Coventry Drone

[IainB]

17 hours ago, ChrisSimpson said:

It's changed a fair bit in 2 years

The thought occurred to me looking at those pits, and I'm only half jesting when I say this, such is my desperation to see the Bees back on track... But wouldn't it be great if Banksy paid a visit to the stadium and re-decorated the pit area 

Does he do requests?

[jrs]

Maybe Banksy could take it over as he did in Weston Super Mare, and turned a derelict site into a depressed theme park or something similar. Get some Bristolians to track him down.

[old bob at herne bay]

Surely will become another housing estate .... mega millions to be made .☹️

[RobMcCaffery]

1 hour ago, old bob at herne bay said:

Surely will become another housing estate .... mega millions to be made .☹️

Helpful as ever.

 

[old bob at herne bay]

Think you meant realistic Mr  McCaffery .....let’s not kid ourselves that someone is going to invest money into Brandon Stadium to run speedway at a loss each and every week?

Have you read this weeks Speedway Star page 2? Just about puts the tin lid on the Rockets . The new owner doesn’t want his new gym getting “all grimed up” from the bikes. 

 

[Richspeedway]

3 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said:

Think you meant realistic Mr  McCaffery .....let’s not kid ourselves that someone is going to invest money into Brandon Stadium to run speedway at a loss each and every week?

Have you read this weeks Speedway Star page 2? Just about puts the tin lid on the Rockets . The new owner doesn’t want his new gym getting “all grimed up” from the bikes. 

 

Yes but if you read The Buzz you will know from Jeff Davies and his group there has been a couple of people who are willing to buy the stadium off BE and get it back up and running but BE prefer to sit on it and let it get further into decline.

[HackneyHawk]

This makes me angry.  Speedway 'promoters' have allowed this to happen to the sport.  Most of them too dimwitted to plan for the future.  Most of them too insular, treating Speedway as a hobby and if you come and watch, that's up to you, and if you don't, so what.

I visited Coventry for a British riders final in the early 2000's.  The racing was not competitive and very boring, this seemed due to track.  I brought newcomers with me, they hated it.  We visited a food van and asked for chips.....the woman said (rudely) we don't do chips they were too popular.

I went to the opening night of the London Lions, there was nowhere to stand to watch the racing due to the stadium being redeveloped without terracing.  I stood on a grassy bank as I had done watching the Hackney Hawks.  The speedway management called the police to have us removed.  I asked Colin Pratt for a refund and he told me "if you don't like the stadium - idiot off)

Track shops selling embarrassing tat.  Meeting presentation anachronistic and embarrassing.  Riders wearing the race suit of another club while riding for their rivals as a guest........

Would those things happen in any other area of modern sport/entertainment/leisure? no of course not.

After 40 years I'm almost done with speedway.

[SpeedwayTShirts]

I'd love to see Coventry back up and running and would throw in all the bits we used to do presentation wise and centre green wise for free as we did at Leicester to try and keep the name going. But that's purely because I'm a Coventry fan and have had the sport drilled into me from birth to now. The problem is anybody investing in speedway full stop in the UK would be doing it for the love of the sport and for the memories in the Bees case of years gone by. Anyone investing in speedway will only lose there money going forwards, speedway in it's current guise is not where the British public want to spend their hard earned coin.  It's not moved with the times and the terraces are getting emptier and emptier as sadly followers of our beloved sport pass away.  Just be glad of all the memories you have as future one's may be sparser to come by

[Richspeedway]

Chris really enjoyed your presentation for Coventry Storm and also in the box was a nice change from Peter York, nothing against him but just feel his style is a little old and needed a freshen up

 

[greyhoundp]

8 hours ago, ChrisSimpson said:

I'd love to see Coventry back up and running and would throw in all the bits we used to do presentation wise and centre green wise for free as we did at Leicester to try and keep the name going. But that's purely because I'm a Coventry fan and have had the sport drilled into me from birth to now. The problem is anybody investing in speedway full stop in the UK would be doing it for the love of the sport and for the memories in the Bees case of years gone by. Anyone investing in speedway will only lose there money going forwards, speedway in it's current guise is not where the British public want to spend their hard earned coin.  It's not moved with the times and the terraces are getting emptier and emptier as sadly followers of our beloved sport pass away.  Just be glad of all the memories you have as future one's may be sparser to come by

Sad but true, and the powers that be dont seem to either be able or dont want to try something to stop the trend.. Using the marketing company Hatfits is/was a step in the right direction, it might be another step forward see them appoint someone (a Barry Hearn/Frank Warren/Bernie Ecclestone type) to oversee the Sport who has no vested interest.. but Rob Godfrey has already said he has no appetite to see that kind of appointment..

