uk_martin

Probably an Aussie kid that nobody has heard of before who manages to score a win against a "big boy" during the Aussie season, and therefore gets hyped up as the next big thing.

An interesting return for "The Rizzla". In the olden days he was a Birmingham/Tony Mole asset. I wonder whose asset he is (or will be) now.

Would it? How far must it reduce to? £10? £5? I don't think that people go around thinking "how can I best spend £10, or £15?" They look at what is likely to give them a good night out, pay for it, and then decide afterwards whether that was money well spent or not, and on that decision base whether they would want to go again. On that basis, the onus is on the sport to deliver a good night out. You'll never get lose the "speedway at any price" public and you'll never entice the "no speedway even if it was free" types. The job is to convert those who go once into going many times, and that you will only do if the product and presentation is improved and brought into the 21st century. An analogy would be that in a world of streaming movies, speedway is still playing betamax video tapes. Exactly!

https://moneynerd.co.uk/average-personal-debt-uk-2022/ It seems to me that "our households" are full of people who "must have now" so much that personal debt is at record highs. I don't think that the way that the government runs the country is any different to how the average household is run. But of course, you can always blame the government but you can't blame ordinary Joe, can you? Because ordinary Joe looks just like you and me, and we can't be seen to be blaming ourselves now, can we?

I think the promoters are "wising up" to this fact, and now are basing their income projections on the concessionary admission levels. From that point of view, if the OAP discounted admission charge is "the new normal" then perhaps the question can be turned on its head...and you can ask "why should people of working age be penalised with excessive admission charges to be able to go to watch the speedway?" Can't wait to hear from the "Speedway's a £10 sport" brigade.

Morris comes in a 10.13 average. That's a higher average than Jason Lyons ever had. So, from that point of view, he'll win more races than Jason Lyons ever did. Now, how "exciting" was Jason Lyons? I seem to recall, he was a firm fans favourite, and if a rider like that can't gain enough popularity to "put more bums on seats", then that dead horse that's been flogged needs a proper burial.

Dan McCormack II

Continuity from last season? Maybe the Brummies now will sign some phantom riders so that the continuity with R/R and Guests can be continued. All that investment into Tipp-Ex (other correction fluids are available) that the fans have made last year mustn't be wasted.

Have you had the guided tour of his trophy cabinet?

You're asking about speedway promoters doing market research??? Now I know you've got a sense of humour.

Annual totals yes, but attendance per meeting, probably not. The Brummies are down to the hard core "die hard fans" now, who will attend no matter what the cost. I just hope that their stadium rental is on a "per meeting" basis rather than "per season". If that's the case then there may be hope. Only a £2 differential between full fare and OAP discount, down from the £3 previously. That's a step in the right direction. Also, the incentive for students is positive, in the hope of attracting the next generation of fans in.

They probably won't increase numbers but (& especially if they stop offering concessionary admission) they will increase the revenue per head that attends, thus boosting the turnover amount. The crowds are down to the bare-bones hard core levels who will view "speedway at any price", so pushing the prices up won't lose them any more numbers off the terraces, so no harm done attendance wise, and an instant win on the overall revenue front. And if they do retain a discount for OAP's the discounted admission will probably match the old "full fare", therefore again, increasing revenue per head to the minimum needed.

I gather that there's a vacancy for Minister of Propaganda in Moscow at present. Do well, and you get the bonus of a Dacha on the Black Sea coast...do badly and you get fired - attached to an artillery shell pointed at the Ukraine.

I would guess that as the majority of speedway fans are of pensionable age, including those on BSF, that for that reason the majority of responses would be to preserve the discount because of nothing other than motivated self-interest. I for one don't understand why pensioners should get discounts on luxuries like speedway and yet have to pay full whack on bread, milk, eggs and other "essentials". And why in the UK only? I've not seen any pensioner discounts at any of the speedway tracks I've been to on the continent. And then we have the matter of the clubs who are facing ever increasing running costs. And yet, over the course of a year, those who offer OAP discounts will be losing £xx,000's a year in revenue. That's a circle that has to be squared. OK, some penny-pinching pensioners may take the hump and stop going. The up side of that the less the terraces look like a Derby & Joan Club evening out, the more likely you are to find younger people coming to watch speedway instead. Swings and roundabouts on that score.

There have been times when I can't get in using the Chrome browser, but when I try with Firefox, I can get in. It couldn't be that the BSPA servers can't cope again, can it?

That's 21 more riders that you'll need.... That's 14 more riders needed in addition to those in current teams... Now we're getting into fantasy land. If you look at a previous post of mine, I counted up only 104 riders registered in the UK spanning all 3 current leagues... Where are the 35 extra riders coming from to make up the proposed Mildenhall, Kent, Eastbourne & IOW teams, let alone the wet dreams of Cradley, Rye House etc returning to the sport.

He didn't wait very long to make that brilliant decision to mark out a bus lane on the M4 motorway.

Yeah, there's a limit to how quickly the beads on the official BSPZzz abacus can be moved about in doing their calculations.

Well, exactly...no-one at Starry Speedway has said that the first rider will be on a season-long contract, have they? It could be another of those "until the Swedish season starts" kind of contracts. It might even feature a guarantee that in the event of sustaining a season ending injury, the team won't be redeclared with a replacement rider, so that they don't have to feel lonely and like they've been thrown onto the scrap heap.

At this point in previous seasons the Brummies Facebook Page would have run about half a dozen videos featuring James Shanes...and a couple featuring Ashley Morris. Indeed, the Brummies Facebook page gave James Shanes more exposure than Fox News gave to Donald Trump. That hasn't happened this year. Is their absence a hint of a fresh broom sweeping clean?

Sounds like a job for the BSPZzz's Parliamentary Liaison team (whatever they are called these days) eh?

The Planning officer would only resubmit if the applicant (who pays a considerable amount to have an application processed) has paid for it to be resubmitted. When that happens, the planning officer is duty bound to reassess and resubmit an application. Your statement sounds like one person on the council staff (remember that a Planning Officer is a bog standard "white collar worker" like many other people on a council's payroll) with a vendetta. Assessing and processing a planning application takes a lot of time and therefore costs a lot of money, and any member of staff spending the time needed to process an application without someone else to pay the bill for it, just as a vindictive act of revenge, would quickly be shown the door.

Speedway Star's feats of investigative journalism defy belief Who could have guessed that the Brummies would have one rider "in the bag" by now?

Brummie Bear is due to make a special appearance at the Supporters Club Christmas Party...you never know....

Out of interest, has anyone who previously promoted the idea of behind-the-scenes corruption, "brown envelopes" or "money talks" eaten their words yet? There was as much evidence of corruption on show last night as there was of Donald Trump's election having been "stolen" from him.