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How much longer will we have to wait for the 2016 fixtures to be published ? It can't be that difficult with the same teams and same competitions. Just adjust for Easter weekend, check the GP date, plug in the team/individual events and Bob's your uncle. It could surely have been done within a week of the AGM to allow the paying public to plan their holidays, book hotels/caravan pitches, and resolve their transport arrangements ? Would any other sport not have published their fixtures by this time ?

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How much longer will we have to wait for the 2016 fixtures to be published ? It can't be that difficult with the same teams and same competitions. Just adjust for Easter weekend, check the GP date, plug in the team/individual events and Bob's your uncle. It could surely have been done within a week of the AGM to allow the paying public to plan their holidays, book hotels/caravan pitches, and resolve their transport arrangements ? Would any other sport not have published their fixtures by this time ?

 

send them your e mail address and they will contact you . if it was so easy , we would all be doing it ... .patience please .

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How much longer will we have to wait for the 2016 fixtures to be published ? It can't be that difficult with the same teams and same competitions. Just adjust for Easter weekend, check the GP date, plug in the team/individual events and Bob's your uncle. It could surely have been done within a week of the AGM to allow the paying public to plan their holidays, book hotels/caravan pitches, and resolve their transport arrangements ? Would any other sport not have published their fixtures by this time ?

Yes try Football. First Premiership match Aug 8, fixtures published 17 June. That is less than two months.

 

There are other complications you've overlooked:

 

I) two tracks have changed race day

 

II) Polish League One fixtures are still to be announced (they only decided on the composition of the league last week - at least the PL lineup has been known for two months)

 

III) There is Euro16 footy and the olympics, which clubs will want to work round.

 

Question when were the fixtures for July 1964 released?

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Will the published fixtures bare any resemblance to when the meetings actually take place, seems fixtures can be changed willy nilly playing havoc with those who choose to follow their teams away, especially when it comes to booking holidays and hotels.

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Will the published fixtures bare any resemblance to when the meetings actually take place, seems fixtures can be changed willy nilly playing havoc with those who choose to follow their teams away, especially when it comes to booking holidays and hotels.

I think we all know from experience what the answer to that one will be :sad:

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I think we all know from experience what the answer to that one will be :sad:

 

But it shouldn't be, northern clubs doing southern tours and vica versa and fans booking holidays around them have been part of PL speedway for years. Surely there is a benefit for tracks to actually think of getting some travelling fans along, or maybe I hanker after a bygone age.

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But it shouldn't be, northern clubs doing southern tours and vica versa and fans booking holidays around them have been part of PL speedway for years. Surely there is a benefit for tracks to actually think of getting some travelling fans along, or maybe I hanker after a bygone age.

 

An unrealistic desire though, Screm. Most fixture alterations are necessitated as a result of weather conditions and there is no escaping the fact that speedway meetings are at a higher risk of postponement due to the weather than many other sports. I am sure that everyone involved in the sport (organisers, promoters, riders and spectators) would prefer a scenario where fixtures were 90%+ set in stone.

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An unrealistic desire though, Screm. Most fixture alterations are necessitated as a result of weather conditions and there is no escaping the fact that speedway meetings are at a higher risk of postponement due to the weather than many other sports. I am sure that everyone involved in the sport (organisers, promoters, riders and spectators) would prefer a scenario where fixtures were 90%+ set in stone.

 

I take your point, obviously rain offs mean fixture changes but at least the original fixture wouldn't have been moved.

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Yes try Football. First Premiership match Aug 8, fixtures published 17 June. That is less than two months.

 

There are other complications you've overlooked:

 

I) two tracks have changed race day

 

II) Polish League One fixtures are still to be announced (they only decided on the composition of the league last week - at least the PL lineup has been known for two months)

 

III) There is Euro16 footy and the olympics, which clubs will want to work round.

 

Question when were the fixtures for July 1964 released?

 

 

 

Unless they are being televised then league football games are all pretty much played on a Saturday afternoon at 3pm so there is no comparison, fans know that if they wish to attend they need to keep weekends free.

 

Two teams changing race night shouldn't slow things down, teams should hand the dates they wish to race home meetings on to the BSPA and one person should compile the fixture list then hand it back to the clubs.

 

It shouldn't matter to us what is happening in Poland, this is British Speedway, if riders are going to miss lots of PL meetings to race in Poland then teams shouldn't be signing them really.

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It shouldn't matter to us what is happening in Poland, this is British Speedway, if riders are going to miss lots of PL meetings to race in Poland then teams shouldn't be signing them really.

 

Whilst I agree with you I think we need to accept that some riders just don't see racing in our leagues as there main priority anymore, especially when you see the kind on contracts dished out some clubs in Poland, whether the clubs actually honour those contracts of course is a different matter.

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But it shouldn't be, northern clubs doing southern tours and vica versa and fans booking holidays around them have been part of PL speedway for years. Surely there is a benefit for tracks to actually think of getting some travelling fans along, or maybe I hanker after a bygone age.

 

That's a laugh, where Newcastle is concerned. I can't remember the last proper Southern Tour we had.

 

For example, every season so far (since Plymouth came into the PL), we've done Plymouth as a one-off, including when we went down there twice within a fortnight.

 

Somerset and Rye House have become one-offs too, despite the fact we use to do those as a 'tour' together.

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With many riders doubling up / down, it must make it difficult to arrange fixtures for one night let alone consecutive nights and won't have helped to fix up the old style 'tours'.

 

According to the Panthers web-site, the First Draft of PL fixtures has been received and are expected to be finalised this month.

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With many riders doubling up / down, it must make it difficult to arrange fixtures for one night let alone consecutive nights and won't have helped to fix up the old style 'tours'.

 

According to the Panthers web-site, the First Draft of PL fixtures has been received and are expected to be finalised this month.

 

Another reason for the EL to go to one night maybe, but you are right with so many riders doubling up putting tours together for the PL clubs will be difficult.

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We had to submit our 2016 annual leave requests by November last year, so there's no way I can can plan any speedway tours. Saying that I've requested the last weekend in July as that's been a regular Northern Tour weekend in past years

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