Lejon

One reflection from over here. When i started following my team Lejonen in the mid 00's the price for the allsvenskan was 80SEK =£ 6.The club was on the way up and they tried out to let the fans in for nothing and sponsors paid 10p for each and every attending.Crowds went up by 280% from about 550 to 1550.Then they went up in the Elite and prices went from 120 sek t 160 in just 3 seasons .Crowd figures rose from about 800 in the second tier to 3500. Still: The paying customer 16 years and older was as low as one third! During the spell in the top tier we drew about around 250 % more people in during 10p matches .In my opinion the response from the regulars on pricing issues should be looked after better since history never seems to learn club officials when enough is enough and you vote with your feet and not bother to come...

Didn´t go this year also. Went there between 2001-2003. 26000+ crowds -poor track and the same problem as always at Ullevi - 4th bend by the line. After that all steam went out of the Gothenburg meeting and as I see it people focused on Copenhagen or Mållila instead. After the fiasco 2003 it ssems that they lost half the crowds. I suspect it was "the" occation, the distance to the "hotbeds" of speedway and TR. I believe Ullevi needs a break as a venue since Målilla attracts the same crowd and last year they had their all time high crowd. The racing can be breathtaking at Ullevi but at the times i vitnessed it many had problems with flat tyres and chain breaks IMO made up by the extreme length and status of racetrack.

We have had a very cold spring over here in Sweden - although the northern parts had very hot temperature - still no speedway tracks. If speedway is taking a punch this spring the footie had a downfall with 30-40% this spring. I asume people have got a good explanation to this. Paying 140 SEK to get through the turnstiles seems maybe to U.K spectators cheap I think - still it is in level with swedish PL footie and if you field a team that don´t perform and the weather is bad , well...

One aspect that made me intersted in how they reported these meetings is that in the eminent book "Bristol Bulldogs" by Dave Woods and Geoff Rose the Bulldogs had during the `77 season: The 26th Aug the met Hulll and Exeter in a doublemeeting.The reported crowd was 11250.The meeting before and after was 8000 against Reading and 6500 against Hackney.The other meeting was the 14th october aganst White City and a S/F in the Knock out cup against Reading.Crowd 12752. Meeting a week before 10152 against Poole and the week after 7849 against Birmingham. Accordning to the book the League Average for that season was 8617 for 18 homemeetings and the doubleheader meeting crowd must have been recodred twice still there were only (!) 11250 present - not 22500. You could prove a lot with stats , can´t you

Got my copy today - and read it i a couple of hours - brilliant stuff! What is the next step - Wembley post war? Can´t wait!

Thanks all for the full story behind it and the sometimes hard consequenses for the fans - still makes the statemen come true though - "British speedway is business first , sport comes second" wast´nt it?

Yes I can see that nowlooking through some seasons and clubs. Still - maybe a daft question: If attending a double header.... Where ýou charged for one 13 heat meeting or a higher priced etrance fee with discount for both of them ? One or two programmes at the meeting? One first meeting with another one directly after? Any break for the home team riders & preparation before next meeting?

Hi! Just curious.... In the old BL format 13 heats -after what heat was there a longer interval? In the Swedeish elite and Allsvenskan the longer interval is after heat 10. And looking through old season reviews för example White City had two meetings on the same night - how was this managed? One entry fee and one startingtime or two meetings and vice versa? Thanks in advance lejon aka Joakim

QUOTE (Robbie B @ Feb 16 2009, 11:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi everyone on the forum. I have nearly completed a Wimbledon speedway website, deicated to my first season as a speedway supporter, in 1976. I have put loads of stuff on there, for everyone too see, including a special five-page tribute to Tommy Jansson. But I still require scans, if anyone got them of the following speedaway programmes; 1973 & 1975 World Pairs Finals, and the 1976 World Longtrack Final. Please send any items to robert.browne@hotmail.co.uk undefined The website address is www.wimbledonspeedway1976.com Visit My Website Hope you like it. Please leave any comments on the forum here, of what you think of it. Can recommend it - looks like you´ve put in a goog deal of work and commitment - beautiful !

Coincidense, isn´t it? Bought a 2nd hand copy since I thought the stock wouldn´t run out that fast - but it did... So mine also on the way to Sweden!

His "nickname" Filbyter comes from the the name Fil for stallion and byter meant that this bloke was actually good biting off the balls of a stallion, could you even get a worse nickname?? Then the other thing ätt means more or less the same as the clans in scotland

Andersson, Sven-Olof Göran Born 27 November 1932 in the parish of Almby,Örebro Dead the 21 July 1953 This is information I´ve goat from my college Christer as he reserches his family roots and found them in "the Sweden deathbook 1947-2003" Hope it have sorted out something Joakim aka Lejon

I´ve send a mail to the clubswebsite to try to sort out a more proper date... and in the same time try to figure out if they knew my dads uncle also named Andersson - still no relative to this unfortunate chap - who were familiar and dragged my dad and his brother in to the pits at nearby Sannahed track , home of the Indians and also into the pits area at Malmoe for the two finals... Wish that dad have had more sense "Whe just folowed KG(uncles name) and was let in everywhere...!

According to Vikingarnas homepage, the Örebro-based team Göran Andersson died a year after a testmatch against England at Adlershot,aged 21, the 21st July 1953.