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Basically, if you're good enough, ride in another league and top up your money, otherwise ride here in 1 league for 1 team and work part time. Get paid what the track can afford and cap what Poole/Glasgow/whoever chuck at it to even things up.

absolutely this - there is no other way

talk of 13 heats and a second half just reminds me of half the crowd filing out after ht13

well done Diamonds

be nice to see some loyalty, not just at Sheffield

first things first - get the costs under control. ANY business will fail unless they do this. If the crowds are 5/600 that's what you have to budget for. Easy to say I know but vital

yeah we forgot to sign Robbie Gardner

is it to do with temperature of the motor?

looks like where Redcar are set up - also in the less salubrious part of town but steadily improving facilities and more importantly a top track

Wheels was a great track - surely cheaper to operate from there?

I did suggest at one point that if 2nd halves were to return points could be earned from them towards a season end thing. Would make them a bit more meaningful What you suggest is like a British Open Championship qualifying round, would work I think.

much as i hate guests, that may just tip things our way

completely agree with everything you say, I'm just trying to figure out how we can get a decent sized division of at least 12 teams.

I've had a fiddle about with formats and 5 is a bit repetitive but 6 works ok, 3 rides for 6, 4 for the others plus a nominated race making it 5. 12 teams x 6 riders = 72 blokes needed graded ABCD like Denmark, no fannying around with fractions of a point

in football management, many have been successful managers without being stellar performers. However, will he be able to advise on gearings, best lines, etc?

you say they 'think' the fans want team racing. If individual events were well attended surely they wd run them. Personally I enjoy them but prefer team racing. Teesside Silver Helmet was always a highlight for me.

"The uncomfortable truth is that the sport carrying on as a team sport will never work. (In the UK).." and yet over time these are the best attended meetings, individual meetings seem to be less popular now unless they're GP related I agree the make up of these teams is nothing short of farcical at times. I think one league with fewer riders per team may be the way for the near future. How does it work in Denmark?

as always Dean, total common sense. Let the GP and Polish league guys spend themselves daft and we go back to basics, all 3 leagues.

I have said it before but the interaction between the track and the tyres? Is there a better material? What happened to shale? A binding agent now no oil drips? And most of all slow the bloody things down. At Redcar the riders start to slide miles before the corner, doesn't do it for me. Every time a rider led change comes along - 4 valve, uprights, why don't they say no; neither has added to the spectator experience and its just more cash for the riders. A recruitment drive for riders among the grass, moto x whatever community?

I don't get the worry about having lesser riders in teams, going back when Ove Fundin turned up at Cradley was Ken Wakefield expected to beat him? For years teams carried 2/3 point riders - experienced ones too, no names that wd be disrespectful (although i have named one) but they made up the 7 and did what they could. And they didn't get lobbed out after 3 matches

if you haven't offered a contract to work, ie ride, I don't see how its lawful to have any hold at all over a person. I've decided to work for Tesco this year, not Morrisons but Tesco have to pay Morrisons all the time I'm there and if they don't I can't work at Tesco

in the list of things that were better in the past (when crowds were decent) dumping riders left right and centre wasn't one of them.

they have to with the ridiculous amount of hiring and firing that goes on

Kelleher was prob some kids favourite.

they can see it they just don't have the skills, courage, whatever to grasp the nettle and do something about it.