IainB

I know... but they are outdoor as are the big boxing shows, probably more like staging a SGP than a league programme.

They do Fish O Mania, which unbelievably gets TV coverage (Sky Sports) https://fishomania.net/watch-live/ And he setup the PGA EuroPro Tour which had a 20 year run. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGA_EuroPro_Tour

Also Fishing and Golf

I was thinking earlier who was the originator of the tassle. I remember Ray Bales wearing them, not sure if the whole Mildenhall team did?

Their big boxing shows are often outdoors

They were just seeing out the final year of the 5 year Eurosport contract that was delayed for 1 year due to the non covid season of 2020. BT Sport had already previously binned Speedway off at the end of 2019 so it's no real surprise that they don't want to renew now.

Dark Chocolate covered Hob-Nobs or Rich Tea's 🤔

Rocketfuelman had another poor night by his standards

As good as BSN is for a niche streaming service it doesn't come close to broadcast standard in terms of technical quality, there's no way any broadcaster worth their salt would show any content other than the types of snippets we saw on TNT from their "secondary" matches.

Actually the Chris Harris interview took place after the Super Golden Heat and the Lawson & Cook interviews took place before the trophy presentation. Not everybody is on the vile social media platform that is Facebook and I don't think it's too much to expect, as paying subscribers to the BSN service, to see and hear from the winning (and losing, if they are willing) riders and management instead of watching a firework display, which never comes across great on tv despite broadcasters (not just BSN) always being drawn to them. Generally another good season of coverage though 👍🏻

Joe Screen?

The highlights option is probably better for appealing to potential punters but I doubt that would come with much money. The TV sports broadcasters want their air time filled and advertisement windows filled and in a lot of cases they are prepared to pay ridiculous amounts of money to do this, that's what a TV deal should/would/could bring.

Okay, got it, I misread your previous post that clearly stated it was abandoned 👍

Not if you're awarding them after turn 3 of lap 1 like last night!

If there's no tv deal, will the league sponsors stay on board? I suspect Mr Morris may well be clearing his desk if either or both leave.

Worky is a big throttle track though doesn't take so much ability to ride, they'll not improve their technique much around there. Riding Ippo once a year also ain't gonna help much imo.

They said that about Premier League Football though and we're still waiting for that particular bubble to burst... I won't hold my breath.

If the 2nd "pair" both finished that is

Awarded before 1 lap completed! Farce! What happened to having to finish 4 laps?

Maybe those are the reasons why the county championship gets little to no media coverage these days with only the occasional match shown on Sky Sports these days.

Let's be honest though this is pretty pish poor Speedway, yes I know it's good to give the kids a chance and they're all giving it their best efforts etc. I've been trawling through last night's Poole topic while watching this and quite frankly the Speedway tonight is no better than last night and everybody on that topic has gone into meltdown! What's on offer tonight really should be 2nd half stuff (at all senior meetings)

Doesn't sound like the commentator is there, they'd be better off playing music between races 😂

I find it very much depends on the type of track as to how entertaining these type of junior meetings are. The big easy tracks like Worky, BV & Scunny tend to throw up some good action... I've seen some dross at Leicester where it takes a bit more technical ability to get round and understandably these kids just don't yet have that ability, Ippo is a similar style track to Ippo... having said that Foord & Trigger just had a decent race, they do have a bit of experience though.

100%

ITV showed England football, prime time, 5 teams in their league 😁