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  2. Posted

    Maybe it’s groups of 5 and 4 

    15 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

    Have the groups for 2024 been announced?

    I'd assumed the groups would be:

    Edinburgh, Glasgow, Workington

    Berwick, Redcar, Scunthorpe

    Oxford, Plymouth, Poole

    Or

    Berwick, Edinburgh, Glasgow

    Redcar, Scunthorpe, Workington

    Oxford, Plymouth, Poole

    But saw Berwick have announced their season tickets based on 12 meetings (8 league, 1 KOC & 2 bsn) adds up to 11, so wondered if they were having 3 bsn fixtures / counting the NL individual clubs have to hold or can't count?

    maybe it’s groups of 5 and 4

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    54 minutes ago, truthsayer said:

    League speedway in the UK is a joke. There are not enough spectators, not enough riders and not enough venues – and it really doesn’t make sense as a TV sport to the casual viewer.

    But there is still a desire for team speedway from the (dwindling) hardcore and (probably) promoters. The sport needs a ground up rebuild that probably won’t happen, but how about trying to build a new product designed for TV, but accessible for existing fans?

    Personally I would like to see an individual series take the Monday night TV slot, with traditionalists able to watch team racing away from Eurosport. Idea would be this…

    Assume 12 ‘pro’ clubs. Each hosts a round of the series and nominates a rider from its line-up to represent it. Additional slots (to fill the 16) can be allocated to qualifiers or more likely wildcards from the local promoter, broadcast partner and federation, the idea being that they can invest in bringing in big names or local favourites if they think it will put bums on seats.

    And basically you have a GP style meeting and GP style championship (or like British Superbikes). Riders ride for themselves, but also their teams, so if they are injured they will be replaced by a team-mate, who will score his own individual points but also team points. At the end of the series there is an individual and team champion (probably, but not definitely) the same.

    TV has a credible, easy to understand series. It showcases each track during the season and represents each team, giving promotion to the local club. Each club has an opportunity to have a big night, tailored to its audience and with reason for supporters of every other club to come along, and hopefully the series would be able to attract sponsors to make it viable and able to generate reasonable prize money.

    To me, this would be a better use of the TV deal than shooting ourselves in the foot live on Eurosport each week. I think I’d like to watch this more and it could be a step in speedway reinventing itself in the way that many other sports have in recent years

    Spectators do not turn up to watch individual meetings anymore, you’ll always get a hardcore but not enough to make it pay, 20 heats to pay instead of 15, and 18 riders to pay instead of 14.

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  14. Posted

    Good statement from the club owners.  I know this season has hurt them immensely as it has all those involved and support the Bandits and Bullets. Great to put all the silly rumours that has been floating around recently to bed and Speedway is back for its 56th ( I think ) year in 2024. An amazing achievement for a small town like Berwick. Good luck for the remainder of this season and beyond to everyone involved with Berwick Speedway

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  15. Posted

    On 8/27/2023 at 12:11 AM, Ben91 said:

     

    Six teams qualifying for the play-offs in a nine team league is ridiculous. Only just pipped in the stupidity stakes by four of the seven Premiership sides qualifying for the play-offs in that league. 

    The current system almost renders most of the racing pointless across the season as everyone gets a medal for competing. And you have a situation where a team deep in the bottom half of the table can somehow be crowned champions. 

    Well the supposed top League in the world has 8 teams competing and the top 6 qualify for the playoffs, and the highest scoring LOSING team in the first playoff round goes through to the semi finals !  And the majority of people say the Poles have it right !!

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  18. Posted

    32 minutes ago, StevePark said:

    And, yet, Berwick decided to have (expensive) Double Headers !!

     

    21 minutes ago, StevePark said:

    In that case, maybe they shouldn't have entered two leagues then?

    Mr Park. Your team is no longer with us due to the total incompetence of your last promoter and now you decide to continually criticize a Promotion that still exists in what is a difficult time in our sport, grapes and sour spring to mind !

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  24. Posted

    2 hours ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

    Read carefully, I wrote ‘ if it lifts ‘, which despite the previous comments, it CAN do , under certain circumstances . Yes, they are heavier than ‘air ‘ panels but a bike going in first is still capable of lifting a panel.

    We’ve had a Polyfoam barrier at Berwick for a long time now and witnessed a lot of high speed incidents where the bike has went in first and yet to see the barrier lift, They are a different proposition to the inflatable version.

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