Hawk127 Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 34 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said: "As far as I can see, the earliest re-staging of this fixture is Monday 9th September. I wonder if this was taken into account. " Thought Ippo normally raced on Thursdays ? BV are a Monday club so why run it on a Monday ? They were and it use to be sacrosanct but now nothing is and with so little action I guess beggars cannot be choosers. Sums up speedway in the UK, shoe horned into race nights and that is it. What clubs are doing in this country god only knows but it ain’t looking at the supporters and traditional race nights that use to suit the local business model. Anything goes and that is where it has all gone so wrong. Still give it a few more years and only a few clubs will be viable and it will end up like German speedway. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AceBelle Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 52 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said: "As far as I can see, the earliest re-staging of this fixture is Monday 9th September. I wonder if this was taken into account. " Thought Ippo normally raced on Thursdays ? BV are a Monday club so why run it on a Monday ? it was supposed to be on Eurosport they only do monday's !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawk127 Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 8 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Because we don’t have any available Thursdays left up until the play offs. Fourteen listed Thursday home meetings between March and the end of August even though you have twenty six Thursday’s in that period in between which Kings Lynn who never use to race on Thursday use up a date and Oxford and Leicester who now race on Thursday would have not been given priority over a traditional Thursday night club like Ipswich in days gone by. One home meeting in July sums up all that is wrong with the fixture planning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 15 minutes ago, old bob at herne bay said: Ah, too many fixtures - or too many teams in the league :-) :-) Or not enough Monday's and Thursday's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 27 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: Because we don’t have any available Thursdays left up until the play offs. Damn that Gregorian Calendar... Does UK Speedway few favours... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 2 minutes ago, Hawk127 said: Fourteen listed Thursday home meetings between March and the end of August even though you have twenty six Thursday’s in that period in between which Kings Lynn who never use to race on Thursday use up a date and Oxford and Leicester who now race on Thursday would have not been given priority over a traditional Thursday night club like Ipswich in days gone by. One home meeting in July sums up all that is wrong with the fixture planning. An incredible amount of planning needs to be done around fixtures, based on availability of stadiums at other clubs, restricted race nights, and the congested racing calendar of the riders you have signed or want to sign. It’s far far more complicated these days than it was “back in the good old days”. We all know why we now run fixtures on Monday’s and Thursday’s in the top flight. Those that never used to run on those nights such as Lynn as you mentioned, have no choice unless they run in the lower league. The break in July due to the SON is part of the reason there was only to be one home fixture. If it wasn’t July with just one fixture then it would have been June or August, don’t really see what difference it makes. We had four home meetings in June, and one scheduled in July, swings and roundabouts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old bob at herne bay Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 Season by season the noose tightens around the neck of British League speedway. British speedway has only itself to blame for the complications of fixture planning it has to negotiate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny the spud Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 I love the way British speedway more or less shuts down in the Summer as they are worried that crowds will be low… then reschedule for October when it’s so cold only 4 men and a dog show up and it gets called off at heat 10. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DizzAssStar Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 12 hours ago, iainb said: absolutely the correct call... and you've not even had to blame the opposition in doing it! But in your eyes absolutely not the right call "just up the road" eh !!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjcone44 Posted July 15 Report Share Posted July 15 1 hour ago, ArchiePelago said: I don't think that you understand the money involved and the contractual arrangements. well it is what it is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPEEDY69 Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 They should bin the TV if they can't actually be brave enough to carry on as normal. No issues with the weather last night, meeting should've run. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnieg Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 11 hours ago, Jonny the spud said: I love the way British speedway more or less shuts down in the Summer as they are worried that crowds will be low… then reschedule for October when it’s so cold only 4 men and a dog show up and it gets called off at heat 10. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. And that's just the team 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocha Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 (edited) 13 hours ago, mikebv said: Or not enough Monday's and Thursday's? Correct. Back in the 70's the first division ran over 6 days (I don't recall Sundays ever being used). Therefore, 7 clubs being fitted into 2 days of the week is the equivalent of 21 clubs having 6 available. Also, they rode only once home and away in the league although there were more open meetings and international fixtures and those of other categories fitted in. Edited July 16 by tocha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Third Man Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 1 minute ago, tocha said: Also, they rode only once home and away in the league although there were more open meetings and international fixtures fitted in. There were also more teams, 19 when i started going, so 18 league matches, more then now riding against each other twice, so riding each other more than once would have been impossible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tocha Posted July 16 Report Share Posted July 16 6 minutes ago, The Third Man said: There were also more teams, 19 when i started going, so 18 league matches, more then now riding against each other twice, so riding each other more than once would have been impossible Exactly, but having 7 clubs riding each other twice home and away is no different to 14 clubs riding once and then all squeezed into two days of the week not six. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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