You get good and bad meetings at all tracks. Today at the showground was an awful match with hardly any passing on a slick one line track. The closeness of the score kept it interesting, although there was very little to get excited about. There are no guarantees with speedway.
The shortage of riders and the curse of the the double uppers, will no doubt be cured when more tracks go to the wall. Maybe this is the BSPA master plan. Survival of the fittest and sod the rest. If lakeside can't run on Fridays, I can't see them running at all.
The meeting is off, I'm at Borehamwood v Arsenal instead. Roll on August 11th, let's hope there are no distractions that day. Hopefully something can be arranged before that date.
Decent meeting last night against a very determined Sheffield team. Some very interesting comments by Jon cook on the current state of the sport. Makes a change to hear someone in the know, give their views.
Retainers seems to be the way of the speedway world these days. How many tracks can afford to pay these, with so few coming through the gate. Rye house paid the price for such a risky strategy.
I've had 4 within a few weeks, all on dry days. 1 for financial reasons, 1 for traffic congestion and 2 for football. How can promoters expect fans to turn up when they keep pulling the plug. Isn't the fixture list fragmented enough.
Yet another meeting bites the dust this Saturday. Eastbourne's home match against mildenhall has been postponed because of England playing in the third place play off. Who really cares about this non event, I'd rather have gone to see some live speedway.
I think the actual land is owned by lea valley park. Getting planning permission to pull it down for residential use might be difficult. One of my mates has always said It might end up as a boating marina type of development.