Speedtiger

Another club joins the long ‘For Sale’ list...I think there’s no chance of getting a good profitable sale as the Bates have run the Tigers down. Maybe the clown Chapman or numpty Godfrey will take over....God help us! Bring back NM?

Agreed. MF has missed the boat as far as a big sale goes, No one in there right mind would pay a fraction of that sort of money for a speedway club. The sport has crumbled around him and his club is now almost worthless. He has publicised the fact the club are losing big money so he’s shot himself in the foot.! Not too smart! If the truth be known most speedway clubs are in the same position and are also unsalable! What a mess!

The low crowd, dump of a stadium and cabbage patch track is symptomatic of the dreadful state of uk speedway, what a mess. Poole used to be the club to look up too...well run, successful and profit making...NOT now! Very sad.

All the signs of a club in financial trouble, no wonder MF can not sell it.!!

...and release Lemon..the Lemon!!

Id release both Wells and Berge, get a 2 pointer in at reserve and go get another heatleader if we can ...and Lemon...the lemon!

...because Lemon is useless and clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing. What a poor BV performance, very disappointing. The irritating Roscoe must be laughing all the way home! So annoying.

....and people wonder why the sport is at rock bottom! Rubbish meeting, rubbish track and a rubbishhole of a stadium and all played out on TV...you couldn’t make it up!

Poole are clearly short of cash....what a dump, this must be the worst track in the UK...

You can not turn the clock back, sadly I think it’s too late...the opportunities to restructure the sport have long gone. Speedway is in an uncontrolled tail spin and I believe it is beyond recovery. The sport is bust and there’s not a silver bullet that will save it. The people in charge are totally incompetent. TV money should have been used to promote and build the sport and not greedily pocketed by self serving TR or squandered on unsustainable rider pay. TV money will never return.

IMO Chapman is a clueless numpty. He couldn’t run a bath! He’s been chairman of the BSPA and overseen the biggest decline in British Speedway in recent years. Chapman and his useless sidekick are arrogant and don’t listen or understand the fans and are totally incapable of improving the sport. If you ignore your customers, they will eventually ignore you. Speedway and loyal fans deserves better!

Good question! I hear people saying uk speedway admission is generally overpriced and should be £10. But compared with other sports £18 to £22 range is good value. The track and racing at BV is so good I think the admission is very fair. I certainly don’t think the admission cost is to blame for the mess Speedway is in!

Agreed. Don’t blame Nigel and Kel as they have to be positive on air but they know better than most the true desperate state of British Speedway. Actually all the club promoters know what a sorry state the sports in as they are losing hard cash but they are to blame and frankly haven’t got a clue how to get out of the mess they have created. British Speedway has been on a slippery slope for a while now but more recently run firmly into the ground by Chapman & Co. There are few clubs, if any, making money and are unsustainable and therefore unsaleable. Who would want to invest in a speedway club now? Fact, MF is only at Poole because he can not sell the club. Belle Vue have the best stadium and track in the UK and are losing and large fortune. Madness.

I didn’t suggest for a second that track covers would save this particular meeting. I was only asking where they are..! Looking at the weeks forecast they may be needed for this’s Thursday.

I think it’s off now mr cotton. Strange call this as it’s fine here! What happened to the track covers BV was getting?

If Poole is losing money as article in SS says then might be why MF has not got the cash to spend on the track? Is the club still up for sale..?

I think thats a little harsh. I met Mick once down at the Bees and he was really helpful and went out of his way to let us get riders autographs for my nephew. Wonder what he’s doing now...is he still involved in speedway?

Not 100% sure what you mean? The Council have to be above board and squeaky clean surely? Tax payers money! The dodgy business history of Mr Southwell should have been flagged up? Looking on Google at the information on Southwell would have set off alarm bells and it seems BV and NSS are clearly not in such safe hands!

Ok fair enough but surely the Manchester council would have to check on tenants background as they can not be seen to be involved with risky unsuitable people running the stadium. It is easy to check as I just found out, as his business failures and history is a quick click on to google.

Speedtiger 53 Posted 1 minute ago Blimey, just Googled Robin Southwell...wow there’s lots of very interesting stuff on him and about a company called Corporate Jet Service and also some of his well dodgy associates who are all now in clink for 47 years for the HBOS fraud. Seems the Bank lost £113m and Manx Government a fortune. Well with a checkered business record like that how long before BV goes bust? You have to ask why did the Council get involved with him (they must have checked up) and him with speedway? Surely they must have to pass a BSPA fit and proper person assessment before being involved in speedway or am I being a little naive? This isn’t really for the Craig Cook thread so I’ll move this to Belle Vue thread.

Blimey, just Googled Robin Southwell...wow there’s lots of very interesting stuff on him and about a company called Corporate Jet Service and also some of his well dodgy associates who are all now in clink for 47 years for the HBOS fraud. Seems the Bank lost £113m and Manx Government a fortune. Well with a checkered business record like that how long before BV goes bust? You have to ask why did the Council get involved with him (they must have checked up) and him with speedway? Surely they must have to pass a BSPA fit and proper person assessment before being involved in speedway or am I being a little naive? This isn’t really for the Craig Cook thread so I’ll move this to Belle Vue thread.

...wrong again ouch, I’m a BV season ticket holder and have been for many seasons. I pay my way and entitled to have an opinion and serious concerns about the way BV is being run. The points I make whether you like/agree or not are based on facts. Let’s now get back on thread.

As usual you have missed the point. If the crowds are poor, which they are and BV are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every season, which they are, then they must have tons of cash to burn. FACT.

Ok but how do you know that?

...and the witches team probably put together by the much abused cabbage patch clown Chapman. Lemon is clueless and IMO over rated as a TM let alone a director of speedway. He was an ok rider who’s now way out of his depth and just going through the motions and picking up his pay cheque. The sooner they sus him out and get someone in who’s experienced at BV the better.