Rye House 2016

[DragonsDen]

HaHa - Just checked out the new Rye website and clicked on the link for sponsorship - it took me to a blank page and I noticed the link was wrong as it said SPOONsorship - perhaps it's karma

[Vincent Vega]

You should get Ronnie Russell back as team manager!!

[Blackadder]

Best wishes John, and good luck for the future.

[Shadders]

New logo and colours appear to Orange and Black, just like the cars. No more yellow and blue. Just notice the Rye House website has been revamped to match.

38 years of history gone in a flash

[Rayleigh]

Bye Bye to the Yellow and Blue halves is an awful decision.

 

I have tried to be balanced this winter and support the new management but this was a bad decision IMO. Gone with the body colour ( its even worse than Ronnie Russells effort) goes a small part of my club I have loved since 1970 and hence that much easier to leave the whole lot behind if in the future Im not satisfied with the show (you better deliver a good product now)

[Hob Nob]

So so SO sad but not unexpected.

Gone are the old regime.

Bye bye Rye as we all knew & loved.

No more Magnificent Men in their flying machines, no more Silvers, no more Yellow & Blue etc etc.

 

Very worrying times for Rye Fans, no experienced personel there now & Peter Schroeck??? Do me a favour, How did that even happen?

 

Key jangling Steve has f##ked up big time over & over again.

 

Feel sorry for the riders but I guess that's Speedway!

 

Bring on 2016 the season of discontent.

[New era Panthers]

So so SO sad but not unexpected.

Gone are the old regime.

Bye bye Rye as we all knew & loved.

No more Magnificent Men in their flying machines, no more Silvers, no more Yellow & Blue etc etc.

 

Very worrying times for Rye Fans, no experienced personel there now & Peter Schroeck??? Do me a favour, How did that even happen?

 

Key jangling Steve has f##ked up big time over & over again.

 

Feel sorry for the riders but I guess that's Speedway!

 

Bring on 2016 the season of discontent.

I can understand the Rye House supporters being upset with the changes that have taken place , I know I would feel the same if this happened to my club. Maybe there intentions are good but they are unintentionally misguided , I have my doubts .Yes it's a new start ,but I think the new owners have gone way over the top with so many radical changes , and it's not exactly the best way to keep fans wanting to turn up week and week out and they don't seem to be endearing themselves to the people that pay to watch them race . I hope things work out o/k for the rockets ,I hate to see any team go out of the sport we have lost far too many teams in the past for various different reasons .It certainly makes you wonder what the new managements genuine intentions are for the future

[Brian]

Thanks to John for the years of loyal service he gave to Rye. Only spoke to him a couple of times but a very decent and approachable man. Hope he's not completely lost to the sport.

As for the other things, I'm not overly fussed by the changes yet as change happens in any business and this is no different however I think the pressure will be on to be winning otherwise I fear for what are already small attendances.

Looks like BMR are going to make more use of the stadium with the Rye House flat track team including someone expected to bring people in to watch.

Time will tell.

[JmeRay]

38 years of history gone in a flash

Lack of communication once again. Seemed to have been more effort for the recent flat track announcement than any meaningful statements about the big speedway decisions taking place. Maybe it's just a lack of understanding of managing a team/spectator league sport.

 

Hopefully it will all work out.

[Ben91]

Searching for something positive to say but really struggling. The new logos just don't do it for me for a start, while the blue and yellow are synonymous with Rye House in Speedway circles. This shouldn't have been changed.

 

Quotes coming from 'Team BMR' don't sound professional, there needs to be a person attached to what is being said, otherwise it feels impersonal. Who is saying these things about the club, the riders etc? What weight does their opinion hold?

 

The team that has been put together is simply not good, people need to stop trying to sugarcoat it. One heat leader, 4 second strings, an untried newbie who by most accounts will struggle and our mandatory three pointer.

 

A new regime want to make their mark, that is understandable, but you have to embrace the things that already make the place tick and the people that come through the gates each week. 'It's my toy and I'll do what I like with it' or words to that effect didn't work for Silver, a man who had given us two league titles and managed to get speedway back into the stadium at Rye, for the new promotion to seemingly be going down the same route there is no chance it will work for them.

