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And i never mentioned about not giving a hoot who the riders are.I'm sure most will agree that 99% of us who attend want to see a competetive team,nobody wants to see their team fail do they?.Only maybe Daniel Smith as he has quoted that before because of his dislike towards Buster. And i didn't call most of you doom mongers.I said the only ones who seem worried about the naming of riders are the doom mongers on here.That's not most only the ones who applySo you have really implied most are doom mongers

Think you took that the wrong way. I am not bothered about when they name the riders. We know they will be named before the start of the season. I never once said I don't give a hoot who the riders are. I want a competitive side like everyone else, think that stands to reason. So you really need to read my post a bit better

Yes crowds were good,but wasn't much else to do back then in reality.Are crowds smaller now because they haven't moved on?Racing to me seems pretty much the same.I still watch some matches from the 70's and 80's and there were plenty of dull races then.People just thought it was better because of the bigger crowds and better atmosphere.

Whilst i agree with the racing side of it,i also think as it's a team sport you should all look the same like in every other team sport.People moan and groan about speedway being stuck in the 70's and 80's well having no team kevlars is one that is still from that era.

The only ones who seem worried about the naming of riders are the doom mongers on here.The rest don't seem too worried about it all.We know there will be 7 riders come April that's all that matters really imo.

Great post,love a bit of news each week to keep most interested. I can't believe though,some don't like the idea of spreading the announcement of riders as the club have done this season,but actually like yours when spread over 10 weeks.Some really are fickle

He did want Redcar originally back in 2014 i think it was.Does he want to get involved up there?I take it his business is still there.

MPT replaced Rose not Andersen.

Do you think Andersen will be alongside S.Lambert?I don't.

I know you will probably take this the wrong way as you don't really like my opinion if it differs to yours but,you say we were fortunate with our injuries/replacements and facing teams with terrible injuries which made our results look good.Really only Belle Vue spring to mind and Wolves with Schlein missing,but then the other teams had to face these in the league with the same riders missing.It normally balances itself out in that respect.So as you say we were fortunate because of that.Doesn't that then make us unfortunate to lose the final because of the same that happened to us,but you say we blew it.

Quite agree. That's what I'm trying to say is that the use of social media by the clubs don't impact on the crowds. Lucky I started taking my daughter to speedway from a young age, and she still loves it now. She's 20 now so can now take me.

It didn't effect their dwindling support unfortunately though.It's not the social media,twitter etc that affect the support imo as Lakeside would still be here now.There is just so much else to do nowadays.There was no social media etc back in the 60s,70s,80s the attendances were better imo as there just wasn't anything else to do. Remember dad saying you can stay at nan and grandad's tonight or go to the speedway,speedway won every time.Now it would be do you want to go to the speedway or spend the next few hours on playstation,xbox watch whatever you want on tv.And thats just staying in doors.

Your not into fitness now are you lynnboy.The only weights i remember you doing was lifting pints of beer,and fitness wise running away from the ladies down the reeperbahn in Hamburg who wanted money for favours

Still looking good for 42.42 then.

So hopefully this will put to bed how people think Chapman is running the show. He has purely bought the two clubs to keep the league running. He doesn't say who is riding for who or he would have made Tungate available for Ipswich surely.