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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.

This is the most progressive work on How the Future of UK Speedway might look like in only 7 months time and needs to be as revolutionary as possible as it coincides with the Give Us a B political upheaval V Momentum "new season / era". Much will change in the UK and much will not in order to maintain stability and as the Speedway Star says " managed decline awaits". With these proposals both old faded fans AND the new, young hordes can be fitted in. Perhaps in separate areas of the stadiums? In order to attract maximum numbers of over 75-year-old returnees, I am sure that special dispensation for them to pay for admission in pre-decimal coins or even old £5, £1 or even 10 shilling notes. Splendid glories await the brave! Start "ladies" in mini skirts and bee hive hairdos a must. Alongside some androgynous unsure or in transition role models in order to accommodate all kinds.

It will be interesting to a) see how they build in a crossover track shape ( or will it be speedway with gears?) and b) how many are attracted to flat track racing there. A genuine question so if someone goes perhaps they could review the meeting.

Sadly that remains the case for this century at least. It must be the only sport where the concerns of the paying customer are so disregarded and whose feedback is of no interest.

Some of what prompted my thinking was the "celebration" over the 69th. Anniversary meeting. Talking to a number of people who are not speedway goers ( and never were ) all concluded with no prompting from me, that any business that would make a marketing fuss of that, would do so because there was to be no 70th anniversary. As will be the case. Time will tell who deserves the epithets.

We are told on another thread that as, merely, paying fans we have no right to know anything or be told anything until the investing promoter so deems it. Whilst there is some truth in that, the only message that the deafening silence passes on would seem to be " You will find out after the final 2018 fixture that it was the final meeting at The Abbey". Most likely in an obituary style article in the Speedway Star. A neat and tidy closeure.

At least we know he considered it ( however briefly ). A great pity as it would have been easy and inexpensive to administrate.

My way or the highway is how it goes at King's Lynn. You should know that. You are merely a face in the crowd of 1000s, well hundreds or at least dozens.

Not a very enticing Wolves lineup. That means in speedway lore that they are likely to win both matches!

Me too.

Truly that would be problem solved but the promoters still seem unwilling to listen to the fans about what they want to buy. One of the reasons that so many shops close down. At least a few hundred, if not 1,000 ex-fans would return to King's Lynn if they liked what was on offer there now. Clearly, they don't and that is why attendances have more than halved in five years.