mikebv

Which team do you want to buy to knock out £30 Speedway? Good luck selling four guests and RR to a couple at sixty quid a pop... In fact, if you want to throw lots of money away I will send you my bank details and I will gladly accept it.... I pay for my lad at the NSS as he works PT, and I pay over £50 for entrance so we go very infrequently given the competition isn't ran as a "proper sporting championship", and has very little jeopardy or consequence for the vast majority of the year... If the same nonsense got dished out for £30 for us both, I would be there far more often... 12 trips at thirty quid, or three at fifty...? What would a business prefer? Many on the Unofficial BV FB page also state entrance fees as a barrier to more regular attendance from themselves..... If you want to charge £30 then there has to be top riders, jeopardy and consequence to every meeting, a very competitive league, no ad hoc made up teams, and a 2025 fit for purpose entertainment package.... The actuality is I fear, is that we will end up with a very much reduced offering, with all the usual nonsense surrounding how the sport is ran still very firmly in place... The rumoured plans, if true, look very much like short term survival mode decision making, rather than a longer term growth strategy... A five year plan anyone?

If there are no "top riders" then those tracks, now once again used to having them, wiill get hit at the turnstiles... However, if there are still "top riders" (max one per track), then that might work to increase crowds at the Div 2 tracks who haven't seen them for a while, and could maybe keep attendances OK at the current Div 1 tracks who have them.. If it is a 12 team league with 60 riders then clubs should also get some extra riders signed up using a similar contract to the "Warsaw" one used in Poland.. Meaning instead of guests they can bring in riders open to doing "some matches", subject to averages allowing them to slot in.. The big danger of one league is guestfest after guestfesf, particularly at weekends, when Poland kicks in, and Wednesdays with Denmark impacting Poole... If there is still so little credibility in the competition then the devaluing of it will inevitably hit attendances like it does now.. I think the TV deal is in its last year so maybe no coverage next season other than club streaming and BSN? Which, if correct, won't be a bad thing attendance wise I would think.. Let's be honest, UK Speedway hasn't used TV coverage well over the past two decades has it? With it being one of the very few sports with 1000's of hours coverage that hasn't improved attendances or increased its reach and profile. A embarrassing shambles to be honest given the 100's of two hour "free adverts" it has been given.. The Aces I would think would revert back to Friday or even Saturday, as, even if guestfests, those nights would still bring more in to watch the great racing on offer I would suggest, especially as the sport has now made so many "generic" fans, who attend for the racing rather than the bona fide nature of the event itself.. The price point has to be around £15 to £20 max and maybe each away track gets given 100 free tickets to see if some much needed "tribal atmosphere" could get created? Subsidising Supporters Clubs coaches could also help get the away fans to tracks... Something drastic certainly needs to be done of that there is no doubt, (and should have been done at least a decade ago), so let's hope they come up with the right plan which delivers a competitive league, that also has the required credibility to make the competition itself have a bona fide status, so it's actually worth winning... And, therefore, attending.... One thing is definite. Doing the "same old, same old" Mickey Mouse team structure nonsense, and still having the same amount of "dodgy call offs", won't improve things one iota...

Well done to the Aces, the only team to not use a guest so far .. Let's hope they can continue to see if it can be done all season...

A nice photo on FB of Bomber taking his daughter for a spin on his bike on the way to her prom... Before taking her to it in "the Bentley"!... So maybe he does see a future!!!!😁

It is all a bit Mickey Mouse, UK Speedway, isn't it? 😁 Well worth twenty five quid a pop..🤪

Those happy clappers that are left, happily collude with the promoters that all is well and their team is their team... I am surprised they are not sat there with a pair of underpants on their head, two pencils up their nose and just saying "wibble, wibble, pah, pah" when asked "are you mad".. Blackadder....

If Dean gets there early enough, he might be riding!!!😁...

If it is a right to work in the UK issue then he won't be allowed to..

FFS! 😁 The promoters truly do get the following they deserve... Four lads riding around a track for four laps on a motorbike without any brakes... How can they "duck" it up so much??? 😆.. Who cares who wins such a "clusterf**k" of a sport...? Just get 14 decent riders at each venue if you want to charge £50 per couple...

