mikebv

Wetherspoons? Is that still going?...😁 Edit. What a great opportunity for the Aces to be at the opening and invite both CEO and the founder to the NSS... Plus invite staff from the many Wetherspoons knocking around Grt Manchester... Adverts for the Aces in every one of them!!!

I just think it was a natural demise... The novelty wore off, the hotel prices took the pee, the racing wasn't much cop, and well over a dozen tracks, some with big followings, have closed down over the past couple of decades.. Cardiff just mirrored the sports overall dropping fan base... Ironically the tickets were excellent value for money in the context of the size of stadium and overall event status..

The only watch out will be the track being too grippy... I am sure though with the quality of the track team involved they will deliver....

All good points... One GP at the NSS wouldn't be viable though.... Capacity would be around 4,500 as the East Stand would be cost prohibitive... You would be looking at every standing ticket over £100, and over £150 to sit down... I do think that the city centre in Manchester is untapped potential for the GP's to do a "proper" fanzone as all it does at the stadium is preach to the already converted.. The Aces would also benefit by doing something in the city centre alongside it...

Best call the whole thing off today.... In the great tradition of UK Speedway....

If it ain't broken... Etc. Etc. Etc.. Edit. And Cricket also ring fence their elite players and direct them as to where and when they can play through central contracts.. How much longer will it be before Poland do the same?..

Hoping we get an upgrade like we did at the first SWC held there... Blocks A and B will be on camera most of the evening given there will be a camera covering the home straight, so making it look full would be a priority for me if running the event... Even a crowd of 12,000 will generate well over a million, so even if the Aces only make £150k or so profit that is still around five domestic matches worth of income... Maybe Mark Lemon will be speaking with riders this weekend to see if they want to come over?... Good luck with that, if so, especially given the current injuries sustained out of Poland by some top riders... I see Janowski got stopped from riding in Sweden on Tuesday by Wroclaw...

Which is why call offs are so frequent... Fixture pile up pressure used to focus the mind on getting meetings on, due to often running weekly.. Now you still have plenty of Mondays and Thursdays left to run those postponed meetings.. Mondays and Thursdays later in the season which, (with a certain irony as the clock is suddenly ticking to compete the season), often get run in very ropey conditions!!! So much of what all this self policing does is show how important an independent governing body or person would be, as if they decreed, (as they would), "one point each, move on", so many more meetings would take place... Also, so many more riders wouldn't be allowed, (without proper sanction), to duck out of UK meetings whilst still riding elsewhere, and domestic meetings wouldn't be allowed to be planned in against other meetings elsewhere, when you 100% know riders will be missing... Hence, we will never have an independent body or person in charge..

Any business, regardless of industry, cannot hope to succeed when your "opening hours" aren't regular... Expecting your customers to have to constantly check when you are open, rather than just knowing due to consistent opening is asking, and expecting, a lot...

I think all can ride on either Monday or Thursday, if required, even if Monday isnt their race night... As they would if on TV... KL and BV can certainly do Thursdays, so a few weeks of all riding Monday and Thursday would clear any backlog I would suggest... Guests might be a bit harder to find admittedly if all rode...

Or, seemingly, Kings Lynn... Or Ipswich.... Or Northampton... Or (insert name as and when required)..

He scored enough in Poland last weekend to go private... To sort the knee out he can not ride with...

It isn't too far away from meetings getting called off due to the 6pm, 8pm and 9pm kick off times at the World Cup....

I can see some of these ideas being used....

This six team league is going to run until the end of October isnt it?

Brilliant...... Edit. If PHB suffers a relapse and cannot ride, could Jake ride for both teams? Although, thinking about it, that could mean up to 14 rides for him, which is too many I am sure all would agree.... So, maybe, he just rides for Sheffield but whatever he scores also counts for Ipswich..?

It did vary from event to event, depending on size of capacity, and whether a full house could be expected.... The Speedway Star published the costs a few years ago and it started, I think, around £200k up to almost £300k... The rights owners getting the money as they had paid the FIM for the rights... With Cardiff being ran by the GP owners themselves given the big income possible from that event.. If the promoters have paid half a million for both meetings then they should still do more than OK from this weekend...

Around 3000 are the £69 ones so it was a guestimate at an overall average.. If it is higher then even better for the promoters of the event...

And with the vast majority of tickets being sold being adult ones, and the cheapest being £69, with around the same number of tickets much more than £69.... Even if they only get 12,000 at an average of around say £85 or so in total, it will deliver a fair few quid, (over a million)... With the booking fees, programmes, the car park fees and food concessions are very nice bonus...

Hopefully they get their pyrotechnics in....

Just seen that... A shame... Freddie always good value at the NSS...

That is correct, you need to have a ticket for the Friday meeting...

Take cash though.... Edit Shockster beat me to it...

Last weekend there were a few hundred tickets left in the East Stand that they build for the GP's, on the Friday night...

The GP's, due to their cost, do impact crowds negatively in the lead up to, and post, the meetings.. To attend the PCM meeting, the GP's and the British Final will cost me circa £500 as I pay for my lad.. Great for Belle Vue in one way, but not great when the run of the mill domestic matches get missed...