Heedthebaw Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Unfortunately, Sarah is bang on with the money with what she is saying. To maintain decent and healthy crowds you must win at home,and if lose them then it is very hard to get them back. For me the result is secondary, yes it's good to win but I pay my money to watch entertaining speedway. Last night's offering most certainly was not entertaining. All from the gate and well spread out, very boring IMO 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screm Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 (edited) Unfortunately, Sarah is bang on with the money with what she is saying. To maintain decent and healthy crowds you must win at home,and if lose them then it is very hard to get them back. Of course Bandit4evea is correct, to many fans £15 is a lot of money to pay out for a Saturday nights speedway, if the team is losing and the racing poor it doesn't take a brain surgeon to understand the people aren't going to go as many times. I am sure the referees report on last nights meeting will be posted later on, giving some of the comments on here from paying customers it will be interesting to see how he saw things. Edited April 5, 2015 by screm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spittalbandit Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Lets be realistic . Yes got beaten by a very good team imo. Track needs to be looked at to produce more entertaining racing. But i for one dont know how to do that and wont pretend to tell anyone what the solution is . I actually think as a whole the bandits team will do ok. Once luke and matic get used to track etc. They both look ok speed and style wise. Dont think its at the stage where fans will be voting with their feet. Personally if we get beaten and racing been good i dont care. Would rather we won and racing good. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fairplay1 Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Really disapointed in last nights meeting well done to Glasgow I will probably be there next week but unfortunately the missus wont, Never been so bored were her exact words it just worries me how many other people wont be there. love my speedway but entertainment last Night was Nil . And no before the question is asked I dont know the answer but hopefully someone out there knows and sorts it before its to late. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Rather than a collapse it looks like a better team on paper taking several heats to get their set ups right to get out of the gate. Once they started to do so you could see from updates that they would probably win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadders Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Rather than a collapse it looks like a better team on paper taking several heats to get their set ups right to get out of the gate. Once they started to do so you could see from updates that they would probably win.A 7-2 usually helps with team morale 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Fabulous, we're one competitive meeting into the season and we're talking about fans voting with their feet. It's what support is really all about. Only the league winners deserve it. =D You were hoying them out Last Week if you check you posts!!!!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeddiechek Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I shall, once again, refer to the 2005 season and the crowd level versus results relation... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I shall, once again, refer to the 2005 season and the crowd level versus results relation...Why? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeddiechek Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Have a wee think, Jim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bandits4eva Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 (edited) Fabulous, we're one competitive meeting into the season and we're talking about fans voting with their feet. =D We are Scott because it's the truth! We have a team who gate some time but when they don't, they are gonna need a track to try and work with! You wouldn't mind a loss as much if you had entertainment in the process but last night we had a loss with a poor track.... One meeting will already get people thinking... Edited April 5, 2015 by Bandits4eva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Have a wee think, Jim.Pass,what are you referring exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
george.m Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Your riders today showed what they can do on a track with grip. Put up a good show and were a credit to the club. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fromafar Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I am quite happy with this years Team,Unfortunately(without sounding like a broken record)is if Berwick set up a slick track there won't be much passing as the bikes are just to fast these days,as Ben found out last week it will take a do or die effort too succeed .The size of the track and speed they are going is not helping the Berwick track men who are putting in a lot of effort in difficult circumstances due to the state of the sport.they have my sympathy in that respect.The fans need to entertained as has been said in previous posts,the results are secondary to the diehard Berwick fans or the track would not be surviving in recent years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeddiechek Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 We are Scott because it's the truth! We have a team who gate some time but when they don't, they are gonna need a track to try and work with! You wouldn't mind a loss as much if you had entertainment in the process but last night we had a loss with a poor track.... One meeting will already get people thinking... I have to agree it wasn't the most exciting meeting Sarah, the track did look a bit slick, especially towards the end. I'm being completely honest here, but I come across far more people who enjoy it than don't: and more and more folk in my neck of the woods are coming along and trying it out. That can only be a good thing for the club. They perhaps aren't the purists, and are just there for a night out, so I understand there are different, and valid, points of view. I think today showed that we will be competitive, that's all we can ask for from a wee rural club with limited funds. The reason I am so defensive on here (going way back to Peter Waite days) is that I just cannot see how the books balance in speedway. So, that means owners putting a lot of their own money into the club. Or, the other option is having no club. People with the money to keep a speedway club afloat can easily put their cash into a different interest or venture. They have that option, however, we would be left with no speedway in Berwick and the only options to fans being Glasgow, Edinburgh or Newcastle. I think having your say that it wasn't an entertaining meeting is absolutely fair enough, so I am not really referring to you (or others) in the post. You guys know what it means to support a club through thick and thin: that is for sure. It is others who continually snipe on here, and I just wonder what they are wishing for? Do they want to see the club fail? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks123 Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 Last night I got a mate and his wife to go to the meeting (2nd one after Edinburgh in the play-offs last year). He said he had been watching the football and Liverpool didn't get 2 goals from the penalty they had scored after being 3-0 down (the double points last season also cost Berwick against Edinburgh). I agreed that Claus probably wouldn't have been trying to catch Richard as much if Berwick were 8 points up instead of 5. It got me thinking. What would have happened in heat 15 today if lets say Kevin had got double points in heat 12 as the match would have been on the line. How about giving the team manager the option of using the double point ride in the first meeting between the sides knowing the other team will then be allowed the same function no matter the score in the other meeting between the sides. I know it has been removed from 2 legged matches for the same reason mentioned above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arson fire Posted April 5, 2015 Report Share Posted April 5, 2015 I have to agree it wasn't the most exciting meeting Sarah, the track did look a bit slick, especially towards the end. I'm being completely honest here, but I come across far more people who enjoy it than don't: and more and more folk in my neck of the woods are coming along and trying it out. That can only be a good thing for the club. They perhaps aren't the purists, and are just there for a night out, so I understand there are different, and valid, points of view. I think today showed that we will be competitive, that's all we can ask for from a wee rural club with limited funds. The reason I am so defensive on here (going way back to Peter Waite days) is that I just cannot see how the books balance in speedway. So, that means owners putting a lot of their own money into the club. Or, the other option is having no club. People with the money to keep a speedway club afloat can easily put their cash into a different interest or venture. They have that option, however, we would be left with no speedway in Berwick and the only options to fans being Glasgow, Edinburgh or Newcastle. I think having your say that it wasn't an entertaining meeting is absolutely fair enough, so I am not really referring to you (or others) in the post. You guys know what it means to support a club through thick and thin: that is for sure. It is others who continually snipe on here, and I just wonder what they are wishing for? Do they want to see the club fail? Crawler. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigeddiechek Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Crawler. To whom? =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAMYAMBANDIT Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 For me the result is secondary, yes it's good to win but I pay my money to watch entertaining speedway. Last night's offering most certainly was not entertaining. All from the gate and well spread out, very boring IMO Well I must be odd, I enjoyed the meeting, probably because we have some form of speedway. Have to agree on track prep it was extremely slick, with some dubious tractor grading. However, after 6 seasons of gate & go, surely, we should be used to it by now. Someone said on Sat how did we go from a 15 point advantage to losing, to be fair the biggest gap was 12 pointst heat 7, but we always go backwards in the final 5 heats, so the same story as usual. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
screm Posted April 6, 2015 Report Share Posted April 6, 2015 Well I must be odd, And you needed to post on here to tell us that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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