nmc43

You might want to look up the difference between a fact and an opinion. You seem to present your opinions as facts... you are wholly entitled to your opinions BUT they are not facts.

The AGM has merely re arranged the deck chairs as the sinking ship goes down. There’s none so blind as those that cannot see. That group of so called promoters couldn’t run a Bath. The whole product and presentation of speedway needs a fundamental makeover. The sport needs its credibility restoring - guest riders, fiddling averages, raping clubs that fold - it’s an utter joke and I doubt there will be many more AGMs - the sport in the UK is in its death throws - with the loyal dedicated followers in terminal decline and absolutely no plan to recruit a new generation of supporters. This was the final missed opportunity and the future looks bleaker than ever. Hope I’m wrong but 2 or 3 more seasons and league racing will fold I’m afraid.

Not posted on here before but I grew up in Cheshire in the 70s and watched BV on Saturday nights. In the 80s and 90s - I toured the country weekly doing about 3 meetings at different tracks each week for about 15 years. Like many people I’ve generally moved on - I do the occasional BV meeting when I’m in the North and I’ve been to Cardiff a few times but I do about the same number of meetings in a year now that I used to do in a week. I hear all the discussions re rule changes and leagues etc. But as a sport Speedway disappeared up its own arse years ago; a simple and potentially exciting sport has been overly complicated by stupid rules that make limited sense and only serve to scare off new customers. Speedway has used and abused its faithful for too long and failed to appeal to or attract a new generation. I stopped going because the fun and excitement disappeared too few teams, the same riders week after week, promoters manipulating the rules, slick tracks, long drawn out meetings, once you stop going you find other things to do and you don’t miss it. I honestly wish Speedway all the very best it was a big part of my childhood, Wilko, Collins, Morton et al but I watch domestic speedway on tv and it’s a bit of a shambles at times - the whole format, presentation, structure needs a root and branch overhaul but the people running speedway don’t have the vision to deliver what is required. Just to highlight my point, I used to watch Lancs as a kid at OT - County Cricket and the Gillette Cup - cricket has a reputation for being conservative and boring but compare speedway at Hyde Road in 1975 with the present product at the NSS and then compare a Gillette Cup game at OT in 1975 with a T20 game at OT now - it might have its critics but T20 has revolutionised cricket, brings people through the gates in droves and has engaged young people. The average age at a speedway meeting is probably 60 - so the future is bleak, very bleak. I wish you well but like many others I’m afraid ‘I’m out’. The promoters need to look at a product like T20 at their AGM and find something similar to revolutionise the sport - it’s an ailing sport ( the list of tracks that have folded in the last 30 years is heartbreaking) and they need to act before it’s too late.