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No he won’t.

Correction. Only change from last years team will be R Lawson out & K Howarth in. Play off possibility good, beyond that??

Will be no surprise if Lions 2025 feature two current GP riders at 1 & 5 and all riders being based in the UK.

The connection with Vaculik with Leicester was via Simon Stead. So if Vaculik ever did return to UK speedway it would be more than probable as a Tiger rather than a Lion.

Admittedly my involvement with motorbike engines has been largely with MotoGP power units where electrics and tyre development is way ahead (and necessary) of speedway units although the basic engineering concept still applies to both, namely, torque is required to get the bike moving and revs (horse power) needed to maintain the delivery of power. Speedway engine builders will be aware of this and will always be faced with juggling to balance these two factors which are not mutually exclusive to one another & hence engines can be built/adjusted to varying degrees of torque & HP for different types of track/circuit The lower center of gravity of the lay down machines v the uprights would them easier to lean over and create an easier break of the tyre/surface and thus turn quickly if and when required although most probably no easier to race on over four laps - just different.

Risky & expensive to rely on a top 3 who all are based abroad.

Yes from a distance. But in a closed space it rips your eyes out😭

It would be a surprise if PCC do not have a protocol in place for a councillor call-in on planning decisions as this is a standard protocol for all local government and a step in the appeal process up to Secretary of State for planning disputes.

They will of course still be trading, but with a receiver running the business with the plan to find a buyer or at least raise cash from selling stock in order to settle with creditors. Lowest running cost will be the order of the day so staff redundancies and reduced marketing first in line of fire.

Leicester.

Rolf Gramstad. Lovely lad who’s career was cut short by a fellow rider losing control of a practice start & crashing into the back (literally) of Rolf.

Unless anyone knows better Halifax no / stands built on the bends Bradford, yes and stock have run there but questions exist re closeness of some structures for speedway.

Improving bends 3&4 with appropriate banking would appear the most obvious given any adjustment to the curb would involve additional work on the drainage system.

Well done Birmingham. Does the tie up include the Bears? If so great opportunity to promote speedway to large numbers at limited over games. May even get some tv exposure if bikes are present at Bears televised matches. I hope it pays off for the Brummies.

Looks like Lions paving the way for strong 1&5 instead of balanced middle order as per last two seasons. SD has preferred to build his Lions teams with riders based in UK so maybe a Brit big hitter to partner Max will be the case this year?

Does that mean he knows there’s no place for him at Leicester?

Yes “top flight” Adult Leicester/Coventry but have amended my memory to £2.00 cuz my wife has reminded me we could both attend for a fiver including program & a shared pie! Incidentally, back then litre of petrol was 18p

You maybe correct re £2.50 being high and more likely to be early 80’s level. so using raw CPI data from office of National Statistics and weighted compounded inflation (more indicative than pure BoE inflation figures) £2.00 would equivalent of around £15.60 Also worth remembering that back in “77” Vat had two heady rates of 8% & 12.5% - Those were the days. Anyways - on Topic. Yes cost of attending speedway in 2024 is more costly in real terms than “back in the day” most probably because actual attendance has fallen meaning less number of fans have to meet the running costs of meetings.

In 1977 adult admission was around £2.50 Since then Sterling has had an annual inflation rate of 4.5% a cumulative increase of 695%. Put another way £19.50 is todays equivalent spending power of £2.50 from 1977.

As & when he thinks Will is good enough, then the Lions team manager will make every effort to sign him, most probably alongside a number of other like minded TM’s

Highly doubtful that clubs/companies can finish a season in Sept/Oct & then have their accounts completed by the time of the AGM. And frankly hard to see the relevance of clubs accounts at the promoters/league AGM.

Think this fits to 40 points with GB reductions. 1. Fricke 2. Sedgmen 3. Lawson 4. Becker 5. Bewley or another brit circa 8.7 6. Mountain 7. Hagon.

Agreed. Team manager said at the time of signing young Sam that nothing was expected of him in 2024. so onwards to 2025 when as you say he needs to be beating his opposite number especially at home. Lets hope he comes back from Aussie up and running. To state the obvious, Lions need a strong no. 6 to make them competitive in heat 2 and a big hitter 5 especially for heats 13 & 15. Interesting close season ahead...hopefully!

I write as a person of pensionable age who considers himself lucky & fortunate enough to have had a career with associated remuneration/pension and investments to comfortably afford retirement....as I say, I am both lucky & fortunate. Now onto my post inspired by the the points you have made which appear to be both insensitive and inaccurate. Please consider that the vast majority of folk retiring in 2024, started work back in 1974 (with folk over 66 starting work even earlier) when types of pension schemes were limited and yes, the state pension was a sum which was considered & promoted to be sufficient to live on. That said, many larger companies did provide a contributory defined benefit scheme based on accruals of 1/70 or if you were lucky 1/60. Of course many of these schemes are now closed as a result of the disappearing business's with the funds (if remaining) managed by the Pension Protection Fund offering fixed rates of income that are not in line with final salary. This scenario currently effects some 9.6million folk which is 74% of current pensioners. So although many folk had made provisions in addition to the state pension they have been greatly affected by the collapse of such schemes with little time left to make up via other means. Conversely, there is no "myth" about civil servants/local government pension schemes. Example, The Local Government Pension Scheme is a salary related benefit scheme (not affected by stock markets/investment fund performance etc) based on 1/49 accrual rate with employees contributing 25% and the employer 75% of the required contributions. This is a long established and exceptional scheme in comparison to anything available in the private sector and one of the main attractions to working in local government and similar public sectors and as previously stated - no myth.

A nice idea but unfortunately, the dreaded VAT needs to be considered too. A £23.00 admission would actually generate £19.17 for the club. A £10.00 admission would actually generate £8.33 for the club. Following your assumption of a 1200 attendance (all adult) the reduced admission fee would result in a drop of £10,000 in income. This means that an additional 1200 adult attendees would be required just to reach the original income figure based on 1200 attendees at £23.00 less vat. Frankly no accountant/business consultant/speedway promoter would see the idea as a worthwhile risk considering their fixed costs such as riders wages (home & away), stadium hire etc would remain thus putting a huge risk/burden on the scheme immediately being successful.