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It's amazing what they can find money for though

Probably just a fee payment for him mentioning Speedway?

It's beginning to look like the only reason 'Arry's services were acquired was to put a press release out that he (allegedly) watched Speedway on TNT Sports, probably in the hope of extending the TV deal with them... other than that I really can't see what he can bring to the sport.

Imo, fwiw, you'd be better off aiming something at a younger audience, the old farts that generally make up the Speedway community will be difficult to prize away from their tried and trusted websites. I'm a software developer, pretty much retired now and more data orientated but if I were looking to improve my skills I'd be looking at trying to develop something more interactive than a re-hash of data that is already available.

I don't know for sure but I get the impression the whole thing is manual... even people texting results to somebody who then updates the website.

I don't know how they've done it but you can save the link to their website and it saves it as an app with app like behaviour rather than it acting like a website. I think their results come pretty much from the ref officiating at the match. If you were going to do something similar you've got to think what your data source is and the overhead needed to keep everything updated. People will soon drop it if it isn't up to date. Speedway Updates pretty much has this covered although even they take some of their results from the BSN site. I'm not trying to pish on your parade but unless you have a tie up to somebody like the excellent https://www.gbspeedway.com/ it could easily eat into your time for something that is already available from other sources. Imo you'd be better off trying to develop something that hasn't already been done. It may take some expertise though, I'm not sure what your app development skills are.

BSN pretty much do that at the moment

Depends who your target audience is? Is it going to be a rehash of club websites with match scores and reports and a fill your own scorecard feature or are you thinking something more interactive aimed at a younger audience?

Unfortunately we are where we are but I'd take 100% committed Simon Lambert over play off Bob every day of the week 👍🏻

It only doesn't have the finances because the crowds are not coming in. If riders want to ditch UK for Poland, fair enough, good luck to them. Currently the lunatics are running the asylum.

Kettle, pot, black? 🤔😂

Only if they let that happen, if you throw down an ultimatum like Poland have (and do) and say commit or clear off, everybody knows where they stand. Look what Plymouth did and that was with a No 1 only turning up when it suited "him". Think what they could do with a consistent stable team!

Wrong. https://www.acu.org.uk/news/2017/11/british-speedway-announce-major-moves/ Although the switch to Thursday may have been done to placate Denmark

I'm pretty sure Monday's and Thursday's were introduced to allow riders to double up and not to attract the star riders... as proven by their absences throughout the season. You only have to go into a boozer in town on a Monday night to see how dead the place is.

I mean, that's the answer right there... why those in charge fail to see this is quite beyond me 🤷‍♂️ No we're British Speedway and we're going to educate the British public that it is in fact Monday and Thursday nights that they want to go out for entertainment 😂

But no club sponsor on their chests...

I used to love watching Crabby smashing the phone up in front of the main stand at Loomer Road when arguing with the ref, all pantomime stuff but got the crowd going ☎️💥👍🏻

TV money from who though?

I'm beginning to realise that the "radical" change that has been mooted for next season is in fact no change... and that, when you think about it, is quite radical for a sport in a terminal decline!

There was a match presented to the paying public last week at Leicester. It was a double header Leicester vs Belle Vue in the NDL followed by Leicester vs Kent in the NDT. In the first match Leicester tracked 2 guests and R/R, Belle Vue 1 guest and R/R In the second match Leicester tracked 5 guests 1 of which didn't start and Kent R/R In the second match Leicester tracked 3 riders who were riding for Belle Vue in the first match. In the second match Kent tracked 1 rider who was riding for Belle Vue in the first match. The 2nd match was scheduled to start at 20:30 but didn't start until after 21:00 and the 2nd match was abandoned after heat 14 due to the curfew. I was toying with the idea of attending this as my last match of the season as it's a long close season. I asked Leicester Speedway a simple question on TwitterX of how much the admission price was only to get no reply... so I didn't bother. Everything that is wrong with British Speedway encapsulated in 1 night! And the powers that be are proposing business as usual as the cure... the sport is finished!

Wasn't it Marcel Gehard, former long tracker, his daughter was also involved in some capacity I think when it all went ** up. Not sure why they never took off, many riders tried them and didn't Freddie even win a GP on one?

In suspenders?

If you fell on him 😉😂

@racers and royals? 🤔

Aren't we all getting a bit ahead of ourselves here? Have the showground owners made any comments about their next move or anything about reopening the showground as an events facility?