THE DEAN MACHINE

I only went to 1 Birmingham meeting last year and I really enjoyed it, I really need to do better and get my arse into gear and go some more

One good thing about Eurosport no longer in existence is unless we pay for TNT we will be spared endless hours of boring tennis,the dreariest pastime ever grace the world but one that Eurosport jizzes over

Who owned the stadium ?

I would love Coventry back at Brandon but it’s not going to happen and my point was Coventry has more chance elsewhere

And it means nothing, that land eventually will end up being houses no matter how long it takes Brandon estates, have people not learnt councils and government are full of crap and their words mean nothing, their words just mean the price goes up

Yes, all sounds great but we have seen it all before and seen it from Osbourne, I guess we will have to hope it happens because what’s the alternative? Blunsdon like Brandon is dead in the water now and if either teams are to come back it’s going to be at a new venue and for those who get triggered by me saying Brandon is gone, get real, Brandon estates will never give up that land for speedway, it will drag on and on for as long as supporters keep peeing money up the wall to oppose planning for houses,if they took a different route maybe just maybe Coventry would be back now imo

You haven’t missed a lot

I think the few million is for the rent of the land but either way the new builds, macdonalds. Greggs, ford, screw-fix etc are not on the land where the speedway was,the outline of where all the track was is still there ,the bar on first bend is used as an office now, the car parks infront of the track are still there and when you go up to the main gates which are still there you wouldn’t know the track isn’t there, not a lot has changed and all the new builds are going the opposite direction to the track as you turn off the main road with ford being the closest, I was under the impression that they were going to build on the track but that doesn’t seem to be the case

Obviously from a financial point of view it’s better to build but as my initial post, they haven’t built on the track and the business like macdonalds and greggs would of benefited from the speedway still being there and as one of my customers is within a few hundred yards of the track they told me they wished they would have kept it a speedway track than an industrial estate which it has now become

From what I understand they still own the land

Watched a podcast with Keith Huewen last night on YouTube, he talks about sky BT Eurosport and TNT and their coverage of moto GP superbikes etc, interesting listening to not only his corncerns about the coverage of bike racing but also about the sport itself in the uk, he could of just been talking about British speedway, seems speedway is not alone in its struggles, speedway gets a mention a couple of times, it’s 2.30 hours long but an entertaining interview

Is there is a loophole in the planning laws ?if you have a piece of land like a field and you want planning permission to build houses or industrial buildings on that land and no matter how much you try you can’t get permission to do so because it’s green belt but they will give you permission to build a sport track/facility on it so you build that facility and use it for a few years and then deem it not financially viable so shut it down and then reapply for planning saying it’s now not green belt land anymore as it has a sport facility on it, this would make sense to what happened at Somerset

Could of been worse it could of been Shakin Stevens, he could of started each broadcast with a version of “this ole sport”

It will be cheaper to buy a new box than have that one recommissioned,nobody really repairs them these days,trackspark sell them for around £260 new

I really don’t care anymore

Yea yea if your that worried get a VPN stuck on it, millions of people in the uk use illegal firesticks , you don’t even need a firestick if you have a app TV

Just gets a firestick, sod Eurosport or whatever shambolic name it calls itself these days

Slight change of track but I went to Somerset on Friday and went on to the oak tree arena site, they have a greggs, McDonald’s, screwfix and ford to the right as you drive in off the main road now and the old bar on the first bend is an energy company’s office now but they havent touched where the track was,you can still see the outline on google earth, so why couldn’t they have kept the speedway there ?

If you don’t ask you will never know

Perry Barr are moving this year, I believe monmore will follow in next 2 years

Has the speedway star ever done an honest few pages on the people who run the sport track record? that would make a really interesting reading, speedway’s demise is 90% self inflicted, Osbourne as immoral as he may be is a business man and his business is in a far better state than ours

Said it before, Clarke Osbourne is a business man and he does what business men do, if speedway got its act together and actually turned round some sort of profit Clarke Osbourne would be on our side, you may not like his methods and he certainly knows how to manipulate councils etc for his own gain but he is a business man and his priorities are to make money, he doesn’t break the law, too many fans have faith in councils, they are just as deceitful as Osbourne but ultimately the sport itself has to take the blame for the state that it’s currently in

The answer is just buy BSN and forget about Eurosport, BSN is a far superior product anyway

Just a little post to say wolves fan Tania fellows (tubsy tubs)has passed away last Thursday,she was a massive wolves fan and sponsored quite a few riders from me, Adam skornicki, Adam Ellis, Ryan Douglas, Ashley morris to Kyle howarth and others and was well known around the wolves pits giving the riders haribo sweets before meetings,Tania was a good friend to not only me but a good friend to speedway . RIP mate 💔