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The key problem is that British Speedway seems not to be run on "any lines" at all, basic or otherwise. They make knee-jerk reactions to any developing situations which are ill-conceived and poorly thought through. Or not thought through at all. Changing the league set up once again, as rumoured, is not going to attract a new generation of fans all by itself is it? Why would it, as nothing in the entertainment served up on track will change. And nobody in the outside world will know about it anyway.

A mediocre meeting indeed. Anyone who felt joy or jubilation after watching that rubbish racing is deluded. Poole had no intention of trying to race for 12 heats ( other than Harris ). And NOT the real Poole for sure! My money is still on them to win the playoffs. Brady Kurtz proved to be truly capable in his ride to beat Robert Lambert. Class on a bike - so proving he did not try in his three earlier rides where, if he were a footballer he would have got a red card for "diving". Grippy track excuse my whatsit . Yes, you can only beat what is put up in front of you. Poole should be up for bringing the sport into disrepute.

Game plan of losing 60 - 30 almost perfectly executed. Poole came with no intention of trying to win or bothering to be competitive. But I tell you what, they will win the playoffs. And that is all that matters to them.

Cheating the fans of course, but Hey! That's speedway all over. What's new.

Is Klindt riding at KL tonight or not? Both club websites state that he is. So I hope that he is.

Superb racing and very crisply presented ( as all speedway matches everywhere should be ). Some of the best racing I have ever seen. Riders truly "wanted " it ( at a £1,000 a point why not! ). If only the BSPA had not lost the plot re How To, all would have been similar. No chance now! More exciting if each team in the UK had a Mr Blobby to run out and wave wildly at riders to put them off. Anything is better than tapes to flag wins time after time. That is at the heart of the problem. Nothing to get excited about,

Around noon on Tuesday as usual.

According to the Stars this must be purely something "lost in translation" in the depths of Google as the other Niels Kristian Iversen will be in the full Star's lineup on Weds. at Saddlebow Rd. Or is it about another Wednesday match in another week. Curiouser and curiouser.

Aha but a number of other threads contain almost endless positive ideas that could be / should be being discussed by those who plan the future of the sport in the UK. As far as we know they have not read them, considered them and certainly not responded to them. I and many others have offered feedback to promoters who don't even bother to say "Ta". This thread is brainstorming the most out of the blue ideas that might even ( who knows ) contain the germ of a transformative idea. Hurray that among the Pythonesque of concepts something might linger that will be what UK speedway looks like in five years time. IF it exists at all, other than as a semi-pro league sport. Let the seeming ( and entertaining to some at least) madness continue so that Rollerball on bikes is the new motorcycle sport that emerges in the UK that can pull in fans in their thousands as opposed to their hundreds.

However many points you pile onto the system for away wins or draws it is NOT going to pull in any new fans who might become regulars. That is merely more tinkering while Rome falls down. The "managed decline" has started.

Clean toilets are a prerequisite, at least as far as Health and Safety are concerned. Or does it mean that fans should not go to away matches because dirty toilet facilities are likely to be encountered? As for guaranteeing 15 heats of great racing, well that is going much too far and would be easy to disprove. Should read 15 heats of racing of which two or three will be good and one might be great. List of benefits compiled on the back of a beer mat?

This is what is really needed. Building up the excitement and variety of ways in which the race winner can be calculated. After three laps a female rider should take over the bike for a final lap ( or perhaps another three ). True gender balanced racing. Of course, they could be self-identified in their gender "on the day".

Balanced I hope by other body shapes of other genders so that the appeal of "attraction" is almost universal.

I think that this is a feeling so many long-term fans have had or have been having for quite a long time. Yes, the hair that broke the camel's back, in this case, was a woefully weak home team ( due to injuries ) but the poor, slow presentation, little or no passing is what supporters everywhere are walking away from in numbers that are significant enough to break the back of speedway in the UK. The slow stream of fans who have "given up" on speedway is what is at the heart of the massive downturn in crowd numbers, I can't see even the new league proposals doing much to halt the slide unless the on-track racing and entertainment value is also improved. And this is at what is seen as one of the best three racing strips in the country.

Has to be Woffy, Woffy, Woffy and get 20 plus points ahead. Slay em Tai!

Be careful what you wish for. Some BSPA "bright spark" might think " hang on that's a good idea, let's make all matches over 10 heats ( to the interval ) and have five more 2nd half heats for a bonus point". No extra cost!

Another 2 or 3 hundred of these paying to get in at every track really would make a difference.

Track time, track time, track time and there are not enough options for that in the UK to speed up young riders progress. What a pity that Coventry was lost to the sport it would have been a superb place to build up as the National Speedway Training Centre.

I'm confident it was Rabbi.

Even a towering talent like Robert Lambert needed five years to get to world-class from his NL debut.

Another one bites the dust. How many over the winter will be lost to the sport? Take your pick from 3 or 4?

Love Bob the psychic mini pig - this trough OR the other trough. Terrific TV. Go for this BSPA, because I guarantee it WILL attract a new generation or two o fans eager to see their team take home the bacon! Or be taken home by the bacon.

Flat track racing at King's Lynn had that. Sounds exciting but with strung out racing and relatively slow riders, it was more boring than strung out speedway. Needs to be much more radical changes.

As they don't bother to read feedback with positive ideas ( as many people put up ) they are unlikely to see this wonderful parody ( very Monty Python) and thus the shambles that is UK speedway will go on in that phrase I now see as most appropriate " managed decline awaits'.

Therein lies the problem. That little word if.