mikebv

So is not finishing your job, and stopping many times without any good reason before it is completed... Promoters certainly let the tails wag the dogs, and it does them little favour.. Even worse, they lose even more respect by still giving certain riders jobs...

I am the target audience.... Like 90% of everyone else that follows the sport... Those who identify as male that is...

Just for Men?.... Tena Men?.... Steradent?... SAGA Holidays?.. Over 50's Life Assurance?.. Those "Cheapo Funeral" Adverts?.. Just like watching U&Alibi and C5 now.....😁 Edit. Almost forgot... Those chairs that tip you out of them.. Walk in, sit down baths .. And those trainers that you don't need to bend down to put on, or tie any laces...😀

Dan T's Vlog was very telling... For the CLRC there wasn't even race jackets and he got sent the wrong numbers so had to use duct tape to make up his number!!!😁 He also said how many people came out of the Sheff Wed match and mentioned that maybe someone giving some free Speedway tickets away as they came out would have been a good idea.. He shared £800 at the pairs, and got £500 for the CLRC, which after costs, at the pairs, he said, "we won't be eating well tonight"..😁 It cost him £100 in fuel to Poole, and bought new clutch plates for the event, and paid his mechanic... There also wasn't a team manager at Poole for Edinburgh and they went out in one race in the wrong helmet colours..😁 He was very positive about Mayfield's plans and said some news coming out in the next few weeks would be extremely positive..

Given it is an offficial fixture, the rules for missing it should apply as per all meetings... And only if rescheduled, and riders already elsewhere, should any drop outs be allowed . The BSP don't help themselves when these events always have riders missing from the original line up, and their compliance with riders dropping out just undermines both themselves and their competitions... And running them so late in the season, (after many blank weeks during the summer for many tracks), is just asking for riders dropping out given many will have play offs in their respective leagues to focus on.. And also for the majority of competitors they potentially will earn less than a normal meeting... The irony of that of course, being that the last decade or so has seen riders not take part, which then dilutes the prestige, which then reduces the fan numbers, which then reduces the money on offer.. Another vicious circle UK Speedway got itself into given its lack of clear independent, disciplined, leadership..

BARB are the official company that gets used by the industry...

That's a pretty decent number for a Saturday evening slot on ITV4 I would think.. Don't think the Motorbike Show, that has that slot, would pull that many in...

A great night ahead for the last GP.. Best of Luck to Lambert, as he is easily the best rider of the 2nd half of the season...

And the year before that.... And the year before that .... And the etc etc etc....

Who would have thought?..…

Because he loved riding in it.., Knee deep in mud, and grippy as f**k was Kelvins favourite track.,

Wasn't the NDL seen as being "too good" by those in the top two tiers?.. I used to go and watch the Colts with my then under 16 lad and it cost me a tenner for the both of us to get in . Brilliant value for money and the racing was often on a par with the top tier stuff you paid out almost three times as much for... So much so, I barely watched the Guestfests in tier one and, instead, went most meetings to watch the NDL Guestfests, (perfectly ok at NDL level as it gives riders track time).. I would suggest that the issue wasn't that the NDL was too good, but maybe it was the top two tiers that weren't good enough.... For me, clubs like Birmingham and Workington were perfect for NDL level racing as when they moved up the costs grew but the crowds barely did .. Best of luck to all those under the NORA umbrella...

Has someone told them..?

Or averages to sort..

Who gives a toss?... Tedious in the extreme,. I remember the Witches beating the Aces in the 70's at Hyde Rd.,.. John Louis et al...... How far back do we go to score non existent points?

They are just pretty poor at running the sport... There can be no surprise to see it where it currently is... Self inflicted own goals, one after another..

And then ran it when the kids had gone back to school...

If only there had been a fantastic summer of hot, cloudless, evenings to run Speedway... And a plan to get the cup comps sorted early in the season...

The operating model they should have followed for years is pretty much being written for them. Let us hope they don't "eff it up"..

An excellent summary, from a fan who doesn't come across as entitled.... Some Ipswich fans are coming across as if they are not actually fans of a team that has won ONE top tier title in decades, (a seven team league), and spent a good many years in tier two due to not being able to compete in tier one.. As has been documeted, the takeover took too long for reasons I am sure were valid and required... I looked at the updates website this morning and Ipswich were 8 ahead at just over halfway... Not too poor a team then considering the challenges they faced pre season...

KL always seem to do better than most at the NSS... It would be a decent Semi Final...

Big risk moving from Saturdays... I presume they would need some financial support from the rest to change nights (again)... Unless of course, a TV deal is in the offing providing £100k or so...

And the Aces were certainly not many peoples favourites going into the season, with the capability levels of Cook, Blodorn and Zischke in particular being questioned by a good few on here... Several questioning why Lemon kept them... As can be seen, they have stepped up a large level this season and have been the real key to the Aces success so far, with each delivering at least one "difference making" performance, with the rest of the team doing their own roles well... Three riders that could have tried to have been signed by others for their own "engine room" but nobody seemed to see the improvement in them that Lemon did..

To be fair, finishing mid table in a league of 16 and more is a bit different from a league of six... Fourth out of six is equivalent to eighth in a league of even just 12... And that wouldn't be seen as a good season... The play offs this year should really have been the top two given the lack of numbers, as fourth is nearer the bottom than the top...

It actually, tangibly, means something, which must help them enormously..., Much, much harder over here to sell to fans, as well as TV/Sponsors (from outside the Speedway Bubble) who are very much not accustomed to its Mickey Mouse ways .