Speedtiger

The clowns in Rugby will have to fall in line with other sports but It won’t make much difference as speedway is well used to running to empty stadiums!

Well done done to all the riders who are supporting this worthy event...they are hero’s. Shame on the so called ‘top’ riders who couldn’t be bothered.

Me to.

Me neither but that’s what’s going to happen I’m told coz Matt is stuck for cash to build his hotel in France! He says he can not finance both!

Phil, Yes but plus flights, hotel, mechanic etc etc it will be nearer £5000 a meeting and that will take some getting back especially in these days.!

Tigers team is looking good, just hope NIki P brings in the fans to pay his £5000 a meeting wages..!!!!

Both! Poole are now a 2nd rate team and a dump of a track. That’s why Matt can not sell the club and will be closed down next year.!

Ok you make a lot of ifs, buts and maybes but you should look on company house it in black and white and looks a huge loss and if they are supposed to be hot shot business people it is a very bad show. Or is it a tax dodge?

Bag puss, well it has, just check it out on company house web sight.

Phil, it is TRUE just check out the BV accounts on official company house web sight!!

Ok maybe but I’m reliably told that money is very tight as BV losses are astronomical well over £500,000. and rider pay has to be cut, which makes sense. All clubs should be doing the same or they will go under.

2020 BV team looking ok. Shame about not getting Max but from what I hear it’s all about money!

Speedway is really doomed....Godfrey is a useless ignorant buffoon...Chapman will go down as the worst BSPA Chairman ever...but Godfrey will soon surpass him

Yes...but as starman said Mat should have sold up sometime ago. The sports fallen apart around him and he can not give Poole away now. Not convinced going CL is the answer ? Sad but highlights the deep mess uk speedway is in and what a poor TV deal has been done that MF wants away!

Brilliant...

Not sure but I think MF bought a hotel somewhere abroad and maybe he needs the cash? So that’s why he wants out of speedway? He’s smart bloke and he can see Poole going down the tubes fast in Premier League and he think Danny can not cut it! Move to CL is a brave move or a desperate last ditch effort to shore up the club and sell it and get some money? Trouble is no one in there right minds will buy into a speedway club. But maybe there’s some idiots still out there! Time will tell.?

As has been said by many before and proved right, I don’t think it matters who shows it...(certainly not on some obscure network)...live tv coverage is not the answer and will not be good for clubs or improve the sport unless tv companies are paying a substantial fee in excess of £1.5m...and then plus a huge amount of money invested in stadiums and presentation and sadly that will not happen. Whoever thinks just being on tv will save speedway is deluded. It hasn’t worked before and all the signs are it won’t work again. The hard fact is the combined losses of uk speedway clubs must be running into millions of pounds.

It’s a brave move by MF but also clearly a desperate one with the club losing a serious lump of cash....it could be the last roll of the dice. I hope it pays off but no guarantee it will. Don’t think it will be the only bit of big news in the coming weeks!!

I renewed mine as it far better and more convenient than trawling up to Tesco’s. The SS is one of the best sports mags going, it’s excellent but SS are clearly suffering with the terminal decline in speedway. I sympathise as that must be a serious worry for all the management and staff as they can not do much to stop the rot caused by the clowns that (so called) run the sport!

Agreed Mike, but the fact is a TV deal is not the silver bullet and a ‘must have’ that speedway needs. The original Sky TV deal didn’t help stop the downward spiral of speedway, truth is Sky could see it coming and bailed out...and the pathetic BT TV deal doesn’t pay a significant amount of cash because they didn’t need to. A TV deal doesn’t bring in the much needed atmosphere of income generating fans through the turnstiles, in fact TV keeps them away! Take a look at a normal BT TV broadcast this season, if you were a company paying good money to advertise would you want your product to be associated with speedway? To reboot speedway the TV deal would have to be worth millions and then a huge amount invested in promoting and improving the product...and the spectator experience and redeveloping stadiums and frankly that won’t happen. The cold hard fact is speedway is bust and Poole and many other clubs, more than you think, are in a desperate financial state and up ‘for sale’ and not surprisingly there are NO takers!

Agree, think you should take what MF says with a pinch of salt! A 75% saving dropping to CL is nonsense. If that was the case all clubs would be in CL...!!!

I am a tigers and a aces fan, more aces now since Sheffield move race days. Because aces failed to make top 4 we have missed out on a meeting or 2. Strange I would have thought speedway fans wanted more meetings not less.?

Sure there is lots of good riders about who would like to earn a few quid, season goes to end Oct and it’s a long long winter and sure BV would want much needed cash. Ok there is Colts meetings but don’t think crowds are that good and won’t earn much cash.

Fair point. But if they put on a meeting with a good field, coz there lots of top riders about, maybe they would make some cash?

After a early finish for the Aces why aren’t BV running some end of season challenge meetings for fans? Makes sense as fans who have season tickets have really been sort changed with BV failure to make play offs! We have riders and the stadium so should use it but seems odd and a bit like they can not be bothered.