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And people still comment negatively on the weather we get in Manchester... Norfolk seems to be akin to the Amazon Rain Forest.... Buying a brolly business down there when I retire to top up my pension..

Not weather impacted... And they dont have guest players replacing those listed, so are both bona fide competitions...

Of course, But to be fair, it is clearly obvious what it is... Those who attend are happy enough to keep going to watch it.. In ever dwindling numbers admittedly...

A new age of TV coverage for UK Speedway... When that was announced, I presume most of us thought it was going to be a good thing... Kabaddi gets more coverage on Eurosport...

Barely 30,000 (tops), people watch it each week in the UK... That is considerably less than 0.1% of the population... No surprise it gets ignored by the mainstream media.. BSB, MX fans, Stock Car fans, Ice Hockey and Basketball fans and even Crown Green bowling supporters, could argue the same..

I cannot for the life of me understand that.. Surely the organisers would have told them that they had zero chance of filling it given the ticket prices required to pay for the stand? If the capacity was to be 7,000 then, again, the organisers should have said no chance in getting that many at the prices they needed to charge to pay for four meetings worth of costs.. Anyone could see that the prices charged were too high to fill 7,000 spaces, given UK Speedway's tiny following, however, it could be argued, that the prices for the grandstand and back straight were accurate as both were pretty much not far off full.. FWIW, £60 for seating, £40 for standing, and £30 for U16's would have been my thoughts..

100%. To get 7000 there at an average of £70 was a huge gamble, especially given that would be around (being kind), 25% of the whole Speedway watching public in the UK.. As a one off event though you would be delighted with well over the £200k that got delivered.. And at £50 on average a ticket I would think 5000+ would be attainable.. They didn't "read the room" too well when it came to planning a week of Speedway given the lack of interest in the sport nationally, and the fact they must have expected a couple of thousand at least would stump up four meetings worth of money, (never happening in a million years), when at least two of the meetings had no national UK interest.. A one off GP would easily "wipe its face" though and probosbly more, in my opinion.. A great night though, regardless of the other issues...... And one of those events that you can truly happily say "I was there", so kudos to the organisers for delivering such a fantastic experience... When Speedway is done this well you should be filling your stadia, and, maybe, one day, the marketing will be taken seriously enough by promoters to back up the on track action.. Lambert and Bewley...

The crowd tonight? 3500? Paying an average seventy quid or so..? Well over £200k, which is easily the highest gross taken in UK Speedway for probably ever outside Cardiff..

Got to be Sweet Caroline surely?

Wow.... Just f*****g Wow!! Speedway when done like this......

Now also fluent in Polish for.. "F**k this, I'm off"......

Love watching Brady Kurtz around the NSS... Lemon should use a montage of his rides to advertise the club...

Is Bartek showing that last race to Phil?..

Great ride from the lad... Has Kelvin got his name right yet?

I am now fluent in Polish for "the referee is a c**t"....

In the middle of all the Polish lads on bend two... Enjoying myself....

Cold? Its tropical for us...

Kubera at fault for the tapes not going up... He is on a warning too... So he has to go...

They get free Steradent handed out....

Lambert performing a move that Dan wouldn't dream of.. Proper hard riding....

Quite clear the moment it got announced... As was the plan to build a stand that wasn't going to be affordable to many... A truly baffling business decision.... But this is a UK Speedway promoter...

The PCMM crowd must be similar... As for Poole, you charge ninety quid to sit in that grandstand and see how many you get...

Or a park bench....

Bit disappointed by this modern music... Put some K-Tel hits of the 70's on.....

They will have to wear hi viz tonight to do the same.... Fanzone was OK.... Hovering around South Stand waiting for an upgrade chance...