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talking about gp 1 and 2 not league

You have to construct a whole track from scratch at Cardiff. At Odsal you could pull the line in temporarily for a fraction of the cost. Daresay it would be cheaper to hire, cheaper to stage, better track, better location.

as a Redcar fan, kind of dreading the final. Hope we at least get the home leg 1st and try for a 4/6 point win followed by a 30 pt loss away. Poole fans must be quaking in their boots, not

Worky, Redcar, Scunny, Oxford, BV, Plymouth - there's always hope where there's a will

don't know if any of you Bandit guys have seen this https://berwickliteraryfestival.com/event/roddy-mcdougall/

great telly

for me its ££, and the reason i don't attend league football (although they don't seem to be missing me) at the risk of starting a whole new row - £12/14 max and find a way of making it viable through reduction of expenses - not easy i know. I don't care if they go round in rattly old JAPS. Its the market level and you can not sell something above the market value. Pubs are finding this out now - £5 a pint versus 4 excellent bottles for £6 at Tesco, people are staying in. Even cinemas are having to drop prices. Hard to coax people out and I'm one of them

I wouldn't worry, the rain's gonna but the mokkers on everything for the foreseeable

as should have Swindon as should Peterborough now and, sadly Edinburgh must be added to the list

Ian, have you seen the pictures of the houses, there's absolutely no way speedway will survive the NIMBY onslaught, despite the track being there donkeys years. Any new tracks are going to have to be in the middle of nowhere like Worky. Hope you're well

I would imagine Glasgow, Poole and sometimes Leicester and Oxford are in 4 figures in the CL, the rest 3 figures. How the teams with big rents manage I don't know

in the long long list of ludicrous stuff that happens in this sport, this is well down the list

who knows which Bears, individually and/ or collectively, will turn up? You would imagine Andersen at reserve is an advantage but he's not there for nothing.

good ideas. If costs are not controlled in ANY business its soon curtains. I have a feeling however that the one league thing won't be allowed, people seem to want an 'elite' league, even though its anything but that, myself I think one league the way forward. Heat leaders who currently double up would have more meetings and more chance of high scoring in them thus making up for lost earnings doubling up/ down. Allied to lower machinery costs it should be win win. Who has the will/ energy to make that happen though?

bring the CL levels down drastically and have an 8 and 9 from 3rd div. RR for one ht leader, 8 or 9 for anyone else. Div 1 can do what it likes

i think most people know Plymouth have played a game with Kennett but I would counter what else could they do? They've shown themselves willing to go out and get people but they just weren't there - same goes for Birmingham and, for a while Newcastle. We really must share the spoils out next year for the good of the sport as a whole

prob driving too

never liked him, even as a tiger/ bear, even as world champ - he's a prick

any need for any of this

agree completely, no one will be making plans to attend their local track after that lot. The essential dichotomy is: good track, good racing, smaller crowd, good telly; or yesterday's serving. My choice would be the former. Having attended 4 Wembley finals, great occasions for sure but not purist racing in the main so its not a new issue

I suppose Odsal is permanantish, if the inside line was temporarily pulled in so its half permanent, half temp. I've been in there with a 37000 crowd, good road links, a 3 meeting weekend sgp 1 and 2 and British Final maybe or something, an Invitation meeting, whatever. Much cheaper to put on and hopefully better racing

don't be daft, no one thinks this is good, especially TV viewers who might have gone to their local track next week. If you talked this up people would never go

this needs addressing: the TV audience is the one that matters for this meeting, not the Cardiff crowd.

fair comment

congratulations on Oxford getting awarded this but, again, we do have an NSS with no difficulty accommodating the number of people expected, maybe 3/4k?