 

We need a vision of where the club is going on and off track, it can and should be an exciting time for fans, a new era. How do the promotion make it that? Communication. Tell us what is happening, tell us why it is happening and we will be more content and happier as a fanbase. Tell us why the team building was a huge balls up, tell us why Nicolai Klindt decided he'd rather go to Leicester/Scunthorpe. Smoke and mirrors don't help anybody.

Edited February 23, 2016 by Ben91

[Robinh88]

you will be waiting for a long time for answers with speedway

[RobMcCaffery]

38 years of history gone in a flash

68 more like. The Rockets started out in 1948 at Rayleigh. it's now 42 years since the move to Hoddesdon.

 

Very sad to see the colours changed and doesn't indicate a great deal of understanding by the new owners, just making the two teams part of their wider motor sport brand. It's not the first time that the yellow and blue's been threatened - the Lea/Lee Valley Park Authority wanted us to change to the park's green, blue and white once.

 

I'd suggest the supporters keep the colours and let the new owners see the folly of their decision for themselves. Obviously they're new to speedway and still have much to learn.

 

Also sad to see John Sampford lose his job. He's one of the most loyal Rye House supporters and servants I know. Way before he was offered the job in the 1999 comeback season you always knew there would be at least one Rocket fan at a meeting, no matter how far away from home.

 

Sadly shabby treatment of people is one of speedway's biggest problems. Eventually you run out of people to dump on.

Edited February 23, 2016 by rmc

[Shadders]

68 more like. The Rockets started out in 1948 at Rayleigh. it's now 42 years since the move to Hoddesdon.

 

Blimey, I didn't realise it'd been that long. I had 1968 in my head for some reason. The 38 years is just a heads gone poor maths moment on my part. Thanks for correcting.

I'd like to echo your words regarding John. We used to have a good rapport until my personal spat with Len Silver. As a fellow postie I wish him well and thank him for his efforts and loyal service.

 

Silver, a man who had given us two league titles

Three Edited February 23, 2016 by Shads

[Positive Thinker]

38 years of history gone in a flash

 

Of course, if the new colours are close enough to black and gold, you can wear your new scarf up north, too.

[Ben91]

Three

 

Of course, I was referring to his second stint though.

[KIRKYLANE]

John Sampford has done a good job over the years.

 

The new broom is sweeping through.

 

Good luck to Rye House for the future.

[TheScotsman]

Great to hear the dreaded camber on bends 1&2 is/has been taken away!!

[Shadders]

Of course, I was referring to his second stint though.

Even I don't remember the first one!

[Cheekee Raylee Monkee]

Lack of communication once again. Seemed to have been more effort for the recent flat track announcement than any meaningful statements about the big speedway decisions taking place. Maybe it's just a lack of understanding of managing a team/spectator league sport.

 

Hopefully it will all work out.

 

For my liking, BMR's tenure contains too many similarities to BSI's tenure at Reading (including changing team colours and nickname without considering the views of supporters) and we all know how that turned out.............................

 

People have made their views of John Sampford very plain in the past. Given what's happened since BMR bought the club, John being given the heave-ho is no real surprise to me but the timing is appalling on several levels.

 

Given the awful last few years for the Rockets generally and the experience since BMR's bought the club, it hardly breeds confidence or enthusiasm.

[David Selby]

There are positives.

 

The admission prices for Premier League matches are unchanged. The camber on the first bend, it would appear, has been done away with. Stuart Robson refers to 'substantial investment' at the track. let's wait and see how the season pans out. At the end of the day the team that you start the season with doesn't mean too much if you make the right changes when the averages change.

 

The loss of John Sampford is a blow, given his experience, but we really don't know what happened behind the scenes. It seems to me that if they wanted him out all along then the deed would have been done at the end of last season. At the end of the day the reasons for his departure are between BMR and John Sampford.

 

Whilst I don't like the idea of doing away with 68 years of tradition the change of colours and logos is surely an attempt to modernise the club, something that supporters have been asking for for ages. I have to say, though, that I am not a fan of the Rockets logo.

 

Looking forward to the season and if the new owners are ambitious then that will be reflected in the teams performance and any changes they make if performances are not up to scratch.

 

Up the Rockets!