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Am I correct in thinking a 10 meeting ticket has been announced yet Sheffield will only have 8 home meetings unless they get drawn at home in the cup ??

Jack Shimelt is being named as No.7, but you've accidentally posted this on the Workington thread instead of the Buxton thread. You've confused people by mixing up the Buxton release with a Workington one.

Really oh dear.

Not really a must win as they still qualify for the play offs and even winning didn't guarantee a top 8 finish.

Glasgow do a very good job in giving out tickets to fans to bring people they know along... The key being "not just one meeting" and "not just one person".... Getting a group there can be very much key to encourage them to keep attending when they are required to pay... Although going from free to £25 could also need some looking at...

If I may defer back to the effort that is put in at Leicester , during the off season I stay in contact with Stewart Dickson and he's a very open & honest bloke. He & Jen Crossland but in a crazy amount of work to make Lions what it is . If you honest feedback on stuff , check out the Q&A in the Leicester Lions Speedway fans group. Maybe this can give some insight & but the belly aching on pause .

When it comes to budgeting Rob is on a par with what Jesus could do with a loaf and a fish when he fed the five thousand.

There is more than enough people know about speedway to fill tracks to capacity every meeting. They choose not to attend because they don’t like speedway. I don’t visit away tracks now because I don’t like it. You can do all the conventional advertising methods you want and it will achieve very little in the long term. We need to focus on why people don’t like speedway and not about telling them it exists. Belle Vue have several slots on local news but the 250k-500k who watch it don’t come along once they know about it. This fact is true of ALL the marketing methods we have used. The only thing I see working is some modern day social media guru working their magic to create the fomo effect. I have now idea how this actually works, unfortunately. I disagree about your view on getting friends onboard. Refer a friend and recommendations are a massive part of businesses push for custom. Monzo, Octopus energy, Sky plus many restaurant chains do it and with sites like Trustpoilt and Tripadvisor looking at customers reviews to help bring people in, we will have to agree to disagree on this point.

If it is him, I’ll be disappointed. No disrespect to the lad but nowhere near ready for the step up.

Imo jack is not ready for championship think he only averaged around 3 points in the NDL updated found true average of 3.23 in the NDL so definitely not ready for championship

No7 named tonight and strong rumours it's Jack Schmelt now that would be a huge step up from what he been showing riding in the NDL.

The CL game was a "must win" to get into the seeded top eight... citeh!...

I would say that less than 0.1% of the population (80,000?) know who the GP riders are.. And of that 80,000 around just circa 20,000 actually visit the 14 tracks regularly.. And as for fans bringing others along? Do businesses who I use expect me to bring in customers to them? Or do they advertise themselves nationally so people know they exist?

That was my point regarding cup games or less meaningful matches.

Even i was surprised at the amount of empty seats on Wednesday at the emptyhad

They had over 20,000 empty seats on Wednesday in their CL game so probably not...

Ive never understood the comparison with football, as you say fans turn out season after season even for clubs who are only making up the numbers and really have no chance of ever getting any success clubs like Fulham, Bournemouth, Burnley have next to no chance of getting top four let alone winning leagues fa cups, Palace only won their first trophy last season, no manipulation of team strengths to try to have all teams equal, but fans of the lower reaches clubs are there in numbers home and away, speedway lost that tribalism a long time ago.

Thats it I suppose JP is a real entertainer and especially around Scunny. So long as the racing is its usual top drawer at home, win, lose or draw thats the deal we accept. Away will be a different matter. Can see JP being a bit of a lone gun, but exciting to watch. In a way it reminds me of Halifax in the Carter era. Kenny always leading the scorecharts and taking on & beating the oppo No1s. The rest of the Dukes not following his lead. When JPs average changes it will be vital to come up with a No2 who can back him Home & Away in those Big Heats in my opinion.

I disagree that less than 0.1% of fans who follow the sport are drawn to the big names. We’ve had Ipswich fans stating many times how crowds increased when Jason & Emil came on board. Maybe we could do some kind of test where we run on a Sunday without the big names. If they charged less admission then it can only be a great success - can’t it? We could all do our own national marketing campaign at no cost to the sport. Just ask 50 family, friends, colleagues etc to come along. There’s no better salesperson available than us speedway nuts. A million extra fans, brilliant.

No idea, all Landshut have said is his signing completes the squad in the senior positions.

Dont the home fans sing you have only come to see City? It is certainly the case that tickets for matches at more readily available for smaller games so the opposition is a big factor especially when it comes to cup competitions where the tickets are not included in the cost of a season ticket. I would also suggest that my team Poole would generate a bigger crowd than normal if it was one league.

Plenty of empty seats when not on TV, too... "Big Names" are only that to the less than 0.1% of the polulation who follow the sport... They mean nothing to the 99.9+% of the population who don't.... What an opportunity for growth though if you could make admission affordable for more people, allied to a properly joined up national marketing campaign to try and make many, many millions of people aware that they have a Speedway track within a 45 minute drive of their home...

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Does that mean he's no longer French?

Having said that though, they'll have Josh Pickering and he is worth watching, wherever he rides.