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It’s like the Freemasons with CL sticking up for chapman they all continue to do nothing to change the state of the sport but watch it get weaker and more unprofessional by the year but continue to back each other. They’ve both been involved in speedway for years they are part of why the sports in this mess by continually chugging out the same tripe season after season.

I get that but you know yourself when riders ride against there former clubs they’ll try that little bit extra to show what they are missing even if they say otherwise. Nowak was a risk when he’s seeing some away tracks for the first time, I think they obviously banked on him being great at home but he hasn’t been as good as he was last time imo.

He and a few others on here are part of the reason why people don’t want to see Poole do well. The way they go on is laughable.

Probably trying to show the Glasgow promotion that they should’ve signed him this year, he seems a canny bloke and everything but personally don’t know if he’ll ever be more than a second string every time I watch him he seems to lock the bike up and kill his momentum so much.

Why such negativity? On a sub 8 average I think it’s a no brainer. If he is committed as he says he is he’ll easily add to that average and it strengthens the team.

Anyone know if craig cook is holidaying at Poole? heard he likes digging holes…

What about the grand canyon on bend 1? No mention of that.

Maybe so but they go hand in hand with there actually being a sport to follow. Speedway in this country is just not a popular option anymore and we have to accept that. Football especially is the main attraction in this country and the biggest draw for people and then cricket and rugby. There are too many things for people to spend there money on now and with the cost of living speedway is a low low priority, some people are struggling to put food on the table there not going to want to waste the money they do have on a 3rd rate sport which has no credibility imo. We the fans constantly get the pee taken out of us and a total lack of regard for us in the way they manage and inform us, they can’t treat us with any kind of respect so how on earth are they going to get new people through the door.

But why should two different people pay different prices for exactly the same thing? Like going to Tesco getting a ham sandwich I’m paying £1.50 but you pay £4 for exactly the same sandwich it doesn’t make sense. I totally get trying to get new customers but you also need to keep the current ones happy because the speed they are walking away from the sport is alarming, you might give out say 200 flyers and could get 20 new people coming regularly but if you have 30 current customers leaving because they know speedway inside out and they’ve had enough then what do you do? This sport constantly shoots itself in the foot time and time again because the promoters are so self centered they don’t care about if there’s a league next year or the year after they just want to what’s best for there club, the way half of them are going they won’t have any clubs to race against in 5 years time.

Then you could argue why should new customers get cheaper entry than current customers? Without the current customer you don’t have a product to sell at all. Much like sky etc give new customers a really good deal to get them to sign up but if you’ve been a loyal customer for years then you can’t get the same deal not exactly fair is it? Too interested in getting new customers instead of looking after the ones who you’ve already got. Had a similar experience at Newcastle few years ago they had deals on wowcher or somewhere I think it was tickets for £10 maybe me, my uncle and dad took advantage of this and got cheaper tickets for one week we got in and Joan English was upset because we had used said tickets, the three of us had been going since it reopened in 97 and never missed a meeting used to buy merchandise the whole lot but because we got in cheaper one week she didn’t like it. Wouldn’t like to think how much we actually put into the club through 20+ years of going though.

Could see Boughen replace Hagon when he turns 16. Dickson got him to sign for Leicester so would make sense imo.

It’s ok saying get Poole, Glasgow and Oxford to move up but with no consideration for the current championship? Why should that suffer because the premiership is a joke. I’d go to 5 man teams and one big league and rider 5 has to be British and under 23. Do a grading system for the likes of Doyle and Bewley etc so teams can only sign one. Or if we can’t afford them then they don’t ride here the actual future of British speedway if there is one is mightily more important than attracting a couple of gp riders back here. Denmark have 5 man teams I think. Go to one big league and hopefully stop all this doubling up once and for all… if the riders can’t afford to just do one league either don’t ride here or go get a job.

Ah was that why he never showed at Edinburgh haha, what happened between them?

Didn’t he have a bit of trouble with Derek Sneddon when they were both at Edinburgh?

It suits Doyle because he lives here as it does holder. You know as well as I do if we paid what Poland do everyone would ride here.

