Jump to content
British Speedway Forum

waytogo28

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    3,711

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    3

Posts posted by waytogo28

  4. Posted

    On 3/4/2021 at 2:53 PM, szkocjasid said:

    Yep 4 out of 6 qualify for play-offs!

    It's going to be so much more than thrilling! I feel that IF it actually does run the average gate for regular leagie clashes are unlikely to top 500. Get that paid streaming working effectively to bring in extra cash. Of course enormous gates for the play offs, so why not let a computer work out the final positions and just hold the play offs?

  7. Posted

    On 2/27/2021 at 12:43 PM, allister cov boy said:

    The tracks may be ready but are the fans ?  I live in Coventry and since 2017 have watched speedway at Wolverhampton and Birmingham. I'm 75 and have had my jab but I would not want to be in the crowd at Monmore Green coralled in front of the stand. Similarly at Perry Barr where there is limited good viewing points outside of the stand. You talk about spacing ouy and reduced capacity but could PL survive on even smaller crowds than 2019. I'm sure there are a lot of oldies like me that won't be going for a while yet.

    I certainly won't be and won't even think about it without the 2nd jab - and even then Hmmm?

    • Like 1

  8. Posted

    18 hours ago, Daniel Smith said:

    I was absolute shocked by this but Dale Allitt a couple of weeks ago said King's Lynn's capacity was 10,465. This is not a typo, 10,465 :o:o

    That must be correct if quoted by the Promotion, mustn't it?. Mind you a more likely estimate of attendances in recent years is between 800 - 1,500 so seemingly no problem. 

  9. Posted

    23 hours ago, Bunce said:

    Sadly what I've found out over the last year and the Covid lockdown, is that I really don't miss it that much, which I feel sad about as I've supported Speedway since I was 13 years old, starting at the Firs in Norwich in 1963.  Will the sport, and Kings Lynn, rekindle my love of Speedway in 2021? I really don't know. I wonder how many fans in my age group feel the same, and are there enough younger fans to keep the sport alive after oldies like myself find the love has died.

    At the Firs since I was 7 years old and Ove Fundin arrived. Echo nearly all of your sentiments, about faling our of love with the sport. My happiest memoroes of speedway this century were with the arrival of Robert Lambert in the NL.  Now that's what I call speedway! Buster cares nothing about wether you go or not and has nver made any effort to intereact positively with the older fans who want better racing and more variety ( myself  included ). As for paying to watch Lewis Bridger! Well I would want to see that he turned up for 4 or 6 matches AND made a visible on track effort to race, before I paid my money,

    • Confused 1

  10. Posted

    On 11/24/2020 at 8:39 AM, Barrow Boy 2 said:

    It is possible to find enough riders for just one Division but it would certainly be of a much lower standard. National League riders would have to be brought in and lesser known available Europeans would have to be sought.  Another issue would be by restricting riders to be only allowed to have one  source of income which could result in some  not being willing to ride for less money.  Even so I would like to see just the one league  with perhaps more competitions being brought back  to allow riders to replace some of their reduced earnings.

    We are going to get a lower standard anyway - perhaps even a much lower standar. But with no lower admission and hence almsot certainly even lower crowds. One league with a much lower overall level is preferable for the variety ( to me at least ), rather than doubling up to the extent it had reached.

  12. Posted

    Simply perfect ideas - sincerely. But if we ever dream that they might be picked up and utilised by the BSPA you need to find some way to allow one of the Promoters to say  " I;ve come up with a couple of good ideas,. How about this"! Coming from a fan or any kind of anoutsider - has in the past, been a definte NO NO.

  15. Posted

    2 hours ago, George Dodds said:

    I'm afraid I not tech savvy enough to know how you inform people that a link is broken via a broken link :blush: It would have been nice to put some form of digital test card up but as I say the nuts and bolts of whether that is even possible are beyond me. 

    Ironically had there been a crowd in the stadium we would have started on time as the power fault was identified and rectified by 6.50ish. It was restoring the livestream link that then took time.  

    As you say there is a lot to be learned and some of the criticism will undoubtedly be useful going forward.

