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Absolutely no chance to ride. He has posted this picture of his injured left leg today. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1558997819559189&set=pcb.1558988116226826

Today I, a lifelong cricket fan, have learned that county cricket is streamed on YouTube, from a speedway forum. Glad to see the ECB spend that £40million budget just as badly as others do.

They’ve done fantastic to bring in a Top number 1, possibly the best in the league. They are probably a number 5 away from competing with anyone and everyone. I hope they find one

Even worse Rob Burroughs, Doddie Weir and Jeff Astle.......

I bet the football and rugby players who have ended up with dementia would have appreciated 'snowflakes' with their concession protocols. Know better, do better.

T1t!

yes you cant beat the controlled snow flake society we now live in.

Probably confirms our rules are correct then I suppose.

what the average person dont understand is they do it because its not safe.

As a Cricket & Glamorgan fan. We are one of the lowest supported counties in the domestic game. County Championship cricket gets somewhere between 200-300 people on a normal day. I don't think the ECB really do anything to promote the Youtube Streams, and i don't think Glamorgan do any real marketing or promotion that incurs costs. It's listed on there Website, mentioned in Match announcements on Socials and by Commentators. The stream, uses 2 fixed cameras (manned), with existing commentary from BBC Radio Wales. They make use of the Youtube Algorithms, that ensure it's the first thing that will appear when a game is on. Almost certain that it pays for itself through advertising exposure. I don't think it's done any damage to any county, rather it has ensured that counties have exposure to a wider and growing audience.

I'm sure you had no issues after, but surely our rules are correct really just to be safe, you see so many sports people from all sports suffer long term with concussion.

Was just thinking today that British speedway has made an awful lot of mistakes over the last few decades and pretty much by a stroke of luck or tolerance got away with them to a large extent but right now it feels like all those bad mistakes are biting the sport on the arse, chickens coming home to roost and all that

Isn't this one of the purposes of Speedway Futures Ltd? Creating a central marketing budget which, had the Sky money been used sensibly, would have accrued value by now.

For someone who posts / moans on here everyday you really do need to keep up😄

I don’t think even with being the only club utilising the “returning rider” rule for the “not been away” Ablitt, Scunthorpe lack enough riders who will improve their averages to ever be more than a bottom two team. I know we all have to be thankful for teams that survive but even the loyal Scorpion supporters must be frustrated at their team performances. As, clearly, is their manager if his comments at Redcar last year are anything to go by.

So we’ve finally joined the others then. Wonder if this was always on the cards for this year under Louis, or whether it’s Mayfield’s own decision. I know people say you can’t beat being there and that’s true no doubt about it, but it HAS to affect attendance doesn’t it? Ok, they’ll probably make up the shortfall monetary wise by having fans of the away team subscribing who had no intention of going anyway, as well as some neutrals, but how many Ipswich fans will be tempted to save a tenna and watch in the comfort of their living rooms instead? Indeed, how many Lynn fans who planned on coming tomorrow evening, will now stay home and watch the stream instead? Save a tenna as well as spiralling travelling costs. Part of what makes a meeting entertaining is not just the racing, but the atmosphere by a well attended meeting so it’ll be disappointing if it has a noticeable affect on the numbers on the terraces.

Norick wasn’t allowed to ride in the UK due to our concussion rule 07.1.1. If he had changed his name to Hans Andersen he might have got away with it.

Good luck to Emma, she's got to follow in the footsteps of some excellent presenters and probably will have a big learning curve. That being said, I think on balance she probably is currently the most well known female sports presenter, is enthusiastic has a lot of personality, can be opinionated and direct. It will gain a lot of media attention, because she's more widely known and presented mainstream sports, it will be seen as a high profile appointment. I guess she may also be more specifically focused on Speedway, whereas previous presenters generally have been involved in presenting multiple Motorsports. Also i personally have really enjoyed when i've heard Olly Allen on Comms.

The reach of YT is literally billions, with tens of millions in the UK... And you even can make money out of views and subscribers... With their algorithm sending you into similar type of videos.... A perfect media for UK Speedway to "piggy back" off other more popular sports, either two wheel, four wheel, or local professional teams in football... "How much?" No chance, we have to pay our riders (who hardly anyone in the UK have heard of, and will never hear of), around three million quid a season between them"... An absolute crackers business model...

So that would mean either the UK didn't make the necessary submission, the Gernan Federation has ignored it or Blordorn made the choice not to ride in the UK

witchestv.co.uk is livestreaming this meeting

Yes, he'll win it 👍

MPT needs to show up tonight!

If I was Zach, I'd be offended by their comments, thinking "is that the best they think I can do" lol!

County cricket is supported by an ECB marketing budget of 40 million pounds shared across the whole of Cricket. Speedway has hardly any central marketing budget. That would be more than the whole of world speedway combined budget I would imagine..!