Neila

personally for travelling fans who have a 8 hour 360 mile round trip is a good effort by the comets fans, especially as the team have not been doing that good. Do you think the crowds you are getting 400 ish is a good crowd ?

Said on BSN during Plymouth meeting an old shoulder injury is hindering his riding

Last Friday I was at scunny with the many travelling comets fans about 30-40 and I was shocked at the home crowd, probably about 400 IMO. So a 10% of the crowd doing a 360 mile 7 / 8 hour round trip is a good turn out 😄

Surely any sponsors are major sponsors without them speedway won't exist

Cos he is or was a major sponsor. So you can't sack a man who puts ££s into the club

Too late to make any changes

Too late to sign anyone as more than 75% of fixtures been completed

Think the time changed a few weeks ago

I know that and cairns is another, but he seems to have a bit of talent to go with the expensive bikes 😜

Unless he gets banned for turning up late or not turning up at all 😜

But he was a one off had a very wealthy family behind him, maybe not the 1st with family backing,

That could be a double bonus as I won't be able to see the non racing on that track and I won't be able to see my team putting in a poor performance on a crap track 😜. 2 meetings this weekend gone on better tracks and everyone enjoyed the meeting / performance maybe something in that 🤔😜

Be careful what you say the pilots fans won't like it, anyway if they are entertained too much it won't be good for their health at their age a bit of excitement may not be good for them 😜😄

From a Comets point of view we best hope nicoli klindt is in Poland 😜

But if it was a 6pm start and a cloudy day the night skies would be here around 8pm. The comets will be having a Ben fund collection and the meteors also have their final meeting, so if any type of delay the bikes would need lights to finish the meeting

Any reason for a big crowd ? Nothing really to play for , Meeting against local rivals, kids go free or could it be the cooper Rushen effect, after seeing him on normal TV people want to see him live ? Any thoughts

Some good reading about your number 1 on the king's Lynn v Ipswich thread 😄

Will need to be a fookin big bucket 🤣

Could be 😄 wasn't many of us at wimbored road the other week mind also wasn't many pilots fans at Northside when you were in town 😜

Actually went to scunny on Friday with the Comets, brilliant meeting great recing comets got beat, but they put the effort in and a very enjoyable meeting. Watched the Plymouth meeting on BSN, comets riders put in the effort couldn't gate all the time, so we got beat, but another enjoyable meeting. Where it appears Poole fans want to win at all costs, then moan when they don't win 😜

May have to wait to see who qualifies, and if and how many a possible TV channel may broadcast, but if they do can only see it being the final

Maybe by distance but it's the furthest away time wise to travel

Well said Geoff

Someone from Poole said the crowd was down due to the A31 road closure, so people must travel from further away than Bournemouth, I do know several people travel from the Southampton area, so should we count another 250k people to the running total 😄

Looking at an upcoming stocks event at scunny, it's £15 admission, have heard 2000 to 3000 people turn up, so that's £30-45000 plus food and drink profits, drivers pay to enter, the event I looked at seemed to have a maximum of 150 drivers over several classes, guessing at £50 to enter, so that's another £7500 . Not bad probably £40-50k taken in one evening, say 10 events over the year, possibly more, so looking at half a million £s taken in. So lots of possible profit to be made over several years