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I am up for that ! providing it is not held on a neutral track like Swindon.

King's Lynn is now a very glossy "magazine' and costs £3 - my scorecard costs 10p ( for a photocopy ) KL used to have a perfect fold-out A3 scorecard on sale for £1 but that went in the way of "progress".

I make my own and have done for five years. Not only on cost grounds but because I have read all that is in the programme - online ( except the adverts ).

It was and huge crowds flocked to see it so perhaps different eras are different "countries". I do not pretend to be right about the decline of speedway. No-one on here is, are they? It is all just different ideas about what might work. The BSPA are no doubt already set on the one " sure to work" plan for 2019. As it's their money at stake they have every right to do that. We might be very upset ( as I am and yourself too ) about the decline ( demise?) of UK league / team speedway but we have no say about what will happen to it. 1930's "tricks" might work with the new generation of fans which speedway must have very soon. I think that the mooted 14 track one league will be what is most likely to happen, with the other tracks something like NL level ( with no doubling up and no match night conflicts ). Long before the centenary in 2028 speedway in the UK will look very, very different. Roll Up, Roll Up!

A 13 minute match MIGHT be OK for £9.99p but I believe that "the past is a different country" and going back to what worked in a 1970's society is not likely to work in 2019. It's got to be different and have exciting new elements IF it is to stand any chance of attracting an entirely new age range of fans. It is likely to be so different that many of the remaining long-term fans will walk away in disgust. Arena motorcycle racing of a different kind may not be speedway but it may be a marketable commodity. Speedway as we know it may have to vanish for something else to replace it.

So will they fill even that capacity with "local" fans? Not many will be travelling up from the deep south or even the Midlands.

IF, as seems likely the Robins will be no more after this season what a pity to go out with a whimper instead of a roar! Ring the changes to give the fans a great send off after 69 years.

"How lucky we young Aussies are to still have a home from home where we can learn enough to do the business while getting paid for it" I think it was what he said.

An Absolute essential. The only possibly viable direction left. This too needs to be put into place. The cream will still rise to the top but racing would be fairer than it is now. Still prefer 250cc or 350 singles but realise the cost of replacing engines. Introduce this slowly. It does need to be as different as possible with something gimmicky ( as traditionalists will call it ) because we already know that the racing that is on offer now has been rejected. Closer, fairer less predictable than current TTF 75% of heats. Even bump starts rather than tapes. Female rider races ( until some get good enough to beat the men ). It has to be some of "circus night out" around the watch YOUR team concept. It is something like this or nowt.

Perhaps a better heading might have been "The Future of UK Speedway". I think the 14 team semi-pro league likely to be mooted soon might be worth a punt but I cannot see it attracting the new fans necessary for it to thrive. Without some kind of massive marketing. The same old 20,000 fans in the UK might support it.

If that is as printed in the programme, his sobriety needs checking daily. Or was it fatigue from all that travelling?

Sounds like a conspiracy to me. Don't water the track. Cover houses and local cars in dust. Speedway must then close down and no reason for a new stadium at all. Hmmm.

Pointless in having live speedway on TV of that quality. Any casual viewer who stumbled across it might wonder how much the people were paid to stand and watch it.

Even more interesting at KL is that the changes of machinery show us how they play very different roles ( with their attachments ) in the track prep. As well as the enormous amount of material shifted from the pile and packed down at the start. There is no shortage of interest for the supporter to enjoy in this respect.

For two meetings! And then the idea was dropped, I was told because it interrupted Buster's last-minute track prep. No announcement made. Part of the KLS "keep the fans in the dark" policy.

Over those 69 years, they should have had lots of practice at track preparation. Maybe the very hot conditions in the area have been few and far between over the years, but there must have been some similar days. If it can be done on the same night and hugely better, somewhere not so far away, what went wrong. The fact that it was on TV and a kind of "showpiece" seemed of disinterest to the promotion.

It truly is too late.

That IS exactly how it was and nine or ten tapes to flag heats makes a borefest. Winning the points with TTF is pointless and will not attract a new generation of fans. Which is what UK speedway needs if it is to survive. 1,200 were there max. and could have been less than 1,000 - NOT enough to survive and thrive.

I was gobsmacked by how close the houses were to the stadium and cannot believe that a motorsports stadium can have a future in that location. I cannot see there being a 70th season unless the race track can be located elsewhere in the area.

Buster needs at least 12 hours for the track prep. It's not done in half an hour at KL you know ( except once or twice during the match ). he often tells us that he has not even had time for a break since dawn, so unless he does where can they fit in a practice? As for this what is it called, " win at all costs", this is Norfolk and we are very laid back about winning. And do you have anything to counter The Stars secret weapon - The Stars Anthem? Sung twice before tapes up and once in the interval, that's the Pirates scuppered.

Hey, come on MattK, not all "old" people are minted and I know of more than a dozen ( perhaps 20 ) who have walked away from watching speedway live in the stadium because it IS passe. And past it and old-fashioned and has failed. Failed full stop to engage with it's existing fan base.

Well done! He said he could and that he would and he went out and did it! Prove that he can win races in the GP.

Easy for him to make an extraordinary one-off ruling "in the best interests of the sport".

Now that is REALLY getting into the act and a great sense of marketing - at last. This kind of thematic promotion could be the start of saving UK speedway and bringing hordes of fans ( old and new ) to the terraces. Magic!

Either the weakest of eyes. the tiniest of brains or the least experience of any ratified referee ever ( assuming he was ).