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That’s about as optimistic as Man U winning anything this season

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Nice to see an actual atmosphere in a speedway stadium 🏆 congrats Aces. You done what was needed. The Sheffield win pretty much clinched the trophy!

It depends on how much British speedway really wants to promote and market itself. Too many people I speak to who don’t know much about speedway don’t even know the scoring system or what colour hats means what. It needs to be reset and pushed showing the sport in a new light. In an era where people want everything instant (TikTok etc) then speedway should hold its own as it’s fast paced. Apart from when Eurosport turn up obviously

That’s frustrating as well, Ipswich is £23 a meeting. Average attendance maybe 1,200? = £27,600 (I know they get other income with food / sponsers etc but just focus gate tickets) so if they lowered it to £10 and got 2,800 = £28,000 it could work. do you think they dare not take the risk of getting 2,800 in the gates even though more people would come for £10?

Are the going out of business because they can’t compete though? Or is it the fact Birmingham clearly don’t have a bigger fan base than say the witches. If Birmingham won the league last year, do you think that will double / triple, their crowds this year? Probably ask people in Birmingham what speedway is and they won’t know. That’s the problem, nothing about being competitive. The sport doesn’t have any promotion be it in their own cities or national TV. Not even all speedway fans know about BSN or local clubs having live streams.

So if he comes top four in each meeting he would generate roughly £100,000+. That’s a decent amount to be taken away just because of politics. Plus additional sponsorship etc. Obviously Poland pays the highest but SGP is the next best financial benefit for a top speedway rider. It may be meaningless to you and yes it’s the sport they choose but it still doesn’t make the statement untrue does it.

He started super good for Stal and for the SGP for sure! Everyone thought this was his season to kick on but for one reason or another it hasn’t worked. Magic had a year with Hancock and failed, got released from SGP and didn’t have the best of years. This year when he let Hancock go he has done so much better, now it’s Wozniak’s turn to have a torrid time under Hancock and he has taken a lot of money from magic and Wozniak, it’s a shame really!

Syzmon at the moment is having a torrid time in GP and Ekstraliga. I hope his luck changes, he is scoring about 3/4 points a meeting for Stal and I was at the meeting with Torun yesterday and again he had a nightmare. I think it’s more physiological at the moment, he is a good rider but very emotional too, things with his dad this season and the pressure he is under must be hard. Hancock has been a disaster for him. Now the Stal president said they will terminate his contract potentially this season, but only 1 day before Torun Grand Prix he was told his contract is secured for next year. He must be struggling. I feel for him, he is one of the really good genuine guys of the sport. I hope he comes to England and really hits the ground running! Although I think he will stay in Scandinavia.

This isn’t great thinking at all. If you know anything about how things have gone for riders whilst Hancock is mentoring them then you’d know it’s a bad idea !

Understand the point you are making and it makes sense, I think everyone is in agreement that a lot of speedway isn’t run how fans would want it, including riders in SGP. The mention about UK being a priority doesn’t hold too well though, I’d argue that every SGP rider who is currently in England doesn’t see UK as a priority but more of ‘training’ and time on the bike, so if the two gents do get into SGP it’s still the same decision they must make about either UK or another league, not UK or SGP.

The fact he gave so much to British speedway the last few years and it could help him financially is the reason you should sign it and not just be selfish on what you want in Britain. The guy gave his bonus for fastest lap time at Foxhall to the Benfund which he didn’t have to do. Rides and risks his life for entertainment. But you sit on your seat and worry about who will be in your team next year 👍🏼

Ben Cook is signed to Leszno next season in Ekstraliga 2. So if rumours are correct he won’t be available Thursday. Although I highly don’t the rumours are correct.

Agreed. Although IF Emil does return then our exact same team as this year would keep me fully interested and keen to see what we can do if we remain fit.

Rew will stay at Ipswich as it will be security for him in UK knowing the team and the management and knowing they won’t just drop him if he had a bad start. He is really coming on good and Ipswich gave him that chance.

Rew is staying at Ipswich.

You need to remember they lost J.Holder last Thursday as well. Apparently he went missing!

Ipswich had their number 1 missing all season and that proved your point, we simply couldn’t push that extra bit

And you want to hope Bewley gets through Wednesday night’s meeting. He’ll be pushing hard for Wroclaw in front of a home crowd.

Second best including your RS ref

You don’t deserve to be classed as the best team in the league or win the play offs then if other teams (even at the bottom of the table) are beating you just because it’s wet.

I don’t think so after watching them against Lynn twice and then Ipswich they have been actually pretty poor the last 5 meetings on a trot I’d say!

Take that back, couple of great heats !!

Yeah clearly as they can’t win a race now but they are filling in the 2nd and 3rd pretty easy! Crap meeting to watch this is.

If Belle Vue take the title can we ‘Witches’ claim a league title as the below rode for us: Bewley Lidsey Bloedorn and maybe we’ve had half of the other teams as well this season! Haha what a nightmare we had. Good luck to both Belle Vue & Lions !!!