uk_martin

I read now that Cllr Stokes is considering a Compulsory Purchase Order for the stadium.

Bear in mind that once upon a time they were the Brandon Bees...there's nothing about Coventry that is sacrosanct.

You'd need a motorised satellite dish (or one dish pointing at the satellite beaming down Sky channels and another that beams down the Polish TV) In addition you'd need the appropriate decoder. Some decoders require cards, and others obtain their decryption off the internet. You'd need about £400-£500 if you were starting from scratch, to get all the hardware set up. After that though, with the right set-up, and with the "right" (hem, hem) decoder, you can use online decryption (about €100pa including UK stations), and cancel your Sky subscription, and save a whole packet of money. during the course of the year. The hardware is a "one-off" purchase, so future years become even cheaper. No more or no less legal than the KODI alternative that people keep referring to, but with a guaranteed FULL HD resolution on the Polish sports TV station on your big TV, rather than a matchbox sized video on your PC screen.

If 10,000 people went through the turnstiles at Brandon on a regular basis instead of writing to Rugby Council, I doubt whether we'd be in this position now. If I were Councillor Stokes, and I had to spend a disproportionate amount of time sorting this mess out, I'd insist that the team bear the name of the town that's doing the sorting out. What's Coventry Council done to deserve the Bee's name? Far better that they become the Rugby (insert preferred name here) than maintain the name of the neighbouring authority.

This one? https://www.facebook.com/pages/Belle-Vue-Aces/108097405885861?ref=br_rs

Worst case scenario, and speedway does not return to Belle Vue...then what? Does the story get buried?

I'm optimistic that we might get a white Christmas this year.

Is this going to be RTD's fifth year in the lowest league, and he hasn't yet cracked the 5-point barrier? Well, nowt like potential waiting to burst out, is there?

And that one's coming along nicely too, isn't it? Check the other thread for the dismay at the lack of progress there.

I'll ignore that. It's a National Speedway Stadium, or SUPPOSED to be. Why would Manchester City Council build a facility and then impose restrictions on when it can be used? try scraping a bit deeper into the barrel, you're nearly at the bottom of it but not yet quite there. Is the weather any better in the 3rd or 4th week in March, in Manchester, than it is in the first week? Gorican gets an average of 3.17cm of rain, with an average minimum temperature of 6 degrees and an average maximum temperature of 12 degrees in March, which is hardly tropical. To within a centimetre of rainfall and a 2 celciuses of temperature, that's not far off what you can expect in Manchester. If it rains on one day in Manchester, you can go home and come back the next day. If Gorican is rained off, it's a long journey and a complete waste of time.

You'd have thought that instead of airlifting Team GB and all that goes with it, to Croatia, this kind of Team GB Boot Camp would be the ideal thing to happen at the "NSS"... http://www.speedwaygb.co/news.php?extend.31717 Are the BSPA / SCB giving the game away about their doubts over the future of the NSS by sticking with Gorican again?

To the protagonists, Horton, Sandhu etc, I don't have the time of day for them. To the BSPA for allowing this to fester on and on, well, what needs saying that hasn't been said already? It's the fans and riders I feel sorry for. Spare a thought for the fans, not only those at Coventry who will lose their team and who will be the main losers, but those away fans who simply can't plan out their travels, as the mess at Coventry and Belle Vue inevitably delays the BSPA from issuing of a fixture list that they need to sort out when to go where, not just to the Coventry fixture, but to every other venue in the country. Spare a thought also for 7 riders signed up for the 2017 season, some of which could have turned down alternative employment to commit to Coventry. Let's hope that their livelihoods won't be affected for too long and that they can get a gig at another team as soon as possible.

(Refuses to be wound up by that) 😀😀😀

THIS!

Now that IS a disgrace, isn't it? 😉 Linking the prospects of Belle Vue running with the prospect of Speedway Star doing some in depth investigative journalism only floods me with renewed pessimism 🙁

What would be positive would be a world when sentences don't need to include words like "hoping" and when fans don't need to be holding their breath and keeping their fingers crossed.

It's quite possible that those riders signed up by Coventry will become the Leicester team in the absence of a viable stadium at Brandon.

Really? Your closest big city built the National Indoor Arena. It built the new Alexander Stadium, home of international athletics, Birmingham City Council successfully kept Moseley Rugby Club from folding and "rehoused" them when they lost their old ground. Birmingham bid for the National football stadium only to be thwarted by the FA's fixation with Wembley. There is still the plan to build a major football stadium if Birmingham City and Aston Villa could be persuaded to ground share. Birmingham put a lot of money and effort into creating & maintaining the Wheels Project. Birmingham is also bidding for the next Commonwealth Games. Given the cut-backs in spending that councils have had to make, I think that Birmingham can be proud of it's achievements. Just because the micro-minority sport of speedway hasn't featured hardly warrants the tag of "disgrace" to be applied to the city as a whole. I suggest you focus your bile on the largest local authority in the country that within its borders does not have a single professional team in any sport. It may not quite come to that. If former offices and former factories can be converted into flats and apartments then an "X" Stadium can be converted into a "Y" Stadium.

Mr Darcy is in charge. Cue all the Bridget Jones jokes...😁

Interesting reading - http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/656190/brytyjska-federacja-blokuje-starty-swoich-zawodnikow-w-sec-one-sport-tego-nie-ro

What bulldozers can (eventually) build, they can also change. If there is more money in turning it into a football, or rugby, or hockey, or athletics stadium, MCC would be fools not to consider the options.

How will it justify the continuing name of National Speedway Stadium when it is not a national speedway asset and only gets used for speedway for 20-odd domestic speedway meetings a year? It would be ironic if another sport became the dominant user of the stadium at the behest of MCC in whose charge the stadium would be.

I wonder what would be the outcome if all riders interested and committed to riding in the NL had to register with the league first (a bit like doing a job application) and then there was an embargo on teams signing the (say) over 25's until all of the under 25's had been found team places? Surely it's wrong for young potential to be stifled because of old crocs on high averages hogging team places?

So on the basis that the truth hurts, there seem to be many Bees fans in pain. Why not just apologise for their suffering whilst not conceding the accuracy of the facts in hand?

No. It's whatever the best bidder is prepared to pay. Assuming that there are any bids.