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A 28 day contract is a minimum of 28 days. Hence Redcar signing Nicolai Klint on a 28 day contract and he stayed 15 weeks.,

Richard Coleman ”The sport can’t continue to do the same thing with a little bit less money each year and expect a different result” In a nutshell.

Think Workington will win, should be close for the bonus point, maybe just favour the Comets.

We'll have to say it's never a hindrance to us and if anyone wants to chat or sit on the bike it's no problem.

Must be quite inconsistent, feel like he often scores well, but average doesn't rise much.

Well I haven’t been one of those. I use my own eyes and I’ve maintained more than once on here, that the crowd levels have taken a fair old hit. I know one or two have said there hasn’t been much difference, but I’m honestly not sure what they’re seeing. My opinion is vastly different. The Belle Vue meeting a few weeks ago was woeful compared to Belle Vue’s visits in previous seasons. No Bewley but Kurtz was there, Belle Vue meetings usually bring out the bigger crowds at Foxhall generally, and it was a glorious summer evening. I was pretty shocked at the turn out to be frank. It can’t all be blamed on the loss of Doyle and Emil because there are a couple of other factors including the new TV stream for a tenna less, but I’ve absolutely no doubt the loss of BOTH heatleaders has been the biggest factor. Talk to literally anyone at the track on meeting day, and they’ll all tell you the same thing, it just hasn’t been close to the same without them. Go in to next season without both of Bewley or Kurtz, promote Zach Cook to number 1 and see how you get on. Do you think it wouldn’t have THAT much affect on your attendances? I bet it would!! Take your point about whether the drop off would hurt the finances due to the savings made on not paying the top stars, but that we’ll never know really. None of us want to be watching speedway in ever decreasing crowd numbers though and that’s what’s happened at Ipswich this year, and would happen at the NSS too if you lost your heatleaders. Sheffield fans have also commented on the lower crowd levels since Holder got injured. Ask Orion and any other Swindon fan who still browses on here, what happened to their crowd levels when Leigh Adams retired.

I'll cheer on the British league riders Harris, Rowe, Castagna & Lidsey.

Unfortunately there are many who dislike Poole enough to post these uncalled for observations.

Michael has, its Paul stopping it.

Been offered a lot of money but answer comes back No.

Thats the spirit! I know what you mean though, we have tried so many times to get Speedway back to Arlington Eastbourne, but the Dugard's just wont budge, we've stopped getting people hopes up But, credit to the Cov guys, keep on with the faith..

Don't think you've anything to worry about. Drawn 1 means he's out after each track grade and will pull any dirt back if there is an outside line. He's never gated well enough, so it's the worst possible draw.

Your dislike of the team and the track have clearly made you miss everything that’s going on with the stadium and has been for some time - it’s all in the public domain

Of course they put bums on seats in comparison to non World Class riders... The more salient question is though... Do they put enough bums on seats to justify the outlay for them?... It has been mentioned on here, by some who appear "in the know" at their local tracks, that between 3500 and 5000 quid is the going rate for a World Class rider... Therefore, taking the lower number, that is 14,000 quid laid our for two World Class level riders, from your home meeting income, for the home and away meetings.. Now, I know sponsorship will cover a fair amount, however, I would suggest laying out around 8,000 quid for those two meetings for "decent" riders, and using 6,000 quid to actually promote the meeting, on a night that is maybe better to attract a crowd, would be the more sensible business plan to follow.. Ipswich fans have suggested that crowds have, in the main, held up this season without last years "Superstars".. Which, even if there was a drop off of a couple of hundred, must mean a fair net saving on outlay this season, given their current One and Five won't be in the same pay bracket .. Utopia is every team to have two World Class riders, reality though means they wouldn't cover their income by increasing gates enough to pay their salaries... My old company has made many managers redundant/retired over the past decade, with, on many occasions, those highest earners the ones who have taken the attractive redundancy/retirement terms on offer.. Are their replacements as good? Nowhere near, given the disparate level of experience and capability, however they are 30-40% cheaper and will gain experience and capability as they develop.. The bottom line though is you could have King Charles himself at No1 for any team, but if hardly anyone outside a select few know the sport itself, never mind the team, exists, then you won't be needing the " House Full" signs outside...

how many times have we been told great day for Coventries comeback ,this got overturned that got refused. the secretary of state says No ,so that's it no more applications for housing .. and then just a matter of weeks later another application is handed in . IMHO if you offered Brandon estates 20 Million for the site they would still not sell , this has become a battle of wills just like Cradley Heath ,, heard the song I get Knocked down but i get up again ? that's about brandon estates

Disgusting behaviour

The reason fewer people came is because the event was advertised as a youth/academy event. In all sports fewer people will go to youth events with football being the major example! World Cup final tickets were £10,000+ but the U20 World Cup 2025 final tickets were £3. Anyway, my best example is I have brought a number of my friends from Uni to Poole Pirates on a few occasions. For all of them they had never heard of speedway before they met me. The favourite riders were Cooper Rushen because of his tassles and Tobias Thomsen because of his celebrations. The meetings most people have enjoyed have been those which are close and competitive in terms of points. It's just anecdotal but I think the general public don't know who Dan Bewley is!

its got a whole lot more professional since then ,, riders don't have time for the plebs who pay their wages anymore ... some are so selfish they don't even do the victory parades because their vans are loaded and off to Poland . I've even seen one refuse to do heat 15 in case he missed his flight

I agree

Thanks for defending you are spot on how I was thinking.

Watering can?

I thought someone said it was raining

Hopefully not

Dont think scunny is his best track

I’d never claim Brady to be one of our own in the same way as Dan but we should be looking for more riders to move from 7.50 to 9.50 and become GP challengers as despite popular opinion on here, they put bums on seats.