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Just been looking at photos. is all the team wearing the same suits cos don't look good and maybe say who is going when pickering average is lower 😕

Do we get some money back? 😂

The impression I get is that, at the club I've had conversations with at least, there just isn't anyone who has the capacity, contacts and experience to set that kind of thing up. I know that certain major cities have police initiatives focused on bike crime, not all of those have speedway but Manchester is one. I imagine that when it comes round to noise complaints or fending off developers, being the in council's good books would come in handy. As you say as much as anything that kind of project is about building good relations with the local community and local government, rather than directly attracting fans or even riders (although it might do those things too!). This is obviously massively important for speedway, because fundamentally, the thing that separates British and Polish speedway, and the thing that has secured Belle Vue ther stadium, is local government support. But I can imagine how these kind of long-term, diagonal strategies might seem like luxuries if you're flat-out fighting crisis on all fronts. One angle that has only just occurred to me, and could well be a good seller in the current educational contexts, is that I've got a little hunch that both in terms of spectators and participants, speedway might be a sport that favours neurodiverse people. The connection to ADHD is obvious: massively intense, massively sensory, short bursts of violent action; impossible to ignore; regular hits. I think there are connections to some points on the autism spectrum too. All the numbers, the averages, then the physics, the immersion again. As a spectator it's a very attention grabbing all-senses experience (apart from the food). I would imagine it's exactly the kind of job for someone who needs to be in-the-moment. Speaking as someone who has these conditions. So... this line of argument could be used in schools and universities to students. That is a growing proportion of students (up to around a quarter in some universities) who might respond very well to a welcoming community that invites them in, especially if they've got a mega-exciting entertainment at the centre of it. But again developing these kinds of projects and arguments requires a certain kind of mindset and experience which, if you haven't worked in those kinds of areas, you might not have. Which I imagine is the main reason they haven't happened. Certainly to actually get funding you need to be able to speak their language. From the perspective of speedway it would be about: how can we solve a problem for someone else? That's basically how you lever them into being willing to solve yours. Once you get started down that path there's all kinds of places you can take it though. Arts council? Performing rights society foundation?

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Pushed into attending the ‘practice’ today to get my first fix of the season and whilst the club is getting very professional in its outlook, ( studio photo’s !) but when are they going to get professional about track preparation and that car park ? I know track prep is a ‘dark art’ and Redcar have been spoilt with Terrry ‘the track’ and Jonathan Swales but they need to get some work done before next weeks first match if we are to see good racing . As for the car park it’s bad enough to walk across never mind drive your precious car across. Guess we’ll take a hint from the locals and park outside next week. On the plus side at least they’ve filled the pot holes in inside the stadium😀 Roll on next Friday night.

Ellis replacing lindgren

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GoFundMe requests often seem to be the first thing promoters do when they hit problems, albeit its not unknown for supporters to set them up to help the clubs. Can see both sides of the argument to be fair

Watching the rain fall down

Only one winner here and that’s the rain

Money money money no interest in anything else just to line their pockets. F**cking sharks

Lindgren not riding

I will try and find out for you next week.

Enter Jason Garrity

Guard dogs needed

The club have just confirmed that another attempt was made last night by vandals to break into the track. Luckily the newly installed CCTV and security guards present prevented it happening.

Don't think your missing any connection as there isn't any, most of the team were still in primary school when coventry closed. At least the team manager is someone people will of heard of unlike the latest name that managed the couple of challenge matches the bees had. Hope lots of bees fans show up at Oxford and keep the dream alive.

Maybe by the 25th April the daylight could be enough to have a 6 o clock start time, to avoid a clash, I'm sure the reds will have a bumper crowd for a possible last match at the original borough park.

Kinda missing the Coventry connections apart from Dan and Chris. Unless I am missing something?

I've mentioned about my local football team Stockport County. They went into non league and even dropped a league in that .. They were in the cart, non league, and two of the biggest football teams in the country on their doorstep, meaning local young fans would be more inclined to follow either of those teams.. So, they put together a Community Team.. And have said since that this team was the most important one put together.. School visits to the ground were organised and structured, both during match day and not.. And free tickets for kids and for their parents and guardians were distributed... However, they followed this up by more free tickets for the kids, and with heavily reduced admission for parents and guardians, plus discounted vouchers for merchandise.. Many kids therefore became regulars and, as they got used to going, wore the team colours, and mithered their parents and guardians to keep returning... Every club should have a "Community Team" whose role it is to get the brand out into the local area, be a force for good, and attract people to the club (especially U11 kids)... Hardly one player was known at County in their non league days, but the Community Team were known by a great many...

Cheers Tom, replied...

100%... And the vast majority of 80 million people have never heard of the sport, never mind any rider... What an opportunity for a reset... 5 rider teams, and play with the heat system so the disparate levels of ability, from one to five, race more against each other of the sane level.. Or six rider teams with both reserves very much "junior level"... Drop the level, drop the price... If a track does a "special" the crowds rise significantly, with those extra people being fans who no longer rgularly attend, but come back for one night only, thus suggesting twenty five quid per visit isn't seen as worth paying... But (insert price here), is....... Reduce costs, and invest the money in price reduction.. And start UK Speedway again, from scratch... But don't do the same thing you do now because it clearly isn't fit for purpose....

Depends what levels you set the leagues and how many riders in a team I guess. doubling up is killing the sport in this country. We have to either limit it to uk residents first and then get rid or the whole system in say 5 years time. for the sport to grow it has to have credibility.

Totally agree the Comets have to plan ahead with there fixtures and start times but just a quick check at what else is on flags this up, and there are a fair few Comets fans that also watch the Reds or Carlisle so will have an effect on there crowd. Not sure if it's the same stewards that also do the Reds because if it is there last ever game at Bourgh Park could be a big crowd.