IainB

Well, again, not really, no. I'm not sure why you're bringing in game shows and your family into an explanation and @arnieg comparing salaried Football players to self employed Speedway riders. Like I said, we're getting into semantics of what a "prize" is, if you choose to believe that Poole's trip to Vegas wasn't a prize that's fair enough, I think it was.

No, not confused at all, you suggested that Footballers only got medals, I suggested otherwise... Was the Vegas trip in the Poole riders contracts?

I bet Man City's players were on win, goal and title bonuses. Yes, we all know there is no prize money for winning the league from the BSPL, the club will see the "prize" of increased attendances, maybe additional sponsorship, the riders may have clauses written into their contacts or the promotion may give them the "prize" of a trip to Vegas. Call it incentive, bonus or prize it's semantics really and I'm not going to argue the toss over it. Did Reading get their £100k?

Are you saying that the Poole riders had to pay their own way? I genuinely don't know, which is why I asked the question in the first place (when I was allegedly, fishing 🎣) Similarly... didn't Reading get £100k or something back in the day (Dave Lanning era), put up by the promotion?

Well, not really, no. The Poole riders are not family and their trip to Vegas was conditional on them winning the League title... that, my friend, is, what us speakers of English, call a prize

a bit like a prize, you could say 🤔😁

It was a simple question that you've elected not to answer.

Jamie Westaspace 😁

A bit passive aggressive... if it wasn't a prize, what was it? Do you think would they have gone if they hadn't won? 🎰

Didn't the Poole lot go to Vegas?

Who are you referring to?

Blummin eck, I was even there for that NYC meeting and still don't remember the guy... he's taking up far too much space on this forum for such a non entity 😂

THE Jamie Westacott? 🤔 Nope... never heard on him 🤷‍♂️ He does like his chocolate and lighters though... I wonder if he was freebasing it? 🍫🔥

It's the Welsh spelling 😂

What an interesting photo to "choose" for that particular story 🤷‍♂️

BSI already tried something similar with the running of Reading "Bulldogs" (i.e. getting involved in British Speedway) and they couldn't even make that pay and that was without buying Smallmead. A global company like WBD ain't going to go near British Speedway. A pity as perhaps an investment in grass roots Speedway in all countries (except Poland of course) is what is needed to grow the GP series as a token running of a SGP3 & SGP4 once a year isn't going to cut it. If they're not prepared to really invest in the sport I'm not quite sure why they got involved.

It always struck me how different the demographic was that attended Cardiff from what you'd see at most club tracks, whether that was due to the influx of "foreigners" to the event I don't know, but it always seemed quite a younger crowd to me.

I think the CL has a pretty good look about it next season, lots of new young faces which always makes things interesting. Poole don't look all that (they'll probably make me eat my words) Redcar looking favourites for me.

I think you can file a London GP with the Australian one https://www.fullnoise.com.au/fullnoise-news/australian-2022-fim-speedway-grand-prix-cancelled-but-promoters-persist-with-2023-return/#:~:text=Australian 2022 FIM Speedway Grand,Fullnoise.com.au Motorcycle News These WBD guys are 🐂💩 merchants

32nd of Julember 20NeverNever?

Not rained off, but it was very nearly cancelled/abandoned a few years back due to track conditions. Your final comment succinctly hits the nail on the head though.

You have to wonder with the CL pairs not being in the fixture list prior to the cancelled Cardiff GP date, how long ago this need was known about 🤔

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/huge-cardiff-event-not-returning-30632913

We'll never know, of course, but BSI did consistently build the crowd over the duration of their time at Cardiff until the final year, then all of a sudden it halved, yes you could mention Covid, but that doesn't seem to have effected the attendances at any other events.

Merry Christmas to you too Spidvaj 🎄🎅🏿🫶