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She's also listed on Mayfields website together with Kelvin Tatum and Olly Allen.

But at all levels of organised sport, you're going to get a large and probably growing contingent amongst the owners, directors, sponsors, benefactors etc who do it to help fulfil their own ego and vanity, and/or have vested, personal interests as their main motivation such as the promotion of their own business interests. Being able to brag at their golf club on on expensive holidays about how much money they're putting into whatever sport club as way of saying "look how rich i am, aren't I wonderful". I don't know if these come into the category of "hobbyists" (or vice-versa). Is it actually possible to have these kind on involvements whilst being entirely altruistic and its probably impossible to differentiate - motivation for involvement differing vastly. So in terms of the owners of UK speedway clubs, is it more a case of those who behave primarily with a narrow-focus, versus those who are more "bigger picture" oriented, irrespective of whether they could be classified as "hobbyists" or "business focussed", or whatever?

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I expect a routine fairly easy win tonight but this is speedway and what you expect doesnt always happen. Picko will score plenty and Simon Lambert has had good meetings at Poole but cant really see it being too tricky especially with local boy Kyle Newman going so well, he should be kept in my opinion.

getting cash out of the bank..🤣

definitely worth watching now

Emma Jones could be part of the coverage as well. She is at the SGP launch today.

Cook doesn't seem to go that well at the Foxhole, don't know about Paco, and Scott and Coops will need time to settle, and rightly so. Always hard to predict early season results, but if i had to, id go around the 56-34 mark.

4 qualifying rounds on Wednesday 15th April Rybnik start time 3.30pm UK time Ostrow start time 3.30pm UK time Rzeszow start time 4pm UK time Bydgoszcz start time 4.30pm UK time Final is at Gorzow on Thursday 30th April

Open the track, hold the meeting, hopefully win closely, then lock up the track when the last one is out... Rinse and Repeat two weeks later, (maybe), with pretty much exactly the same fans in attendance... Find a guest for someone missing in Poland or Denmark, or is injured/banned over here but not anywhere else.... Aim to win at home to keep your own crowd attending, with all your riders in attendance... Agree to ride away on nights you know your No1 can't be there and book a guest instead... Don't be too successful as it can close you down... UK Speedway...

1. Bewley 8.64 2. Lawson 6.93 3. Chris Holder 6.84 4. Nick Morris 5.89 5. Scott Nicholls 5.26 6. Jye Etheridge 3.00 7. Jason Edward RS Total 36.46 Now all they have to do is stay fit!

4 qualifying rounds on Tuesday 14th April at Opole start time 3pm UK time Czestochowa start time 3.30pm UK time Gdansk start time 3.30pm UK time Gniezno start time 4pm UK time

And the rest

On the loo I guess

Ippo to win by at least 10

What the hell was you doing to miss them then.

So is he still under the fence then?

The post above has it nailed. If there is no real reward for winning, and nothing really missed by losing, there is no incentive to invest more time and energy, so most don’t. This is meant to be (and is) the pinnacle of the sport in the U.K., but it looks more like Sunday league football in a dead-end division. The idea of paying BSN to stream for free on YouTube sounds nice, but I see two issues. One, would they have the capacity to stream more? Two, it would present a risk to their business model, and given they are probably the most sustainable entity in British Speedway right now, why would they want to take the risk? I don’t see the incentive for them. The Premiership clubs barely bothered to support a media day, so why volunteer to compromise a working model? I think the promoters need to show a lot more before you do that.

Rob Godfrey tends to stick with his old faithfuls

So Scunny have an extra 1.66 to play with. What change(s) can you foresee?

Not Ipswich specific, but thought I’d link it here

Can only see a Poole win. But hopefully Scunthorpe put up a fight and we see some good racing. Do we expect the scorpions to make some early changes? With Pickering average coming down and them having points to play with now?

Sadly, the operating model has been allowed to evolve into what it currently is... Meaning neither league runs with any real prestige or financial rewards... Win your league? Yay!... Finish bottom of your league? Oh well, there's always next year... Many meetings are ran with almost zero jeopardy or consequence, which is "perfect" for those promoters who don't want any pressure... "Having to win" to keep a crowd level, costs money, time and brings with it some anxiety... The result of the meeting being, for a good number of promoters, "perfection" if it is a 46-44 win.... And, given that lack of prestige, and financial gain available, I 100% get their outlook... Sadly, it appears only us fans that want to see the sport grow, however, to get that growth means a completely new operating model, but, to bring in a "proper" operating model costs money.... A proper vicious circle... You cannot have jeopardy, consequence, credibility, integrity and prestige in victory, without having some serious financial rewards for success, which in turn delivers big publicity... However. You will never get those serious financial rewards, and big publicity, and prestige for victory, by running meetings without jeopardy, consequence, credibility, and integrity... A real race to the bottom currently...

The realty was that Sky needed subscribers and from their knowledge of the mutually successful relationship between TV & the NFL they knew that Uk football was the answer. Sky played a pivotal role in the formation of the Premiership alongside the then big five of Man U, Liverpool, Arsenal, Spurs & Everton. From its inception, clubs have never had the need to fund any part of the running of the league itself as those costs are met from commercial income including TV deals. Each club as shareholders own one share with one vote which they lose if they are relegated. Speedway had a similar opportunity with Sky but the promoters and their central body failed to invest the money correctly to future proof the sport and eventually rather than build a strong relationship with their broadcasting partner the promoters as a body actually alienated Sky.

Indeed - at Foxhall when some of us starting using horns, cow bells and a megaphone a few moved and one poor old dear dropped a stitch on her knitting