the Eye Roundabout once a week for a meeting

That means what exactly?

Would be the right thing for Pickering & Sheffield.

That's exactly my point. The 80s had hard times but the sport was highly sustainable, still attractive to new owners with decent crowds & riders. The introduction of SkySports should have stabilised & elevated the sport. The promoters failed to future proof with it's largest income in the sports history. Many many other sports have gone to new levels due to TV & sponsorship income, but Speedway thought it best to follow the crowd & did it's own thing.

Absolutely this. The demise I'd exactly pinpoint to when SkySports came on board. No blame at all is to be put on them by the way, it was the promoters just totally mismanaged the whole thing, over paying rider's, not securing their own stadia etc. Zero future planning went in to the sport to which it really should have hit it's peak. Current 80's standard stadia conditions, mismanagement etc the sport remains as a £10-£15 sport but due to economics the price has to be higher. British Speedway is now in a rock n' a hard place in balancing VFM & unfortunately, it's no longer in the favour of the fan.

No Lynn too potentially?

100%, but things are very different today to years gone by. People demand VFM & when you have 3 clubs well backed with World Class rider's, just surviving isn't acceptable for the paying supporter. It's why Peterborough & King's Lynn fans have meltdowns.

Pickering & S.Lambert in Laguta & Jakobsen out

As I said, this sport will break a whippersnapper with new ideas, they just won't be allowed in British Speedway.

People get hung up on the T/S & who they ride with, 5-1's, it's totally irrelevant. The use of the T/S is to be +3, that's it. Bring in a T/S for a rider that's almost guaranteed to score 0, heat 12 was the best choice. We went from a guaranteed 1-5 to a 3-3, the best we could have hoped for was 4-2 so didn't work out to bad.

A close source has said; "City are in shock at the small turn out for the parade after realising there's more in the queue at the National Speedway Stadium, even knowing it's likely to be rained off."

I have is as tapes up 5pm uk time?

He doesn't fit for anyone at Sheffield, so that would be a strange one unless they're losing Museliak or Holder

Woffinden isn't riding UK

That ol' chestnut again. You know full well why people ask those questions. Speedway is no longer a cheap night out, especially for the family. They need to know if it's worth their financial risk. Today's people like to know if they'll be entertained & not have a consistently wasted evening. It isn't difficult, just cause you don't care about what you're watching doesn’t mean others shouldn't. I really detest this "use it or lose it" narrative. It's up to Speedway to provide, not for the fans to help a club survive.

Stollen Laguta's mate from Peterborough??

Buster is no longer in charge of King's Lynn & it's not going paticularly well

I think Ipswich are nuts to not try & find a way to fit Tungate in their own team, way better than what they have if they're serious about challenging.

Surely we're not gonna go down the "it's all Buster's fault" road again. Buster wouldn't agree a deal & take it away, something else would of had to change. Tungate asking more, or sponsors not putting in what they agreed etc?

Why would they? Speedway's never getting as high views as Le Mans & French Open Tennis

Ipswich have had Emil & Doyle all season & are only 3pts clear of King's Lynn who have been proper s#!t

This theory needs challenging. There seems to be a running theme that rider's come here & become worse, rider's leave here & become better. There's something about this club that just isn't working.

I'd say track time is the most obvious answer. Back in the day we'd be at home pretty much weekly from March to October plus rider's where putting in practice days, & after meeting laps too. We'd even have Topinka riding the tractor with Huggy to get the track tiptop. Now it's a home meeting around every 3 weeks on average, & no rider's willing to put any extra lap time in. With how different the tracks prepared every meeting, our team are turning up just like an away team themselves, with the lack of strength in the team we'll always get run close or beaten

I don't see why all this "Keyboard Warrior" s#!te has kicked off again. I've not seen one complaint about Brady & the signing of Laguta. If anything, most fans are unhappy with everything that's going on around him. Alex is the new guy & the club is suffering from the same mistakes for the last decade. That's clear evidence the issues are elsewhere. Fingers crossed for Alex but unless others move on he'll be fighting a losing battle at King's Lynn & end up tarred with the same brush. We once had a guy very similar to him, in that he'd travel to GP's, Ekstraliga, Elitserien meetings, chatting with rider's, marketing the club locally but eventually British Speedway knocked the stuffing out of him. He was the son of our (past) owner. Personally I'd forget about Poland, go looking at the youngsters from America, Germany, France, Argentina etc, these guys would be absolutely grateful for a chance & give you everything they have. Even 16-18yo Swedes & Danes are worth a shot over employing the same old same old year in, year out. Alex, pleeeeeeeeease do something different for 2024. Source new track material & find new rider's & do it your way. You're listening & learning from the wrong people who have already done a very poor job for over a decade at this club.