mikebv

We'll do what we want!... We'll do what we waaaaaaaant!... We're doubling up heat leaders... We'll do what we want!!!....

UK Speedway....

Seven day ban for the member of staff?..

The riders of a certain level can do what they want, given there are so few of them... They hold down two positions and often are HL's in both leagues.. Meaning they are pretty much "bomb proof".. Those who say we cannot have "one big league" due to the disparate standards between the riders that would need to be used, need to imagine what the next five years or so are going to bring when all the "vastly experienced" DU's have retired... Many teams will be using current NDL lads to DU , and these lads even in five or so years, will still be well off the standard of today's HL DU's..

Didn't want to get his bike dirty...

Didn't want to get his bike dirty...

"Have you got a charger for a Samsung?. My battery has gone and my ticket is in it.."..

Any day now..... That "Wow" announcement that Rob Godfrey mentioned will be made public... Probably waiting for Wimbledon, the World Cup, and the Tour De France to finish so it doesn't impact the amount of publicity it will attract...

There does always seem to be dozens of "lurkers" daily... Ironically, and suitably, a good many of them are "Guests"...

And the nonsense of the pre season will not have helped.. I truly have never seen any business or entity commit so much Harikiri on itself as Speedway in the UK has done, particularly over the past 20 years as the digital age has boomed.. Year after year they have made poor decisions which have just compounded the poor decisions from the previous years... Normally a business would fix its issues, even more so when they are so glaring and obvious, and their customers either tell them publicly, or tell them by no longer attending, but still closely following the sport.. I truly would love to know what the promoters vision for the sport is, and where they aspire to take it... As all it currently looks like is this... "Make it to the end of this season, do exactly the same thing next, then rinse and repeat ad infinitum"...

Riders receive six month bans starting in October and ending in March... But only if the season starts in April... Independent Leadership anyone?...

I considered going to that meeting and went online around 6pm and the grandstand had sold around 500 out of the circa 1800... The back straight with around 400.. Pay at the gate would have added a few more I am sure.. Streaming must have some impact but it does bring revenue... Such low crowds must be a worry though...

Updates said a 500 crowd...? Surely not...?..

Imagine if the sport was ran properly, with independent leadership in place..? All this nonsense simply wouldn't be allowed to take place and damage it.... Which is exactly why we will never have independent leadership, as everyone is happy to be complicit in making things up as and when they need to..

A shambles of a sport in the UK...

Lawson has been "unlucky" recently hasn't he?..... Seven day ban I presume...? Or will Donald Trump give "Arry a bell?...

A strange situation when Lambert won Heat 13... The Torun fans startd a chant as Lambert did a wheelie in celebration, past them... Not one single one of them ignored his celebration, and started to fill a programme in...

Maybe a factor, but, for me, it's the huge drop off in the number of riders capable of holding down team places... Hence the majority DU just to provide 15 teams of the "desired" levels.. In the 70's, hundreds of lads tried to be Speedway riders, and "training schools" were the norm at many tracks... Now, so few come through, that the "old heads" actually keep the sport going..

Who's in the next one?...

How many more does he want???

Or keep everything the same?...

Cierniak going backwards in his career...

BZ runs a last against Przyjemski, Musielak, and Kubera... Making up no ground whatsoever...

Squeeky bum time for Woryna on that first turn... He likes riding the boards...!!!

Something up there at those numbers....