Woz01

I've just woken up after watching the boxing from last night and seen this news. I'm am delighted that we are running. It does sound to me that Sandhu is at the very least part funding this venture until Brandon can get back in a fit state. Also good news we seem to be keeping our 1-7, some rate it some don't. I'm just absolutely buzzing we have a chance to keep going. Hopefully they will do everything possible to help fans get there, putting on coaches etc. Up The Bees!!

It won't be. It'll be Leicester Lions and maybe Coventry Bees, two seperate teams.

So if Horton bought Leicester does that mean the BSPA chairman financially benefitted from the situation? I hope not.

I see it as all this talking is for a resolution to race at Brandon at some point during the season. A share at Leicester would be easy to arrange I think.

I think for clubs that rent their stadium the stadium owners probably insist on an interval to make some food and drink money.

I think it's highly likely that Horton will take over at Leicester. Leicester Lions will be Leicester Lions though and I don't think the Leicester line up will be all the Bees 1-7. This is probably why there is a chance of Coventry Bees at least starting the season at Leicester.

Agree with the Coventry Blaze social media output. Also tomorrow evening my family are attending the Blaze game as my kids school got an offer from Blaze. As HertsRacer said they were Barons then went to Blaze then the franchise moved to Coventry when the ice rink was built. Used to watch Barons quite a bit, I remember Barons losing 21-3 to Guildford!

Meetings today and will update when they can.

Leicester, Swindon and Belle Vue are declared to run.

Coventry Bees hasn't really connected to the City in a while. Something I hope changes if by some miracle we do remain at Brandon.

Stox are not definitely running. The fixtures can be moved to other venues. The Stox promotion own the dates, the can race them at any track.

So why is this situation Hortons fault as you claimed? He hasn't the finance to pay 200k+ for Sandhu's fixture and fittings and why would he pay for it when Brandon Estates says it's their fixture and fittings and not Sandhu's?

No one knows for certain but doesn't mean people can't base opinions what we do know and what the individuals have or have not done during this debacle. Sandhu must've agreed a new lease once the stadium was sold although I don't remember a press release about it. I only remember the 10 year lease because it was on my timehop app.

There was a 10 year lease signed in 2013 I wonder what happened to that.

I have no idea why but you'd have to think about why Sandhu has never even tried to get one. Doesn't make sense to me he's more than willing to pay for everything yet not be leaseholder. I can understand the silence in regard negotiations and what it entails but we could have more updates as in if things are progressing etc. We seems to get more info from CWR than anywhere else at the minute. Even if Horton did sign the lease i don't think anything would be any different.

How exactly? He isn't the stadium owner, he isn't the one who took stuff out, he isn't the one who sold the site in the first place. He went out and negotiated a lease, did Sandhu? Why isn't Sandhu negotiating a lease, why didn't Sandhu negotiate a lease in the first place despite saying he would pay for everything? Brandon Estates won't let Sandhu on the site to replace things, why? Is it a grudge? Do they have 'history'? Horton didn't sign the lease but you can understand why especially as Brandon needed Sandhu's funds to run. Horton has his faults but in this instance he is the last person to blame out of the 3 parties. If Brandon Estates and Sandhu didn't have a fued would we be in this situation? No. Unfortunately your incorrect. Brandon Estates never wanted Sandhu to operate beyond 2016. This is why Horton had to go out and get a lease instead of Sandhu extending the lease he had. If he was to pay for it all why wouldn't he be the leaseholder? This issue has been ongoing before 2016

The article was a bit of a guess wasn't it.

And again! The stadium owners are stopping us from using the stadium as things stand because they have issue with Sandhu.

I couldnt do it when I'm on a Friday day shift. This post is completely wrong in all aspects. Sandhu took his stuff because of Brandon Estates not Horton, Horton doesn't own the stadium ffs!

So there is still hope for Brandon?

Not sure that's true!

A poor meeting, match or whatever can always happen in sport. Happens in Football, Rugby and Ice Hockey but you still get the crowd interacting as the players walk out to music, guard of honour etc, it usually carries on. Speedway has even more scope for crowd interaction between races but no one takes the time to plan how to present and do it.

The riders walk out at Brandon for example is/was pathetic. Riders just walk on, no introductions, no guard of honour (get the kids to do it) or any music that could get a crowd going. Get some flags for people to wave, make it look like fans are involved. A simple thing with simple solutions to get some crowd interaction. The start of a night of racing can set the tone of the night.

They've worked hard for that. Something that speedway can learn from.

Yes I do know Coventry Rugby Club, I used to have a season ticket as a child (think i was 13) when they were still at Coundon road. Went to Moseley school behind it and the players sometimes trained on the school field. I still attend occasionally just like I do with every major Coventry sports team, there are a few!