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doesn''t matter who rides here - someone has to come 4th! Its the racing not the names. The names mean nothing to the absent public. 

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If you went out and asked. 100 no speedway people who would be able to name the top 3 riders in the world? There are no big names in speedway only who speedway fans perceive to be big names. 

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1 hour ago, ch958 said:

doesn''t matter who rides here - someone has to come 4th! Its the racing not the names. The names mean nothing to the absent public. 


Being fourth and half the track behind is very different to skilled riders.

No sport has survived by dumbing down its product.  look at other forms of motorsport, gates are on the rise by using social media and promoting its product.  Allowing children in for free. 
 

 

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Would it be too sensible to assume the money the top league are getting from Eurosport that they went out and say bought 3 track covers between the league something useful or getting some actual decent grading equipment instead of wasting it on riders like they did with the Sky money.

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39 minutes ago, bloom89 said:

Would it be too sensible to assume the money the top league are getting from Eurosport that they went out and say bought 3 track covers between the league something useful or getting some actual decent grading equipment instead of wasting it on riders like they did with the Sky money.

Hope they use any Eurosport money to improve the sport, rather than pay riders who in turn pay tuners,

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3 minutes ago, Richard Weston said:

Hope they use any Eurosport money to improve the sport, rather than pay riders who in turn pay tuners,

The promoters will probably try and entice a couple of "so called big riders" back spend all the tv money on them and once crowds have fallen further and the money has ran out the said riders will be nowhere to be seen. 

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Just now, bloom89 said:

The promoters will probably try and entice a couple of "so called big riders" back spend all the tv money on them and once crowds have fallen further and the money has ran out the said riders will be nowhere to be seen. 

That's what happened to a large extent with Sky money. Surely, they learned the lesson.

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32 minutes ago, proud panther said:

Sums up the state of our beloved sport when a good topic has been taken over by a debate on chocolate !!!!

Never liked topics, marathons were better :lol:

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Speedway could learn from chocolate, tasted for the first time how many go back for more chocolate,, chocolate has also moved with the times to keep relavent. Cider did the same, now gin is doing it, it's giving the customer what it wants, by investing in itself and moving on. Speedway needs to be more like chocolate and gin. 

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5 minutes ago, Baldyman said:

Speedway could learn from chocolate, tasted for the first time how many go back for more chocolate,, chocolate has also moved with the times to keep relavent. Cider did the same, now gin is doing it, it's giving the customer what it wants, by investing in itself and moving on. Speedway needs to be more like chocolate and gin. 

Speedway crowds and chocolate bars do have something in common, they both get smaller year on year ...

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9 minutes ago, Blupanther said:

Speedway crowds and chocolate bars do have something in common, they both get smaller year on year ...

That they do. 

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