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Expect us to bounce back to winning ways tomorrow night but Peterborough look a lot better side now so hopefully provide some decent racing as well

Not with Complin's recent performances but maybe going to Newcastle as a comeback wasn't the best idea, Hopefully Lee can find the form that made him a fan favourite in near future As for last night well done Wolves on a job well done, kept it interesting until half way then we just got left behind. Wolves are very good side and will be in top four at end of season no doubt, one bad meeting doesn't wreck our season and no doubt we will bounce back.

Got this game running now, thanks for the help. Didn't bother with rider update, great seeing some of old riders you either remember or completely forgot about

Is Quest linked with Eurosport/Discovery, that could be go to channel for when there are clashes.

Agree with this, me and mrs are season ticket holders at Sheffield Steelers but cant get to many away games but like tonight we are away at Coventry and have just bought the stream for £12, it is just brilliant and Speedway bosses really need to look at doing this sort of thing. If I could buy a stream to watch Sheffield away from home then I would do it as travelling hours on a week night is just not possible with work etc Time for the whole sport to wake up and create revenue steams instead of begging BT, Sky, Eurosport to give them very little money to show not many meetings.

I think we have to start with getting the product right, bring it back fully to a semi professional sport to start with and create a league system which will benefit all clubs not just the few. Encourage signed riders to get out in the towns and cities through winter and more importantly just before season starts as the more interest they drum up the more potential fans come through gates and all of a sudden rider pay will start to creep up again etc But the product has to be right, the tracks have to be prepared well and then we have a chance of keeping hold of the new fans.

Think the structure of Speedway maybe different next season, they have to rethink it and quick. Heard we are losing quite a bit of money running on a Sunday as the crowds are down compared to Thursdays, It started off well at start of season but third and fourth bend now look like they did when first bend was open which is definitely not a good sign. What will be will be I guess, As long as we are still running then I am happy.

I sent in a similar proposal to Rob Godfrey in winter 2017 Run it at a Championship level with however many teams are running, split it into north/south and you race teams in your section twice home & away but also face the teams from the other region just once either home or away, so Sheffield (North) in 2019 take on Poole (South) at Owlerton, the year after it would be Sheffield who travel to Poole. You get more local fixtures this way which is good for crowd levels in theory but you also create more variety by involving sides from other section as well but not over doing it and increasing costs to promoters and riders. No doubling up (don't care how many riders in a team, just made the sport credible again by finding a format that works and is value for money) in order to find a way forward again instead of this constant downward spiral Speedway here is in. If you are racing a team in your region and have injuries you can only get a guest in from the south region and if racing a team from other region you can only get a guest in from your region. When it comes to end of season top two in each region face off for divisional titles and actually get a trophy for that achievement and then of course superbowl style final North v South which advertised well could be brilliant and of course bigger trophy at end of it. With the right advertising and stripping the sport right back it can be great again, just got to be more radical this winter as they have just stuck with status quo for way to long now and it shows with how many people are rocking up to watch. Not going to say this is perfect by any stretch of the imagination but BSPA have got to listen to all ideas and find out that can work for the future of the sport here, it really is that simple for them now.

Good to get a point on our travels, should boost confidence in the tigers camp ready for today.

Looking forward to it this year, last time we left straight away after final to head back to Sheffield but this time staying over for 2 nights so can enjoy without having to think about the drive home

Our riders wore some Ice Hockey jerseys when at Sheffield Steelers game last Saturday and they looked brilliant, which would make them very appealing for fans to buy in off season as well as during. They would just need some sort of elastic/grippers so they don't flap around as much when racing. Glasgow have done good by releasing a team shirt which is great for fans to buy and Sheffield were also wearing t-shirt's which represent the team very well so hopefully they will be available at track shop.

Yeh was very impressed with the track, very smooth which can only be great for racing.

Great to see work on the track has at least started, hopefully helps produce better racing and crowd numbers increase.

Yeh i have my son also who i would take but then so much time is taken out of day taking him back home and then getting back home myself, just won't be able to justify it at all.

sums it up perfectly, instead of just coming up with a new blueprint for speedway in this country.

Be Belle Vue for me next year also, might make odd sunday meeting but it is my only day off at weekend and taking off to Speedway every sunday would not go down well. It is a shame and hope it works out but can't see it.

Change of race night coming up, so whats everyones preference?

Speedway at its finest but i guess better both are running !

Looks like a change of race night for Sheffield, hopefully find that out very soon. Can't say i am trilled by this AGM but then never expected to be, radical was required and again we got a reshuffle. Some things do look decent but is it just for show. Fixed race nights just won't work, they will work better next year with Premiership having Monday & Thursday but at what cost to clubs, Belle Vue will have wanted to race Fridays again, ideally Sheffield will have wanted to stay on Thursday but would not risk going into Premiership and going bankrupt, slightly fearful as to what will happen next year.

Hopefully this happens, i know in Speedway Star there was photo's of new stands in storage ready for when planning was granted. Good news for now, over to the stadium owners now to crack on.

Amazing how riders coped before doubling up started haha Riders need to realise the sport here is not able to pay wages to make them fully professional so they will need to either improve to ask for better money and to get other clubs abroad or accept you will more than likely have to work at same time like many do. The promoters also need to run the sport better in order to bring in more fans which then may lead to more riders being able to be professional and not have to work, but there will always be riders who like Tai are world class then there are others who are very good but will still maybe have to work as well.

And with the league's as they are you have injuries, stupid doubling up that nobody likes etc It is time make the sport more appealing, clearly the current system is not working so time to be more radical.

Fear of change taking over again and the status quo continues

Fans who want to see the top boys need to get a grip on reality and realise the more we keep chasing the dream of our league system been respected alongside Poland and Sweden the more trouble clubs over here will get into, we just don't have the fan base to pay these riders and riders over here need to realise the sport here at moment is at a semi professional level so don't expect much more. Speedway here needs to strip it back and pay what we can afford, improve the product in general and have less drama and bad press releases. Once the product improves and we can then maybe look at a proper tv deal if we are giving them something they want to pay for, right now they clearly don't value it so clearly something needs to change and not just for them but for us. I would go with the one league system or one i sent into BSPA was this North/South Split (with the clubs from top PL & CL currently running) 18 Teams as it stands North Division would be : Belle Vue, Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Redcar, Scunthorpe, Sheffield, Workington. South Division would be : Kings Lynn, Leicester, Poole, Somerset, Swindon, Wolves, Ipswich, Lakeside, Peterborough. Teams in there respective divisions would face each other home and away twice so that would be 16 home meetings but also i would add in that north v south face each other once to create extra fixtures and would also add variety which would be awesome for fans and riders and how it would work is say next year in 2019 Sheffield travel down to Poole, the year after in 2020 Poole would travel to Sheffield. So that is 20/21 home league meetings which would be great value for season tickets, you would see how can fit in KO Cup in and then at end of season the top teams in north and south would be divisional champions and get a trophy and then face each other in a two leg tie for playoff champions, give it all advertising you can and a Super Bowl style finale. I believe this is more radical than a poxy name change they did other year and would help speedway in this country grow, riders would get enough meetings in and if we have to go 5 or 6 riders in a team, create a format that works to make team speedway exactly that again and have a product we can be proud of. This might not be perfect but surely would be better than staying as we are and struggling along.

Think we will just stick with Kennedy for now until league system is decided as from what I've been told is it is more than likely going down the one league route but who knows with BSPA. I'm just glad we have set our stall out already for next season with an early signing and hopefully making sure we put right what went badly wrong this season. Roll on March/April !