IainB

Yes, it appears not thank goodness, just reacting to what was posted in the NL section

That's good to hear, he's been doing laps from a very young age and riders like that shouldn't be scratching around for sponsorship while clubs are spaffing out money on here today gone tomorrow foreigners.

Meanwhile... if true, there's riders in the PL on guarantees who don't care one jot about British Speedway. While Trigger and Perry may not have been the next Bartosz Zmarzlik they could well have been the next Simon Lambert's and without them the sport is dead.

In the NL section of this forum

... also, those kind of benefits should be being offered to British riders, with the reported retirement of 2 more young riders, Ben Trigger and Max Perry, who should be the life blood of the sport in this country instead of the foreign imports

Starting a new topic for the AGM as YouHave2Minutes seems to have had a nervous breakdown and changed their name and the titles of all of the topics they started.

Many team sports are regularly attended by fans who support their team even if they're mid table or at the lower end, not always on a Monday night with big question marks as to whether it'll actually be on or who will actually be in the teams though, of course you'll always get your glory hunters who'll only turn up to watch a winning team

You're such a tease 😂

In my eyes... I think before the scrapping of the asset system or if he'd been signed on a multi-year deal you could probably justify it as an investment. He missed numerous meetings due to fixture clashes and will more likely than not turn out to be just another here today, gone tomorrow rider rather than a stalwart of the sport in this country.

Okay, let me rephrase it... Because it's a waste of money.

We can't afford it

Unfortunately it's been proven time and time again that there is nobody within the sport currently who has the required skill set for the great reset or surely it would have been done already... and it seems that it is further proven by their current struggle to retain the business as usual model.

While I can't agree with your premise that the CL would collapse without the PL and I don't think that Glasgow or Poole should be forced up... I do think that if we had promotion and relegation like proper sports do then these things would sort themselves out. Is Allen Stanford out of prison yet? The last TV deal was peanuts in terms of TV deals but was a lifeline to our sport. From what I've been told it was worth about £100k each year to PL clubs which covered the costs of their No 1's

No and Yes, it's not an app as in it's not available from the app stores (official or unofficial)... but when you save it as per the instructions it adds it to your app screen and it works very much in the same way as an app visually rather than a webpage. As you did ask for ideas, rather than re-inventing the wheel, and as others have mentioned I do believe you'd find it almost impossible to source the data, BSPL are not renowned for data sharing, if I were developing an app I'd be doing something interactive aimed at the kids, some along the lines of the old panini albums like fill a team screen with selfies with the riders, manager, mascot etc. add rewards and collectibles, make it addictive or something like the Pokemon app that swept the globe a few years ago, which was basically a treasure hunt. If you didn't have any success flogging it to the BSPL, the more forward thinking clubs that are trying to engage the kids with their interval kids races may be more receptive.

I can't remember now as I did it a while ago... but somehow I think you save the bookmark of the website and it turns it into an app, on android at least. Is there a BSN App? No, but our website can be saved to any smart phone or tablet as an App. You will be prompted to do this when visiting our website on your device – simply follow the instructions and once complete, you can access all of BSN’s services via an App icon in the same way that you would any other App.

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.