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Seem to remember someone upsetting Todd Wiltshire too. Was that Nicki? Unfortunately I can't recall anything else as the details were sifted out of my brain many years ago.

It didn't look down by a great deal. Understandable though as the previous week was the first match of the season and against Ipswich who are in the higher league.....also Chris Harris riding seems to pull a few extra fans in. (Fliss loves him so she was there) But to be serious I'm pretty sure there will be even less each week if the racing doesn't improve so hopefully it will. Agree about the lighting as it's always been awful and it's now worse by the stupid change to Yellow helmet colours which are difficult to tell apart from White. I don't know what colour Scott was wearing either because it certainly wasn't Blue.

Unfortunately yes it was.

Be interesting to see if you win. Don't think you will but I hope so. If not you could always do what SCB did and just not pay. Mind you now he is banged up they've probably got quite a few of his to sort out.

Zero?

Age 16 and under are free at Leicester but unfortunately for them it's with a paying adult.

Must admit to not reading it all but basically I think you are saying lights, music, sound affects, dancers, mascots etc. , which is fair enough and might encourage younger fans to attend but at the same time drive a lot of the older ones away......but that's probably the idea anyway and already thought of by SCB. Regarding your longer term strategy of speedway with other track sports - sidecars, short track, stock cars, go karts, greyhounds etc. when Coventry rode on Saturdays they had 2nd half racing ~ Sidecars one week, Go Karts the next and Speedway youngsters/veterans the 3rd and guess what even though back then the attendances were really good only about a quarter of the fans, if that, stayed behind to watch. Although there might be some who are interested in watching other types of racing I think the majority are just 100% Speedway fans. And making a day out of it? No thanks. It's bad enough standing around watching tractors go round umpteen times during 15 heats of Speedway.

So how would you get their attention so they wish to attend? Fireworks, scantily clad girls starting the race and holding up a board for each lap, latest music, band playing between each race, 25 heats per meeting, £10 admission? It's no good saying the promoters need to attract the younger generation if you don't say how. I think you are being very unfair and the next time you go should have a walk round all of the stadium so you can see how many teenagers/young adults are there as there were loads near where I was on the 4th bend. Yes there are a lot of older people as well and unless someone wants to stick us all against a wall and shoot us I suppose we will be stupid enough to carry on going until we are incapable of making the effort.

It says ticket office open from 6pm so I should think that's when the gates will be open too?

Successful yes but greatest British rider ~ no.

I feel sorry for the Swindon fans and I have some friends who support them, but the place itself doesn't hold very good memories after being escorted out in 2008 or 9......well sort of......the steward should have stayed with us to the gate because we took a wrong turning and ended up round the back of the stadium somewhere where the riders vans were. So instead of heading home the dogs were left in the car to sleep off several hours of walking around the Uffington White Horse area and we were able to watch the match. What was annoying is we paid to come in with no problem and the 2 ladies on the gate made a fuss of the dogs so they knew we had them with us, but then at the next check point charlie we met the head jobsworth steward who refused to let us go any further. Never been back since.

But they still wouldn't let us leave the dogs in the far end of the car park when we were on holiday and found out they now weren't allowed inside the stadium, as they might have bitten someone. Cretins.

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What I meant was perhaps things would have turned out differently if there hadn't been that upset in 2011 and Sandhu had kept his interest in Speedway instead of becoming disillusioned with the sport. I think we all agree he didn't keep his promise afterwards.

Sadly ~ No, but perhaps it would have all been different if what happened in the Winter of 2010/11 could have been avoided.

In other words you don't know what happened and neither do I. Unfortunately it makes no difference to me now whether there is a new stadium or not but I wish those who are working hard to try to get back to Brandon good luck. One thing we do agree on is Sandhu didn't fulfill his promise.

Yes, but only one has his face.

How can you say the only bit that's true is he bought it with the intention of building houses? So you are saying it's lies how he made his money, owned a hotel etc? Anyway, you still didn't answer my question about the Ochiltree's having no idea he was a property developer which is what you are implying. I can't believe that. The Ochiltree's wanted to sell and didn't really care who bought the stadium as long as somebody did. They didn't have the passion for Coventry Speedway that Charles did.

So you are saying the Ochiltrees had no idea he was a property developer then? "They wanted to turn Brandon Stadium into a housing estate. Instead Avtar Sandhu took it upon himself to transform a famous old fossil of an arena into a stylish and thriving sporting complex. Mixing business with pleasure is not always recommended practice, but for the charismatic Malaysian-born businessman, it has suddenly become a way of life. Having made most of his money from the telecommunications industry, and shrewd dealings in the property market, he seems to have spent most of it indulging his passion for sport - whether hockey, cricket or, as in the last couple of years, speedway, stock-cars and greyhound racing. Sandhu, who also owns the Norfolk Hotel in Birmingham, purchased a 100 per cent stake in Coventry Stadium at the back end of 2002, buying out the Ochiltree family in the process. He willingly admits he bought the stadium with the intention of bulldozing it and building houses on the 25-acre site. "I wanted it for housing, and to start with my offer was turned down even though I outbid everyone else," he explained. "The site was offered to an ex-speedway rider but that deal fell through, and they came back to me. I then bought it at a lower price than I first offered."

So Linda and Martin Ochiltree selling to a known property developer get no criticism, just Sandhu? I'd say the beginning of the end was when that happened.

Hopefully they weren't all on the track at the same time.

Shouldn't be more than £10 for NL racing, but will probably be £13.

So how would Panthers fans have felt if it wasn't Buster but Mick Horton? Just wondering as he seems to be as equally disliked.

Thanks for saving me the bother of trying to think of something witty. Mind you Starman wouldn't get it anyway.

Does that really matter? Some people aren't particularly good at spelling but it was obvious what was meant. So to answer the question has Adam Roynon retired or not, anyone know?