THE DEAN MACHINE

Watched it live on Sunday, it has everything that speedway can offer, great racing great atmosphere, huge crowd, tension and a last heat decider

yes I know, Ive been told it so many times in the last couple of weeks by the "in the know" fans lol

but according to some in the know Jayne you hadn't paid your riders

im not saying all these are the right ideas but we should be looking into them but as we keep seeing the usual same responses " you cant do this, you cant do that, the riders need to earn a living, bla bla bla " the sport is almost rock bottom so really nothing is off limits and only this poster and j chapman seem to be offering any real ideas the rest just sound like a speedway AGM where tinkering with small things are seen a major restructuring, speedway "as we know it" in Britain is all but dead so nothing should be dismissed no matter who it upsets, everything riders, tracks, bikes, finances, presentation, league structure and even looking into some of the people who work within speedway, are they the right people ? the whole lot should be discussed and acted on in an AGM straight after the last match of the season

and speedway pays nothing either to BT for showing its live product nationwide and beyond, it is failing not because of BT but because of us, I agree would should get something but do we deserve to ? the official viewing figures for the rye house tv meeting were 53,000 which is good for any sport on BT other than football and on that basis yes we do deserve to be paid, but look at the product on show, racing aside there was a couple of hundred people there and that isn't going to get any casual viewer to want to attend anytime soon , it was flat like watching a church fair with some bikes and do we deserve to be paid by BT or anyone to watch that? for the deal to benefit us we need to show the world we are exciting and the place to be, on TV meetings the stadiums need to be buzzing, I know its catch 22 situation but BT are giving us the platform to take our sport to the masses but we are not delivering, if we delivered we may just catch the attention of some sponsorship fro a major company and then we strengthen our position to go and get something from BT or another network

If we go with the mindset of there is no benifit of to putting our product out to a huge potential audience like on BT and all that matters is to stop the dwindling fan base on a Monday night tv meeting then we may as well go with no tv coverage at all and you say BT get all the profit for nothing, we get live speedway put on a major TV network and it doesn’t cost us anything, we lose money because we can’t get people to attend in numbers anymore but that’s not BT’s fault it’s ours

Think so, must be doing maintance or they haven’t paid their staff their Twitter is still working although no posts for a few hours

Don’t know what figures they get but the 11sport channel also show Swedish league as well as polish first division and a fair few polish test matches

That’s because speedway doesn’t have anyone to deal with these company’s, BT does, my point is the £50,000 sponsorship deals are there, it’s a question of who goes out gets it? . The sport is bordering on shambolic and every decision says desperate, get our act together and show BTs audience we are worth it and maybe these company’s will want to come on board like they do in poland but if they do they want nationwide coverage like BT not some channel seen by one man and his dog ,a good case in point was the GP at the weekend ,it was sponsored by WD40 a house hold name, on every bike, pretty much every TV shot and caption, shown on BT sport, Nsport, danish tv, Swedish tv and a few other channels around the world with exposure to around a million people and they didn’t pay a penny to the tv company’s it all went to bsi, they wouldn’t be interested in a channel seen by 1000 if that, BTs league coverage is also shown on polish tv 11sport

It’s not a guess, the viewing figures are good for such a minor sport.10,000 subscribers to a speedway in house effort ? Knock a zero off that and you would be closer, on sponsorship there are company’s out there who think nothing of throwing £50,000 at a live event on tv, we just need to show we are worthy of which we curently do not , in house nobody will see it and no company of any statue would be interested in sponsoring it, why would they ?

And playing right into osbournes hands

If speedway went in house that’s pretty much where it will stay, only current fans would get to see it and personally I wouldn’t purchase it, I can see a tiny financial benifit for speedway itself but no sponsor in their right mind would be interested as it has no audience, I do think BT is selling us a bit short with the money but that’s totally our own fault, BT deal in millions v speedway deal in peanuts, no wonder who the winner is there, we have the perfect platform and get decent viewing figures but we can’t get our own house in order, we need to turn the viewing figures into punters on the terraces and we will never do that with in house filming, we have to be out there in the big wide world

I haven’t looked into the figures but at least you are thinking outside the box and on the face of it does seem something that should be at least looked in to

I don’t buy that, tension is created by the riders involved a Brit in Britain, a Dane in Denmark and so on, tou can feel the tension flop in a GP when the home riders gets knocked out in the semi final or whenever, the tension is the same ,there was just a much a dreary world final as a GP, the world final has had its day and they were good days but the GPs are much better

Surely there is some Brits they could get over there

That’s one of those meetings that proves speedway still is the greatest sport on earth

Not just riders the GP has a good british following even overseas, in Torun especially you see plenty of Brits and even ex British riders who don’t follow british speedway anymore, the one off world final along with 13 heats is I’m afraid rose tinted glasses view, it wasn’t better than the GP or 15 heats it was just the way it was

It is one of those tracks where it is so wide the leader can’t defend himself and is open from attack from 2nd and as we have seen today even 3rd, it is not got a lot of dirt either

I would happily drop gorzow for czestochowa, only downside it has no cover for fans so if it rains

Amazing racing at czestochowa

Brilliant race from lindgren, love this track, so wide so many lines

Smektala has got some eye opening pace in those 1st 2 heats

I understand if they have been gagged but that still shouldn’t have a bearing on the bspa putting out some of statement, it is very poor

They must know it, but whoever try’s to address the issues and get control of the sport is going to as popular as syphilis in a lot of people’s eyes, while the sport is attending its own funeral there are some who are doing ok in their own little way and when you try to take that away is when the wall gets put up

It has to be resolved somehow, the league depends on it, I don’t know how but this season has to make it too the end of season and then speedway in Britain has to change