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Apologies if this question has been asked before on this thread but I'm returning to the forum after about year's absence given the shutdown of the sport in the UK. Have Kent given any information on season tickets or admission policies and limits (specifically for the likely reduced capacity meetings in early season - at least)? I can't see anything on their site about such issues and given the news about Silver Ski upthread perhaps that's not surprising. As an Rye House refugee I'm hoping to make Central Park my regular fix alongside while continuing to visit as many tracks as possible once the sport is back. I managed to see a couple of Ekstraliga meetings last year along with the climactic Toruń legs of the SGP season but no more.

Still with a 6:30pm start, I presume?

As someone who actually watched Rye House and Harris week in, week out I can assure you it wasn't the rider who caused the club to close down but the shambolic amateurs who ran the club.

What on earth is that comment meant to mean with regard to a rider who wasn't paid for many, many meetings where he was risking his welfare and livelihood?

“so with having someone owning more tracks knowing full well he doesn't pay over the odds isn't a start?” You think Chapman taking over Ipswich in any way addresses the fundamental problems in the sport right now?! I’ll have whatever drugs you’re taking.

Maybe taking one significant step to address the major problem would have been a start. All that has come from this AGM, one that was crucial and needed to be pivotal, is the merest of tinkering and a huge amount of flannel.

So you’re impressed about what’s come out of the AGM and happy with the state of the sport in Britain right now?

Well, one of the “two newest” went bust midway through last season.

So the news from the AGM would seem to confirm that the Rockets are dead...unless someone is working on a National League place for them?

Rye House have a track, just not a current club/team/promoter!

Nope.

Come on, Pollyanna - they're rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. Anyway, I can't give the SGB divisions a chance - I live in a city of 8 million people with no speedway team nearby!

As it stands, the top two tiers of British Speedway will run next year with no club competing within 60 miles of London. What a shambles.

Oh come on, in a time of absolute crisis for the sport the message from the AGM is "Everything's rosy" and the sport will largely carry on as it is...over the edge of a cliff.

Funnily enough, I already checked this morning if the London Hammers domain names had been registered! It hadn’t yet, btw.