mikebv

A very pertinent comment on this evenings Polish coverage from @TTT Where he mentions how injuries have made this Polish season interesting as the big guns have been impacted by injuries, so other teams can compete... That is sport.... In the UK, Wroclaw, and Gorzow, as an example, would have brought in guests from other teams to cover... If Poland did that, they know they are finished as fans, sponsors, and TV would walk away.. A few years ago Wroclaw, the best team overall, got hammered in the final due to their injuries... Sh*t Hapoens... That is sport...

Of course it won't, and that's the point... Such a deterrent would stop so much nonsense being accepted... Similar to one point each and no rearrangement for called off meetings... That would ensure far more meetings that currently get called off would take place.. The nonsense has to stop...

What is this new fangled sorcery that you speak of?.. Easy to see why they call themselves Witches!!!

Next seasons' top tier points limit has just been announced... 24 (including the Rising Star at 2.00).... Voted in 5 to 1.....

Heavily depleted throttle jockey's....

In response, Kyle said "I wish I could have been sat in the pits at a track in Poland, watching the racing for nothing, and actually being paid for being there"..... "I'll see if I can get myself a piece of that next time", he continued...

The 105 team places in the top two tiers must earn what? An average of £30k a rider? Given the standard runs from GP Superstar to NDL level... If so, that's over £3 Million paid out... Any troubleshooter coming into the sport, would immediately say... "Restructure your operating model to find a way to knock a million off your payroll and stick it into prize money and marketing"....

Having something tangibly worth winning is the breakthrough the sport needs above anything else... Other sports show that the bigger the prize, the bigger the interest, and it then becomes a self fulfilling prophecy... A top league with a seven figure prize fund, would give each meeting some relevance and also give the tier two teams something to aspire to be in.. With a big prize up for grabs, winning then means something, with the potential result of the meeting being the engagement, regardless of the racing.. And if you deliver great racing too, then even better.. There must have been over 3,000 Aces fans in attendance at the recent GP's, (like last year), yet crowds for UK Speedway at the NSS are not even half that.. The reason? The lack of engagement that UK Speedway has... Same track, same great racing, even some of the same riders in view... The key differences being the size of the prize on offer, the credibility of the occasion, and the nights the events are ran on.. If any "new blood" coming into the sport could secure some major sponsorship for it, then that truly would be a game changer for UK Speedways future... They would though, firstly, have to do a huge job on the brands image and reputation, and unpick so much of what is currently seen as acceptable... The fans are still out there, in much greater numbers than currently physically attend.. UK Speedway just needs to find a way to engage them again... Something worth winning would be a huge start...

And then add in competitions with little credibility, publicity, and reward, and you have a real problem... At least if there were even a million quid on the table for winning the league then it would stimulate some awareness and interest, and give meetings some reason to take place, other than to just let riders earn money...

Fair play to Chris Louis, he did make several amendments to the track after seeing the racing at the NSS... Widening the entrances and exits of the bends.. However, there is only so much he could have done within the confines of the Stock Car track... Not everyone can build an NSS replica...

K-Tels Hits Of The Seventies... Not half mate ...

Bomber in the style of something contemporary... Freddie and the Dreamers...

Karlito's output is pretty decent...

Spot on.... And a few bonus points keeps the average down and the pay packet good.. Fair play to him... Hate the game not the player...

Didn't Bomber do well guesting for Ipswich against BV in the PO semi a few years ago to help them get to the final?... Then guested for Sheffield to help them beat Ipswich in the final?...

Of course they would... As we suspect, based on past issues, many are called off not for weather reasons but "something else"... The Chairman of Lancs Cricket can't call off a match the day before as it might be a bit iffy on the weather front, (and he has, coincidentally, Jimmy Anderson missing)... No. An independent arbiter, the umpires, decide if a Cricket match can be played due to the weather conditions... 80% of all rain offs would also take place if each team just got one point with no rearrangement too, I would suggest... Just yet another Mickey Mouse contrived nonsense that, without any independent governance, is allowed to happen, and does nothing but damage the sport, which, in turn, negatively impacts its future... Edit. Maybe the sport now has someone who can start to stop such nonsense happening?.. I wish him the best of luck in turning the rusty, archaic, oil tanker around...

Said EVERY team in the country...

Is this a rearranged first round meeting?... Mondays fixture was the second round of matches so the Aces have only a 12 point advantage tonight... Confused? You will be... However. In any case. Wasn't Thursday's, as a priority night, given up by Phil Morris and the top table?.....

Phew... Lucky Bomber was available to take a guest booking...

After 39 years of running supermarkets, and regions... There's a long queue mate....

I suggested this the other week on the Sheffield v Northampton thread.. Now, "maybe" Richard was already in talks with Wroclaw, and "maybe" he wasn't.... (Taps nose knowingly and winks)... The size of the sport in the UK makes it perfect for it to be a feeder league to Poland... I would go as far as to say that UK clubs should form links with them... The BSB deliver a great product using some old heads, some young UK riders, and some young riders from Europe, Japan, and Australasia who are not ready for the higher echelons.. They ensure that the talent they "lose" to MotoGp and WSB as the best riders, organically, move through the levels, get replaced by the next riders in line, due to running several lower classes including youth racing... They don't rely on other competitions to bale them out, nor allow other competitions to impact their fixture schedule... In short. They know their place and cloth is cut accordingly.. The result is a strong competitive format... Given the amount of young Poles who ride Speedway there will be a surplus of reasonable talent that cannot get team places, therefore, the UK should enable them to ride over here as part of their development.. In any business, why wouldn't a smaller entity try and forge great relations with the biggest business in their industry?... UK Speedway is now at a point where it needs significant help, and a conveyer belt of riders from the No1 Speedway nation on earth would certainly help them.. And, at the same time, help Poland with their overall rider development...

Maybe it was a "workshop" injury?....

Has the hot weather taken out the internet on the South Coast?

Who actually, (apart from you two obviously), cares???... It isn't even important enough for a BV Heat Leader to actually be there... With, presumably, it being so inconsequential and irrelevant, UK Speedeay openly gives him permission to ride somewhere else, for someone else, rather than be at one of their own meetings..... I wonder why the sport doesn't have major league sponsorship and a TV contract..?.

Or no-one had one if not enough to go around .. Heats 13 and 15 deliver a massive imbalance depending on your one and five...