mikebv

Are any of fhe riders mentioned left handed? I think there may be a sub reg which allows a further reduction in averages of left handed riders... Just as long as they can a) prove they are left handed and b) prove it by the end of February.. All that needs to happen is for a BSP Official to hand the rider a pen and see how he writes with it... Mickey Mouse has just looked at his BSP watch that he got for Christmas off Minnie, and confirmed officially that today is the 26th of February, so still time left...

Mmmmmmm. Who will I pick? Decisions, decisions..... I may need to sleep on it, and decide tomorrow...

I like it.... "Come and watch UK Team Speedway!! (But ignore all the 'FAFF!')".. Just get that up on all the major Social Media sites... Bound to be a winner...

But if so.. You would be talking about going to see people who are the very top of their field of work, known around the globe by millions, and performing in an industry that generates billions of pounds... Not a tiny, minority sport... The standing admission fees seem OK... At the highest end of the scale I would suggest, but OK, (just)...

That's only £346.50 a night though Iain.... Take five hundred quid out with you, each night, and you will still have enough for the bus fares home and twenty Woodbines...

The perfect example of an overseas rider that adds something to UK Speedway, and will be greatly missed.. Unlike so many overseas journeymen down the years, and still the same today, who will hardly be noticed, never mind missed... Yet will have blocked medium to long term UK rider development... Edit. His Heat 15 at the NSS a few years ago, with Doyle, Kurtz and Bewley, when Ipswich knocked the Aces out of the PO's, was one of the best races I have ever seen in Team Speedway..

They have been quite critical of the whole thing in several pieces written... Fairly done as well...

Doyle would have to drop a league overseas to come back, and will have signed contracts... And Sayfutdinov would need a new visa, (which is why he left wasnt it as it ran out?)... A new promotion would struggle to be a sponsor too I think given the rules that need to be followed..

I'll start.... I see your £15k and raise it by twenty pounds... Could be a long thread this... I seem to remember the bond has changed down the years with the last I heard it being £50k.. However, I also seem to remember it changing into assets also being part of the bond, rather than just cash, hence new promoters in particular were encouraged to make riders into their assets.. (Which also often meant more, unattached in the UK, overseas journeymen coming over who became as asset. Great for UK rider development!!).. Obviously, there are no assets anymore, so if a track closes the BSP no longer inherits the riders and are, therefore, no longer able to either loan or sell them to other teams to help pay the debts of the closed track.. I can't believe the bond is £50k though anymore to be honest, given so few people seem interested in coming into the sport to promote... £15,025, my final bid...

A sport, in the UK, simply set up for a few dozen riders so they can earn money... And set up so some people, with enough money, can have an expensive hobby which they love being a central part of... The fans being invited along to help subsidise the costs, and keep them within reason for the person whose hobby it is... UK Speedway is no more than this.. The BSN package looks excellent value for money for "generic fans", who just enjoy watching Speedway without bothering too much who wins and who doesn't.. Hope they have a good season with plenty of subscribers.

It is great value isn't it? Clubs then charging £15 or so for their own stream could look somewhat excessive when compared to BSN...

Apologies... Thought you were comparing this years potential Ipswich to last years Lions... Ipswich and Leicester, this year,could be of a similar level.... Who cares? Will be the sports biggest challenge.

Fricke was a race winner, and top of the averages.. You cannot then lose race points when he wins.. The possible Ipswich team won't be winning too many Heats One, Thirteen and Fifteen, I would think given the one and fives for the other teams... That could easily be an eight point swing as a minimum..

This is a LOCAL forum for LOCAL people... We'll have no shouting in here.... Are you local? Edmund! There is a Swansea!!!... Lines and Lines and Lines... Etc, etc, etc..

I truly cannot believe the negativity on here .. It is almost like people are not taking into consideration the innovative, successful, marketing genius of those who have run the sport for the past 15 years plus....

It will be Bomber... Every. Single. Time....

I am retired so can put leaflets on loads of car windscreens in loads of supermarket car parks... If that is any good .?

We didn't burn him!!!!!

I think my half n half kevlars idea could actually become a reality, and a winner!!!.. Keeps the scores close as the rider scores exactly the same for both teams... And doubles his points each ride, so he earns more money... And loads of close, exciting, dead heats if he wins!!! Come on BSP and SFL, you now it makes sense... (And cannot t be any more ludicrous than some of the ideas implemented over the years).. This time next year, we'll be millionaires!!!

Every season, fans start off enthusiastically after a long winter of no Speedway.... Often, by the end of May, for too many, that enthusiasm has worn off... Let's hope this season, more than ever, each team can keep its "opening night crowd" numbers for most of the season..

The vast majority of the fans can see that, yet, incredibly, it seems those running the sport cannot. Once again, if we go with six teams, at least one will be cannon fodder... Just like when we had seven teams... Just like when we had eight teams. .. Just like when we had, etc etc etc, In fact, when the top tier reached eight and more, it usually meant at least two teams were cannon fodder.... Yet. . "We propose to do exactly the same this season" is the only plan....

Things Can Only Get Better - D:Ream..

Top tier promoters were trying to encourage some second tier teams to go into the top league... Imagine if Poole and Glasgow had gone into the top league (I won't say "moved up", as it isn't really), and Oxford had decided to stay...? Even without Northampton, where would the riders have come from?

Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday night's alright... (But not for Premiership Speedway due to doublng up being so important)... Music by Elton John Lyrics not by Bernie Taupin...

Any white smoke coming out above the BSP Tower in Rugby? Is the Union Jack flying outside to mark whether King 'Arry is in residence? Imagine being any reasonable sized comoany looking to get involved in sponsoring UK Speedway's "flagship league", and witnessing such a way of working?... "We are interested, but the optics of only six teams doesn't look like something with too much relevance"... "Well, technically, we only currently have four, but don't you worry about that, we have a cunning plan, and, rest assured, we are masters when it comes to cunning plans"...