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18 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

You all know how the country felt after the football on Wednesday, well that’s how I feel about the way british speedway is being run, my sport, my life and it bloody hurts 

Do you know, Dean, I think my current stance of British speedway is a result of all the stuff I've witnessed over the decades. But we are not like the thousands of others that just gave up altogether... yet. Sad thing is, in a few years we may not have the choice of whether to stop going or not, as it won't be there to go to. 

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Finally, the  SS is starting to raise the awkward questions and their opening piece this week is excellent, some great suggestions for people to ask for help.  I am also astonished the BSPA kicked out Rye House given they had a package to carry on and pay off all debts - smacks of a conspiracy to me.

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On 7/13/2018 at 9:04 PM, SPEEDY69 said:

Finally, the  SS is starting to raise the awkward questions and their opening piece this week is excellent, some great suggestions for people to ask for help.  I am also astonished the BSPA kicked out Rye House given they had a package to carry on and pay off all debts - smacks of a conspiracy to me.

Or not convinced it would happen. In that case why make the situation worse whilst making the debts bigger.

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A quick Google search "speedway action groups" came up with no results except for individual club groups. Are there no national groups dedicated to sharing such things as ideas on how to get more people through the turnstiles to putting pressure on the powers that be through sheer weight of numbers.  It is understandable  and justified to air individual thoughts on forums such as this but would a national group of supporters with its own website etc carry more weight? Maybe a crazy idea, its just a thought!

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Ronnie Russell sums the sport up nicely in this weeks SS is complaining about lack of fixtures at Swindon due to Teams refusing dates because of missing riders(quite rightly)but then sums it up by saying Teams can expect no favours from him regarding fixtures in future.! Usual self interest among the people running the sport IMO .Some body in charge has to get a grip of fixture list and tell them to get on with it.Promotions picked the riders they wanted to ride for them!! If the go missing tough!

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1 hour ago, Fromafar said:

Ronnie Russell sums the sport up nicely in this weeks SS is complaining about lack of fixtures at Swindon due to Teams refusing dates because of missing riders(quite rightly)but then sums it up by saying Teams can expect no favours from him regarding fixtures in future.! Usual self interest among the people running the sport IMO .Some body in charge has to get a grip of fixture list and tell them to get on with it.Promotions picked the riders they wanted to ride for them!! If the go missing tough!

How can the people at the top deal with this, they are the ones refusing fixtures!

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16 minutes ago, Whisperer said:

How can the people at the top deal with this, they are the ones refusing fixtures!

It's all about self interest,no co- operation.Its just a circus now.As everyone is saying the sport needs Independant people in charge,but that will never happen.

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24 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

It's all about self interest,no co- operation.Its just a circus now.As everyone is saying the sport needs Independant people in charge,but that will never happen.

So as I suggested in an earlier post why not a pressure group of supporters country wide speaking with one voice?

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10 minutes ago, Skid Sprocket said:

So as I suggested in an earlier post why not a pressure group of supporters country wide speaking with one voice?

Do you really think the Speedway Hierarchy would even listen,doubt it it's their ball.! This forum is just for moaners and gripers according to some.!

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34 minutes ago, Skid Sprocket said:

So as I suggested in an earlier post why not a pressure group of supporters country wide speaking with one voice?

I am willing to give it a try to get people together if there are others interested in trying to set up something.

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Most promotions are clueless as to the thoughts of fans and their aspirations.

They seem terrified of spelling out the obvious - the sport is on its knees rider wise and we have a deminishing pot of money to pay for it.

 

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3 minutes ago, Skid Sprocket said:

Thats more like it, positive thinking, whats to lose? I'll sign up for one.

Bloody Hell that's two of us. We only need the other 19,998 UK supporters still said to exist.

 

You're on my digital list SS.

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3 minutes ago, waytogo28 said:

Bloody Hell that's two of us. We only need the other 19,998 UK supporters still said to exist.

 

You're on my digital list SS.

The problem I foresee here is getting the supporters' group to agree what it is they're going to ask for.

As a for instance, I want guests for injured #1s only and didn't want set nights, Mrs B doesn't want guests at all but wanted set nights. Which one of us would you listen to and who's view would you put forward?

 

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1 minute ago, Vincent Blachshadow said:

The problem I foresee here is getting the supporters' group to agree what it is they're going to ask for.

As a for instance, I want guests for injured #1s only and didn't want set nights, Mrs B doesn't want guests at all but wanted set nights. Which one of us would you listen to and who's view would you put forward?

 

Thats the problem with differing views of members on a forum. Someone needs to take charge and sort out a list of priorities and work down the list of what supporters want (and will pay at the turnstiles for),

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11 minutes ago, Skid Sprocket said:

Thats the problem with differing views of members on a forum. Someone needs to take charge and sort out a list of priorities and work down the list of what supporters want (and will pay at the turnstiles for),

So how do you decide 'what supporters want' if several supporters have differing views on a given subject which this forum shows they clearly do?

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