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  4. Posted

    It's still open so Mr Shovlar can pretend that Poole are still at the top table and that all those years of telling us that Poole is the shining example of how to run a professional top flight club and Matt Ford's vision of what the top flight should be hasn't all been proven wrong. 

     

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  5. Posted

    3 hours ago, Spiderman1 said:

    1 Iverson 7.54.              

    2 Heeps 6.3

    3 King 6.83

    4 Allen 5.56

    5 tungate 6.6

    6 Covatti 5.27

    7 Stewart 3.82

    total 41.92

    swap Allen and Heeps around at 2 until Iverson grows bigger pills and

    it would have to snow to be beat at home and very handy away,go the witches ,u seen it here first

     

    Wouldn't have Tungate in a month of Sundays and to be honest the way he left the club I doubt Louis would even consider him

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  6. Posted

    3 hours ago, lisa-colette said:

    That's because the UK is very low in his list of priorities. 

    Maybe but we don't want someone here like that and more fool anyone who signs someone who has those priorities. I also get the impression that like with Holder the younger when you sign Kurtz your are actually signing an over inflated ego 

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  8. Posted

    Have an independent control board run the sport. 

    Then put in a cap on the total amount of wages a club can pay it riders. So for argument sake a clubs had a wage cap of 10000 per meeting that would be upto the clubs how that was shared out among the 7 riders.

    If you wanted to go bulls out and sign 2 big expensive riders then fine but that would limit who you could sign further down.

    To make it work the riders are paid centrally from the independent body that runs the sport each club pays the 10000 to the central body after each home match. 

    The end to average manipulation 

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  9. Posted

    On 11/6/2019 at 11:12 PM, Baldyman said:

    Nothing wrong with bikes, it's the tracks,,, those ssme bikes will be good on good tracks and poor on poor tracks, whatever country they are in. You are more likely to get better close racing on tracks that have multi lines into corners and on tracks that you don't have to scub all your speed off going into bends.  Flowing race tracks most of the time offer better racing in most motor sports. 

    I have to say I disagree. The bikes are too fast and difficult to handle.                                              

    If you watch any UK speedway meeting the vast amount of the lines are mid to outside track manly I would suggest because the Moden day rocket ships are to hard to handle to keep them on the inside run. Even in polish and Swedish meetings I've seen on the TV the same is true and apart from the Wroclaw GP again the racing lines drift out centre to outside most of the Grand prix and speedway of nations were not a great example of speedway racing. Then you factor into how much these things cost to run then it's clear the bikes are a major issue all be not the only one. 

  10. Posted

    This looks very similar to what was tried with the ill-fated 18 heat 8 man team Format of the mid 90s.

    I still say the best every format I saw for league racing the the old National league 16 heat format followed by the 6 heat junior league match that followed. Oh happy days when the national league ran the sport as a successful professional sport for a few seasons

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  12. Posted

    19 hours ago, GWC said:

    I am guessing there is a cap on what promoters pay riders in the PL.

    At least that’s what has been suggested so any continued success has been bought by the promoter from sponsorship or his own business.

    Cradley Heath dominated speedway once with a glitterati team and then disappeared.

    It is clear that the same is happening to Poole unfortunately.

    Didn't Cradley Heath disappear as there stadium was sold

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    4 hours ago, mikebv said:

    To be fair, the same can be said in many ways for Football, Cricket, Tennis, F1, Moto GP, Superbikes etc etc etc.

    The admission costs particularly have ensured a much older demographic are their main followers..

    20/20 Cricket in particular though do a great job in attracting families though cheap tickets. And they do this to create the atmosphere that any sporting  occasion needs to be memorable and addictive..

    The truth is many teenage kids don't want to go anywhere near where their parents frequent as it's all 'a bit sad'..

    Mobile phones, Play station, X box, catch up TV, and Social Media give them all the entertainment they need without ever leaving their rooms...

    Getting the many, many thousands of 40/50/60 somethings who have left the sport over the past ten years or so to return would be far easier than getting a younger demographic through the door...

    But if those who run the sport don't see any issues to resolve, and can't see why so many have left, then that simply won't happen. ..

     Very true

  14. Posted

    27 minutes ago, Skidder1 said:

    Is it really a 'family sport'? In all honesty how many 'families' do actually attend these days - and how regularly?

    If its the 'Peaky Blinders' audience that we're going for then the sport needs spicing up a whole lot more, with much more convoluted aggro between teams.......!!

    Aggro between the teams and riders is certainly missing these days. However very hard to produce that kind of thing as at some point during the season all the riders will appear on the same side at least once. 

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  21. Posted

    I loved the 16 Lapper I hope they bring it back. Especially the ones in the mid late 90s when they brought over riders who didn't complete regularly in the UK. Cowboy cook and of course the one and only Tomasz Gollob who rode the year before he signed for Ipswich. 

  22. Posted

    My only worry with Klint and this is based purely on history is will he ride week in week out like he did for Poole on his last visit to foxhall

    How the history bit rember a Kings Lynn rider by the name of Tom P Madsen? Came to Foxhall with Lynn and got double figures every time. Signed for us and was total pants for the whole season. 

  23. Posted

    So not only the most successful club in the modern era but also for many the club thagt represents the model for how speedway so be run drops down a league. 

    This after one poor season financially and one poor season on track by their high standards. 

    What's gone wrong?

    Well quite clearly winning trophy after trophy does not bring massive financial reward that allows the club to ride out one bad season. 

    The attitude of Poole over the past few years of building up a asset base and win at all costs has quite clearly failed. 

    Rider assets are worthless under employment law even in the mega bucks Polish league this practice doesn't happen. 

    How many times have Poole bullied other teams to run at their level even when it's clear that UK speedway couldn't sustain it. 

    It's a shame to see them drop down however it does give me a smug grin. 

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