mikebv

Wow!! Marketing....????? Who knew?????

Is this on Sky?..

Years ago, you found out when at the track that "headliners" were missing... Now you know usually two days in advance, and even up to setting off time, that "all of a sudden" one of the main riders wont be there... And often, not because he is injured... So much to unpick for the sport to be even remotely a success going forwards... Probably far too much now I would suggest.

Are they putting up that gazebo that you took a photo off?.. The thing that they took to the Gorton Festival thingy..? It looked really good... I am sure that will have attracted 1000's given they will have I am sure, advertised this fantastic event.. And several 100's will come I am sure from that Youth Centre they linked with the other year...

Will you be making any changes?

Me too, since around 15 years ago when he got to the stage that standing around, or sitting down, plus the walking, for any length of time got too much.. He stopped and then I gradually did as I realised I often just went because he wanted to... It wasnt until a few years ago he mentioned he only kept attending for several years because he thought I wanted to!!!... As he said in his broad Cork accent... "It was usually a right load of crap!"....

Have you seen the state of fhe art pressure cleaner Kelsey and Dan use?.. A cold water damp flannel is probably not the same level....

And, it really is now or never... With so few "top riders" currently, you won't be cutting back too much if you act now.. 15 teams, home and away once, and maybe some regionalised Cup competition (North and South split, ran like a league, then have cross region Semis and a final), would deliver circa 40 - 50 matches with play offs, depending on how your team does... The current DU's would need to cover their costs over these 40 to 50 matches.. And clubs would need to stand alone in the payments of the current DU's... Which would probably be the huge stumbling block..

The Dan T Vlogs have been a real eye opener for me... The amount of equipment needed, and quite heavy duty machinery to fix things, must cost a small fortune... Someone has to pay the riders enough to spend such outlays, either through sponsorship or salary... And all to ultimately win.... ??????? It is truly the ultimate race to the bottom for Speedway teams... Who will win next?...

15 teams, seven riders per team, equals 105 riders needed... Nowhere near enough riders of the level needed, so a complete non starter... Heaven forbid, they cut the number of riders to five in a team and just then need 75... I could never get my head around the "we need GP riders back", thought process, as, when the majority of them rode over here 15 years ago, crowds dwindled consistently, just like now.. The very riders who took all the "Golden Ticket" Sky money, then effed off to Poland to take the "Diamond and Platinum Ticket" money when Sky's money disappeared... One league would at least make the sport look like a reasonably sized entity, and have a "national reach and feel"...... The "Optics" of how you are perceived are so, so fundamentally important when trying to sell something…. I have seen Brady and Dan ride at the NSS loads of times, so,watching them scream around the boards is no longer the pull it once was... Especially against the same few riders .... If you can fit them in (and afford them), to a one league structure then great... If not, it means you can run on any night you wish... Obviously though one league would mean no DUing which would mean riders getting paid by just one team... Hence no chance of it happening...

Good to see a club doing some market research.. I hope they don't prevent Scunthorpe finding a Guest...

It would be easier to find out why so many still closely follow the sport, but don't see a UK domestic meeting as worth attending... As an example. The GP's showed that there is a decent audience still out there for the sport in Manchester.. BV followers who were happy to pay circa £140, as a minimum, for two evenings of Speedway... But don't see UK domestic Speedway as something worth regularly attending.. The question that should be asked is... "Why don't so many people, who follow Speedway, attend UK meetings?"... Also. "Why don't the 3,000 or so Aces followers at the GP's attend the NSS regularly?".. Another example? "Where are the 5,000 who attended the PO Final at Ipswich every week of the season?"... There is a market of Speedway followers out there much bigger than the numbers who do attend.. Just getting them back engaged and attending would solve a myriad of issues...

Heat 13 knocked 2.4 points of his average for the night...

"Make it a date, Friday at Eight"... Today it would be.. "Make it a date, Friday at, errr, no, sorry, not this Friday, nor the next one, we might be doing something the one after though, and definitely, well, most probably, the one after that"...

100% they do.. However, the FIM meetings are in the calendar well in advance so it shouldn't be beyond the capability of mankind to plan UK Speedway meetings around them... And if the riders don't qualify to the next stages then that would leave "blank" evenings to arrange a previously called off fixture, should they need to do so.. The sport in the UK is dying through far too many self inflicted cuts... Many of which could be avoided,. Having one of your young "starlets" unavailable due to your own planning is only going to make that meeting less attractive to pay to watch.. And UK Speedway can ill afford putting up any possible barriers to prevent people to attend..