THE DEAN MACHINE

Averages have had their day , speedway needs to change , it doesnt work anymore and juggling numbers isnt going to achieve anything

in years gone by it wouldnt of worked but today you cant just buy the best team cause of the riders who want to ride here there isnt that many top riders about , take Poole as example ,they sign Hancock as their GP rider, they have to sign a Brit and dont get first pick of Harris nicholls,cook so will prob go for richie worral , so who do they get for other 3 that are not in GP ? Andersen ? Gomolski j holder , who else is there ? And thats not much difference to the team they have now ,why wont it work ,

Need to get rid of averages , teams can sign any rider in top 5 but has to be 1 Brit and only allow 1 go rider , 2 reserves have to be British u21 and like in Poland they can stay at reserve till the 22, a team that had a rider this season gets first pick on that rider

BT dont capture the live event feel , the were times last night when there was no background noise at all, you wouldnt know there was a crowd there if they didnt show them, you can make a poor meeting captive viewing if you can capture the atmosphere, I kept thinking of the saying last night ,I guess you had to be there

may be on eleven sport , I will have a look in the week

A world champion , a presenter and a team manager ?????

is Torun v gdansk on tv ?

Ive started another poll on twitter about admission price to speedway , please vote and retweet @deanfelton1👍🏻

while the lack of British riders is certainly an issue, even poor foreign riders can become heros for teams, while your points may be valid they are not the problem with team speedway in this country ,it has no identity and is just a free for all and that has nothing to do with lack of British riders, my two speedway heros were both foreigners

For Wroclaw which is really a dreadfull race track it wasnt to bad a meeeting but the tension made it captive viewing

the product in this country is faulty and until it is fixed no amount of plugging,advertising or publicity is going to change that ,you are selling a team sport with no teams just names , why cant we seem to grasp that ?

Emil on the wrong gate choice again , maybe in his head he thinks if he pics the best gate he puts extra pressure on himself , does seem odd decision

Could of gone either way , holder doesnt really hit him hard enough to fall and kildermand is a rider that does go down easy but touch him he does and my first instinct would be holder out

You know what this and the last 2 GPs need ?? NICKI P

same again there , smolinski has already stopped the race before it started so lindback going through the tapes is after the stoppage ??

Track looking a bit choppy on 3 and 4 bend

Pawlicki shouldnt of got warning , he just made the perfect start

im watching on polish tv , its live

Crowd looks terrible , not even 1/4 full

Have they got a track to race on ?

Scott nicholls was due to ride one at Somerset tonight but meeting got rained off

not true as shown on many posts on here and elsewhere, the real reason why they wont scrap it is because riders want it and they are running the sport these days for themselves ,

there is a mind set with younger riders that they have to have the same stuff as the world champion , the reality is you dont but thats what they want, its all well and good if you can afford the top equipment but if you cant and thats where 75% are at finacially in the sport, Ive sold a few bikes and parts over the years and given a fair bit away free and to be honest the reason I dont get involved with helping young riders is because they dont really want to listen to the likes of me , not that Im saying I know it all but they may go to a top riders training school and sit there and listen to them but 90% of them wont take it in , they will listen up to the point where the top rider will say something like you dont need a shiny new wheel and then they will switch off , I saw on Facebook a young rider had a few issues on a training day and had wrecked his chains and exhaust pipe , so I messaged him to say Ive got some new rear chains that I had picked up in box of spares that came with a classic bike I had brought and I had some exhaust pipes left over from my riding days, I told him he could have them for free , he came round but said he didnt want the chains as they were not gold couloured they were black , I said so what but no he wanted gold coloured one , they were brand new in a packet but he refused them , then I offered him 2 ex pipes , one was chrome but had a dent in or a plain one that had no dents and he chose the chrome one , I tried to help him but he knows best , needless to say he is still 2 years later he is in the amatuer scene .The things you hear off some riders who cant even get a skid on is laughable, try to explain to a young wannabe that a jawa front wheel 10 years old with new bearings that costs £20 spins at exactly the same speed as an anodised sm pro wheel which costs £200, its like explaining algebra they switch off , its all about the bling , try explaining the importance of good air filters , they would rather spend the money on a new coloured seat, this will never change and is not exclusive to speedway but the phrase all the gear no idea is very apt in lower speedway today, the bit that really gets me is bling is not needed in the national league but riders want it and they they say they cant make it pay and expect more money to fund their hobby , I really wish I was 20 years younger I would go out buy a bike for less than a £1000 and prove you dont need it at NL level , I said it before on here and its to any young rider , who would win a race out of you on the best bike money can buy with all the trick bits and Greg Hancock on a 20 year old jawa ? Until that answer is you your pouring money down the drain

I know🙁 I cant see a way back until we finish the sport in Britain while we have the current mind set , only then will people realise what a stupid mistake they have been making , if we can't get the basic principles right of team sport what chance do we have

that does nothing for identity and credibility, doubling up has to be scrapped