A great many fans who still follow the sport....

I would suggest more have walked way due to the made up Mickey Mouse rules than actually currently attend... My own anecdotal evidence is five of us used to go regularly, now only one still does, yet we all often get together on a weekend to watch Poland and the GP's.. I wonder how many more have a similar story? Just by doing something to get those dissilusioned fans back onside would more than double attendance's at lots of tracks, as there at that many of them... Add that to a price point that gets "occasional fans" to visit more often, and provide big discounted tickets to away fans, and you may then start to build some atmosphere in the stadiums that befits a team sport... Thus reversing the vicious circle that has been allowed to pervade, unchallenged, for a couple of decades..

UK Speedway.... A slow, inexorable, agonising death... By a thousand, and more, self inflicted cuts... It does seem that almost the majority of threads get taken over by some nonsense or other that a proper professional sport could never countenance... Self policing can be a real issue for some organisations...

100%.... No wriggle room... You need emergency support then you get it... But there are certain caveats to it to ensure complete transparency and integrity... Not difficult to administer, yet UK Speedway makes it look like it is...

100%... So then make an official statement.... Of any sport, Speedway is the one that, due to the way they run the sport, has so many "supp regs" or "ahhh but, ifs"... I personally think they don't as they will set precedents and provide public reference points should they do something different for a similar, but, (given so many "ahh but, ifs" they generate), not quite the same scenario the next time... So many self inflicted issues driven by the need for a myriad of "ahh but ifs" that they require due to not making clear and simple ones that allow zero wriggle room.. For me, a "seven day ban" sounds harsh for looking after your kid, however, a "seven day emergency leave" (with possible extention), to look after your kid would be fair, and, would paint the sport in a modern enlightened way.... And prevent zero conspiracy theories from your customer base who, due to decades of "dodgy" occurrences have become just a tad cynical... Which is never good for any business...

Or did maths at school....

My link doesn't work.... Get in there!!!!!!!

The lack of leadership of this sport in the UK doesn't stand it in too good a stead does it? If a clear "rule" or "regulation" is then not followed then at least an explanation should be made public as to why...

King Charles would say... "My gosh, is Speedway still going? One used to love watching Barry Briggs at Plough Lane, Mayta used to effing love it"....

They didn't get the cut through with Hans, Trick, Crumpy, Pedersen, and Hancock... All English speakers... And then you had Havvy, Loram and Woffy... None of them crossed over to make the mainstream take any interest... And, most importantly, it isn't Poland's responsibility to make UK and World Speedway prosper... That is down to those who take responsibility to be the custodians of the sport.. The bottom line is... They are just not very good at holding that position..

That's fine... And I am sure those who understand Polish laughed... However, who effing made the sport in Poland what it is today? That's right! Great Bloody Britain.! That's who!!! (Play Land of Hope and Glory in the background,).. We made Poland what it is today by, several years ago, gracefully, giving them our best British riders like Hans Nielsen, Greg Hancock, Jason Crump, Leigh Adams, Tony Rickardsson, Nicki Pedersen, and Billy Hamill, etc, etc etc... Not to mention allowing BZ to do a few laps at Perry Barr that turned a "throttle jockey" into a five time world champ.. Thank you very much... So... Show some bloody respect...! "Mother of the free" etc, etc, dont know the rest...

I agree, however, you can do testing without too much risk or consequence, (you are never getting dropped are you?), and beating others will always be a positive which improves confidence... And, for the top lads, it is a pretty "easy" (as much as it can be for a Speedway rider), very decent return for six months work..

And the crowd go wild..... Edit.. Well done our Kev!!! Sorted mate....

He can't even interview in English... Very disrespectful.... Does he not know who runs Speedway?

BZ the 3rd in a class of his own... BZ the 2nd struggling a bit this year so a bit soon to make a long term judgement on how BZ the 3rd's career will turn out... Very good though isn't he?

Wow... Fair play then....