SWC 2026 location

[ozzie]

Any thoughts or tid bits on likely 2026 SWC location. Thinking NSS in Manchester would be favourite? Doesn't hold huge number of fans though? 

TBH, happy if it was Wroclaw again, that was an awesome week. 

[stevehone]

i think Denmark or Sweden might come round before Belle Vue again, and Pardubice keep getting some bigger meetings

Edited December 27, 2023 by stevehone

[enotian]

Something to rattle the purists but with Poland likely to dominate any world cup in the future and the unsavoury jingoism of international competition would the speedway world cup be better made up of twelve teams representing each of the star signs (or calendar months if you don't subscribe to that type of gubbins).

Might bring the sport some notoriety and even up the competition (unless all the best speedway riders were born at the same time of year?)

After all everyone in the entire world has a star sign so you could naturally migrate to support your own team even if none of its riders were from the same country as you.  Afterall if you believe in star signs then you probably have more in common with someone of the same sign that you do with someone from the same country 

With nationality becoming increasingly more fluid anyway would you support a twelve team star sign world cup? Who'd you support and who'd be in the team?  

[Gambo]

2 hours ago, enotian said:

Something to rattle the purists but with Poland likely to dominate any world cup in the future and the unsavoury jingoism of international competition would the speedway world cup be better made up of twelve teams representing each of the star signs (or calendar months if you don't subscribe to that type of gubbins).

Might bring the sport some notoriety and even up the competition (unless all the best speedway riders were born at the same time of year?)

After all everyone in the entire world has a star sign so you could naturally migrate to support your own team even if none of its riders were from the same country as you.  Afterall if you believe in star signs then you probably have more in common with someone of the same sign that you do with someone from the same country 

With nationality becoming increasingly more fluid anyway would you support a twelve team star sign world cup? Who'd you support and who'd be in the team?  

I think that all that talk of Star Sign defining how people think, live, act etc. is just a load of baloney. But then again, that is typical of us Capricorns.

[Triple.H.]

If Discovery are serious about making the sport bigger, take it to America, must be a suitable stadium in a big city available, put in a nice wide track.

[enotian]

5 hours ago, Triple.H. said:

If Discovery are serious about making the sport bigger, take it to America, must be a suitable stadium in a big city available, put in a nice wide track.

without a home team to follow?

or at least one that would get smashed after being seeded to the final? 

[Triple.H.]

20 hours ago, enotian said:

without a home team to follow?

or at least one that would get smashed after being seeded to the final? 

They probably would get hammered in the final, but there's a chance they'd rise to the occasion. Stranger things have happened.