mikebv

Should try and get Peter Adams or Sam Ermolenko... With Fast Freddie at No1.. 300 to 500 Wolves fans each week, added to £100k TV money could be the game changer...

How very dare you... Maybe they could stream it in action and let us watch it on our smart phones during the meeting? We could also maybe have a competition called "Guess the start time" measured from the Green light to tapes up... And also publish the mean start time averages of the 15 heats in the Speedway Star each week... I also presume the refs now get paid less as they no longer risk their lives pressing a start button for our entertainment a minimum 15 times a night..?

What? Not even the electronic random starting system? You are hard to please Bobcat...

You won't get weekly Speedway though, and that will be the challenge.. Rain offs will inevitably impact it, as will the SON.. If both teams reach the play offs it will be carnage trying to fit all the meetings in.. Look how hard it is now for both Leagues to finish "on time".. Next season, Oxford will have double the challenge.. If they reach the play offs in both leagues it will be like Workington in their treble season, racing god knows how many tines in that last month.. A disaster for the club sadly, in what was the pinnacle of their history...

What difference would that make? It would be the same people running it who are happy to run the sport the way they do now...

And if both teams reach the play offs the league wont finish till after the Jubilee cup has been ran!!

It is a huge challenge taken on... Maybe they have some big sponsorship to cover any hit at the turnstiles? Of maybe they feel the £100k plus they will get off the TV deal means it will be viable? 8 home meetings a month for the two top division teams would mean around a £200 outlay for anyone wishing to attend all of them.. Some ask given the current pressures on disposable income.. Hope it all goes well, never been to Oxford so will make it hopefully next year...

He will put it in the back of his van...

I have said for many years that what the UK version of team speedway needs is more guests.... If anything is gong to get the sport taken seriously by the fans, mainstream media, and major companies to sponsor it, it is more guests... The more short sighted may see it as a bad thing, but look at the huge success of the sport with the restricted guest system that has been used.. Therefore. Just think of the postivie impact to the credibility of what is on offer that even more guests will have... Bomber has just ordered a new three piece suite... Edit. Great to see Phil Morris with his finger on the pulse too. I know loads of people who dont attend anymore due to the way referees started races... It will be great to see the electronic random starting system implemented, hopefully that brings back some of those who have stayed away...

City will be getting a 1000 point deduction... I wonder why it has taken so long yet so quick for Everton? Hmmmmm. One of life's imponderable's I suppose...

Great post(s)... Wow! 88 seasons of racing for Belle Vue, and all incredibly within a stones throw of each other at three different tracks... And WW2 didn't stop the racing there either...

How much did it cost? Could they have held it in a "Legion" somewhere for free? Some looked like they spent a few quid on clobber too... No wonder the sport is struggling when ex riders would prefer to spend money on dressing up, going for a meal and drinking in a hotel etc etc..

Somebody has to water the plants in the hotel... And keep the meeting on time...

Same weekend as the Jubilee Trophy maybe?

"They don't need to"..... Sadly, that will be their thoughts all through the meetings held during the season to discuss next year.. And. Even if they did think that they needed to "revolutionise" the sport, it is clear, from past history, that the required skill set doesnt exist with the current incumbents that are in place to make it happen..

Shame about Charles Wright... He is great to watch at the NSS... And doesnt take many prisoners when riding.. Hope he comes back to the sport fully 100% fit, and will go and watch him at the NSS when whoever he rides for comes to town...

Richie isn't using a shovel.. More like a JCB...

Just ordered myself a new TV....

Will he be able to resist another response? I hope not..

Have an overall team average too... That way no one can sign the "best" within each grade...

They picked the hotel because they had heard it has plenty of "guests".... I'll get me coat...

Imagine how many meetings Bomber could ride in? He diary would be so full he could end up guesting for himself....

They need to declare by then so the fixture compilers can complete the fixture list.. Having five, instead of six teams, in the league, will mean that they need to plan in a completely different number of weeks' extension to the season....

That must be a spoof account surely? Cannot believe anyone would put out such a response... If it was him, then those in charge should treble the extraordinarily lenient ban...

Pretty much this... Not many media outlets will bother with it... Some sponsors might get a bit peed off though... Most are speedway fans, so will know all the details given that they follow the sport, and might not want their name associated with a rider "done" for cocaine....