THE DEAN MACHINE

Unfortunately speedway has too many mercenary’s and hangers on for its own good, we missed a trick in 2020 to reset the sport onto a different better path and it looks like we are going to miss another chance and plod our way into 2026

Brilliant way to get the Scunthorpe faithful wanting to come and spend their money and support you every week 🙄

But not smart enough to see that little things might seem nothing and immaterial but when added to lots of little things make a big thing, Dickson should have one job in the sport and that’s it and that goes for anyone in the sport, but typical of speedway at the moment is just money drip for too many in the sport, one thing I will praise Phil morris for is on race days he understands optics, the perception of what the general public see on the tv matches, it’s the little things which might go unnoticed to us because we are use to it but to a newbie or potential sponsor it stands out like a sore thumb and I hope in the not to distant future Dickson little odd job is nipped in the bud

You’re not that stupid that I need to explain,but here goes it’s doubling up, it 2 teams in the same sport,it’s conflict of interest, it’s a joke in a team sport that this is even a thing, sport teams are supposed to be territorial,it has no credibility whatsoever to the outside world looking in on our sport, is that good enough for you ?

I’ve already started on those years ago and doubling up, if you don’t see the damage then sorry to say but you are part of the problem, it starts with a small crack and through people saying oh it’s only a little crack no harm done

Yes good old Stewart Dickson reassuring the fans that his 2 jobs are safe for 2026, another situation that damages the credibility of the sport

I won’t name the ex promoter but he told me in the main they don’t really like each other which is actually healthy for the sport when they are just following the rules but not when they are the ones who are expected to make the rules

Ultimately you have got to have the want to race, there are a few out there who didnt retire because they didn’t want to race anymore but maybe struggled financially and a couple of years later finances have changed for them and they could be tempted again but British speedway needs someone to take charge of the bike side of the sport because we are spending money needlessly on engines to achieve the same results, you give the riders and tuners almost free reign and you get what we have,,engines revving a lot more faster than they actually need to with no gain for the sport

They are the current premier,they are so desperate they have been ringing round trying to find a 6th team ,the help from a championship promoter is getting the track itself up and running, nothing to do with what league they would race in, that situation is so far down the line, they still need planning permission

I haven’t ruled it out infact I’m pretty sure it’s going to happen but I don’t want it, I want 1 league, I want variety and as last year proved to me even 7 teams is not enough

Because they will want cradley in the premier, they have already asked, that’s how desperate they are and one independent championship promotion has helped out with advice and has pledged help with setting up the track if it gets the go ahead

If cradley were to get planning and open in 2027 or whenever the bspl deserve cradley to tell them where to shove their premier league, the bspl have been totally absent in cradley’s quest even when asked for help,a quote from the consultants was they were shocked how far cradley had got in their plans without any help whatsoever from their governing body

Terry Russel had 2 million, the elite had just under 3 million which went mostly on some expensive no1s and about 50,000 went to the premier league (2nd tier) and what was left (£0) went to the buying of umbrellas for the rainy day which was to inevitably going to come

Canal in Poland only got 193,000 viewers for the extraleague final down on previous years, for a bit of comparison they get 500,000 for Real Madrid/barcelona football but only get around 30,000 for Laliga football

Well that’s not strictly true, there are a few 1000 of us independent objective folk who constantly stand back and see the flaws in the bspl decision making but we are not listened too

Imagine a business plan where you ignore your customers

Tolley is too busy catching out fox hunters

Must of been one of those who because he did a lap in a second half somewhere thinks he knows what he is talking about

We are talking about the bspl here, farce is their specialty, just when you think they have took farce to its absolute limit, they suprise us all and they pull a new bigger farce out of the hat, in reality come January we wouldn’t expect anything else really

There is enough riders but the quality might not be as good, there is also plenty of foreign riders willing to come but intern that might push costs up because they know they’re in demand

It’s because they are not sure what they are selling yet, I suppose they could just do a one size pass for x amount of meetings irrespective of how many leagues there are

The sport owes nobody a living, you’re basically asking who is more important, the fans/sport or the riders ? It’s a situation nobody wants but it’s where we are we have one cake and we can only give anybody a share of what’s there, when it’s gone it gone, riders up till this point have been spoilt, getting paid and earning a living for doing what they love and the money has run out, so what gives ?

It would impact mine, it’s been my life since I went to my first meeting when my parents took me when I was 1 and nothing has ever come close so I would be devastated

I’m always amazed by those who take the moral high ground without knowing the facts of those who they belittle

Then get a job at google or somewhere like that because British speedway can’t afford what you want