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But of course they are not. Ashamed of themselves that is. The believe that things are now so good that new fans are beginnng to pour in to UK domestic sppedway. Why change anything?. It's a bright new dawn and a new era in 2020. Emperors New Clothes syndrome.

Could have been Should have been, Would have been. If only....Due for a league win in 2069 it seems, depending on which league is running and if the electric bikes can pull an eco crowd.

Other clubs are jumping on the bandwagon and the season may last until the end of April - all being well before the Money Tree fails to support the riders demands. Even after gifting them petrol / diesel / dope for the bikes they surely won't want to be paid - will they?. What's wrong with £5 per point and £7.50 a start? With Labout being so benevolent - All Will Be Well- won't it? They could always print some more money.

I have to request that you cut back on the use of the term "millions" of followers around the globe ( unless sudden inroads have ben made in China or Japan ( or even other parts of Asia ). I dount that at the season end just passed, there were more than half A million collectively of speedway followers ( even if we were to be generous and benevolent ). Of course I do realise that any press release must err on the positvie side!

Ah! New Dawn time. It comes around every year. AKA "Team Tinker".

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Many are and even worse the income from the gate is now relatively small compared to what sponsors pay in ( which really keeps most teams afloat ). Wait till more sponsors sense the lack of VFM and credibility and track closeure will hasten. Fans are a bit of a nusiance to some prompters.

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Indeed it is, so WHY do those who make up the BSPA invariably decide to move away from that operating model ( or ignore it completely )?

However the main reason that Brandon was made unavaliable for racing was the ineptitude of one of promoters ( or was it intractability? ) So that part of it is , yes, quite simple.

Merely cross out the words "attempting to" and that post is spor on. How will a free to air highlights programme of UK sppedway bring new fans into the stadiums? The matches will not - as far as we know - be free to air. Nothing much has changed but the BSPA are shouting it from the rooftops. Anyway after watching a weekly highlights progamme no -one is likely to go to a live in stadium match more than once, as the hightlights will rarely be re-created in a regular league match. Racing will still be as rare as hen's teeth in the stadium. It is that product that needs all the attention and improvement if it is to survive.

Sadly Leicster are not the obly club who can't be bothered to give their fans something to enjoy in return for their loyal support. It's part of the UK disease that spells the demise of league speedway as we know it here. They often go on about "look at socail media it's buzzing". Many people choose not to look at or use social media and it's the lazy person's excuse. Why bother to even run a club website then? I am confident that social media has not increased support on the terraces, however much you post there.

Do what they can to improve the product so that we are spared too many borefests in future. It doesn't matter if it was on free to air every night, if it was not worth watching. I assume the purpose of a possible free to air deal is to reach a wider audience and attract footfall to stadiums. The Chairman of the BSPA has said he welcomes Eurosport to our exciting sport. Let's hope that at least a highlights programme could be made as enticing as possible and as freely available as possible.

And that is exactly what will happen. And that narrow mindedness is eactly what has brought UK speedway to where it is ( or rather isn't). No-one within the BSPA has any idea of what the bigger picture really looks like ( nor any interest in clearing the mist from their windows to get a glimpse of it ). It is a version of Extinction Rebellion we need on the terraces from those who still do care about the continuation of domestic speedway. The only thing that will re-build crowds to a sustainable level is likely to be - regardless of what it takes - making racing closer and much more exciting on track. That is likely to be riders on similar lower powered machinery ( either current bikes restricted by mechanical means of something like F2 bikes ). No-one wants to watch the racing less track action that UK league racing has become and where the only entertainment is betting on the length of the procession in each heat.

Agree completely IF and it's a big if, the quality of racing can be greatly improved, Only that will take me ( and I supsect 1,000s of others ) back on the terraces on a regular basis. Now you get, on average 2 - 3 real races in a match and that needs to get up taround 50% of heats to be VFM and offer true racing.

It would be nice if the appetite to turn out in less than perfect waether was whetted by knowing the lineup. ASAP not on Tuesdday next. It cannot now be becasue the riders are all riding elsewhere in Europe can it? That's all done and dusted. What we will get is riders who have not put their bikes away for the winter. We must hope that that they are truly Young Guns and eager to Go For It.

Yes. And when the circle gets tighter and smaller it becomes a dot and no-one can see it. UK speedway's destiny.

Perfect example of the rider "disease" in the UK. When you miss the start give up after half a lap and just follow the leaders as they disappear in the distance. Another chanfe to make the gate will come along soon. Lawson & Heeps doing it to perfection - wait and hope that you fare better at the tapes next time around. King did at least have a go once or twice but his fighting spirit faded too easily. Sarjeant - a long way to go to become a speedway racer ( in the Premier League at least ) just not up to it.

That is on the cards now. No sport can go on hiding behind a total crowd level of less than 20,000 across the whole UK. Speedway in the UK is no longer sustainable, as we have known it. If we are fortunate something like F2, on a semi-pro basis, will emerge from the death throes of domestic league racing.

There was very, very little of that in the first leg - racing I mean. UK league racing on TV shows itself up as exactly what it is ( regardless of what is at stake ) all over in the first 15 seconds of almsot every race. It is never going to play a part in rebuilding speedway as a well supported sport on the terraces. More likely to be a turn off from finding out where you local track is!

That remains the biggest challenge for the BSPA if the sport is ever to even partially be revived. Far too often the "lessons have been learned" chant from them goes out of the window, six weeks into a new season.

I could still do a donut on a bike and I am over 70. I bet Billy Bales could too! Riding at full racing speed in an international meeting ( even a challenge ) is a very different propostion. Back injuries are the kind of injury that you cannpt be too careful with.

Ah Well, they do "manage" it for the gang of wanna be blazers on parade. But as for the fans Hmmm.

All such things are about personal opinion of course and in the light of his Premier League results they would get him a higher rating from me. But let down in his apparent inability to work with the media and his inabilty to accept any other point of view as valid plus his invariable need to whinge about supporter reaction. It's not all happened since social media took off and supporters are entitled to their own point of view. When you acceot the position you must expect some likes and dislikes. Rosco seems to be a Marmite kind of person. He was never going to get on with Tai Woffinden and if you can't do that with your best rider , what kind of "manager" are you? He should have resigned when Rob Painter took over. That was the start of the "modern era" and he never fited in with their aspirations - in my opinion.

Of his role as a team manager and more often his indecision on actions he took as a team manager. I have never criticised him as a rider. He seems to have been a middling rider from what I do rememebr about him. And a lower middling team manager ( in my opinion - of course others like to elevate him and that is their choice ). I have ridden long, long ago and was not as accomplished as Rosco at riding.