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    On 4/5/2022 at 7:21 AM, Col said:

    The only issue is do the home fans turn up, to see so many heats when their riders are not involved?

    Does anyone go to see the sport anymore, or is just to support their own riders?
    I used to go to virtually every home meeting at Perry Barr and Leicester in addition to Saturday nights at the hive.

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    On 1/30/2022 at 9:52 AM, mikebv said:

    Whilst the 2nd Div tail can wag the Div 1 dog it wont ever work too well..

    Div 2 truly do have it all ways..

    Using many of the best riders available from both Div 1 and Div 3...

    A few on here seem to take some satisfaction by talking up there clubs as if they have miraculously increased their followers through great promotional work..

    And for some that may be a factor..

    However, I would suggest the bigger factor is having six Div 1 heat leaders competing regularly at those tracks each season.

    Which has attracted more "lapsed" fans who have drifted away in the preceding years back to the sport..

    The same would happen if an influx of GP riders came back in Div 1...

    The question though is obviously "how long will it last?"...

    The novelty of watching "better riders" only lasts so long before it becomes "normal" and then those "non regulars" who have been attracted back start to drift away again...

    And, as we see, having so many Div 1 heat leaders in a select few tracks in Div 2, wont help the whole sport organically and generically grow...

    Time to rewind to 1964/65 - calling Mr Mills-Baldwin!!!!

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    On 1/27/2022 at 9:57 AM, FromBendThree said:

    One suspects the price of a match will be near to the cost of stadium admission. That would make sense. You still save on travel, cost of programme and cost of warm beer and cold chips.

    But who does the money go to?  Stadium admission goes to the track. How much of the streaming fee goes to the track?  Can’t see how it benefits track promotions.

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