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Another nail in the coffin of Btitish speedway unless someone takes over the track job from Silver , people won't pay elite money to see races to the first corner.Be like watching Eastbourne on sky all over again.

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Absolutely spot on .Look t at Silvers track at Rye House and look at Silvers track at look at the track at Sittingbourne. Elite league racing on either track would be so gate and go it would make even Leicester seem like a racers track.Sittingbourne is not a bad looking track but needs ripping up and relaying if there iss to be EL rides there.

 

The trouble is Len is not interested in anyone's opinion but his own and still thinks it's it's the 1980's. You only have to look at the behind the scenes bickering and in fighting at Rye House over the last few years and the divisions he has caused in his short time at Kent. Both clubs apparently suffering falling crowds.. Neither club has really been a happy ship.

 

Hardly the best base from which to make the huge jump from NL to EL and build an EL team from scratch. You only have to look at how hard it has been for some established PL clubs like Leicester and Brum to make the step up and put a decent team together.

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Len has been a top promoter in the past,, no doubt about it but the world has moved on while he hasn't. Completely lost the plot as he has got older.

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Absolutely spot on .Look t at Silvers track at Rye House and look at Silvers track at look at the track at Sittingbourne. Elite league racing on either track would be so gate and go it would make even Leicester seem like a racers track.Sittingbourne is not a bad looking track but needs ripping up and relaying if there iss to be EL rides there.

 

The trouble is Len is not interested in anyone's opinion but his own and still thinks it's it's the 1980's. You only have to look at the behind the scenes bickering and in fighting at Rye House over the last few years and the divisions he has caused in his short time at Kent. Both clubs apparently suffering falling crowds.. Neither club has really been a happy ship.

 

Hardly the best base from which to make the huge jump from NL to EL and build an EL team from scratch. You only have to look at how hard it has been for some established PL clubs like Leicester and Brum to make the step up and put a decent team together.

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Len has been a top promoter in the past,, no doubt about it but the world has moved on while he hasn't. Completely lost the plot as he has got older.

Its definitely not gate and go or at least it wasn't when i went

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Taken from the Kent Kings website at their end-of-season presentation night:-

 

Co-promoter of Kent Speedway, Len Silver gave a rousing message to the fans spelling out how ambitious the club is for the future of the sport in the county,

“ Our ultimate plan for this club is to have a Kent team elevated into the Elite League (that’s the top division in the country) and in addition to that, to run a National League team alongside it; that is our plan.

“There are obviously 't's to be crossed and 'i’s to be dotted, but I personally think that is what will happen and I will stay involved in the whole promotion as will Roger Cearns, our stadium owner. It will make this club the most exciting Speedway club in the whole country and that’s what we have to look forward to.”

Silver continued,
“ I have to tell you that it’s not all cast in stone at this stage. There are a few hurdles to overcome at the moment. However we are hoping that the future will make things better still, so that all of the things we need to do to make this club the greatest in the land we will be able to do. So I’m definitely looking forward to next year.”

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I believe work will go ahead on improving the track ,soon ..certainly needs it at the moment there is only one racing line.and the base needs work to get the top surface to bind to it better and some banking will be needed to creat racing lines..Without which I do not see Elite league riders being to happy to ride there...Will it be carried out to an exceptable ,level,,? Maybe if the funding is in place ..?

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Article in this week's Star headed "Elite for Kent" :-

 

'After weeks of suggestion and rumour, Kent Co-promoter Len Silver confirmed the club will be looking to run in the Elite League in 2016.

 

'................There are obviously 'T's to be crossed and 'I's to be dotted but I personally think that is what will happen and I will stay involved in the whole promotion as is Roger Cearns, our stadium owner.'

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I believe work will go ahead on improving the track ,soon ..certainly needs it at the moment there is only one racing line.and the base needs work to get the top surface to bind to it better and some banking will be needed to creat racing lines..Without which I do not see Elite league riders being to happy to ride there...Will it be carried out to an exceptable ,level,,? Maybe if the funding is in place ..?

It was a right crap hole of a track

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If Kent do go Elite then I think that will be that for Lakeside as the cross area catchment area cannot support two EL clubs especially racing on the same night, it's why Lakeside and Rye have never shared the same race night despite for much of their existsnce being in different divisions besides there is probably not enough riders around to support 9 EL teams?

 

But I would not be surprised to see things turn full circle and see a repeat of 1996 where Hammers run solely as a NL team racing at least for one season.

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I just wish the Mr Silver was NOT involved in the process for lots of reasons.

Agreed. He made a valuable contribution to the sport in the past but he is well past his sell by date and seems to cause trouble and dissent wherever he goes these days. Time to retire gracefully.

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Agreed. He made a valuable contribution to the sport in the past but he is well past his sell by date and seems to cause trouble and dissent wherever he goes these days. Time to retire gracefully.

 

Agree 100%.

The things that have happened at Kent has held the Club back.

Surely he can see that time has come to bow out and let the Club join the modern era.

If he has a say in team selection for the Elite League then it will be a struggle.

Kent are going to finish bottom of the National League and Rye House are hardly big hitters in the Premier League.

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Birmingham was the classic example of buyer beware, go back a decade and you could say almost the same thing about Arena Essex, doing quite nicely in the second tier, big Ron gets the invite to take the club up with promises of help which never came, what followed was the worst few seasons the club has ever had in its history.

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Agree 100%.

The things that have happened at Kent has held the Club back.

Surely he can see that time has come to bow out and let the Club join the modern era.

If he has a say in team selection for the Elite League then it will be a struggle.

Kent are going to finish bottom of the National League and Rye House are hardly big hitters in the Premier League.

Kent will be welcomed with open arms by the EL, yet another team that will be cannon fodder for teams like Poole and will clearly take some pressure of Leicester, Wolves and Lakeside as its yet another team to compete for the wooden spoon.

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