Vincent Blachshadow

In most cases, the BSPA MC consists of one bloke with an interest and others who shrug shoulders and go with the flow.

For me, Hancock and Hamill. Many a heat 13 and heat 15 5-1. What I didn't like was the same pair in a few heat 8 double-tacs. Seeing two of the World's finest outpacing the visiting #2 and #7 just because the visitors had had the audacity to lead by 7 or 8 points by heat 8.

Yeah, well, once the EL promoters start working together I'm sure the others will join in.

I never specifically made kids the number one priority. You posted matches should be on two successive given days and suggested Wednesday and Thursday, but also posted that any other successive days would be fine. I suggested Friday and Saturday which would help get parents with school-age children (who don't want their kids out till ten o'clock on a pre-school evening) going to speedway. Out of interest, what's your reason for Wednesday and Thursday other than KL riding on a Wednesday? I recall Peterborough's crowd dipping when they moved from Friday to Thursday, one of the reasons given that fewer parents with school-age children were able to come on Thursday. Speedway likes to market itself as a 'family sport'. How about running on days when it's easiest for families to attend.

Today's kids are tomorrow's adults. Who in speedway gets 'massive' gates these days? Kids don't come on their own, a full-whack payer or two usually accompanies them.

Well yes, kids do go to evening football matches, but not as many as to Saturday or Sunday afternoon games. The object of the exercise has to be to get more people through the gates and I know a person or two who stopped going when their kids got to school age and I'd bet many others on here do too. For some I suppose cost is/was the factor but for others it's school the next day. One of speedway's problems is getting lapsed supporters back through the turnstiles so giving them less reasons to lapse has to be a step forward.

Hmm. You predict another 60 years of Elite League speedway yet post it'll need a squad system and same night racing. I predict you'll see neither.

It's not me suggesting they should. Have another read of GRW's list, #3. I'm not against the two set nights for EL racing, Friday and Saturday, to allow parents to bring their kids without having to worry about school the next day.

Sky show speedway on Mondays so that can't change. Sunday and Tuesday are no go days. So, to accommodate TV coverage two consecutive days can't be used unless you're saying it's two consecutive days for other than Sky matches which go on an off day (for all but two) as now. Clubs race where they are and when they do for a reason. Changing that could ruin them so no, it's not 'I'm all right Jack' it's 'I do that to survive'. So, again, why should PL clubs change what suits them (and possibly keeps them in business) to accommodate others?

Because we don't race speedway in school?

Sky show speedway (mainly) on a Monday for their reasons with Sunday and Tuesday taken by other major European speedway leagues. Why should Redcar and Sheffield change race nights or leagues to accommodate the E L?

Has any work at all started on this scheme, the whole redevelopment I mean, not just the speedway part of it? As in old buildings demolished, sods lifted, land levelled, bricks laid, metalwork erected, not planning.

Bjerre's figure for a home guest is 8.94.

Has Smart retired though? I can't find any mention of this anywhere other than on here, and then only on this Poole thread, but I'm not down in Devon so haven't read their local papers. I have, however, read that there's a problem or two down there causing some uncertainty, and haven't some matches been postponed? If this is the case, maybe Lee took a definite booking at a grass track meeting rather than wait to find out if he might be needed riding speedway on that day. Just an idea until we see something definite that he has actually retired, or, if there already is, maybe someone can supply a link.

I notice there's a subsection entitled 'contracts' in the 2014 rules on the SCB website which goes into rider transfers so I think the asset system is far from dead.

Why don't you go back to post #3200, have a read of the whole post, not just what I posted, and start again.

Then why should Poole, should they wish to use him, have to buy Miedzinski this time as Steve0 posts?

Have you bought Batchelor yet?

Isn't there a rule that a team has to have seven declared riders?

Before sacking the last one. Don't confuse sacking a rider with a rider withholding services. One is self-inflicted.

Having/not having a facility for who exactly?

Which bit of the post you quote is incorrect? What I've copied from the Sky website or that Ford is using a different rider each match?

This is mentioned on Sky Sports website (won't let me copy and paste). States Poole 'axe' Smart. Also says:- 'Pirates are able to name a rider below Smart in the British Speedway Promoters' Association's fast track draft grade list, provided that rider is eligible for a full-time position'. Ford goes on to say:- "We're going to make a change and it may be that we try something for another month or so until we find what's best for the club in that position," Ford told the Daily Echo. That's what he's doing - trying something for another month, naming a rider below Smart, just a different one each match. Whether it's within the rules or not is another matter.

Did they re-declare then? Since they've sacked Smart and not replaced him, they're using a guest (call it what you like) for a non-existent rider. In effect, they've got a six man team with a hole where their seventh rider should be, and plugging that hole with any rider they want subject to certain conditions.. I'm not saying they're getting any advantage from what they're doing but surely, just running with a (declared) six man team must be against the rules.

This all sounds like Poole are using a guest facility for a rider yet to ride for them. Wasn't this practise stopped some while ago and isn't that more or less the reason Poole cancelled a match last year?