Notenoughnerve

Are you not intelligent enough to realise nobody thinks its Emils fault? Sport and politics relationship is a little more nuanced than that.

A signing that will probably be seen as wrong by the British public in general. The timing of the announcement is beyond stupid and any media attention it does receive, is now almost guaranteed to be bad.

Have you seen the results of how much money Everton are losing? It runs to hundreds of millions. Whilst we look with envious eyes at the money swishing around in football, expect to see many clubs go bust. That could extend right to the very top of the game too.

There was a train into Manchester at 2140. When I've used the train I've had to miss heat 15 on more than one occasion. However, it's easy enough to get into town on a bus and there are trains to Sheffield until pretty late. 2355 ish.

Except FFP was all about the bigger clubs retaining their position and not allowing new money to oust them from the top table. It would be a curse in Speedway.

What happened to the permanent terracing and facilities along the back straight that was talked of being completed this winter? Anybody ITK?

This is the truth unfortunately and gets very little mention. Speedway stadia are shocking in general. I watched at Hyde Rd when I was a nipper, so I took my kids when they were little as I remembered how much I loved it. When I got there I was shocked at how dilapidated the place looked. We moved to Kirky Lane a couple of years later and although it was an old stadium, it had seating with bars on two sides and a restaurant , terracing on three sides and the grass bank was popular for families with youngsters running about. In its latter years it was a disgrace. Bars closed, toilets with smashed urinals, crumbling terracing on the 3Rd/4th bend and the crowd reflected it.We've had guests and tactical and delays forever, if this forum had existed in the 70's or 80's the complaints would have been the same as now. What's more pertinent is that the public are used to better arenas for sport, football, rugby, ice hockey, basketball have all updated, but Speedway grounds look worse now than they did 30 years ago. The public want more and better. Im not sure how you achieve that, but tidying are stadia up and improvements needs more emphasis.

Fixed Mon/Thurs race nights are the final nail in the coffin for the sport in this country.

I've always thought the racing was poor there. First time I went there was around 1986 and I thought it barely looked like Speedway.

I was looking forward to my first visit to Leicester. The guest situation is putting me off now.

Does this mean that Rye House are good, Swindon are brilliant, Kings Lynn aren't all that, and Wolverhampton are worse? Early season form can be hard to work out

Sorry, I misunderstood that then.

Surely by going to a single night for each league you are trying to accommodate doubling up rather than getting rid of it. There was a time when a good National League rider could make the sport pay and a good British League rider would have had no need to double up in the lower division. In my opinion, a single race night will kill off the sport in this country Surely by going to a single night for each league you are trying to accommodate doubling up rather than getting rid of it. There was a time when a good National League rider could make the sport pay and a good British League rider would have had no need to double up in the lower division. In my opinion, a single race night will kill off the sport in this country

Why is it you don't mention the car parking, programme or food and drink when calculating the cost when you go to Old Toilet? Presumably that's taking you way beyond sixty quid and it's more boring there these days than even the most processional speedway race. Twenty Four sniffs for two people to watch top league professional sport is a deal. I use the cost of admission as a plus point when persuading friends to come along to the NSS. "£17 for you and the kids come along for free" People are genuinely surprised at how reasonable it is. For what it's worth, I think the decrepit facilities at Speedway tracks are what put many people off. There are much higher expectations from paying supporters on that front than there was even twenty years ago.

At a time when we want to reduce guests and do away with 'double uppers' it seems a great plan to reduce the number of riders in the UK by banning Australians. Well done you.