mikebv

The "optics" are fundamentally important for any business... UK Speedway sadly is ran, in the main, by ex riders, and friends and sponsors of riders... With well meaning amateur Speedway enthusiasts working for free, alongside them, just so as they can be close to their heroes... Professional Event Management, and Professional Marketing, is a huge opportunity, however, as we know, their huge seven figures outlay will be to riders who are practically unknown to 80 million people... An amazing business plan... Which suggest these ex riders, and rider sponsors, are quite happy with their regular "Social Gatherings" where they meet up for a "Night at the Speedway"....

Literally, seven figures spent on riders, (who Average Joe Public will never have heard of), yet hardly anything on professional PR, Media output, and Event Management.... Absolutely crackers!!!!

Only just read last weeks copy of the Speedway Star and they do a two page spread on Northampton... Mark Lemon is quoted as saying that they needed a sixth team for the "integrity and credibility" of the sport... I do hope when he used those words, he managed to do it with a straight face... Fair play if he did....

To be fair... Their efforts are similar to the other five from what I have heard or read...

At last!!!! Someone who can market an event.. Give Linda a bell and she if she wants to get involved... You'll need her official paper bag for the tombola tickets...

Exactly.... The other night at the PCMT was probably the most Aces fans attendance that they will have all year, except for the play offs... No "first night back" feel about the meeting at all, no promotion of their first actual team meeting either... They do a 50/50 draw that got the winner 400+ quid... I would have raffled off a season ticket... I reckon most Aces fans there in the crowd (1300?) would have spent a fiver... Then do another at the first couple of actual meetings... Or do something like a £500 holiday voucher.. Something is needed on the nights to engage the crowd, with the racing just being part of it... And, do it right, and you can make a fair few quid...

And the interest wasn't too great to start with sadly...

Surprise!!!!!!!! One off gestures don't work... A free meeting needs to be part of a larger enticement programme with gradual imcreases.. Eg next four meetings for a tenner each, next two for fifteen, next two twenty, then full price... With constant communication and feedback sought during this period, from those who are using the discounted tickets.... "Build it and they will come" only works in movies... The sport desperately needs people who can market and engage..

I don't know.... Moan. Moan. Moan... That's all Speedway fans do... Anyhow, whilst on that topic, (and all valid comments by the way)..... You can add the Sam Masters/Adam Ellis - Who is who? Ruined a few programmes that.. Adam being in Ipswich kevlars probably the main clue it wasnt Sam.. The interviews were attempted once from the big screen but it just sounded like there was a gale force wind blowing through and you couldn't hear what was being said... So it didnt happen again.. My 22 year old lad summed up the overall presentation with this comment... "Everything Speedway does is always a little bit sh*t, but funny, isn't it?".. (He was particularly impressed with the "pallet podium").. PS. Good to see the usual taxi load (seven seater to be fair) of Sheffield fans in attendance, and they seemed to take some pleasure in giving Kurtz some stick... Hope they enjoyed the final... All in all, a good nights entertainment if you were there for the racing, and, like most Speedway fans do automatically now, made allowances for the overall presentation levels..

I believe that Benjamin "Sprouts" Netanyahu won't be included this season...

What an opportunity.... It would be like the Masked Singer... Seven riders, and, one by one... "Take it off! Take it off!"... Harry Redknapp and Linda Lusardi as the judges guessing the identities...

A decent (ish) crowd for a PCMT, and opening night, with the weather maybe knocking a fair few off the total, (hopefully they streamed it)... Some excellent close racing in several races, with Kurtz and Fricke showing great trust and ability to race each other so closely, and hard, at top speed... Kvech too, in heat 19 was brilliant riding around the first two turns. Not many ride that close to the fence, in the, by then, "deep stuff" and gain positions... A great final with Bewley and Holder both riding hard and fair.... All in all, a very decent start to the season, with all the GP riders having opportunities to show their higher level of capability... Roll on those two GP's...

A perfect storm, given the decades without a win, and the first leg result ... If Leicester had won the first leg 60-30, there wouldn't have been 2,000 there .. And 500 of them would have been from Leicester...😁

A competition so worth winning, that one of last years' entrants have voluntarily pulled out to focus on winning the second tier.....

A mature decision I would suggest... Fair play to him.... Laguta as the WC surely... If the GP's want to have credibility...