    Announcing the cancellation of the semis and final earlier? Yeah I take the point but in a way you could not make a decision until the very minute that it became impossible to run them within the curfew. Had Drew Kemp not hit the fence with such a clout in heat 16 then it may have been possible to get the final three races in, from memory the decision was not made until just after that and announced as soon as was humanly possible.

    20 heats with everyone having met once was a logical cut-off in sporting terms. After that you are committed to completing three more races come what may. 

    I would like to feel more confident that "lessons really will be learnt" as that is very rare among speedway promoters in 21st Century UK domestic speedway. It should have been an excellent Live Stream taster from a club and if no-one there is tech savvy enough, it may be better not to try again? I was very, disappointed and scored it as 2/10 for effort.

    • Like 1

  17. Posted

    10 hours ago, sparks123 said:

    All electrics were inspected & tested by the stadium contractor before the football season started.  The speedway electrics were tested on Sunday and Wednesday afternoon and were all working. The referee tested all electrics when he arrived (as they will do at every track). Somerset would have tested the speakers before the pairs (have been dodgy the last few years), Peterborough would have tested the electrics before the 4's but had faults 2 years running and Gorzow would have tested the electrics before the transformer went on fire (shows it happens everywhere and not just Berwick). The fault wasn't on one of the speedway fuse boards.

     I haven't seen the stream but the power cut had a massive effect on the stream. The Power was removed from various stadium fuse boards (killing the power to everything regarding the stream) as the supply isolator is three phase (fault on one phase). They did a great job getting it all back up and running after losing power to everything and not just the things that was on the affected control fuse (probably lost a few meeting graphics etc).

    Thank you for responding to the feedback of supporters who used the Live Stream. For me it was a golden oportunity to see just how viable streaming may be for domestic league UK speedway in the future. I would have been unhappy if I had paid £10 so the opportunity to see what it might be like elsewhere in 2021 was very poitive. With a goegraphical limit( so that local supporters cannot take the easy option and watch from home - although I disagree with that idea ) Uk tracks can only benefit from streaming in the future - if set at a reasonable price. Otherwise crowds wil fall below sustainable levels in the stadiums ( if they are not at that point already ). From what you say every reasonable effort was made to prepare well. If that was indeed the case then streaming may not save UK speedway if it is so easily made unreliable.

  18. Posted

    2 hours ago, cinderfella said:

    Berwick and their TV crew can only learn and lets hope they do listen and take on board the constructive criticism.

     

    I called ita brave effort and it was but I would not pay even the £2 I did for the same again. Sadly the concept that feedback is all negative moaning has become a default trait of UK domestic spedway and that is why crowds have plummeted over the last few years. Listening to what your customer likes and doesn't like, is something other businees and industries pay a lot of moeny for! In the UK disillusioned supporters are seen as moaning keyboard warriors. The current Chairman is so like the previous one in terms of saying" if you don't like it, don't come". Well many thousnds of supporters have chosen that option and no longer offer up their hard earned cash for the poor product usually on offer in the UK. 

    I genuinely hope that the Berwick TV crew DO read and take on board the suggestions that supporters who joined the stream said about the product.You can't please everyone but there were a large number who just gave up because of what was on their screen. If there were 1,800  at one point that would have been a great success at £10 a head. A lost opportunity. Have they said how much was donated?

    • Like 2

  19. Posted

    9 hours ago, iainb said:

    It's pretty p155 poor isn't it, thankfully I've not seen most of it due to the abysmal camera work.

    Glad I only "donated" a fiver... And I still feel short changed!

    If that is the best level of live streaming that UK speedway can offer up it will fail completely, starting late ( due to power proble,s. if true that should have been checked well before ), Very poor camera work - follow the man in front and never show a complete race . Constant buffering on the stream delivery. The very poor meeting management where there is no urgency of any kind to get with it ( one of the reasons why UK domestic speedway is in the place it is with supporters walking away ). I will not comment on the racing ( what little of it there was ). For me it was a brave experiment of live match streaming - possibly the future of UK league racing, well it proved to be terrible VFM. My intention was that if it was a good taste of what streaming could be I would donate £10, but as it was so dire overall and came out looking very amateurish I donated £2 for "effort" in trying . 2/10 rating.

    • Like 2
×

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. Privacy Policy

  I accept