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Skid, my friend, indeed we could all do more to promote the sport.

 

But as many contributors far wiser than myself have remarked, you can't promote something which has rendered itself unpromotable and brought itself into disrepute.

 

The powers that be must bring about a fundamental change to the sport or British speedway will be extinct within 5 years.

Tinkering about round the edges just won't cut it, I'm afraid.

 

And to once again quote Alan Bennett, "You can't polish a turd".

 

Just my opinion, obviously.

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I agree the powers that be must do their bit and hopefully comments on these forums might push them into doing the right thing but that doesn't stop the rest of us from doing what we can. If, as you say, British speedway will be extinct in 5 years do we want to look back and say "we should have done ------" as supporters?

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I agree the powers that be must do their bit and hopefully comments on these forums might push them into doing the right thing but that doesn't stop the rest of us from doing what we can. If, as you say, British speedway will be extinct in 5 years do we want to look back and say "we should have done ------" as supporters?

 

Skid, I am with you 100%.

 

The promoters and governing body of our beloved sport of speedway are our General Haigs and we are but the humble foot-soldiers sheltering in the trenches.

 

Speedway supremos can't keep doing the same thing time after time in the vain hope that sooner or later they will drop lucky and achieve massive success.

 

This has to be the moment when the decks are swept clean and speedway re-invents itself.

If some backward-looking operations aren't up to the job, then cheerio to them.

The organizers of the sport in this country can't keep turning a blind eye to the woeful deficiencies of some operations and let infringements occur without a word of censure.

 

So if the boys at the top give us a glimmer of hope that the ship is heading in the right direction, then I for one will promote speedway to the best of my humble ability.

 

If their only concern is running up a large bar bill and tinkering about with the nonsensical rules that they dreamt up at the previous jamboree, then I believe that people will continue walking away from this once great sport and it will die an ignominious death.

 

Just my opinion, obviously.

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BSPA ... the third word is PROMOTERS ...... but actually promoting is the weakest part of this association.

 

They spend too much time trying to get one up over each other.

 

This has not changed over the 50 years that I have been going to Speedway

There is certainly a place for getting one up and over on each other but that is on the track not at the AGM.

 

One thing that has changed over the last 50 years is supporter participation and I believe, track rivalries apart, as supporters we should come together and do all we are able to promote the sport from our level. in this multi media age the supporters must be a force to be listened to, if not by words, by actions.

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BSPA ... the third word is PROMOTERS ...... but actually promoting is the weakest part of this association.

 

They spend too much time trying to get one up over each other.

 

This has not changed over the 50 years that I have been going to Speedway

That happens in all sports, it is after all a competition. If it wasn't for them you wouldn't have had those 50 years.

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That happens in all sports, it is after all a competition. If it wasn't for them you wouldn't have had those 50 years.

 

Well, that's absolutely smashing but I think that what people are worried about is the next 50 years rather than the last 50 years.

 

And as foamfence so rightly points out, speedway is a sport and a competition but it is also a business.

 

And it is a business that operates in the fiercely competitive recreation sector.

 

Customers have lots of choice where they can spend their recreational pound and speedway needs to get it's house in order otherwise it will be consigned to the dustbin of products that have passed their sell-by date.

 

Be seeing you.

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Well, that's absolutely smashing but I think that what people are worried about is the next 50 years rather than the last 50 years.

 

And as foamfence so rightly points out, speedway is a sport and a competition but it is also a business.

 

And it is a business that operates in the fiercely competitive recreation sector.

 

Customers have lots of choice where they can spend their recreational pound and speedway needs to get it's house in order otherwise it will be consigned to the dustbin of products that have passed their sell-by date.

 

Be seeing you.

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Too many think it already is.

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The promoting of the sport needs improving.

I have just typed in google "motor sports in Swindon" and it does not even mention speedway.

I you wandered around the town and stopped people at random I doubt if many even know Swindon has a speedway team.

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The promoting of the sport needs improving.

I have just typed in google "motor sports in Swindon" and it does not even mention speedway.

I you wandered around the town and stopped people at random I doubt if many even know Swindon has a speedway team.

It might not have if things don't start happening soon.

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The promoting of the sport needs improving.

I have just typed in google "motor sports in Swindon" and it does not even mention speedway.

I you wandered around the town and stopped people at random I doubt if many even know Swindon has a speedway team.

That's exactly my point the Great British public doesn't know the sport exists that's where, at no expense, we as supporters can inform and educate the public. Take a few posters round, bring the subject up on media websites and let the official promoters do what they do. As someone said nothing has changed in 50 years, lets show the "promoters" there is a force out here trying.

