uk_martin

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.

Mr Mole has set his sights on retirement. 2017 will be his last year at Birmingham. So not only are BV looking for a new promoter but to add a bit of competition, so are the Brummies, for the long term. So the question that a newcomer tempted by promoting a speedway team has to ask, is which is the better option, Belle Vue or Birmingham?

For the average admission price in Poland you can buy 5 pints of beer down the pub. How much do 5 pints of beer cost in a Swindon pub? Now who's better off?

Decent track lighting and not having to rely on the headlights of the cars parked above the back straight for illumination would be good too.

I'd have thought that the first signing would need to be a promoter and the second signing would need to be the lease on a stadium. Without those, the whole joint venture will go to the wind.

That's Captain Mainwaring, Sergeant Wilson, Corporal Jones and Private Pike signed up...just need to get Private Godfrey, Private Frazer and Private Walker now...

Hmmm..."I say, you rotter, you broke the starting tapes...how disappointing. Bah!" ...yeah, that'll work with kids who've been brought up on rap crap music, innit?

Do you really think that the sight of Mr Tattum's organ will do any good to the average Stoke fan's dicky tickers?