Charlieboy Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 June 1st tomorrow and we've had 2 league fixtures at home at Sheffield.The total imbalance of fixtures is a joke.Teams who have rode the most fixtures are able to use the new averages to their advantage to swap riders.( good luck to them) The premier league fixtures have been more even .The one home one away has killed my interest this season through lack of continuity along with many other supporters.Speedway fans are creatures of habit and this new idea could be another nail in the speedway coffin.I think the championship has been sacrificed to save the premier league.Does anyone else feel the same ? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevePark Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 If you start the season in April, what do think is going to happen? There has to be blank weeks, before the Play-offs kick in! Newcastle have 2 home and 1 away match in July, but have 4 home and 5 away in August!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronScorpion Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 As soon as they made the Championship only 20 meetings(10 home & away) plus Shield & KOC, they knew there would be a minimum of 14 matches for some teams. Due to the nature of the weather, and not just this year, they should have condensed the fixtures to have run between May & September. that is still about 22 weeks allowing for similar race nights, the notorious few meetings in July but riding in, hopefully, better weather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badge Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 22 minutes ago, Charlieboy said: June 1st tomorrow and we've had 2 league fixtures at home at Sheffield.The total imbalance of fixtures is a joke.Teams who have rode the most fixtures are able to use the new averages to their advantage to swap riders.( good luck to them) The premier league fixtures have been more even .The one home one away has killed my interest this season through lack of continuity along with many other supporters.Speedway fans are creatures of habit and this new idea could be another nail in the speedway coffin.I think the championship has been sacrificed to save the premier league.Does anyone else feel the same ? I'm not too sure the cl has been sacrificed for the pl. I was under the impression we could only do 1 home and away, due to a few cl teams losing so much money, they couldn't afford to run more often. I might be wrong of course. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlieboy Posted May 31, 2018 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 29 minutes ago, StevePark said: If you start the season in April, what do think is going to happen? There has to be blank weeks, before the Play-offs kick in! Newcastle have 2 home and 1 away match in July, but have 4 home and 5 away in August!! We can get enough blank weeks with rain offs.Weve had some dry Thursday's with no fixtures as was expected.If the meetings don't get rained off till late in season we are still going to get a mass scramble to get them in.Thats speedway.I would rather have double the fixtures and risk some rain offs but that's just my opinion.The more meetings the better rather than the lack of fixtures we have now.June and July we have 2 home league matches in each. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMcCaffery Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 34 minutes ago, StevePark said: If you start the season in April, what do think is going to happen? There has to be blank weeks, before the Play-offs kick in! Newcastle have 2 home and 1 away match in July, but have 4 home and 5 away in August!! Ridiculous! We have started the season in BL2/NL/PL/Championship in April since 1969 (1968 was a late start due to the lack of teams in the initial year). I don't remember the second tier having gaps like this. Perhaps the problem lies in having the shortest league schedule since 1968? 10 home league matches is a disgraceful offer to the public, even allowing for the limited additional Championship Shield meetings that in the south add a paltry two extra fixtures making a grand total of 12! So, just what ARE we supposed to do? Start the season in June then move on to the play-offs in September? Trying to defend this year's schedule is ridiculous. The second tier has foolishly followed the top tier into a fragmented season and will pay the same price if it's not careful. Perhaps the promoters can only afford top stage a dozen meetings? If so the least they could do is be honest and inform their remaining fans. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycho3a Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Not just the lack of fixtures but also for me a few teams that will not be competitive.. I make a 80 mile round trip to Sheffield and I'm not making the effort to watch redcar and Berwick, already avoided Newcastle and redcar already.. I also miss 3 meetings in August due to holidays so pretty fed up this year already as I've been to 3 league meetings and steadys testimonial.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityrebel Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 The clock is ticking to save the the sport in this country. The problem is, no one has the balls to stop it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Lucan Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 3 hours ago, Charlieboy said: June 1st tomorrow and we've had 2 league fixtures at home at Sheffield.The total imbalance of fixtures is a joke.Teams who have rode the most fixtures are able to use the new averages to their advantage to swap riders.