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That's exactly my point the Great British public doesn't know the sport exists that's where, at no expense, we as supporters can inform and educate the public. Take a few posters round, bring the subject up on media websites and let the official promoters do what they do. As someone said nothing has changed in 50 years, lets show the "promoters" there is a force out here trying.

 

Skid, I admire your enthusiasm, I really do.

 

Manny prayed to God and said, "God, I'm your faithful servant. I have devoted myself to your teachings. I go the synagogue every week and I have raised my children according to the scriptures. But please, God, could you just make it that I win the jackpot on this week's lottery?"

 

God thought about this for a while and said, "Yes, Manny my child. I can pull a few celestial strings for you. But Manny, meet me half way on this..........buy a bloody ticket!"

 

I go to Asda, I buy a tin of beans. I don't expect the manager to accost me on the way out and ask me if I could stick some Asda posters up round town whilst I'm out and about.

 

Let's have some leadership from the front and the rest will surely follow.

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Skid, I admire your enthusiasm, I really do.

 

Manny prayed to God and said, "God, I'm your faithful servant. I have devoted myself to your teachings. I go the synagogue every week and I have raised my children according to the scriptures. But please, God, could you just make it that I win the jackpot on this week's lottery?"

 

God thought about this for a while and said, "Yes, Manny my child. I can pull a few celestial strings for you. But Manny, meet me half way on this..........buy a bloody ticket!"

 

I go to Asda, I buy a tin of beans. I don't expect the manager to accost me on the way out and ask me if I could stick some Asda posters up round town whilst I'm out and about.

 

Let's have some leadership from the front and the rest will surely follow.

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But if Asda goes bust you have Tesco, Morrisons etc etc. to buy your beans. If you did stick some Asda posters around town maybe, just maybe, your tin of beans might be a bit cheaper on your next visit.

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But if Asda goes bust you have Tesco, Morrisons etc etc. to buy your beans. If you did stick some Asda posters around town maybe, just maybe, your tin of beans might be a bit cheaper on your next visit.

 

I'm not entirely sure that the British supermarket industry subscribes to that particular business model but perhaps, your optimistic viewpoint may be correct.

 

And as they say at Tesco, "Very Little Helps".

 

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I'm not entirely sure that the British supermarket industry subscribes to that particular business model but perhaps, your optimistic viewpoint may be correct.

 

And as they say at Tesco, "Very Little Helps".

 

:D

If supermarkets wanted to advertise their presence and wide use they would sell their lifetime bags a lot cheaper.

I went into Morrisons with a Sainsburys bag and when putting the shopping in the Sainsburys bag one of the staff gave me a Morrisons bag for free and put the Sainsbury bag inside the Morrisons bag before I left the till mentioning that she would rather I advertised Morrisons.

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I'm not entirely sure that the British supermarket industry subscribes to that particular business model but perhaps, your optimistic viewpoint may be correct.

 

And as they say at Tesco, "Very Little Helps".

 

:D

It looks as though you are the glass half empty type and i am the glass half full, I think we'll have to agree that our glasses are at the same level :D

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That's exactly my point the Great British public doesn't know the sport exists that's where, at no expense, we as supporters can inform and educate the public. Take a few posters round, bring the subject up on media websites and let the official promoters do what they do. As someone said nothing has changed in 50 years, lets show the "promoters" there is a force out here trying.

There are also plenty of people who used to go to speedway who fully know it exists but choose not to go. The first task must be to get them back

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With regards to cost cutting I think that the riders will have to be forced as by nature they want to go faster will spend and do anything to achieve this using any reason for not stopping ranging from a safety issues to the fact of not being able to earn a living . How to do this will take some strong and brave decisions being made by the sports governing body and I don't hold my breath on that happening anytime soon .

 

It would be interesting to prehaps see some match races or an open meeting even with factory GTR being provided for all riders to see how they coped it would be on a level plainfield and should be down to pure skill and ability to adapt .

Would it be possible to have some kind of procurement system where all engines and supplies are given to all riders at the same cost direct from the supplier. Surely at NL level it could work. Then the machine examiner makes sure no one tampers with anything.

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Would it be possible to have some kind of procurement system where all engines and supplies are given to all riders at the same cost direct from the supplier. Surely at NL level it could work. Then the machine examiner makes sure no one tampers with anything.

a sort of system would work at any level , unfortunately the sport is currently run unofficialy by the tuners with the riders backing and that isn't going to change anytime soon even if the riders were to benefit from it , a soon as the powers try something all hell breaks loose we end up back at square one ,

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a sort of system would work at any level , unfortunately the sport is currently run unofficialy by the tuners with the riders backing and that isn't going to change anytime soon even if the riders were to benefit from it , a soon as the powers try something all hell breaks loose we end up back at square one ,

So in essence tuners have become like football agents, leaches on the sport

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