SteelShoe

Financially Speedway is about as far away from being transparent as you could get. Speedway clubs running as private limited comapanies are classed as micro entities ie small businesses. The accounts are abbreviated and unaudited as far as I understand it so they tell the lay person virtually nothing. There is no itemised income v expenditure breakdown. The lay person knows nothing and can't find out much about a clubs finances including, how much is raised in sponsorship, gate receipts, parking, programmes, food and drink as income streams or how much expenditure in the form of insurance, rent, rider wages ( rumoured to be too high at Championship level with current crowds ) medical cover costs, tyre costs and anything else I have missed. All in all it is about as transparent as mud. .

Don't know what to say about this. The timing seems strange to say the least and is coming from James Denham who states he is giving up the team manager role next season anyway ?. Will keep my thoughts to myself at this time until the situation becomes clearer.

To be fair most of the riders also ride in the Championship.

Never does that well at Northside if my memory serves me right.

Racing at Northside has been good all season imo. Losing 3 and drawing 1 of our 6 home Championship fixtures has scuppered the league campaign on top of just failing to qualify for next round of KO Cup and BSN. Injuries to Niklas and Vinnie plus the predictable unreliability of Cookie upset the balance of the team and caused issues getting suitable guests. On top of this there has been inconsistency, bad luck and points thrown away. It just hasn't gone how the promotion will have hoped and i'm sure lessons will have been learned. We don't know the financial side, probably only Andrew knows that. The club are generally well supported by local business for which I for one are very grateful because they keep it going. Big wraps have to go to Paul Haughin on the commercial side, he does a superb job !. Andrew runs Flat track Championship rounds and practice days to help with finances which must help to some degree. The club has to keep working on promotion and the match day experience (many comment it still oftens looks like it did in a bygone era) while insisting riders get more interactive with fans after winning races instead of just going back to the pits, thats the least they can do. It can't be all take and no give. The season feels like it has barely started yet in a month it will be over for the Comets in 2026 and that just feels deflating.

Rasmus Pedersen caught my eye .

Now is just the time the promotion should be planning for next season . We will be finished end of August barring rain offs which look unlikely at the moment.

Have to disagree with "product on offer isn't what it was". I think the racing has been some of the best we have seen this season. We have something of an issue with underwatering pre meeting often with dust in heat 1. How would you prep the track out of interest ? people have differing opinions that I like to hear while riders also have differing demands that some don't mind expressing. I think Steve knows work is required on turn 1, maybe the close season will see this carried out but I dont know. Big hole is not something I recognise. Without figures not many people will know what the crowds are like in comparison to the last two seasons but i've certainly seen it lower in previous seasons compared to yesterday, Plymouth, Poole (couple of occasions) and Scunny come to mind from 2024 season. You can once again point to the fact that Speedway is caught in a time vortex from a bygone era. The people running it stubbornly refuse to change . Apparently crowds are lower at most tracks, Sheffield issued a warning last week on this very subject which no one wants to see.

Another very entertaining meeting with some great Speedway, well done to both teams for that. The difference today was Monarchs reserve Jordy Loftus who scored more points than the total accumulated by Batch, Vinnie, Niklas and Max for the Comets. Huge thanks to guest Nicolai Klindt who was quite simply different class today, he tried single handedly to get us over the line but as a collective we were not up to the task. If Jonas had been riding today I believe we would have suffered our 4th defeat at home in the league from 6 meetings. There is still time to make team changes and I wouldn't blame the management for going down this avenue. We scrapped well to salvage a point with the 5-1 in heat 15 so well done Nicolai and Drew Kemp for that because it would have been harsh to get nothing from the meeting and was at least some consolation for the home fans.

Aye you got more than a brief mention on BSN last night as well during the Scunny v Redcar meeting . Something to do with having the same name as someone famous. No mention of any royalties though. 😂

dry at the track for last couple of hours and no rain forecast for rest of day on weather channel.

yeah, there probably won't be enough rain to preclude watering so think Steve will need to be busy as usual with regards this.

We definitely need a win right now which will require a collective pulling together to achieve that objective. Getting turned over again at home is not acceptable so it is up to the team to give the fans something to shout about which generally hasn't been the case in the last two home meetings. Come on you Comets lets have some fight . 👊

Me too.

Not quite sure how that could have been missed over here. Shocking if it was.