Winditon Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 Just out of interest. Does anyone know why the Championship Fours is not running this season? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaizer Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 4 minutes ago, Winditon said: Just out of interest. Does anyone know why the Championship Fours is not running this season? At a guess I'd say maybe no one wanted to host it. Seems to be plenty free dates after July Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winditon Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 16 minutes ago, Jaizer said: At a guess I'd say maybe no one wanted to host it. Seems to be plenty free dates after July Was always a great day out at Peterborough. Although my team were never very competitive and never made the final i always enjoyed some great racing. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poole keith Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 1 hour ago, Skidder1 said: So August 24th. Loads of holidaymakers in Dorset, local schools still on hols. A huge crowd in attendance, trouble is skids thats a very insular view we really need to look at the bigger picture,speedways in a sorry state and cant carry on like this.(if i could offer another insular view i would say that many local businesses pubs,hotels,restaurants etc would have benefited from a weekend meeting and they wont now) 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray c Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 wont be able to go now away that week .still sooner miss that meeting than a league one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Winditon said: Just out of interest. Does anyone know why the Championship Fours is not running this season? If you remember before the pandemic struck it was going to be on the day after the British GP at Leicester... and everybody was up in arms about that Edited June 20, 2022 by iainb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaizer Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 3 minutes ago, iainb said: If you remember before the pandemic struck it was going to be on the day after the British GP at Leicester... and everybody was up in arms about that If it's not on should've gone back to old format. Split league into 2 x 4TTs and 1 3TT. Race at each team's home track, 3 winners and best runner up go to final then same again. Used to love the old 4s meetings, great weekend Edinburgh Fri, Berwick sat, Glasgow and Newcastle on the Sunday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 6 minutes ago, Jaizer said: If it's not on should've gone back to old format. Split league into 2 x 4TTs and 1 3TT. Race at each team's home track, 3 winners and best runner up go to final then same again. Used to love the old 4s meetings, great weekend Edinburgh Fri, Berwick sat, Glasgow and Newcastle on the Sunday Happy days! People will be telling us soon that nobody liked the 4's least of all the riders 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topsoil Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 Who can afford four to go to matches in four days? How many riders would conveniently pull out of fourth legs if their team is out of the running? Imagine trying to re-arrange a date if there is a rain off 4TT qualifiers are dead in the water Best left in the past and viewed through the usual rose tinted glasses 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Jacobs Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 Wednesday night at Poole, with a live stream available for the other five thousand who would have gone if it were on a Saturday ... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaColette Posted June 20, 2022 Report Share Posted June 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Roger Jacobs said: Wednesday night at Poole, with a live stream available for the other five thousand who would have gone if it were on a Saturday ... Literally the best post! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinBSN Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 Original date: Saturday, clashed with Poland, 4 teams riding in Scotland the night before a 6pm start... New date: Wednesday, school holidays, only Plymouth ride the night before so fairly local. Makes a lot more sense. People complaining it's at Poole, they were the only club willing to take it on! There's no money to be made by the hosting club. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillipsr Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Marshall07 said: Original date: Saturday, clashed with Poland, 4 teams riding in Scotland the night before a 6pm start... New date: Wednesday, school holidays, only Plymouth ride the night before so fairly local. Makes a lot more sense. People complaining it's at Poole, they were the only club willing to take it on! There's no money to be made by the hosting club. 100% sure of that last bit are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartinBSN Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 13 minutes ago, phillipsr said: 100% sure of that last bit are you? Nobody wanting it or the money to be made? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 9 hours ago, Roger Jacobs said: Wednesday night at Poole, with a live stream available for the other five thousand who would have gone if it were on a Saturday ... Fifty thousand you mean? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 11 hours ago, Winditon said: Just out of interest. Does anyone know why the Championship Fours is not running this season? Because every team had picked Bomber, given he had qualified for each of them on appearances... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 9 hours ago, Marshall07 said: Original date: Saturday, clashed with Poland, 4 teams riding in Scotland the night before a 6pm start... New date: Wednesday, school holidays, only Plymouth ride the night before so fairly local. Makes a lot more sense. People complaining it's at Poole, they were the only club willing to take it on! There's no money to be made by the hosting club. People could probably accept that if it was on a weekend! I always advocate a neutral venue but those don't really exist any.more with doubling up rife. Thank goodness for the stream for fans of the northern clubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
szkocjasid Posted June 21, 2022 Report Share Posted June 21, 2022 (edited) On 6/20/2022 at 8:25 PM, Winditon said: Just out of interest. Does anyone know why the Championship Fours is not running this season? With clubs having less fixtures this season, you'd think they'd be keen on running the Fours. Edited June 21, 2022 by szkocjasid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted June 22, 2022 Report Share Posted June 22, 2022 11 hours ago, szkocjasid said: With clubs having less fixtures this season, you'd think they'd be keen on running the Fours. You get the feeling that the "promoters" don't want to run meetings, any excuse to postpone and the gradual destruction of fixture staples through the years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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