THE DEAN MACHINE

Yes but to be fair there have been some really good ones too and some who’s heart was in the right place but maybe their brain wasn’t or the were literally doing it on a shoe string for the love of it, there are also some still in the sport who are like vultures circling a Caracas when there is a whiff of financial trouble

The track was already booked on the 18th for the BV experience which people have paid a lot of money for and booked hotels, they haven’t even been told it’s been changed, this isn’t the first time this has happened, it happened a couple of months back when the riders turned up and there was an American football match booked on same day

The most astonishing thing about this meeting is it’s 8.50pm and we only on heat 9

Can’t speak for all of them but some are even before tonight, I did 5 rides with an anlas at 7psi on the Isle of Wight Thursday night with no issues and it was very slick but was doing around 3000 revs less as I was on an upright GM, I’m sure there is a lesson in there somewhere

I’m told some riders are running an extra couple psi with anlas tyres

The business side of football is money laundering at worst and tax off setting at best and gets a play thing thrown in and to a very lesser extent so is speedway although speedway’s is so small it doesn’t create a ripple in the financial world or even in the British tax system, the tax man has stuck his oar in a few times over the years but nothing ever comes of it, I’m yet to see an ex promoter living on the streets after his club folded owing 1000s to every man and his cat

Well deserved gorzow, gorzow should get jeppersen out for the bumps

Shocking decision, woryna at fault, leaned on Hanson

Not actually sure what rules are regarding riders for heat 14 and 15 but surely gorzow should put zmarzlik and vaculik in 14, guarantee the win, then 15 doesn’t matter ,first past the post and all that

Not sure who I want win, Częstochowa get bigger crowds and better atmosphere for a final but Bartoz is entertainment even when the track isn’t

Strange situation again with jeppersen, clearly there is issues with him and the management

Some shocking camera work going on, have Eurosport been training canal + camera crew

Rubbish racing but gorzow are making Częstochowa fight for this

Big crowd in Częstochowa, let’s hope the meeting is good too

I take it the delay and booing is for the Toruń fans kicking off

Some decent racing so far, great atmosphere too, Toruń not firing at the moment

Robert lambert singing along to the polish national anthem lol I suppose how many times we have heard it over the last 20 years it does stick with you

I don’t know what happened to finding a new track or anyone involved now but the previous promoter and his girlfriend basically didn’t pay the bills or the land owner who I believe is a builder , I rode for Weymouth under Brian white and I did lots of open meetings in the last season under the guy who took over from Brian ,the last few meeting riders including myself were asking to get paid on the night of meetings as rumours were rife about his team not being paid, not sure if they ever got paid , the girlfriend of the promoter was a previous girlfriend of a rider who had his bike stolen in suspicious circumstances, I was involved in the investigation as I was offered the bike for sale and recognised it and contacted the rider and the police ,I believe there were a few people, sponsors etc who would of took the track on but the builder wouldn’t do it, he flattened the track and used the pits to store his building equipment

That’s for me is the don’t care about supporters bit and every year really grates me

Who can blame them after the last promoter and his girlfriend screwed them over and don’t forget the stolen speedway bike of one of their riders

Pretty good meeting, pawlicki doing his upmost to cause a crash again

For LEAGUE racing what happens inside the fence is a bonus but not the most important, the most important is what happens outside the safety fence, the fan experience, how that fans feels, if that fan supports their team and there is a bond with that team and they are with other like minded fans (the more the better)creating an atmosphere and their team hopefully wins with maybe some controversy thrown in even if the racing was crap the fan experience will be a good one and make that fan want to go back, this is basically what happens in any team sport even football, add in value for money and you’re on a winner, we all want great racing but great racing infront of a few fans with no atmosphere will be a negative fan experience, it’s the opposite for a TV audience as tv can’t capture atmosphere so relies on good racing , just think back when you went to away matches back in the day on a coach or with your teams fans and you watched a dull meeting with no passing and your team got battered but the 50 or so of you supported your team and had a blast creating an atmosphere, it was a good fan experience, it didn’t matter what happened inside the fence

Because we heard it all before, Tatum will be no different, that’s why, it’s thats simple

Because it’s been done before by god knows how many people, the sport is full of podcasts, I’ve even been on one, there is nothing new, it’s all very tame and the same questions because nobody wants to step outside their comfort zone, there is nothing wrong with podcasts but be different otherwise we heard it all before, how about getting somebody on who isn’t afraid to call out the idiots running the sport (into the ground) I might tune in then otherwise it’s no from me

Just watching gorzow from last night as I was working last night and missed it, the way Częstochowa treat jepperson is terrible, woryna has been rubbish tonight and they still don’t give him a ride, if I was him I’d leave for another track even if it meant dropping down a league