Absolutely! Always remember one of his interviews where he said after a World Cup and the whole gb squad were eating kebabs while he had his own food haha. That just shows had bad and unprofessional we actually were.

If you could do the same job and get paid possibly 3 or 4 times more than you do in your current job would you turn it down? Whether you or I like it or not Poland is the place to be they pay the most and that will always attract the top riders. If the uk could pay what Poland does then they’d all be riding here. It is what it is… let’s just enjoy it while we can because in 10 years time we will be lucky if we have enough teams for league racing over here. Yes it wasn’t great that a 3 time world champion wasn’t riding in his home league but I don’t begrudge him that at all it’s a shambles in this country the majority of the tracks and stadia are poor and he used to carry us during the world cups. His choice he didn’t want to ride here and we have to accept that, yes it does look like he’s coming back probably because it suits him now and it tops his bank balance up blame the current regime for allowing it to happen imo.

But didn’t he appear on bbc news and I’m sure he’s been on question of sport although someone may correct me if I’m wrong. He was in numerous tabloids doing interviews after winning his world titles but people just aren’t bothered about speedway that is the problem, you might’ve got a few hundred people up and down the country going when they discovered what it was and the novelty factor because they hadn’t seen it before and it looked exciting on the tv the clips they’d seen or whatever then they go to a uk meeting the track is unfit for racing and meeting gets delayed an hour while work gets done to it and said people won’t return. Or the ludicrous guest rules your trying to explain to a newbie that Chris Harris is employed by Coventry but tonight he’s guesting for Swindon because there rider is riding in Poland instead of the uk. People won’t understand and just think it’s a joke (which it is)…. imo the sports problems are far bigger than woffy advertising it. When do you ever see any of the current promoters promoting the sport anywhere? Why can’t they all chip in and get a proper advert out on bbc or itv or channel 4 or whatever it may be? They can’t or don’t know how to promote it in some cases yet why should that fall back on to the riders to promote the sport for them? The top riders will promote it to gain sponsorship but the vast majority of sponsor’s already know about speedway or are already involved in it.

100% nobody should touch him with a barge pole. Sentence he got was too short as well. Horrible human.

I quite like that though personally, knew he’d be starting in the main body of the team but believed in himself and knew he was good enough to be able to cope and beyond that so fair play imo.

I get that but we have to be realistic and speedway in this country is now not a popular sport well gone are the 60/70s where you had tens of thousands of people at league meetings. It’s never going to get back to those days yes you have the odd meeting here and there where a good line up will draw the crowds but in the main apart from the people who go it’s a sport nobody cares about and that isn’t going to change. At the rate we’re going be lucky if there’s a dozen tracks between the “top” two leagues next year but it’s fine because we have a couple of the gp riders over here. Looking at the crowds I don’t even know how some of the teams can afford them. IMO we should just go to one league next season 5 man teams and number 5 rider has to be British and under 23 stop all this doubling up nonsense and have the ndl for teams who just want to stay in that league with no intention of stepping up but this is all fairytale stuff and will never happen. They’ll bury there heads in the sand again and probably bring in a squad system for number one and in there mind everything will be hunky dory because we have Doyle, holder, bewley and woffy riding here.

Haha no sorry if I worded that wrong. Personally don’t think anyone would give him a chance again but this is speedway and anything generally happens.

Garrity who comes with a lot of baggage and generally gets chance after chance.

If people take chances on a certain rider who’s at hmp then they will definitely take a chance on Boxall, no idea what his average would be for ndl but I could 100% see him being one of the top boys in that league providing he had decent equipment.

Or you could look at it like any fan up and down the country has for years and seen the only way speedway in the uk was heading was downwards, woffy would’ve clearly seen the way it was being run badly as it has for the past 15+ year and when he was winning his world titles it was him alone with an embarrassing Chris Harris or Nicholls struggling to get a handful of points each gp, you can’t lay the blame on him for the way speedway has been mismanaged over here. It’s only the last few years we’ve had the youth days and the gb training camps which woffy has been involved in as well as glasgow and a host of other people, if they hadn’t bothered I dread to think what state we would be in because the people in charge have no interest in setting anything up like this.