Sir Sidney

Who are 'this lot'? I'm not expecting a Plough Lane standard stadium. If anything comes of it then I'd expect a much more basic set up. The site exists and currently has motorsport on it and permission. I'd fully accept that the chances are less than 50%, but much better than zero

It's never the same two weeks running. I doubt it was rough on purpose

Dan T says it's mechanical

Livened up a bit now

I worked in Local Government where everyone was on fixed pay scales based on grading, so everyone knew what my salary was. I don't think the original question was about individual rider’s payments, but about averages. Not an unreasonable interest. I also think it would be of interest to know, roughly, what the costs of staging a meeting and running a club are. When Wimbledon was a PLC it published it's accounts - not at a level which allowed you to know how much individual riders earned, but it did show as far as I recall what the rider costs were for example. The published accounts for any club that is a limited company are available, but generally only the balance sheet not the income and expenditure account.

All relevant questions. To most supporters those figures are a mystery and so you have no idea of the likely break even figure for a club. I presume any prospective promoter would be provided with an outline estimate of the likely costs of both set up and ongoing costs. I believe the clubs pay their own riders for both home and away matches, and so have to cover the away matches from income generated by home matches. It's one of the reasons clubs can have a cash flow problem- if they have too many away matches without sufficient home matches.

Without knowing the underlying reason what makes you think BSPL had any option but to suspend Workington's licence?

Plough Lane closing had nothing to do with viability. The owners wanted to develop the site, and 600 flats in London was worth much more than rent from speedway and stock cars. It was lucrative enough for the owners to give AFC Wimbledon the land and £12m ( or £17m - I can't remember now ) towards the stadium build costs so that they could say to Merton Council that sports use was being maintained on the site

That's the spirit

You are.

It may have some legs. I heard the presentation at WSRA lunch. Worth reading the article I would think

I'm one of the ones who goes, so I hope you are right and crowd levels don't drop any further.

I suppose the other side to that is how many fewer will turn up to watch and how much revenue is lost as a result. I guess Nigel Tolley has done the calculations

Like you, I mainly use other stations. Of course, it's unlikely speedway would get a crowd that generates such queues, and, as you rightly point out, it's not a speedway thing. I went to the Champions Cup Rugby final at Cardiff last month. Again, queuing at the station was slow and disorganised. 5 minutes to get to the station, an hour in the queue.

I have been there plenty of times. If it is taking you 80 minutes to walk from the station to the stadium you are going the wrong way!