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Great heat on You Tube and Social Media from BSN - showing what Pickering will offer at Scunny,

The longer the silence goes on, the more I think this isn’t happening… “Northampton Speedway 2026, the club that almost happened.” will be spoken about for years.

As "Karlito" says on the You Tube post this is a wasted opportunity to tease social media with information . Even if it was simple teasers with 4 potential team names / colours / kevlar designs etc .... Advertising the fixtures and the first meeting - just to gain traffic to the X / IG feeds. With everbody having no choice to Enjoy the Silence, the questions whether this will actually be ready in 30 days will get louder and louder.

Think you’re missing the point of peoples concerns

Well the season is now under way, and I feel that this my be my last season as a supporter, I am feed up to the back teeth of listening to Rob Godfrey talking absolute sh*t about the coming season. He was on SPEEDWAY 360 PODCAST, about 6 weeks ago saying '' in 2 weeks time there will be a major WOW statement ''. Was the ''WOW statement'' that Northampton was entering the Premiership, something we already knew about in January !!! And the SPEEDWAY FUTURES group were waiting to give us some news about the season and beyond into 2027. This SPEEDWAY FUTURES group, committee or whatever they call themselves, What the F*CK do they do, do they consist of , a MP , who no-one has heard of , Harry Redknapp, who has done absolutely ZILCH, since he appeared at Poole last season, and A.N.OTHER (another duffer who know bugger all about Speedway.) Its time for this mob to come out and state where Speedway is going, what they intend to do to bring in crowds and new teams to the league, and the structure in coming seasons. Have they got a 3 OR 5 Year plan, or are they just a bunch of non-entities with no ideas and Speedway is set to disappear in 2028, its 100 year anniversary. ''

This post is a classic case of demanding blind faith in a sport that’s already on its knees. The idea that fans should just "stop knocking them" and wait until May to see what happens is exactly how we ended up in this mess. In any other industry, if a business asked for your money but refused to tell you the name of the company, who the staff are, or what the product looks like until the last minute, you’d walk away.

Think for Redcar that is the best option. NK has good knowledge of UK tracks. Wising Charles Wright a speedy recovery but would guess that NK could be at Redcar for 2 months at least.

What amazes me is the amount of negativity towards the new promotion team. They are sinking much money into getting things up and ready to be in a position to run by May. They will live and die by their decisions. Just because they are not jumping to the timelines desired by people without any financial involvement or backing them is very unfair to keep bashing them. People need to get behind them and stop knocking them for trying to bring speedway to Northampton. Soon the keyboard warriors will be complaining about whatever nickname they decide on, then it will be the seven riders signed, then the design of the racesuits, then the cost of entry, then, then, then, the list will go on which is grossly unfair. UK speedway is dying on its arse and people need to unite and stop with the negativity towards pretty much everything and everybody who tries to run and finance UK speedway tracks.

do tell

Yes Bill is looking after him til Matt is back in his Broadstone home permanently.

Last year we paid £24 and got a Ferrari, this year we'll pay £25 and get a TR7!

We all talk about PR disasters but if they don't make it then the PR disaster could be terminal for the sport or indeed the Premiership.

You would (should) be doing a daily info Vlog covering... The daily track work being undertaken, with the before and after being filmed, the team building process, rider interviews, the kevlar making, the merchandise buying, the cost to go to watch a meeting, the first fixture date, your special opening offers, the track staff and presenters being mentioned (as they will be local people), etc etc etc... Using someone who is well known in Northampton to present it, and get it out daily on FB, YouTube etc... "Build it and they will come" only works in movies.. A constant drip, drip drip of information/hype is needed to build up to the opening night... You don't open a business, and expect to be successful, without at least a month long intensive marketing/teaser campaign to the local populace... Whether they use you immediately or not, they at least know about you so may therefore visit in the future... They open on the 30th of April so really need to go into overdrive from now...

I think as has been mentioned before a lot of the promoters are just happy with the status quo some are relatively wealthy people compared to the normal Joe and are happy to offset the losses against their other business profits. They work on the basis that 90% of last seasons crowd will return , build a team to win at home, get a few local sponsors on board to pare some of the expected season loss rinse and repeat. The Northampton situation gets ever odder we are told 100k plus has already been sunk into it and as others have said zero promotion has been done . I can only think the people who have stumped up the original 100k are happy to loose another 100k over the season or they aren't promoting it as they aren't really sure they can get it over the line and as such think we won't push the promotion side of things to avoid agg of refunding season tickets , sponsorship etc.

I enjoyed that and got my question answered about how UK speedway can be improved

Staying at Matt's, not Middlo's 🙂

Asked and answered. Practiced at Wimborne Road today.

There you go...asked and answered!

Maybe they are keeping it quiet because they don't want prospective patrons to type speedway into google and end up here reading all the negativity. Good things come to those that wait

I just can’t see how this club can be marketed to the Northampton people in just little over a month to the first home meeting with no fan base . They really needed the whole closed season to get the word out - who would sponsor a club this close to the first home meeting with no information on club owners riders .

So the owners are supposedly looking at options for replacing NKI, which is why some people seem to think that the team (along with everything else)hasn’t been announced yet. The prolonged silence would suggest that there are bigger issues behind the scenes.

It isn't really a professional sport (at ownership level in particular), though... More of a hobby than a pro sport for so many... Winning can even be detrimental to their plan as the costs can rise hugely, and close them down!!! We fans judge Speedway like proper professional sports, however these sports have professional marketeers, big sponsors, major media coverage, and an independent leadership team that are in position due to their personal skill sets and contacts, rather that just being an ex competitor in that specific sport... UK Speedway, has none of the above, hence it comes across as amateurish... Because, when it comes to marketing, promoting, administrating and managing optics, that is what it is..

I believe this time its his good shoulder, well before ht 15 it was his good one.