( good luck to them) The premier league fixtures have been more even .The one home one away has killed my interest this season through lack of continuity along with many other supporters.Speedway fans are creatures of habit and this new idea could be another nail in the speedway coffin.I think the championship has been sacrificed to save the premier league.Does anyone else feel the same ? Under the current schedule CB our first home "league" match will now be June 23rd v Glasgow, not bad considering we started the season in March?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The White Knight Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 2 minutes ago, Lord Lucan said: Under the current schedule CB our first home "league" match will now be June 23rd v Glasgow, not bad considering we started the season in March?? Speedway Meetings are a bit like you Lord Lucan - difficult to find. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topsoil Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Funny how everybody lauds the Polish leagues, we should be following their example, blah blah blah. They only have seven home fixtures each over there. Is it killing the sport over there, the lack of continuity, only one home fixture every two weeks at the best? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robinh88 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 (edited) In a word no Average top tier crowd across the top tier was about 10,000 Poland run meetings through the week we can't forget, such as individual and pairs matches for young and old or these now common place test matches Poland do. Poland also for it's flaws do allow non domestic meetings to be shared all around the country from say Krosno back to Torun and probably for half the price and double the quality of uk speedway. Edited May 31, 2018 by Robinh88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparks123 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 4 hours ago, psycho3a said: Not just the lack of fixtures but also for me a few teams that will not be competitive.. I make a 80 mile round trip to Sheffield and I'm not making the effort to watch redcar and Berwick, already avoided Newcastle and redcar already.. I also miss 3 meetings in August due to holidays so pretty fed up this year already as I've been to 3 league meetings and steadys testimonial.. Did you go to Newcastle and Berwick to see the easy Sheffield victories since the teams are not competitive? I was at both and cannot remember what the scores were. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hel'n'Back Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Speedway needs to be run every week at home during the season or people tend to find alternative things to do. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4thbender Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 The way things are shaping up, our season will be over on 23 August (and STILL four blank Thursdays between now and then). I feel that the season has only just got underway, but actually (based on the number of fixtures) we're past the halfway point. This arrangement is a shambles and I hope the promoters are listening. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hel'n'Back Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Looking at the fixtures for Sheffield, only just makes it pay for a season ticket, unless things change next year then it isn't worth paying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthegearbutnaeidea Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 19 hours ago, psycho3a said: Not just the lack of fixtures but also for me a few teams that will not be competitive.. I make a 80 mile round trip to Sheffield and I'm not making the effort to watch redcar and Berwick, already avoided Newcastle and redcar already.. I also miss 3 meetings in August due to holidays so pretty fed up this year already as I've been to 3 league meetings and steadys testimonial.. It’s funny that because we spanked you’s at home in the league and we are sitting unbeaten in 3rd with 9 points from 3 where as you’s are second bottom with 4 points from 4 meetings ahahahaha stop underestimating the teams that don’t have big names because we’re currently doing a lot better than both sets of tigers ans the witches aka the 3 league favourites, same goes for Newcastle as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psycho3a Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 19 hours ago, sparks123 said: Did you go to Newcastle and Berwick to see the easy Sheffield victories since the teams are not competitive? I was at both and cannot remember what the scores were. I was more intimidating at the home fixture as Newcastle, Redcar and Berwick have not got riders who go well at owlerton hence the one sided meetings... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topsoil Posted June 1, 2018 Report Share Posted June 1, 2018 On 5/31/2018 at 6:43 PM, psycho3a said: Not just the lack of fixtures but also for me a few teams that will not be competitive.. I make a 80 mile round trip to Sheffield and I'm not making the effort to watch redcar and Berwick, already avoided Newcastle and redcar already.. I also miss 3 meetings in August due to holidays so pretty fed up this year already as I've been to 3 league meetings and steadys testimonial.. So what you're asking for is even more fixtures that you may choose to stay away from and the BSPA to arrange the fixturee list around your Summer holidays :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thornaby48 Posted June 4, 2018 Report Share Posted June 4, 2018 It would have better to run the Championship Shield as two groups rather than three thus adding two more home meetings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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