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Are you on for an exclusive on News at Ten or will Piers Morgan be taking up the mantle interviewing the oracle of British speedway. Please plead the 5th and let Godfrey take the wrap. If not sell it as the best thing since slice malt loaf and hopefully a fixture list for 2027 will be available soon. Great to have you on board the sinking speedway ship.

Grass track fixtures in this week’s Star for those in the Premiership suffering from withdrawal symptoms. Perhaps one of the grass venues could stage speedway, it might be quicker than Northampton.

It may well be for a few, they no longer care about the outcome and for many any residual goodwill has long left the stadia.

Last time I went to a football match was when Alan Gilzean was at Tottenham and friend dragged me along so the answer is not recently.

Thanks. i was just trying to understand the cost comparisons and the whole experience if for example in both cases an overnight stay or two nights stay was necessary with travelling costs etc. adding in food etc. Not an exact science but the one thing that the U K cannot compete on with for example a Polish GP where in terms of the size of the crowd and the atmosphere it is far superior but obviously smaller venues may probably go head to head and be comparable. I still feel the ticket prices are over the top for what you are getting but that is just a personal opinion, others may think otherwise. Anyway enjoy the meeting and savour the memories. Long may a GP be held in GB.

I am not sure I understand the logic of the pricing structure. As it stands it would be better value for a punter to get six months on TNT or whatever the streaming service is called now rather than pay for a family ticket. If it is nine GPs and say the TNT cost is £210 that is circa £27 per meeting. Why would anyone travel any distance to attend in Manchester given the add on costs so if they are appealing to fans within a certain radius of the track, how many locals will pay and what will be the impact on the Belle Vue domestic fixtures. Others on here might be able to come up with cost comparisons re ticket prices for other GPs and I may well be out of touch but the UK prices seem over the top.

That’s being very generous. It has many similarities to the way the country is currently being run and both are shambles. Government wants more taxes, promoters want higher entrance fees, riders want more for less, benefit claimants want more for doing nothing and in both cases those in charge are ostracising the very same tax payers/punters who feed them by increasing the costs for the few simply to placate the rest.

Agree with the ‘live’ sentiment but that is becoming increasingly more costly and those with limited disposal income will forsake that and frankly with the way some meetings are drawn out, I would suspect many would rather be at home than standing on a chilly terrace in stadiums with poor facilities, expensive food and drink plus toilets that are some of the worse you can find and you can have all that for an entry fee of £20+. That’s probably why some people no longer attend because the supporter is a secondary inconvenience to the people who run the sport. Just look at the way they have conducted themselves in the close season.

You are getting the rest for just over £5.60 a meeting so to pay a bit more for the play offs is still not a bad deal. The only possible downside is that more may stay at home rather than pay for fuel, entry fee, programme and possibly parking and if that adds up on average to £30 it is a no brainer to those on limited income. Many would forsake attending live if it is saving them over £20 assuming it is just one person attending. If it is a couple or family the saving is even greater.

That does seem good value for 48 meetings and being able to spread the cost will encourage a few more punters. Well done to BSN

Given the woke ideas of today more likely to be Adrian Street. If you needed someone who could dodge everything and still come out a winner, Les Kellett fits the bill but both are probably off the radar for the BSPL. More likely Steve Logan aka as Harry Redknapp.

Could that add a new dimension to doubling up?

Sadly that is not true. The guy in the photo has a great future and is appearing in Stars in their Eyes where tonight audience, “ I want to be Harry Redknapp”. That should raise the bar.

Perhaps they are using Chatgpt or whatever the AI generator for nonsense is.

Surely they would not shaft one of the best broadcasters of Speedway since Sky. Having said that most of those that run the sport are unscrupulous individuals and frankly nothing is credible any longer and they would shaft anyone. Those in charge never learn and have not got an ounce of sense between them. Cannot even have the balls to publish a fixture list and in failing to do so screw every club who have declare the intention to run. Those in charge are a shower of sh….