mikebv

I always think that it is fantastic that after each AGM they are all on the same page... Sadly, it's always from the wrong effing book!!!

I had something called "pseudo gout" which the docs couldn't pinpoint was the reason.. I suggested, given the timeline, that maybe it was due to Iron Tablets that I started to take, and they thought it could indeed be linked. So, I started to take Grapefruit Juice to see if it helped.. I drank a litre a day... Unfortunately, it has had zero effect.. I am suspicious though that it might be down to the litre of vodka a day I drink it with...

My lad used to ride there for Stockport...

Seriously?...

So.... Full Steam ahead for the Premiership in trying to revive that dead horse for 2026.... So it can be flogged to death again in time for 2027... Basically.... Just keep on doing exactly the same thing, and each time you do it, expecting a completely different result... Truly Genius... Should be a roaring success... Just like it is currently...

The Speedway Bubble Echo Chamber. .

Omerta has been breached....

So, business as usual then....

Entertainment wise? I would suggest with Glasgow, Scunthorpe, Redcar, and Workington, the second tier, overall, delivers better racing... With, the NSS being the only top tier track that consistently delivers a similar standard...

In Carmarthen they used to dance around those traffic lights every Saturday night, thinking it was a disco...😄

As opposed to being a big fish in a smaller pond?

Many Polish teams have done this kind of thing for a fair few years... Good to see a UK team seeing value in doing something similar in a 24/7 media era... Be interesting to see which teams do their own VLOG covering "the before", "the during", and "the after" of their matches... 15 to 20 mins max, out on YouTube, and the other Socials... Plenty of reach on those platforms for not a lot of outlay.... Glasgow do seem to be well ahead of many others when it comes to actual promoting and marketing themselves...

A video of five people sat round a table, head scratching...

How much for lights though Dean?... And probably lights from the "main road" to the track given the nature of that road to the track (elf n safety innit?).. And riding on Mondays would impact Belle Vue, and Thursdays, Sheffield. (Do they have that 30 mile rule still?)... It truly is remarkable isn't it that we are where we are today? Even more so when everyone (apart from those within the Speedway Bubble it seems), could see it happening, particularly over the past decade or so, in front of their eyes..

Then don't run the top division at such a level... A five, or even a six team league doesn't look good if you are trying to sell the sport to sponsors, TV, and fans.. Whether reality or not, the top league in any sport is seen as almost defining it... Something to aspire to get into... Something that delivers decent financial rewards.. Something that gains the maximum publicity for the sport.. Instead, we could end up with a five team league that more resembles an "Invitational Tournament", rather than a bona fide "National Competition"... 14 teams collectively actually do make the sport look like it is "National", and not almost irrelevant, and does, geographically, cover a large part of the country... Finding a way to get them into one league further down the line, (before more tracks are lost), has to be the way forwards.. You would hope that the next 12 months are, in the background, spent putting together that one league structure and the sport then relaunches itself in 2027 with a new operating model, a collective marketing plan, and a financially sound business plan that keeps all teams profitable... There have been far too many years of "let's, once again, make do and mend", so they should make this the last one, running with whatever they can come up with... And use the next 12 months to work out a strong plan which will deliver progress and growth from 2027 onwards...

Both businesses were talked positively about by their respective sellers, and rightly so... However, how successful they would have been without the TV money, and possible sponsor values they got based on having the TV deal, may be something that anyone potentially purchasing could be asking.... Sheffield have lost Tru Plant sponsorship and Ipswich must have taken in a very healthy six figure sum in the final which has no guarantee of being repeated this coming season... And, you have to say, a five team league doesn't look too inspiring to go and regularly watch does it?.. So maybe not a "perfect time" to be selling a Speedway team, which could stretch out negotiations given so many variables from last season.. Mark Lemon was quite relaxed around maybe not having a TV deal in his interview with the Speedway Star a few weeks ago, "people will have to attend the tracks to watch the sport" were his thoughts... Which is true, but... Selling a five team league to these people won't be easy...

And the legacy of it is clear to see... What you could get away with in the 70's doesn't pass the sniff test in a 24/7 digital media age... The fact they, in over 50 years, havent managed to find a way to not use guests, (like other countries running exactly the same sport have), pretty much speaks volumes...

The Aces should have Charitable Trust advantages...

He wasn't well... He could barely film himself doing his daily 10km runs...

Indeed... And less teams to beat to reach the play offs... A win/win.... Until, of course, it isn't...

A few years ago, somewhere in the UK, when they had ten teams down from eleven the previous year... "Great, one less team this year, I could maybe get some of their riders and make my team better".. Then, the next year when they had nine, down from ten.. "Great, one less team this year, I could maybe get some of their riders and make my team better"... Then, the next year when they had eight, down from nine.. "Great, one less team this year, I could maybe get some of their riders and make my team better".. Then the next year when they had seven, down from eight... "Great, one less team this year, I could maybe get some of their riders and make my team better".. Then the next year when they had five, down two, from seven.. "This is absolutely ridiculous, we cannot run the sport like this, something should be done about all these tracks closing, there isn't enough teams for my team to race against now. Some of the second tier teams need to come up to my league. Some promoters are so selfish, and just look after themselves, they should all be like me, a proper team player"...

If it ain't broken...

It was ever thus.... If ever a body of people needed saving from themselves it was UK Speedway... With no one to independently stand back, and objectively scrutinise how the optics of the decisions taken will look, and land, to their customer base, we have had decades of completely wrong decisions being made time after time... UK rider development should have been the No1 on their "to do" list, to ensure more supply than demand of riders, but instead we had foreign journeymen coming over and replacing each other using an ever spinning revolving door.. There are far too many self inflicted, and avoidable, issues to unpick now to ever sort the sport out without a huge influx of cash from somewhere I would think...

They have just joined "Your Party".....

Just been listening to Talksport and 'Arry was on (for a change!).... Very disappointing... He spent his whole time on there discussing Spurs and Thomas Frank, with the end of his conversation mentioning the sad passing of Billy Bonds.... I thought he may have at least mentioned his thoughts on how the Berwick team were shaping up, or maybe what he felt about Peterborough potentially coming back, but running at Oxford, or even his views on whether opening a track at Northampton would be good for Speedway.. Nothing... Just Football.... Maybe his life long love for the sport has ended?