IainB

The only time I've ever seen a start marshall get a rider up to the tapes was at Bradford (could have been Peterborough) when the starter grabbed John Jorgensen's handlebars and physically dragged him to the tapes, he was not happy about it

The trouble with that is that the Start Marshall is provided by the home club and will probably be a member of the supporters club and be regaled from head to toe in club merchandise (if available ) under their stripey tops. They'd have to be "supplied" to each meeting in the same way that an "impartial" referee is, much like in Football with the lino's.

Actually come to think of it they do make sure that riders don't encroach on each others gates, can't think of much else though other than to be ignored by the riders on everything else

Is that new for this season?

No point?

But what about the remaining 2 that didn't complete the 4 laps?

Sneaked off to the gents with his laptop

Now that's what I call ridiculous!

I would have thought there was still gate position choice still to race for and the one or both of the remaining 2 riders could have blown their engines or got injured. I thought that was the whole point of not awarding races.

We'll have to wait until racers & royals logs in, he's the only one that truly knows what's going on

Since when are we awarding FIM races?

Sarcasm alert: He's not been the same since breaking his neck... can't think why...

Well said!

Have you ever thought of doing some kind of Facebook Live broadcast? Not necessarily of any racing but behind the scenes, rider/manager interviews, maybe replays of incidents etc. I'm sure if you went to the local FE College there would be a number of media study students that would jump at the chance of producing something for you... just a thought, you may already be doing it.

In fact you can see him 14 miles down the road 2 nights earlier

Unfortunately I'm being realistic, judging by the crowd I saw against Redcar in the "big reopening"... no club can be sustained with those crowds. I was there supporting the club before you go any further

LEICESTER: Hans Andersen, Dan Thompson, Kyle Howarth, Nick Morris, Ryan Douglas, Joe Thompson, Zaine Kennedy. BIRMINGHAM: Chris Harris, Valentin Grobauer, James Shanes, Ashley Morris, Erik Riss, Paco Castagna, Jason Edwards. Probably the biggest question with this one is whether at the end of the season Leicester will have had any points they can pick up from this one expunged from the records.

I think you'll find it's too much trouble for lot of clubs

I've just had a look at Nottingham Panthers (just picked them at random) Ice Hockey Web shop as speedway is often compared to Ice Hockey and well... their offerings put speedway to shame. Looked at a couple of others, similar story

A lot of the shirts with any hint of a design are produced by a Polish company called dispeed.

Surely "quality" merchandise is part and parcel of "promotion" these days. It seems to be in most other sports. Have "the powers that be" approached a proper clothing manufacturer to produce it? In the same way that they do with the TV deal. It's not like clubs are in competition with each other with merchandise, a Glasgow fan is never going to buy an Edinburgh shirt and vice versa

I'm aware of a supermarket that went bust... doesn't mean the model is wrong

I'm taking about Jack Holder gate

It's strange then that many riders sell merchandise, one assumes at a profit, yet clubs seem unable to make it pay. I wonder if Eastbourne and Poole make money from it and if so what they are doing right and with all respect to yourself what you were doing wrong? Perhaps a sport wide model is needed rather than individual clubs doing their own thing.

I remember during Alan Grahame's testimonial year you could get "Big Al'" underpants lol