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Why would not knocking the stadium down stop any chance speedway not returning to Swindon ? So its begs the question why does Park want it knocked down ? He tells us that there no link between the Abbey being knocked and being built on and the Studley project so why would it concern him ? People always said that they were getting paid to get out of the abbey and this can only add and fuel to that claim .

The Peter Craven you will be able to get walk in tickets on the day but not sure about the Grand Prix.

Maybe Northampton could launch with a GB v Aus Test Match?

Who are the Northampton promoters? Is it a competition that they are running?

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We wanted a complete fixture list that we could publish but gave up waiting and put the PCMT info out on Monday. A months notice is not what was wanted but when compared to how Phil & his buddies promote the play off fixtures it looks positively gold star.

Mayfield are nothing to do with Northampton so no need to mention them in this thread.

That’s the problem we at Belle Vue have had for decades, knowing who will be in our league. Any of our current or past competitors can just decide on a whim that they are dropping out. It’s a nightmare and very amateurish.

It’s a joke. The only domestic fixture Belle Vue is allowed to promote is the PCMT. That’s on the 16th of March with tickets now on sale. As for when the idiots running the rest, well your guess is as good as mine but patience is wearing thin on both sides of the fence at the NSS.

Unfortunately Mayfield don’t have a great record with Speedway organisational skills. The GPs that they promoted operationally were a disaster with a number of important things that they forgot to arrange and in the end Discovery got them out of a mess by arranging the missing bits and bringing their operations team in. Even on the day little things were not arranged like buffet and food for officials , sponsors not getting their pit walks and badge allocation with track marshals names not on lists for practice just for the event etc

So a person who was a co-director, with Terry Russell, in the company (supposedly) formed to save Swindon Speedway, is now saying Swindon Speedway was never viable? There's no hope for Speedway at Swindon, so you can go ahead and knock the Abbey stadium down? Why would someone be such a weasel? A cynic might think that with the sad demise of Terry Russell, there is now only one weak obstacle in Clarke Osborne's way. Clarkey boy might then have a look through his stationery cupboard at the brown envelopes, while he tries to think of a way to persuade the obstacle to disappear.

Would be nice to know an actual date when tickets are released so peeps can plan ahead,So they are not busy on the day but only in speedway.

No idea

Probably May if the season hasn’t started by then

That's not the Steve Park who posts on here is it?

Swindon Speedway 2013 Director Steve Park has submitted a letter to SBC supporting the demolition of the Abbey Stadium! He claims rejection of the plans "will end any possibility of a return of speedway to Swindon" - bizarrely, he earlier claims that Studley Grange is "currently making progress through the planning stages." So, which is it, Steve? Will the weird logic of failure to remove the only speedway track in the locality really end all hope? Or are you delivering a new track? I'll let others speculate on what a speedway company director could possibly gain from the loss of the only speedway facility... https://pa.swindon.gov.uk/publicaccess/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=T2SDBXPTIS200

I dunno actually. We think along those lines because we’re part of a very very small pool of supporters that regularly frequent this forum. The vast majority of supporters that turn up at their tracks will have gotten on with their lives over the winter and been oblivious to the finer details of club sales and a new track. I’d bet there actually isn’t that many who are like kids at Christmas and want to know what they’re getting yesterday. A bigger number will be confused at there being no fixtures or season tickets on sale sure, but I’m not convinced it’ll be a dealbreaker! From a personal point of view, after a long winter I’m at the point now where I’ve missed the racing and I’m looking forward to getting up to Lynn in a few weeks to watch some Speedway.

Think most regular speedway fans would have said we have to a step back and regroup,but the men in charge seem intent on self destruction.IMO. The Premiership is only in name apart from I/2 doz riders.

Clear as mud as always

Agreed. I'm also not sure how long Mayfield sports will be around.

It's past getting the point where people now don't care what happens, then will be thinking twice about attending speedway in the future, then if the punters don't attend the promoters business plan ( if they have one ) goes out of the window. This applies to not just Ipswich it's the whole fookin sport

Well, one week down of the latest two week turnaround! Will we get a sale confirmation by this time next week, or will we get another “update” of another delay? The suspenders are killing me! 😁

You are describing British premier league speedway there

At least they didn't charge for Eleven....

And if they followed Sheffield’s lead, “you buy 10 and get NONE free!!” 😁