Falcon1983

52-38 Witches Lawson 8 King 9 Harris 7 Kennet 7 Pieczek 7 Howarth 5 Heeps 9

Everyone knows witches more often than not will struggle away from home after heat 12, should have got summers 3 rides out of the way early to have a stronger finish using heeps to the absolutely maximum, tonight he was used to his maximum but not absolute

Wrong Richard

Richard costing witches the win then

To put a different slant on it Howarth probably wouldn't score the same as JA when fully fit, so you have to take into consideration what JA would have scored tomorrow night being half fit so a return of 7 from Howarth over 4 rides would be decent any more than 7 from say 5 rides would be welcomed

Not sure if witches can use a guest facility for KP as rules seem to change every 2 minutes but if a facility was allowed they should have got a guest as lessons showed last season. I'll stick by my prediction because I don't know how fit JA is it's his first foxhall meeting since his injury will be therefore be a little tentative, also not sure of EK has any experience of the new foxhall so his best way round it might not still be the best way so I think he'll need a ride or two to settle although I would expect him to get 3 points from his first 2 rides which is more than Bellego would get from 7 rides. I think it comes down to which TB turns up on the night, if he fancies foxhall on Thursday evening I think the Robin's takes the points if he doesn't I can maybe see witches his 45/46/47/48 but can't see them hitting more I just hope it's a cracking meeting, a lot of good riders on show so hope they have conditions to allow them to showcase their skills I'm not a results man just want to see good racing, predictions are just a little bit of fun

Lawson 8 bomber 6 kennett 7 king 10 heeps 8 allen 5 Doyle 13 Jensen 7 Tobias 7 Ellis 6 Batch 9 Perks 1 Starke 3

46-44 to Swindon It's been a great start for the Witches no doubt about it but it has to come to an end at some point and Swindon are the team to do it. Heats 13 & 15 is where the downfall begins and I'll throw in there as well that tactically the Witches will make some form of glaring error along the way

I'm sure witches would have had Schlein at least if they had made the decision to go PL early doors rather than to make up the numbers

From what I have seen which is very limited I would have Schlein Riss King Jensen Cook Heeps Allen

Question for all really... looking at the riders and how they have performed so far who would you put in your witches 1-7 now if you could start from scratch and within the points limit, just a bit of fun....

So witches kept him to pick up a league point at belle vue, how many points have they lost or allowed other teams to gain

The Bellego change took far too long although it was pleasing to see a change, bomber needs to bomb on now

If witches lose and Bomber scores poorly, needs to be the next one gone that week

My best memory of Bellego as a witch will be when he pipped Schlein on the line in the BT meeting, what a ride!

Kenneth surely strengthens Ipswich home and away comparing bellegos form not what Bellego is capable of, that's why the change has happened right? Harris and Bellego should have gone a couple of weeks ago when others riders were available or sort of available I'd have preferred Scott and cook over Harris and Bellego

Will be giving this one a miss

You probably see the main event covering liverpool, London etc. My event when I done it was purely regional at the same venue in Essex 4-5 times per year They may be different sports but promoting happens in similar ways, speedway just dont promote, the most backwards sport I know lol

I dont do the event now, I stopped back in 2016 but it was mixed martial arts, built it up from nothing in 2012, it's now owned and run by a Cage Warrior brand, the show that launched Conor McGregor

Social media marketing is where the BSPA should be taking the sport as a whole, this is where the young kids are at, yes school visits would help locally for teams but if you're after the whole picture then Instagram, Facebook, Twitter l, YouTube etc. All need to market on such platforms. Unfortunately the BSPA and clubs think just by having accounts on these platforms that they are doing the job but you have to spend to make money. For my own events I used to pay £100 for a short 60 second promo video of an event, I'd spend about £200 on marketing that video on Facebook. For £300 I would regularly sell out a 1000 seater venue, now not all tickets were sold from that but through analytics you can see key information on who engaged with it and then use that information to then market the next one, getting better results each time The video I'm talking about had over 50,000 views, It had around 300 likes but had over 80 people comment and tag their mates saying "up for this" or "let's give this a go" The same event sold out, we even had to turn away people at the gate which was disappointing as its lost revenue, the live stream had over 100,000 people watch it worldwide even the prince of Saudis Arabia watched it. The 1000 people could have watched it for free at home without buying a ticket, but people love the experience of the live event and being there. If I can do it, surely the BSPA can do it with all their heads together

When I used to be a promoter although a different sport we would regularly fill a 1200 seater arena alongside offering a completely free live stream on the whole event. Our full ticket prices were £30 & £50, we used to offer an early bird reduction of £20 & £35 that would always end 8 weeks prior the event. I'd say maybe 10% of tickets went to the early bird buyers who were regular followers of the event. Speedway is way behind in so many areas.

I've said something similar for a long time. Averages should start the season based on the average over two seasons, so let's say Danny King for example 2017 averaged 7 2018 averaged 6 He starts 2019 with an average of 6.5 and has that average for the full season. If he ends the 2019 season with an average of 9 He starts 2020 with an average of 7.5 and keeps that average for a full season. At any point if Ipswich want to replace king during the 2019 season they'd have only 6.5 to play with irrelevant to what he is actually achieving so if he's averaging 9 then they wont replace him with a 6.5 however if he's averaging 4 then you'd replace him with a 6.5 option. This allows riders to do well and score big I.e. above their average then they are less likely to be replaced

Is there any positives left in British speedway other than an exciting crop of youngsters in the system who will have no sport to race in, in the not too distant future?

Not sure who said it but it was said (someone educate me) something about people using motocross engines I think 450cc in speedway chassis etc. Big manufacturers who have no interest in speedway right now, so perhaps speedway as it is in the UK should die a death and out of the flames something completely new but on the basis of speedway could be born and be successful. I honestly cant see any other way as people running it now have killed it, lack of riders, doubling up, fixed race nights, poor crowds, poor tracks, poor facilities

It doesn't solve it no, but if riders are not in a way willing to risk because the reward is not enough then take the reward away. Its absolutely spot on why would some riders or most risk a pass if they know they may gate and win in their other 3 heats or why risk a pass knowing that they have 4 rides at least with their other British team Riders are also part of the problem though a smaller % they can moan and say they get 7 x the amount in Poland but if the UK really was so poor in terms of what riders get out of it then they wouldn't ride here. If riders think the UK pay is so poor then I suggest they do what my father did, end of 1992 the BSPA wanted to remove the bonus points paid to riders so in essence to earn more riders would be racing their team mates. So he took a stance and said no he won't ride due to this, his team mates did the same only to fall back into teams over the latter part of the winter, my old man didn't out of principal and then just retired from the sport altogether though never officially.