mikebv

As much kudos, for winning either...

It makes a mockery of nothing... There isnt any major prize for winning either league, therefore, getting decent crowds, (who go to see a winning team), through the season, means decent regular income for Poole.. Their operating model works for them, and they know their customer bases requirements... Ipswich had a successful season last year and their crowds were decent, would they have had better crowds if they had delivered fantastic racing but won nothing? Of course they wouldn't...

No TV schedule to work to so back to their old "we'll get there" ways... Bonfire Night is a Thursday so we could have a "Bonfire Bonanza Play Off".. Mind you, Xmas and New Year's Eve's are also on a Thursday...

Could bring a fair bit of publicity this....

Doyle already replaced with Tungate in Sweden.. They seem to replace riders a lot easier than the UK can..

Use an ad blocker.... Works well.... I presume the ads help pay for the site?

I suppose there was a possibility that with so few matches that the season could end early if meetings were ran regularly... The danger now of course, given so few meetings have happened, is, even with so few meetings to complete the season, the weather gods will intervene and we will get the usual "cram them in" so the play offs can take place.. Although, with no TV schedule to worry about they could run up to November I suppose.... But "cramming in" home meetings can, as we have seen in the past, provide attendance challenges over the piece... Sadly, it is all a bit underwhelming overall given so few meetings isn't it?...

I remember on here, for both signings, (Adam and MJJ), within an hour or so of being announced, some contributors said they were 100% short term deals... They were proved very much correct....

"Doyle's rubbish now".... "Over the hill".... "Ipswich had his best years"... "He's not even as good as Kurtz".... "Oh! And Poole's track is crap"...

Roll on THIS season...

Mark Lemon Sole might be interested?... And Mike Bass(t)..

Strange to see his score at end of a meeting at the NSS.... I don't buy a programme so never keep scores... However, just watching him race he always seems to be in the mix most times, yet ends up with a score that doesn't ever seem to reflect his efforts... I do remember him scoring well in the SON....

Do any of the Social Media outlets advertise car sharing?.... That might encourage more to go and it shares the costs... Four in a car with three passengers giving the driver £20 each may get a few more away fans there.. Sixty quid should pay for the fuel there and back and get the driver in the meeting for nothing...

It just shows the state the sport is in these days.... Almost zero margin for error... And is this a track owned by those who run Leicester?... If so, no rent to pay, yet still being cautious due to all the other costs involved... Does "Absence make the heart grow fonder?".... Meaning such long gaps between meetings result in good crowds due to missing the sport?... Or will it be more "out of sight, out of mind"?, and crowd numbers suffer?... Or, are we now solely down to the die hards only who turn up whenever, and accept whatever is put in front of them?.. If ever a sport needed a huge injection of cash, it is UK Speedway... Who from though? Given its inherent flaws and issues, is the several million dollar question...

Well.... Plenty on here moan about missing regular Speedway (like in the Good Old Days)... So. Pretty soon they will have Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday, Monday, Thursday, at home every week for a whole month...😁