THE DEAN MACHINE

Don’t mention it, it’s not allowed on here

Oh my,someone DOES need to calm down, another one that accepts and makes excuses for mediocrity and poor practices and wonders why we are where we are and because you obviously need a little help the post I made was sarcasm

Bet the people of Northampton are sick to death of all this advertising of a new sport coming to their town but as it was pointed out to me on here a couple of weeks back no point in advertising it until the deal is done to run speedway 🙄

Yes he thinks the sun shines out of the pallets

We can’t even afford his cardboard cut out of him

And right there is why the sport is on its arse because you justify mediocrity, it matters, the little things all add up, if you want the sport to expand to the outside world it matters,?every little thing matters no matter if you think it doesn’t, at least Phil morris understands this, first impressions matter more now than ever

Well looking at her she well below average

You are using your club bias to forge a debate against other clubs, be better and that goes for all clubs, it’s not acceptable anywhere, your argument is well they are crap so we can be crap too

The media day will have all the riders in their race suits sat on rows of pallets at belle vue and on the end there will be 7 life size cardboard cut outs of riders like Dag Lovas, ove fundin, trond stretting lars munkerdal Glenn Doyle, Das sumner and Edgar stangerland who will be representing Brafield badgers this season only they couldn’t find the Glenn Doyle one so they got a Julie Hartley brewer one hoping nobody would notice

Sometimes it’s just the little things but as usual nobody cares, people took the pee out of the pallet podium last year and it’s still used 🙄

😂 do you remember drop the dead donkey

They set the whole show up pretending it’s real and film it, I had a stall right behind them at the classic off road show a few weeks back, a 2 day event,they turn up on the Sunday for a couple of hours, set a fake stall out, pretend to buy/ haggle with someone for their own stuff film it then film them buying a cup of tea and then pack up and leave, all done in a couple of hours, nothing new most tv is scripted and fake, they not inventing the wheel

But not ahead of anyone else who travelled to the far corners of Europe in a vain effort to qualify

The conspiracy theorist in me says woffinden was never going to ride but to put a Ukrainian straight in to the line up was a too obvious bit of virtue signalling so do it by the back door

Woffinden out of GP

Just a quick question, if you’re just a fan, have no job or involvement in any way, you’re literally just a fan do you sometimes feel like it’s us and them ? A bit like it’s a clique and you’re not in it ?

We are dealing with 3 separate councils over many sites and so far no they are not despite what they say in public, I can’t say too much in public but some of the stuff from the councils sometimes borders on a Monty python sketch.

Be interesting to see the councils response to the latest cradley situation,although they not keen on the rocky lane site they say they want to help, well they have been presented with another 4 sites of which 2 of them they own, we went to see those 2 on Thursday and they are as good as perfect for a speedway location, both sites are unused and have been for a number of years, so do they want to help ??? That’s the question

While these 2 and their fake tv programs should not be ignored they appeal to the old generation and they are not the future of speedway, we need to be looking to influencers, now don’t get me wrong imo they are useless twats but for some reason they appeal to the yoof and that’s where we need to be looking

Lindgren not riding

I’ve told this before but it is relevent about schools, back around 20 years ago when the sport had the speedway riders association we had monthly meetings where various issues/problems/ ideas were discussed, one of the ideas was to visit schools to promote the sport and we the SRA would send 2 or 3 riders to each one(whoever lived closest to the school) as there was a bit of money in the pot we would fund the travel expenses ourselves, so come the AGM me,Craig boyce and Shane Parker sat at the table with all the promoters and told them what we would like to do except we didn’t tell them how it would be paid for and all we got back was it costs too much money and not worth doing for the cost and in a nutshell went down like a lead balloon and quickly moved on too the next subject, over the years I’ve done various promotions for different teams, been to shopping centres, rugby matches, ice hockey matches and other days and even took my bikes to the scouts one night and to a car show and still do Telford off road show every year, I don’t know how much success any of them have but to me we need to be everywhere no matter how small the presence or significance is, a lot of tiny things put together make a big thing, you do nothing you get nothing

Thank you, I’ll be coming down to iwade a couple of times this year to ride on my old bikes in some meetings that they putting on

The first thing speedway needs to do is get in the public eye, no matter how small but getting there, something I saw a month a so back really brought it home to me how far out the loop we are, when Linda lusardi did her cup draw and it made the news papers, what was interesting was the comments about it from the general public and one stuck with me, it was guy from Essex around his 20s and his reply was what is speedway Genuine question ? Now that to me and you is ridiculous but he genuinely didn’t seem to know, now you would assume he would google it but up till that point it didn’t even cross his mind, how many other people are like this ? Last week I was talking to a customer who is massively into in fast bikes and I said I’d sell him an engine that would blow his bike out the water for acceleration and went on to tell him it was GM speedway engine and he said he didn’t know what I was talking about, as I went into an explanation he said oh you mean flat track racing like they do in the USA, speedway is just not in the public consciousness and that’s something we need to address

I was going to do it but my van was already loaded for Monday and I couldn’t be arsed to unload it and load it up with bikes and bits to then have unload and load up again for Monday, glad it went well, I’ve done alright there in the past

Back to Northampton, announce they running and then silence again, what a strange way to conduct a business