THE DEAN MACHINE

I wasn’t on this week so not sure but I think it was episode 3 of 3, haven’t had chance to listen yet but we talked about it on our what’s app group in the week

Whoever it is there will have to be a huge carrot dangled infront of them and unless either tv deal or betting deal or sponsor deal on the table that ain’t happening

Peterborough

They do and I don’t blame them, the championship is sustainable but unfortunately the premier league is desperate and either Peterborough or a current Championship team is going to be sacrificed to prop the league numbers up

If we were a sport just starting out, none of these financial issues of the riders would be a thing but because riders have become accustomed to what they earn and have sort of become complacent it’s now a problem when they are faced with being reigned in

I’ve never said I’m right, I know some especially on here are sometimes way off the mark because I MAY know the facts but I don’t need to correct them, it’s a forum, it’s opinions, nobody is right or wrong, promoters are in the main decent folk with the odd exception, I read all posts and look to what people are saying and at the end of the day my opinion is a valuable or useless as yours even without quoting someone to get your point over

No they can’t, public relations is not their strongpoint

That’s the spirit

Yes I have read it and thankfully there was a handful of promoters, riders and sponsors there who can see the bigger picture and if anything came to any fruition from it at all then it’s a damn sight more than the naysayers who will argue a point to sit a home and do nothing and expect the fruits to just land on their lap, we are where we are because of that mindset

No what you mean is the sport doesn’t exist without the riders you want,There will always be riders, if the sport survives our next great rider might not even be born yet, riders come and go the only constant is the sport

TNT’s biggest problem is he struggles to think outside of foxhall heath

No rider is bigger than the sport

I’ve got a big enough gob, so I’m told 😂

There was a classic example this season of how things need to change and it answers a couple of points too Oxford run a team in the championship with no tv money from TNT and break even, they run a team in the premier with TNT money and owe £1000s, same track one team is sustainable one isn’t, the one with the lesser riders got marginally bettter support, dispelling the point about the star riders needed, the lessen is all there to see, will the bspl see it ? No they have superheats and points limits to discuss

They are planning 2 leagues but the rest is all speculation and if I’m honest I don’t think they know themselves

Couldn’t care less what Harris or king or any rider thinks he needs, this is about the future of speedway, its currently is broke, can’t pay its debts off and if it carry’s on the same path Harris and the rest will have to get a job in B&M or Asda let alone have to reduce their income,it’s a tough old world out there and it’s time the riders started to feel it

That doesn’t make sense, with one league Glasgow would ride Edinburgh less times than they would now

Nothing will come of the demolition of Perry barr, it will just be swept away just like the crooked house (not to be confused with ACU house) corruption pays in this world unfortunately

Having a long chat with a former promoter yesterday at the speedway show, something he said made me laugh but his point was valid, he was saying speedway had changed and not for the better and he said it used to be after a meeting around midnight he would get the stadium manager calling him saying can you come and get your star rider out of the bar I want to close up and go home, his point was when that stopped speedway changed lol

Exactly this but some folk just don’t see it, every opportunity, every bit counts and the bspl are the biggest naysayers when it comes to it

It was, it was auctioned off a couple of years back, I bid on a couple of bikes myself but didn’t win, if I remember rightly Martin Yates was reunited with his bike which the family brought from him when he retired

No there doesn’t have to be a top league, fans want variety, something different, the arrogance of the top 5 teams says there needs to be a top league and it could be argued that arrogance is the reason the sport is in such a mess that it finds itself in

Glass half full and all that, there is always a way if you really want something

Speedway has a lot of “if only’s” floating around at the moment and if only those “if onlys”would materialise things would look a little different

After a few chats over the last few days I really hope now that the premier league fails and all 5 teams and Peterborough if they run have no choice but to join the championship and as much as they will kick and scream maybe after a year of it they will think well actually it’s pretty good and a bit more sustainable than the premier league, it’s been mentioned before on here but a betting deal could be the premier’s saviour