Fred5 41 Posted May 22, 2019 Weather looks good, think we will head off down to the OTA, hopefully for a good meeting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ghosty 500 Posted May 22, 2019 Who plans the fixtures? we have only had a few meeting so far & yet get Eastbourne for the second time. One thing we can be sure of the Oaktree ALWAYS produces good racing. Crowds are down this year - what are the the reasons? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HGould 2,213 Posted May 22, 2019 5 minutes ago, Ghosty said: Who plans the fixtures? we have only had a few meeting so far & yet get Eastbourne for the second time. One thing we can be sure of the Oaktree ALWAYS produces good racing. Crowds are down this year - what are the the reasons? your crowds being down may be due to dropping down? our (Birmingham) crowds are down but we've gone up? Other tracks I've visited this season-: Leicester crowds are up, very big crowd when I went there; and like you they have dropped down! Eastbourne big crowd on first visit, massive crowd on second visit and like us they went up! Can't figure any of that out, who'd be a speedway promoter? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
brewer 159 Posted May 22, 2019 Dropping down partly but then to remain on a weds I would say is a bigger reason 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cityrebel 2,960 Posted May 22, 2019 12 minutes ago, HGould said: your crowds being down may be due to dropping down? our (Birmingham) crowds are down but we've gone up? Other tracks I've visited this season-: Leicester crowds are up, very big crowd when I went there; and like you they have dropped down! Eastbourne big crowd on first visit, massive crowd on second visit and like us they went up! Can't figure any of that out, who'd be a speedway promoter? Eastbourne's crowd was well down last saturday. Attendances are usualy good at the start of the season, maintaining those levels is the hard part. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sings4Speedway 3,246 Posted May 22, 2019 10 minutes ago, cityrebel said: Eastbourne's crowd was well down last saturday. Attendances are usualy good at the start of the season, maintaining those levels is the hard part. True although Eastbourne ran against the GP and that will always hurt crowd numbers. Brum has a team that is struggling on track and that struggles to generate a crowd, Somerset might be the opposite with too much home dominance? Leicester are clearly benefiting from running on a race night that suits their fan base better along with a finally improved track. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jenga 2,998 Posted May 22, 2019 three , three and spurs win it on rock , paper , scissors . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cliffeboy 577 Posted May 22, 2019 Anyone having trouble loading the updates site ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Najjer 2,878 Posted May 22, 2019 3 hours ago, brewer said: Dropping down partly but then to remain on a weds I would say is a bigger reason Wasn’t that said to be the main reason for dropping down to remain on a Wednesday? Glorious day in Highbridge today, and a perfect night for speedway! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ruckerroo 792 Posted May 22, 2019 Major major surgery required at eastie. A right mess Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TurnTwo 317 Posted May 22, 2019 But what can they do? Remove Morley gives 4.8 wood I can’t see anyone worth anything on a 2. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
james1234 49 Posted May 22, 2019 Bomber was outstanding tonight, Probably Rowes best performance at home and i was impressed with Todd Kurtz. Hope Henry is ok , he really needs to work on his gating he’s been awful out the gate in the meetings I’ve seen him Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sidney the robin 4,735 Posted May 23, 2019 5 hours ago, james1234 said: Bomber was outstanding tonight, Probably Rowes best performance at home and i was impressed with Todd Kurtz. Hope Henry is ok , he really needs to work on his gating he’s been awful out the gate in the meetings I’ve seen him Did Rowe have a really good home meeting in the challenge against Poole ? great to see the lad progressing nicely. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sings4Speedway 3,246 Posted May 23, 2019 11 hours ago, ruckerroo said: Major major surgery required at eastie. A right mess 9 hours ago, TurnTwo said: But what can they do? Remove Morley gives 4.8 wood I can’t see anyone worth anything on a 2. The way the side has been built if any of the top 3 has an off night the team will always be in trouble. Obviously the loss of Brennan is hard, Morley & Wood are scoring around their averages and very limited options for replacements. The Eagles were never likely to get anything at Somerset this year so need to just focus on performing at home rather than silly track prep that catches the home team out more than the away side. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
