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If finances are the big problem ( ie losing huge amounts on FRNs ) there are only two ways to continue 1) subsidise them in some way 2) allow them ( and others near a similar plight ) to move to their regular nights IF fixture can be juggled. I cannot see other ways out of this.

Well IF Harris has signed for Swindon, that must be the case or has he broken his contract?

You obviously follow a well supported club ( around 850 sized crowd ) my bloodstained Lordship.

I can't believe that they are still standing! They were far from salubrious twenty years ago. No doubt the ones in the new stadium will smell sweetly,

What is clear is that the "crowd" is now so thin at many clubs, that someone with strong but fair views of the promotion can be easily spotted and picked out.

I very much doubt if they are. They always look to give the riders they first choose, plenty of time to settle in. If F. Jakobsen came in on a 4.00 Poole continue to be remarkably lucky or totally in the know. KA must be replaced if the Stars really have ambitions.

And no current promoter wants to roll the dice and lay out the cash. So none of them will. Whichever way they decide to go in 2019 the decline cannot be stopped. Any future speedway in the UK will only be after the big re-structuring which is inevitable.

It's a great dream and not highly improbable. Anyone who makes the start may well hold on for the win. Dan certainly could. You will see that happen and I hope it's this year!

We simply don't know, as you yourself say. My original point is that for many years the Sky TV cash went on the No'.1s and they failed to hold the crowds, never mind bringing in new ones. When the crowds at Swindon dipped the season after LA's retirement, did they not climb back up to a respectable level? Of course, it really is speculation that attracting big names back to British speedway would bring bigger crowds but it also represents a huge gamble that no-one in UK speedway is prepared to take. Or even has the cash to try. At King's Lynn much of that money went to NKI who is now back in the side but the missing 750+ plus fans are not there now.

Please do not proceed with No.1 because big-name stars have proved not to attract UK fans. Big name stars are unknown to the general public here and are therefore not a draw to any possible new fans. No.2 A Big Thumbs Up to.

I spent many years and countless hours of diction training plus living in other parts of both the UK and the Far East to eradicate my childhood accent. As my memory slips my accent oddly doesn't!

On such tracks it's speedway but not speedway racing.

Should this fate befall me at King's Lynn Speedway, it will only prove the point that all Dictators "win" by intimidation and suppression of thought and opinion from paying customers. I will walk away proudly. Never fear such people or what you might think they hold over you.

It is not how many people there are in a 25-mile radius but how many of them can you entice to speedway on a regular basis. In places with a huge population eg Manchester and Glasgow, it is not working out. Sadly speedway seems to be a faded washed up sport in the UK, unable to attract new fans to it. If things do happen in phases then there should be a revival boom in 2050. With green electric bikes.

Some of us are happy to pay but frustratingly can't, because the Pay Per View technology seems to elude speedway. Perhaps it's inability to move with the times is what will eventually kill it off worldwide. It's booming in Poland now but it once was in the UK. It's even slipping away in Sweden. Pity the track was so dry and dusty and the presentation so hit and miss.

Unfortunately - "going back" is not an option for UK speedway. The shape of racing in the future here is going to be an entirely new one IF there is a future for it.

Asa Cummin bor, blas that is - as we say in deepest, sunniest Norfolk .

That ultra careful fixture planning needs to include the use of track covers to save meetings whenever possible. The number of usable dates will quickly diminish with rain-offs. PPPPPP. If in fact such a move to their preferred race night proves possible. And as MattK says Why then can't other teams?

Unless you are posting rather "tongue in cheek"? The FRN was poorly thought through ( or did the Premiership teams capitulate on which nights they could use? Were they outvoted? ) by promoters and fans if they believed all clubs could pull in a "decent" crowd on a different night - especially on a Monday, because the sport was so enticing and irresistible. There are no other nights available after taking in Poland, Sweden, Denmark and the FIM events, so it seems like it was a calculated gamble by the BPSA. And one that went so very wrong. I think we will just about get what the punters want and will "buy", when we give up using those riders in demand elsewhere IF there is still an appetite for speedway racing in the UK.

There is no problem in my opinion with fans voicing ( or typing ) their thoughts on here as the forum is not so different as a group of fans sitting around in the pub. Ideas, rumours, theories always come up. Why should it be any different on here? Fans of speedway are interested in just about everything that happens within their ever-shrinking UK sport. Whether it is the bending of the rules on averages or something else "in the best interests of the sport". Or indeed the sudden cancellation or postponement of a fixture without any known and obvious reason. The potential loss of any club due to a drop-off in attendances remains, naturally, high on the OMG scale of interest. That's life and there is nothing wrong with it. You get speculation in the mainstream news media ( and fake news too). In fact, the news is increasingly about "what might happen tomorrow" than it is about reporting the facts of what has taken place!

Summoning up the ghost of Jeremy Thorpe.

There is no way it was ever inspected this season by the Health & Safety Executive as it could not have passed. Was it inspected and given a licence this year?

We'll get to know at the AGM of the BSPA. Well, most of what went on.

So the story goes.... the real culprit was never prosecuted. "The money was left in a bag on the patio because it was a hot day" Bill later said.

Got to be the ONLY way to a brighter UK speedway future. If JC can get some financial backing, this could be the blueprint for the continued existence of speedway here on a viable footing.