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After 3 Meetings which had most difficult conditions due to bad weather, tonight’s meeting showed what a brilliant track we have at the NSS.  The racing was high quality and allowed us to see some new names that triumphed with some great racing.

A big shout out to the meeting which gave GB something to cheer about.

 

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2 hours ago, Mr Blobby said:

Lemon picking Kurtz over Fricke based off Wednesdays meeting in the wet, when the track tonight is the opposite. Lucky if he’s got half a brain cell.

if lemo got half a brain cell its more than you got with comments like that 

lemo proved he knows what hes doing unlike you 

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25 minutes ago, LagutaRacingFan said:

As somebody who is a finance professional, I would point out that your tactic of cutting prices at the last minute would kill ticket sales for next year.

People would wait until the end to buy tickets. It would also damage trust between organisers and loyal fans.

My opinion is that the issue wasn't the ticket prices. The issue is the product.

If you add in Team Russia with Emil & Artem, I suspect the rest of the grandstand would have been sold out.

So u must be in a indian call centre a scammer

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1 hour ago, R87 said:

Ludicrous that we've now got to have a final.  Australia are the top scorers and have won this.  GB should be embarrassed if they win this

why 

match layout was set before a wheel was turned 

how often does top scorer in a gp not win the gp or even make the final

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29 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

Whatever way you look at it it shows the support for Speedway in Uk is dwindling.Unfortunately.Promoters need to get their act together and try and sort it out.

100%.

To get 7000 there at an average of £70 was a huge gamble, especially given that would be around (being kind), 25% of the whole Speedway watching public in the UK..

As a one off event though you would be delighted with well over the £200k that got delivered..

And at £50 on average a ticket I would think 5000+ would be attainable..

They didn't "read the room" too well when it came to planning a week of Speedway given the lack of interest in the sport nationally, and the fact they must have expected a couple of thousand at least would stump up four meetings worth of money, (never happening in a million years), when at least two of the meetings had no national UK interest..

A one off GP would easily "wipe its face" though and probosbly more, in my opinion..

A great night though, regardless of the other issues......

And one of those events that you can truly happily say "I was there", so kudos to the organisers for delivering such a fantastic experience...

When Speedway is done this well you should be filling your stadia, and, maybe, one day, the marketing will be taken seriously enough by  promoters to back up the on track action..

Lambert and Bewley...B)

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What a complete mess of a meeting, promoting club losing money, 2nd and third better than a win, whatever happened to speedway. What attracted me to the sport was winner takes all, first past the flag wins, sad day for the sport as it dies a little bit more

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2 minutes ago, MARK246 said:

What attracted me to the sport was winner takes all, first past the flag wins, sad day for the sport as it dies a little bit more

Never was "winner take all"...

That's why you have 3 for first, 2 for 2nd, and 1 for 3rd.

That's why the top 3, 4, 8, or whatever, qualified for the next round of the World Championship.

That's why riders get paid per point, and per start.

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1 hour ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Hope it doesn’t affect the clubs viability. That stand would have cost tens of thousands.

Thats the worry considering the cost of staging this meeting is how it could affect the club in the future, with the owners being businessmen you think they would have looked at all the figures beforehand, i suppose time will tell. With the cost of tickets i just felt it was gambling with the clubs future.

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1 hour ago, screm said:

Can we leave the arguing about ticket sales till tomorrow and celebrate Team GB being Champions and a great night's speedway.

Some will always want to just concentrate on the negative, and this from the so called hardcore support

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4 minutes ago, bellevueace said:

Thats the worry considering the cost of staging this meeting is how it could affect the club in the future, with the owners being businessmen you think they would have looked at all the figures beforehand, i suppose time will tell. With the cost of tickets i just felt it was gambling with the clubs future.

They will have lost a lot on ticket sales, but they took all the money from food & drink and car parks etc so who knows if they broke even or not. 

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First of all. Congrats team GB, fantastic night of racing and a worthy winner (we know the rules beforehand)

 

The whole week was ran very very well and mark and his team should be very proud of what they have achieved this week. 
 

yes mistakes were made with pricing but for me only the kids pricing. He got that totally wrong. 
the adult tickets I think were fine, that’s just the going rate for big events that n this country now especially in Manchester that fast becoming a mini London. 
 

steve says the south was empty but I felt like sardines in there so can’t have been that empty. 
 

there was 250 tickets sold in east stand so while that’s very very low it’s not under 100 low like most are saying. 
 

altogether I say about 3200 there tonight. Not great but certainly not a tiny crowd for Uk speedway 

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This isn't just a speedway issue. A lot of music bands have had to cancel tours because of dwindling ticket sales. 

Most working people now have mortgages at 4-5% and this is killing their disposable income.

Another issue is that most Polish people in the UK live in London or the South East (Peterborough). Manchester is simply too far.

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14 minutes ago, LagutaRacingFan said:

This isn't just a speedway issue. A lot of music bands have had to cancel tours because of dwindling ticket sales. 

Most working people now have mortgages at 4-5% and this is killing their disposable income.

Another issue is that most Polish people in the UK live in London or the South East (Peterborough). Manchester is simply too far.

You can pay more for a rock gig in the arena here than for this meeting, as you say pricing is not just a speedway issue, F1, Wimbledon, two examples.

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3 hours ago, Steve Shovlar said:

No it wasn’t Rob. It was half empty. I have seen the back straight full with a sea of heads. Tonight everyone was spaced out.

Stop the bollocks Steve, you weren't there the back straight was full, it was sold out that's a fact.  I was there you couldn't move it was packed, why make things up? 

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4 hours ago, mikebv said:

100%.

To get 7000 there at an average of £70 was a huge gamble, especially given that would be around (being kind), 25% of the whole Speedway watching public in the UK..

As a one off event though you would be delighted with well over the £200k that got delivered..

And at £50 on average a ticket I would think 5000+ would be attainable..

They didn't "read the room" too well when it came to planning a week of Speedway given the lack of interest in the sport nationally, and the fact they must have expected a couple of thousand at least would stump up four meetings worth of money, (never happening in a million years), when at least two of the meetings had no national UK interest..

A one off GP would easily "wipe its face" though and probosbly more, in my opinion..

A great night though, regardless of the other issues......

And one of those events that you can truly happily say "I was there", so kudos to the organisers for delivering such a fantastic experience...

When Speedway is done this well you should be filling your stadia, and, maybe, one day, the marketing will be taken seriously enough by  promoters to back up the on track action..

Lambert and Bewley...B)

Was it 70 quid a ticket? Really?

Taking that into account I'd say the crowd was pretty good.

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