Grachan

How? Well, that's the big question isn't it! My own teenage son loves going to speedway. He has brought friends too. They have always enjoyed it too. It's not the product or the racing. Kids seem to enjoy it on every occasion. It is, to some degree, modern life. Kids are happy doing it, but just as happy sat at home in front of an Xbox. At the end of the day, kids aren't going to be going if their parents don't take them. I think the team aspect should be more visual. A basketball/ice hockey type scoreboard would make it more of a sporting event. Unfortunately, a lot of promoters worry about losing programme revenue, but having some guy up in the box reading out race times etc isn't enough. My son likes to fill out a programme. I think people would still do that even with the match score permanently on display.

You make the sport amateur, you lose most of the riders as they can ride in Poland and Sweden and get paid. Why would they ride here for nothing? Once left with amateur riders you get amateur size crowds of about 250. And further and further down we go.

I think the obvious point is to encourage younger people as well as the older people.

Opening paragraph. https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/17328618.meridian-lifts-boss-in-migrants-drowning-row/?fbclid=IwAR1rtFI-He3RtetyhdmFmKDtLnY694oyP5wT7GaWqZ6GgnGYM7kLpmswLio Sure, they are quoting an unnamed source, but by putting it in the opening paragraph they are clearly laying their cards on the table about it.

Oooooooohhhhh Gater Gater..... Gater Gater Gater1.

I think it's always been that way -certainly since I started going in the 1970s. It's just that the bubble is getting smaller.

So it is. Bet you thought I'd got you there for a moment, though! ☺ By the way, here is an article referring to Cheese Rolling as a sport. https://theculturetrip.com/europe/united-kingdom/england/articles/a-quick-guide-to-cheese-rolling-englands-strangest-sport/ Just thought I'd mention it. And here is one about wife carrying. https://wmmr.com/2017/12/11/wife-carrying-shockingly-real-sport-happens-america/

That's actually pretty much my point. Skeleton is a sport that must be recognised, as one of its participants was nominated for SPOTY. Yet it doesn't appear on that list, so therefore it cannot be a definitive list of ALL sports, as there are also valid sports that don't appear on it.

Find me Skeleton on that list.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make regarding Lizzy Yarnold. She provided, for me, possibly my favourite sporting moment of the year. Yet only 2 people in your quiz recognised her! Not sure what thst says about your quizzers! But you seem to think people should be surprised that a double Olympic champion would have a higher profile than a World speedway champion. Not a chance. Ask a similar sample of people in the 1970s to recognise Ivan Mauger, by the way, and there's a pretty good chance you would get the same result. A lot more people would have known John Curry. Out of interest, you say you are in Spain. What sort of public profile does Ana Currasco have there? Would she have been easily recognisable?

It should probably, yes. I do wonder if the BBC drop it as a deliberate act because of the orchestrated emails they probably get over speedway. I know people think they are helping the cause by getting people to email the BBC and complain about their lack of coverage, but if they are as bloody minded as I can be sometimes, they might just think "Oh for God's sake!" and make it the first sport dropped.

Wall of Death is here. The speedway looks like New Cross to me, based on how it looks and comparing it to "Once A Jolly Swagman".

Sometimes I think people watch Sports Personality of the Year to check that speedway isn't mentioned, just so that they can have a moan about it after.

James Shanes it is then. Someone's going to be happy!

Greaves has become a fairly decent rider and I wouldn't mind seeing him back at Swindon, but didn't he have a major fakking out withbthe club last time he rode for Swindon? Something to do with something he posted on Teitter?

Dmitri Berge has tweeted that he is looking for a UK mechanic to do both leagues. Just saying.

Something that cost us dearly in 2017.

Not according to BBC Wiltshire Sport's Twitter. They say it's Adam Ellis.

If I remember rightly, Nick did actually choose to ride as British but someone refused him permission to ride in some meeting and he ended up riding as an Aussie. I can't remember the exact details, but Gary Patchet was quite vocal about it at the time. Anyway, Nick now confirmed at Wolves.

The announcement said that Nick had asked to be released. http://www.swindon-speedway.com/_mobile/news.php?extend.3193.1 Would he ask that if not already set up with another team, I wonder?

Probably already been poached by Wolves.

David Bellego has been released, which seems to indicate they pretty much have the side sorted.

Lee Kilby says on Twitter that The Brummies have, at this point, not moved up to the CL, although there are talks in progress.

Bellego & Bradley Wilson-Dean?

Maybe he should buy them all. Then it's all equal again.