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12 minutes ago, Chris116 said:

Knowing how the handicap league racing in the 60's was hated by the riders I don't think today's riders would be willing to take part in such events. 

Much depends upon the grade / ego of riders. IOW have successfully ran handicapped meetings for the past few seasons which have been well received. That said they only really work on racers tracks where passing and momentum can be built up over the laps.

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On ‎11‎/‎14‎/‎2019 at 10:37 AM, mikebv said:

Isn't it rumoured that each track in the Premiership is getting £50k a season? With a five year deal?

Thats £250k 'guaranteed'..

You could do quite a bit of track reshaping with that I would think..

Instead, I fear it will be used to pay more in salaries to riders who won't in five years have progressed the entertainment level of the sport forward in any way that better tracks more conducive to passing would do...

Maybe we could all ask our local council to do it for free !

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3 hours ago, Trees said:

You cannot have gimmick races with our riders, whatabout if there is faller for instance, jeez!!

In the 60''s the second half final often provided the most passing and the home number one passed two riders with a swoop around the last bend to win at the chequered flag. Everyone was entertained, I went home happy and couldn't wait for next week....

... when I got older I was told the money was shared equally in the last race and the riders agreed who would pass who. 

It's when a Promoter promoted entertainment. 

A big thank you to Bill Bridgett and Mike Parker for my formative years!!!

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26 minutes ago, Lefty said:

In the 60''s the second half final often provided the most passing and the home number one passed two riders with a swoop around the last bend to win at the chequered flag. Everyone was entertained, I went home happy and couldn't wait for next week....

... when I got older I was told the money was shared equally in the last race and the riders agreed who would pass who. 

It's when a Promoter promoted entertainment. 

A big thank you to Bill Bridgett and Mike Parker for my formative years!!!

Sometimes it's best not to 'peek behind the curtain'. 

 

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34 minutes ago, RobMcCaffery said:

Sometimes it's best not to 'peek behind the curtain'. 

 

Too true...

And when I got even older.. I spannered for a young cub rider who progressed to doubling up... helped try to sort his late payments out etc... often 15+ meetings in arrears... and that was mid 70's..... some things don't really change!

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Eurosport are running a Black Friday deal on Eurosport Player (for those that can't get Eurosport) 12 months for £19.99

https://promo-gb.eurosportplayer.com/promo/all-sports/black-friday-2019?utm_campaign=UK-EU-E1-EU-C1-G-BAU-DR-W-AllSports-Undefined-161213-Eurosportplayer-P-BMM-BrandCore-NA&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_content=Brand+|+Eurosport+Player+|+BMM&utm_term=%2Beurosport+%2Bplayer&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIxqezpM395QIVCrDtCh0YSAlfEAAYASAAEgLEVfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

I don't know for sure but you may also be able to use a VPN to access their other European streams, I think they show EPL in Romania for example.

 

Deal expires on the 2/12/19

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19 hours ago, Hackett said:

"I can say now, for 100% that we will have the Grand Prix outside of Europe" - Armando Castagna, FIM Track Racing director. Discovery Communications with their Eurosport brand will take over the SGP series in 2022 as a ten year deal with FIM #speedway #SGP #SGP2022

Is he referring to Brexit?

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14 hours ago, RS50 said:

Have heard that BT sports could be available through a sky package soon. 

YOU already can although not, I believe, the UHD channels which require a separate BT box ... On December 15 2017, we announced an agreement with BT which means that Skycustomers will be able to include BT Sport as part of their overall Sky subscription for the first time. ... In the meantime, you can still get BT Sport on your Sky box - and you don't need a subscription to BT Broadband to do this.

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1 hour ago, PHILIPRISING said:

YOU already can although not, I believe, the UHD channels which require a separate BT box ... On December 15 2017, we announced an agreement with BT which means that Skycustomers will be able to include BT Sport as part of their overall Sky subscription for the first time. ... In the meantime, you can still get BT Sport on your Sky box - and you don't need a subscription to BT Broadband to do this.

The problem with BT Sports through Sky is that if you have SkyQ boxes you can only watch BT Sports on the main box and not multi room. 

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3 hours ago, Daniel Smith said:

The problem with BT Sports through Sky is that if you have SkyQ boxes you can only watch BT Sports on the main box and not multi room. 

 

22 minutes ago, geoff58 said:

wrong i have bt sports on sky Q you have to phone BT for multi room viewing had it for 1 year !!

I also could only watch it from the main Sky Q box - did you have to pay extra for multiroom access Geoff58?  My subscription was the £10 a month through Sky.

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