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  2. Posted

    Could it be money orientated? Maybe Riss will accept a lower guarantee or per point value?
    Running three teams doesn’t come cheap so maybe they are cutting their cloth accordingly, especially if a rider is scoring well below what his guaranteed points money equates to.

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    Always hard to promote a team in a City where a notable percentage of the population will have no interest in speedway at all, and what you do have as a target audience is likely to be swayed towards other areas of sports or entertainment.

    Only a promoter will deep pockets and prepared to spend a lot more than they might get back has any chance of making Birmingham viable imo, Brummies need to have a team that is outstanding on paper or has one or two top well know established World class riders.

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    British speedways solution to everything, use a sticky plaster without addressing the underlying cause.

    It was a different time I know but after the war there was a shortage of riders, did they just make everyone double up? No, they ran programs to encourage new riders to take up the sport.

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    It really doesn’t matter because bar their away matches as they won’t be racing at home on account that track is built on marshland which  means they have trouble getting meetings on in the height of summer, never mind April.

    Why on earth would BSN opt to show a meeting from their this early in the season knowing it’s very likely to be canned 24 hours in advance.

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    There is only seven teams in the league, no need for added points here and there, you need to try and keep the overall points down so they are as close as possible to the eye.

    But you know how it works, we must have these silly  gimmicks to keep the interest going in the short term, even if it damages it in the long.

     

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    Reading this makes me even more convinced I made the right call in stopping paying for streams, it’s the same old, same old, tracks poorly prepared and refs who have been around for years and yet still incapable of making clear cut decisions.

    Remember that picture recently in the speedway star of the UK referees? It was like rogues gallery, the only one I have any respect for is Chris Gay who comes across well in interviews and explaining things.

    Those who try to cover our sport in the best light it can be are being buried by those in charge.

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    I am sure when I was younger if a promoter wanted to call a meeting off, they had to get a local ref to come along and confirm the track was unridable at that point, not what it might be like in 2 hours time, 10 hours times or 1 days time.

    However, the riders are by no means the innocent party in all of this, they have conditioned promoters to call meetings off earlier than they would have previously because they (the promoter) knows if the track isn’t perfect, the riders will simply refuse to race and force a cancellation that way.

    And the riders have that attitude because the bikes now can only be ridden at full throttle and there is no leeway.

    Recently in the star they had a piece on the silencers affecting the bikes, we had it with the solid block tyres, we have recently had it with the Anlas tyres being rubbish, why is the sport constantly going backwards in terms of the bikes? They are making the sport more expensive, less safe and less of a spectacle. 
    I can’t think of one single benefit the modern speedway bikes have brought to the sport.

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    Question, if rain offs cost that much, why bother attempting to run in March anyway?
    If no meetings were planned then there is zero chance of a rain off and zero chance of losing money! 
    Speedway should be every week from May to August,  no exceptions 

    That’s 16 weeks plus right there, fools!

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    52 minutes ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said:

    So an Oxford rider will be guesting for Birmingham at Oxford.....

    Welcome to British Speedway :D

    It’s not a British speedway thing, but an Oxford thing, if you have several teams your going to have instances where your regular riders for one of your A or B sides turn up to race for the other side to take points off you.

    Doubling up has been around for years just that this is the first time where riders will be riding for another club at the track where they normally race for the home team, it does look a bit silly to be honest.

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    I don’t know if BSN get compensated but another reason there excellent coverage is tarnished is when promoters call meetings off when clearly they have made no effort to get the track in a race able condition.

    There are certain tracks where BSN go that I end up thinking, either it won’t be on, or the racing will be awful, through no fault of BSN or the riders.

  18. Posted

    I have no doubt about the production values that BSN offer, but I do have doubts about the product that the bspa come up with especially when it comes to teams ending up being filled with guests and missing riders for a whole host of reasons and seldom due to injury.

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    On 11/24/2023 at 11:01 PM, Bagpuss said:

    Load of fuss about nothing. As long as the meeting is run in a reasonable time ie 90 mins or so then what difference does it make how often the tractor does a bit of grading?

    90 mins is fine, I would say that is the sort of perfect ball park, if it was newer an hour it would be too rushed and no time to breath especially after a great race.

    When it starts getting on for two hours though, it’s taking the P and tv meetings and some others non tv often end up being dragged out for the sake of it, no rush to get on with it whatsoever even if rain was forecasted.

    Lakeside used to have spells like that, made all the worse by one man insisting he had to drive both tractors so we had to wait twice as long in a far from sheltered stadium in the cold and wind.

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    11 hours ago, steve roberts said:

    I, too, have never understood why people get so upset about the tractor making an appearance. We used to enjoy the break in racing by having a good old chat amongst ourselves to pass the time.

    When it’s needed no problem at all, but all too often it was coming out to grade a track that was a flat as a witches twit and hardly any dirt on it, what’s the point?
    Slick, slick, slick, dry and dusty and can’t water it because then it will go like ice, that’s all too often what we have now in this country bar a few tracks like Belle Vue, Redcar and Scunthorpe to name three.

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  24. Posted

    I would scrap it and run a second half like they used too in the 80s, two teams of four riders, or three can be done and often was.

    And this was after a 16 heat main match in the National League days.

    If some people want to leave after the main match,  no problem, it makes it easier to get out for those want don’t mind hanging around for a bit rather than a mass exodus as soon as heat 15 is completed.

    At Arena Essex plenty of the crowd had already gone once the riders came round on a lap of honour because they want to beat the rush and had no reason to hang on for a few minutes.

    Even in the 90s this was being used, remember the super Ipswich junior team they had, it was something like Ben Howe, Leigh Lanham, Sav Clouting & Lawrence Hare.

    Arena Essex had the likes of Robert Ledwith, Tommy Palmer, Shaun Nichols, Chris Young, Roland Pollard, Russel Etherington, and a few of them got outings in the main team over the years.

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