mikebv

£80 ticket for both days, 5000 crowd.. £400k... Worth a punt I would say...

Two cathedral's but no speedway track.... And no one noticed the city had been bombed until 1965....

Do you live in Coventry? Isn't it twinned with Gaza? ..

Great news... Two days of cracking Speedway, seven miles from my door.. Just need to make sure the missus doesn't book any "surprise" holidays... Or she will be going by herself...

Maybe they felt the renegotiation of the contract was a formality? And then something changed? A price increase and then a "tactical walkaway" possibly..?

Much easier... I live in Stockport...

If you are putting a "select team" together, where you can have four ringers in every match you compete in, you really should be favourites for the tournament.. Mickey Mouse bollox obviously but it will still be worth a giggle to watch it all unfold...😀

Dickie?

Don't worry... That will NEVER happen...

You would have thought with the different time zone in Aussie he would actually be dropping the clutch earlier wouldn't you? 🤪

Some good season ticket deals too... Good to see some thought going into the venture....

It's also sometimes about finding yourselves in a corner and then cobbling together seven riders who can be bothered to ride over here, after other teams have locked and loads their "top two" well before you have....

Because, within moments of the press release, several on here would have shown the average calculation used to be wrong...?

An average "in the interest of Speedway?"...

Daniel Levy at Spurs would love to be bored out of his pants from now until the end of the season and see Spurs finish in the top four... Instead, he will be taken on a rollercoaster of victories and defeats, watching loads of goals, and seeing his team fail to reach the Champions League.. And will be very, very disappointed come May.. As will all the Spurs fans.. Not many will be looking back and saying "wasn't that four three defeat by Chelsea at home a great game?" at the end of the season.. In sport, winning is everything, otherwise, no point in actually doing it... Personally for me, Speedway, (in the UK), given its lack of any major financial gain by winning, almost non existent MSM publicity, and its ludicrous ad hoc team structures, is something I watch as "sports entertainment" rather than something I consider a "bona fide" sporting competition... However, plenty still feel it is "proper competition", and good luck to them, as they are still supporting the sport, and it needs as many as it can find to keep doing so.. Poole know "winning" is key to making a profit, so, quite rightly, they set up their operating model to always be in the mix to win... Perfect sense...

Why worry about the track or the racng? The punters are happy... That is what is important... Win at home each week and it keeps them coming.. Seems strange that so many moan about them..

Poole know a winning team gets them a decent following.. They also know that hardly anyone could name the Premiership Champions let alone those the two tiers lower.. Therefore. Why lay out £100k more to maybe be lower in the table and reduce crowd numbers? An excellent business model for Poole...

Visit the NSS twice a week to polish the Premiership Trophy....

I think it is safe to say that this is a dilemma he won't need to face ..😁

Spot on.. Some truly compare Apples to Oranges.. Even Ice Hockey is getting (at least), double the crowds . Speedway is a tiny, tiny minority sport in the grand scheme of things.. Some seem to think it should be followed by hundreds of thousands.. Run it like Poland,and you may have chance.... Otherwise, cut your cloth, and accept it for what it is .. A bit "made up, Mickey Mouse" stuff that can be a great night out if you ignore someone trying to make you believe it really means something that it clearly isn't..

Could call it Cinder. I'll get me coat . 😀

Let the rest worry ...😁

Rubbish... I am 82 and can use computers as well as the next vheytrsndhfg....

Not too many years ago he was the No1 earner in Poland on that list that gets compiled... More than Zmarzlik and Janowski who were considered the "big two" at the time... I presume the money over here didn't quite motivate him the same...

100%... As has been said.. Start the season with three Test Matches. Before Poland starts.. Speedway fans, starved of six months without Speedway, will want to attend.. "Top" riders get some competitive racing before Poland kicks in.. And. The UK can then advertise their launch of the domestic season off the back of it.. Tracks in places like Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield, Ipswich and Poole, (and maybe some others?) would get 2500 plus crowds I would suggest..