E I Addio Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 (edited) 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. Junior 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. . 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. Edited September 27, 2015 by E I Addio 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert72 Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 Has sittingbourne still got 5 turns lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex2000 Posted September 27, 2015 Report Share Posted September 27, 2015 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. . 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 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.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Swindon will be at Oxford next season unless late U turn by Blunsdon developers and decide to go ahead and just build the Speedway track without the full grandstand and facilities The Swindon website now also confirms the above is complete and utter nonsense. All the best Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonian Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Can't knock Len's ambition.. All the best to him and his promotion at Kent. Think he could come up against a few stumbling blocks with an EL & NL side but will be good to see a new team in the EL with a good facilty to host it in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 The Swindon website now also confirms the above is complete and utter nonsense. All the best Rob So every Promoter is believed now, then??! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Game On Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 So every Promoter is believed now, then??! Apparently yours is meant to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionheart Posted September 28, 2015 Report Share Posted September 28, 2015 Jacques is a Bee's fan that has switched teams to Belle Vue hoping that they beat he mighty Prates that beat her Bee's again. Hope the Kings make a good go of it in the Elite League and bow down to Matt Ford like the rest do. (Only kidding about the Matt Ford bit) Nobody, but nobody, jokes about Lord Fraud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waco Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 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 ..? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveLyric2 Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 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.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert72 Posted October 1, 2015 Report Share Posted October 1, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueherb777 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 I am all in favour of Kent going to the Elite League. I just wish the Mr Silver was NOT involved in the process for lots of reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E I Addio Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueherb777 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*JJ Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 There was a rumour that Birmingham were offered BIG money to re-join the EL. However, sanity has broken out; once bitten, twice shy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liam Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 The dark days of Ronnie Russell. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcatdiary Posted October 2, 2015 Report Share Posted October 2, 2015 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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