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I'm going on about the coments on the Workington page not his personal one !!!!

Be nice to see Kyle back in Comets colours. Has a few practices lined up.

His post on Facebook says nothing about Workington. He's an NDL reserve, and It's clearly talking about his upcoming signing for Buxton. You've just confused that with the fact that Workington are signing a Championship reserve around the same time.

100% advertise locally... There are Universities/Colleges who do marketing degrees so you could maybe contact them for their students to do some "real life course work".. If you decided not to employ a proper agency obviously.... Nationally? 14 teams running one meeting each would gross around circa £400k at roughly twenty quid on average (based on 20,000 fans in total visiting the 14 tracks for their opening night..)... Maybe all could give up that first nights money and give that circa £400k to a national company to see if they can get some cut through? (Budgeting for one less match per season).. They lay huge amounts to riders in relation to fhe tiny size of the sport, yet dont seem to ever use some of this money to market these riders, and their businesses, beyond those who already know who they are. Surely it's worth doing "something different" for one season to see if it can make a difference? Less riders oer team and use the payroll saving for marketing for example?

Best he heads to Buxton and lean to ride a technical track

I'm not confused I agree he no where near Championship level but the posts on Facebook suggest him thats all I put.

I have been very sceptical about the 6th team, but I heard the same about Northampton being close. I also believe that Ipswich is done and the announcement is very soon.

It doesn't say 10 league matches. It says 10 home matches. It also talks about including Cup matches (but not the finals) and also says they intend staging 1 or 2 individual meetings.

I'm pretty certain Northampton and Ipswich are coming to tapes. Northampton only have to agree a rental price and Ipswich is 99% sorted

If Carlsberg did councils . . . . .

the announcement says ten league matches, so are they saying there are 6 teams?

Think the Clubs in positions 1-5 are all capable of winning the League tbh as they've all got a Rider or Two in their 1-7's that could have a breakout season. 1. GLASGOW 2. POOLE 3. OXFORD 4. REDCAR 5. PLYMOUTH 6. WORKINGTON 7. EDINBURGH 8. BERWICK 9. SCUNTHORPE

No idea where the Jack Shimelt rumours have came from, and I really hope there's no truth to it. You could go pick 10+ NDL riders from last season who would be 110% better than Jack at this stage in his career. No idea who it'll be, but hopefully they surprise us like the previous signing.

No idea where the Jack Shimelt rumours have came from, and I really hope there's no truth to it. You could go pick 10+ NDL riders from last season who would be 110% better than Jack at this stage in his career. No idea who it'll be, but hopefully they surprise us like the previous signing.

I’m not sure now that a national marketing campaign would do much good, I think clubs need to market better in the local area to get back lost fans. My local track is Oxford, now when I buy a ticket I need to input my email address. I have never received any email from them advising me of what meetings are coming up or asking me how my experience was. They must have thousands of email addresses that they could reach out too and have so many potential customers they could contact in one easy way with offers to get them to attend again. I will say the information they supply on the WhatsApp group is very good though.

Poole 5th lol

Yeah I thought this too, when he said on FB he’s signed a contract. It must surely be for Buxton, as he’s knowhere near Championship standard 😂

Poole 5th lol

Am I correct in thinking a 10 meeting ticket has been announced yet Sheffield will only have 8 home meetings unless they get drawn at home in the cup ??

Jack Shimelt is being named as No.7, but you've accidentally posted this on the Workington thread instead of the Buxton thread. You've confused people by mixing up the Buxton release with a Workington one.

Really oh dear.

Not really a must win as they still qualify for the play offs and even winning didn't guarantee a top 8 finish.

Glasgow do a very good job in giving out tickets to fans to bring people they know along... The key being "not just one meeting" and "not just one person".... Getting a group there can be very much key to encourage them to keep attending when they are required to pay... Although going from free to £25 could also need some looking at...

If I may defer back to the effort that is put in at Leicester , during the off season I stay in contact with Stewart Dickson and he's a very open & honest bloke. He & Jen Crossland but in a crazy amount of work to make Lions what it is . If you honest feedback on stuff , check out the Q&A in the Leicester Lions Speedway fans group. Maybe this can give some insight & but the belly aching on pause .

When it comes to budgeting Rob is on a par with what Jesus could do with a loaf and a fish when he fed the five thousand.