Crowd Size Differences!

[oldace]

We would probably still have the 'one off' World Final.

 

We would certainly still have it, that is what I am asking, at what level do you think it would be at?

[Grand Central]

Out of interest where do you think the sports individual world championship would have been today were it not for the GP firstly and then the intervention of BSI

 

I imagine that in the UK we would have a few qualification meetings. Two semi finals at Premier League tracks, a Briish Final at a track in the Midlands (say Monmore Green), a few more international rounds at say Poole and (even) Berwick.

 

World finals would be held on some sort of rota at tracks such as Prague, Vojens, Lonigo and Malilla; but with it weighted more towards Poland at, say, Gorzow, Torun and even (at a push) Bydgoszcz.

 

And in Britain some enterprising chap would probably be trying to get Odsal Stadium up and running with the possibility of holding a World Final there.

 

Life, for so many, would be so very, very different without BSI.

 

 

 

 

Yes I know I have left out Cardiff, Parken, Stockholm and all the rest.

But that would have spoiled the fun of being facetious.

Edited June 14, 2013 by Grand Central

[The White Knight]

I imagine that in the UK we would have a few qualification meetings. Two semi finals at Premier League tracks, a Briish Final at a track in the Midlands (say Monmore Green), a few more international rounds at say Poole and (even) Berwick.

 

World finals would be held on some sort of rota at tracks such as Prague, Vojens, Lonigo and Malilla; but with it weighted more towards Poland at, say, Gorzow, Torun and even (at a push) Bydgoszcz.

 

And in Britain some enterprising chap would probably be trying to get Odsal Stadium up and running with the possibility of holding a World Final there.

 

Life, for so many, would be so very, very different without BSI.

 

 

 

 

Yes I know I have left out Cardiff, Parken, Stockholm and all the rest.

But that would have spoiled the fun of being facetious.

 

Hope you are NOT being facetious GC.

[E I Addio]

No, not at all. But people say they "take money out of the sport". Well, my question is, what happened to all the money when British league meetings were packed to the rafters in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc? Did those promoters buy the stadiums and invest in youth facilities in order to give clubs a solid foundation or did they cream off the profits into their own pockets?

 

 

Which clubs were packed to the rafters ? Len Silver at least never made much money from promoting speedway and in the 60's and 70's was selling cars to subsidise his speedway promotions, then in later years Rye House was kept going by subsidies from his winter sports company.

The concluding paragraph of chapter 13 of Len's book, dealing with what some imagine to be the golden era of the 1970's states;- "Every year it became tougher and tougher to earn a living from promoting speedway and I found myself having to work harder at selling cars in order to subsidise both Hackney and Rye House"

[thrillpool]

I read somewhere that Viagra is coming off patent in the UK next month and that the price for the legal stuff will drop ten fold. With that in mind many of the traditional speedway supporters will have more cash in their pockets and therefore I predict an upturn in numbers on the terraces very soon.

[The White Knight]

I read somewhere that Viagra is coming off patent in the UK next month and that the price for the legal stuff will drop ten fold. With that in mind many of the traditional speedway supporters will have more cash in their pockets and therefore I predict an upturn in numbers on the terraces very soon.

 

I prefer Speedway. :shock: