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  5. Posted

    12 hours ago, Sidney the robin said:

    Old Bob you need to have a real think sometimes in what you  say ? ? Lee Kilby is not to blame in what happened at Eastbourne as for the 500 k houses  500 k you  are joking  ??? Those people who bought those premises  should have no say whatsoever they  knew the speedway  was there it has been there from 1949 simples.If they are not happy  pick somewhere else they should  have no say at all.

    Just like Mildenhall!!!

  7. Posted

    1 hour ago, iainb said:

    Well, on the face of it, it is. But even we had the we're not getting enough people through the turnstiles call to arms earlier in the season. This particularly incensed me as the visibility of the Speedway product in Leicester is almost non-existent, If you're not already in the know. I made a few comments/suggestions on the Leicester 2021 thread to which a few people took exception to. A couple of posters suggested that if I were that concerned why don't I put my suggestions to the promotion... so I did... No reply, so if I can still be bothered I will continue to "consistently moan" on here about some of the easy wins that Leicester could do with little or no cost. I don't know if you remember but we won the last Championship league title in 2019, the club's first league win EVER! Never gets mentioned at Beaumont Park the club have made zero capital on what they spend all year trying to win.

    This refered to the cubs meetings!

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  8. Posted

    21 hours ago, iainb said:

    Better than when Eastbourne and Leicester conspired to keep the absence of Ed Kennett a secret until 5 minutes before the parade the other week. Well done to the Plymouth promotion for being up front with their fans. According to the Leicester website and twitter feed Bjarne is still riding!

    Is that a fact or are you guessing!

  9. Posted

    16 hours ago, iainb said:

    So you think it was the right decision to cancel it even though it was clearly the wrong decision... this is the mess the sport has gotten itself into on this particular topic. It may well have been the correct business decision, I don't know, the club may have just been postponing their loss. It was certainly an incorrect sporting decision.

    Is Speedway the only sport that gets itself into such a mess with fixtures? I can think of no other. It's worse than it's ever been with rider availability, for whatever reason, and now we're postponing meetings because it might rain.

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing!!

  10. Posted

    On 8/21/2021 at 7:09 PM, iainb said:

    I'm sat at home looking out of my window wondering why I'm not at the Speedway tonight with both Leicester/Glasgow matches cancelled this weekend based on incorrect weather forecasts. 

    I'm watching The Hundred final... they didn't cancel their event based on a weather forecast. They've got 30,000 people in attendance...

    Hindsight is a wonderful thing!!!

  11. Posted

    32 minutes ago, iainb said:

    What's the point of calling off meetings on a clear Saturday night in the summer and then having to run loss making double headers to cram the fixtures in to qualify for play offs and a show piece final that will most likely be held on a wet track in the last week of October?

    Fixtures very rarely used to be called off before 6pm on race day after a track inspection. If this is the new world we are living in these meetings that are cancelled should not be restaged, just like in cricket, another fairweather sport 

    The weather forecast for the leicester meeting was heavy, thundery rain. It did not happen but I still think that the right decision was made.

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  13. Posted

    12 hours ago, iainb said:

    Another match cancelled tonight based on an incorrect forecast, this time at Glasgow.

    Edinburgh now have to arrange to go to Birmingham and Eastbourne because they were shifted to one side to allow for a bigger crowd. 

    Trouble at Lynn last night. If they'd known it wouldn't have been re-staged a few of them may have been a bit more keen to ride!

    1 point a piece and move on!

    The match was postphoned due to a flooded track!!

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  15. Posted

    12 hours ago, iainb said:

    Back in the day, the home promotion would be on the mic to apologise and explain what was going on... anybody that attended tonight was mugged off! If Eastbourne can't afford to send a team the match should have been postponed and to announce the advertised Ed Kennett's absence minutes before the parade in the age of social media is unforgivable!

    Eastbourne could use all available riders to cover Kennets rides using R/R

  17. Posted

    On 8/12/2021 at 3:56 PM, iainb said:

    Surely one of the most important questions facing the sport today with merchandise and specifically caps is...

    Ears in?

    Or

    Ears out?

    Reminds me of the days when riders didn't know whether to wear their race suits inside or outside of their boots.

    I'm an ears out man myself

    Ian, which promotional products have you bought recently?

  18. Posted

    On 8/14/2021 at 9:58 AM, iainb said:

    Which promotion was that, can you remember?

    I was looking at the Leicester admission prices and it's just a £3 reduction for students at £14 and in a city with 2 universities there is no mention of Speedway on the student union website. They should be looking at students for a fiver and get the rest in bar takings. During term time get the Speedway done by 8:30pm and get a local upcoming band on for the 2nd half like they do at the horse racing.

    Maybe they think that there's no long term gain as once a student has done their course they move back home and stop coming to Leicester.

    And this is not just a Leicester thing, no club in the country does this kind of thing as far as I'm aware.

    Unfortunately it in a lot of cases it all seems like it's too much trouble to go to.

    No they wouldn't because the bar is on a lease and is not run by the club!

  19. Posted

    6 hours ago, Triple.H. said:

    There is if you 

    Start on time

    Get the 2 minutes on as soon as the last rider from the preceding race has gone through the pit gate

    Only have grading and watering after hts 4,8, and 12 then 10-15 minutes after ht15

    Obviously any major crashes could affect the smooth efficient running

    One of the biggest problems British speedway faces is the we can't do that and that won't work attitude, 

    There needs to be more than 15mins to repair the track after the first meeting.

  20. Posted

    7 hours ago, old bob at herne bay said:

    I think that some firm cut off time for postponements due to weather is needed. 

    So meetings cannot be called off before say 1000 on the morning of the meeting..... with promoters needing to seek authorisation from the BSPL before being allowed to cancel. Each team should then be awarded one league point. 

    For other reason cancellations, home teams should forfeit all league points, the away team being given 3 league points. 

     

    So what about the peop[le travelling hundreds of miles? There are groups of fans who travel on a regular basis but they wont if your idea is implemented.

  21. Posted

    On 8/3/2021 at 6:32 PM, Pieman72 said:

    Speedway is every week and a family sport which becomes very expensive. Football is predominantly a male domain every fortnight and in the winter. On my own fine with the family expensive. With the demise of Greyhounds stadiums will be glad of the income. Birmingham operated a dictatorial policy regarding the Grandstand with security guards now you just pay a quid. How times have changed I really feel for the promoter he's inherited years of mismanagement. Families just don't have the disposable income with rents of £500 per month there can't be much left.

    I disagree!

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  24. Posted

    56 minutes ago, Pieman72 said:

    Too expensive, too boring, too many costly foreign riders, too many anoraks and too many midweek meetings. Couldn't agree more. Greedy riders and promoters expecting a couple to split with £45+ on windswept Monday night.....get real.

    Some tracks have no choice!

  25. Posted · Edited by Skodaman
    answer has been given

    On 7/15/2021 at 5:49 PM, justathought said:

    5.46pm Thursday night. And not a thing about the Eastbourne meeting on the Leicester website. No mention that we have a guest, who he is, why we have one. Nothing. Speedway never stops astounding me. 

    Why have we got a guest?

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