IainB

Need more finals by the looks of that list And without wishing to labour the point... oh look Peterborough's 2nd most important meeting of the season (the final would have been, if they'd made it) being run on the penultimate Wednesday in October... The final, the biggest match of the season in the league, held 3 days later, abandoned after heat 13. 2nd leg the next day on the last Saturday in the season... and I won't even go into what happened in the Shield!!!

I've always thought that regional leagues are the way to go, more derby matches

Hardly insurmountable problems

Sunday afternoon is better for kids and travelling fans though, there's even a couple of plum Saturday nights in that list.

It certainly does, but did in the middle tier also, when they were able to run on Sunday afternoons (and Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday). With the leagues using almost entirely the same riders these days you have to wonder what the benefit of Peterborough being in the top league is.

Is there a Swedish Speedway Forum?

Yep, I'm aware of that, makes you wonder why they run in a league that restricts them to running 2 nights a week and only run 2 matches during the school holidays then.

Well, that was worth the wait... (to get in ) Although it was a healthy crowd I think the queues to get in were more to do with there only being 3 people on the turnstiles. Some calm and measured words from Bluster over the pa was good to hear. He should come on here and vent his spleen as he seems about as powerless as the rest of us to change the sport! After Kingy shot away to win heat 1 in a time close to the track record I thought we were going to be in for another night of gate and go "racing" with the kind of fast times that only Edwin Overland seems to enjoy. Thankfully things livened up and we were served up with a classic, close scores throughout and some cracking close racing with 2 evenly matched teams. Just something I noticed last night was Jordan Palin appearing to make what looked like the sign of the cross before each of his races, is he a religious lad? Quite unusual to see, I've seen another rider do this recently can't remember who, a young Polish lad I think. And just to bring my pet hate up again, the lack of fixtures this summer... as I was walking back to the car I overheard a kid (of whom there were many last night) talking to his parents asking when the next match was and could they go, only to be told that he was going to be back at school then... so maybe not.

Ah, that old chestnut, the only way that can happen is for @waytogo28 to buy every club, or at least enough clubs to have the deciding vote at conference to pull the sport out of the mire it's in. And although he/she could probably pick all those clubs up for a tenner they'd be taking on a mountain of debt. Unfortunately we're stuck with what we've got unless a Kerry Packer type comes along. We had our chance with Sky TV coverage and blew it.

Why is that then?

... watch this space

They've got to decide whether they're running a sport or 20 or so individual businesses... not just on this but a whole heap of topics

Check the Exchange & Mart

The last time I can remember Schlein at Peterborough he was trying to get the match abandoned because he couldn't ride the track... he succeeded! I'd prefer R/R again I think

Why shouldn't I compare to a sport that has completely reinvented itself from something that even the late great Bob Willis described as being attended by social misfits, to something that is playing to big crowds with the type of Attendance demographic that Polish speedway attracts? It's a sport that is affected by the weather in just the same way that Speedway is and they have covers, they don't faff about trying to rearrange fixtures, everybody just accepts it and moves on. They even have a formula to deal with rain affected matches... I'm sure those with a nose for stats could work something out the Watson Racers & Royals rule

Cricket does manage it though

As indeed is foresight

Sounds like they're being strung along just like whenever magnificent Mick Horton was asked about the search for a new stadium for Coventry!

I always watch a match that I've attended and has been televised the next day anyway

Josh Auty has been at Scunny for 10 years and is holding a testimonial next year even though it should have been last year and even though he has been binned off by Scunny this year!

Made me laugh

I'm guessing it's part of the Eurosport package otherwise there's no earthly way you'd hold it on a Monday night surely

Only of course there's no Eurosport match on tomorrow

Or somebody making a joke?

So you think it was the right decision to cancel it even though it was clearly the wrong decision... this is the mess the sport has gotten itself into on this particular topic. It may well have been the correct business decision, I don't know, the club may have just been postponing their loss. It was certainly an incorrect sporting decision. Is Speedway the only sport that gets itself into such a mess with fixtures? I can think of no other. It's worse than it's ever been with rider availability, for whatever reason, and now we're postponing meetings because it might rain.