IainB

If every club starts to call off based on forecasts, which you find acceptable, to only run on a night when the forecast is favourable, there's only going to be a limited number of acceptable nights for any club to run and that leads to fixture chaos

https://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/8872/covid-loans-offered-to-english

Yes all these speedway promoters are fine upstanding members of the business community. Why as a failing business would you not take £300k of government money? Many thousands of businesses have with no intention of paying it back. In fact it may be a blessing in disguise if clubs and the sport as a whole is run by administrators!

Yes, I totally get what you're saying. I was brought up in an era of speedway when clubs tried all they could to get meetings on, so all this canceling based on forecasts, as I've said before especially in this country, I don't like to see. Speedway is always at the mercy of the weather, we all know that but the Eastbourne postponement takes things to a new level. I was looking at my met office app at 7pm and it said the sun would be shining at 8... it p1ssed it down! As Eastbourne have set a new precedent in calling a match off 2 and a half days in advance, would anybody who does think that cancelling based on a forecast is acceptable care to comment on how far in advance it is acceptable to call a match off? I do accept with current crowd levels it's something that's now part and parcel of speedway, much as I dislike it, surely you've got to leave it to the day of the event to give yourself a chance. And if you think you can't compete against a TV programme unfortunately there really is no hope for the future of a club in that promoters hands. Just my opinion

Not really fraud if you've taken a loan and are unable to pay it back because your business isn't viable. It's what the banks write off as bad debt It's called playing the system

A bit hostile... not quite sure why, but if it butters your parsnips...

They could be riding away, they could be riding in a rearranged fixture due to one of their own postponements or they could be riding away due to another clubs cancellations. This is not just a Peterborough problem, anytime any match is postponed it has knock on ramifications.

And the Eastbourne one?

What would you class it as?

Some people on the Birmingham thread are suggesting this has more to do with Birmingham's future than Eastbourne's, as in they don't want to stage a meeting that may well be expunged from the records. As for recording the GP, that is what I shall be doing and going along to Leicester as it hasn't been called of as yet.

Well, if you'd elaborate on your one word answers maybe we'd all have a clue as to what the hell you're going on about. So in that respect I guess I am clueless yes

And with global warming/climate change this is going to occur more and more... It's just a matter of which dies first Speedway or Planet Earth/ The human race

If you think that all coronavirus loans are going to be paid back by the companies that have taken them you really need a reality check

Did you not call me a Plum?

or £300k in the bank

Let's have a look at the 2 Peterborough cancellations in more detail, 2 matches they have made zero effort in trying to put on. To restage the Sheffield match they need to arrange it around Kent, Leicester, Scunthorpe, Edinburgh, Poole, Glasgow, Plymouth, Birmingham & Poland To restage the Kings Lynn Match they need to arrange it around Eastbourne, Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow, Kent, Plymouth & Birmingham... although the KL team changes on a match by match basis. And it's got to be on a Monday or Thursday! Peterborough will surely have qualified for the Play-Offs so as in all likelihood KL aren't going to qualify for the Play-Offs I can see this meeting being kicked out to the end of October, probably after the qualification date and maybe even after the finals have been completed. So it's the fans that get mugged off again and it'll probably be raced in front of a dismal crowd.

The Poles don't have to worry about which riders are available to restage the match and on which day

That's because there's that few fans that attend anymore and most people have given up caring... I'm sorry for still caring

The birds are nesting low in the trees this year

You're just naive

Thanks for the abusive comment, I have a £16.50 to £20 interest in every match I pay to see. This sport really does have the fans it deserves!

Start up a new company buy the assets, business as usual

Call it off!

Enjoy your 2 Speedway matches in 2 months!

I don't know why most clubs haven't jumped at the chance of a government loan and then just declare bankruptcy when the time comes to pay it back... there will be thousands of companies up and down the country doing just that!