Edited July 28, 2020 by greyhoundp

[SpeedwayTShirts]

Has anyone visited recently, I believe the big bottom bar under the main grandstand is all open now and in general people are entering daily to have a look around?

[Guest]

I am told this is a reference to motorsport/speedway at Brandon Stadium, Coventry. On my part I cannot seem to trace it. Can anyone please find and explain what it is all about? Thank you: === 'Lawrence v Coventry (No. 3) [2015] Supreme Court judgment'

[Dave Jones]

1 hour ago, JohnHyam said:

I am told this is a reference to motorsport/speedway at Brandon Stadium, Coventry. On my part I cannot seem to trace it. Can anyone please find and explain what it is all about? Thank you: === 'Lawrence v Coventry (No. 3) [2015] Supreme Court judgment'

I think you will find that this is, in fact, the case regarding Mildenhall Speedway & two local residents. 

Nothing to do with Brandon Stadium whatsoever

[SpeedwayTShirts]

Quick Update - Nothing's changed at Coventry but they have beefed up security to make it harder to access the site unless you really wanted to get in.

 

 

 

 

[SpeedwayTShirts]

Also had a quick look at the old Stoke Speedway last week here's a link to the video...…

 

[Gambo]

And there was me thinking the topic was about Peter York! 

[Robbie B]

On 10/22/2020 at 9:55 AM, JohnHyam said:

I am told this is a reference to motorsport/speedway at Brandon Stadium, Coventry. On my part I cannot seem to trace it. Can anyone please find and explain what it is all about? Thank you: === 'Lawrence v Coventry (No. 3) [2015] Supreme Court judgment'

John

The point I was making in my post and another part of this forum is that the judgment in Coventry v Lawrence [2015]  UKSC 50 following on from the previous cases in relation to issue. Coventry (t/a RDC Promotions) v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 146; [2015] AC 106 and the significant judgment in Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13.; Coventry (t/a RDC Promotions Ltd) v Lawrence [212] EWCA Civ 216; Lawrence v Fen Tigers Ltd [2011] EWHC 360 (QB) N.B. This case is also known as Lawrence v Mildenhall Fen Tigers, with the judgments in the 2011 and 2012 no longer followed.. Is that after the Supreme Court [2015[ is that private nuisance for noise will be an issue and impact upon all motor sport venues in the future. This is clear too see when reading these judgements.

[steve roberts]

4 hours ago, ChrisSimpson said:

Also had a quick look at the old Stoke Speedway last week here's a link to the video...…

 

All very depressing.

[NeilWatson]

On 10/22/2020 at 9:55 AM, JohnHyam said:

I am told this is a reference to motorsport/speedway at Brandon Stadium, Coventry. On my part I cannot seem to trace it. Can anyone please find and explain what it is all about? Thank you: === 'Lawrence v Coventry (No. 3) [2015] Supreme Court judgment'

 

1 hour ago, Robbie B said:

John

The point I was making in my post and another part of this forum is that the judgment in Coventry v Lawrence [2015]  UKSC 50 following on from the previous cases in relation to issue. Coventry (t/a RDC Promotions) v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 146; [2015] AC 106 and the significant judgment in Coventry v Lawrence [2014] UKSC 13.; Coventry (t/a RDC Promotions Ltd) v Lawrence [212] EWCA Civ 216; Lawrence v Fen Tigers Ltd [2011] EWHC 360 (QB) N.B. This case is also known as Lawrence v Mildenhall Fen Tigers, with the judgments in the 2011 and 2012 no longer followed.. Is that after the Supreme Court [2015[ is that private nuisance for noise will be an issue and impact upon all motor sport venues in the future. This is clear too see when reading these judgements.

John, your confusion may be because one of the key parties in the Mildenhall noise saga is a gentleman by the name of Dave Coventry. This explains the references to ‘Coventry’ which have no relation to the speedway Club, formerly of Brandon Stadium.

[Robbie B]

Dave and Ron Coventry are RDC promotions Ltd that can lead to some confusion regarding the names of the cases.

For John below is the last 2014 significant case. Strange that this case in on the legal databases such as Westlaw, LawTel etc and LexisNexis etc but not listed in full on the Supreme Court. website from the BAILLI website

https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2014/13.html

cost from the Supreme Court website.

https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2012-0076.html

The Lawrence's in these cases used 'Conditional Fee Arrangement' lawyers also known as no-win-no-fee. Their lawyers received a big uplift in fees upon winning their case. The overall court cost had its own hearing due to the uplifted fees, well in the hundreds of thousands, of pounds.

 

Edited October 28, 2020 by Robbie B