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I am aware of coaches from Workington, Leicester, Glasgow, Berwick and Redcar that we are arranging to accomodate. Are there any other clubs or groups that are travelling in coaches that need to be considered please? Thanks ............David

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Morning, Thank you to everyone who came along last night and your kind comments both at Peterborough and elsewhere, the atmosphere was just brilliant! This post really is to comment on two threads without intending to malign any particular poster so if someone wants to copy and paste it on the "Is BSF any good....." thread please feel free to do so. I always knew last night would be a tough meeting to hold together before the event particularly for one or two key competitors who are in demand elsewhere and of course the recent history of the event which has at times promised so much only for it to crumble on race day. I said last night that this was a foundation year for me with the series and that I/we will learn where possible and if I am asked to continue will endeavour to improve where we can. As an example, the BSPA press office and Peterborough both updated their websites and released official press releases of the revised line up before anyone travelled, the press office had access yesterday to update both sites on a phone call if necessary, a laminated list of the competitors accurate at 5pm was placed outside every entrance before any tickets were sold and right up until we opened the turnstiles only one advance ticket purchaser requested a refund as a result of the line up changing (a family who cannot get to Swindon today). These are lessons learned from the EL Pairs at Ipswich so hopefully someone may catch us doing something right. My comments concerning the Chris Harris posting need to be understood in the perspective I was faced with yesterday, arrive at Alwalton 1pm, beautiful sunshine and blue skies having driven through localised showers where it was persisting down only 3 miles away. Some 2 hours later I get a text to say "it says on the internet that Bomber has pulled out" I communicate with Rosco and he confirms nothing has changed and fortunately Chris and his crew arrive early so that I can confirm as much. Now to be honest Chris is one guy you can rely on likewise the Coventry promotion but such is the power of the internet that word was spreading. This not only potentially influences the attendance but equally opinions of our integrity and as most posters have witnessed there is no stopping the lynch mob when it comes to the sport's governing body. Those of you who know me understand that my personal integrity precedes me, I am brutally honest and do not set out to mislead hence the "soon as possible" posting to confirm Chris's arrival never the less in recent weeks the innacuracies emanating from this forum is a cause for concern. Phil has had the decency to apologise and I am particularly pleased that he came to the event demonstrating that he was able to overcome his personal concerns over the line up and the other negative influences on this thread posted over the last couple of weeks, thanks Phil. People do react to information communicated by third parties and inaccuracies become moreso as people misunderstand or misinterpret again as an example we had twenty or so people tell us that the Adult admission last night was £16, when asked where they got the information half of them had seen it on the Peterborough website and the other half had asked someone to look on the Peterborough website for them. This is what the website said, GENERAL ADMISSION 2010 (Pay at the turnstile, on the day) Adults - £16.00 Student & Senior Citizens - £12.00 Junior(12-15 year-olds) - £5.00 Child (11 and under) - FREE (if accompanied by parent/adult) Family Tickets Family (2 Adults/2 Juniors) - £38.00 Programmes: £2.50 Double Issue Programme (if applicable): £3.50 Car Parking: £1.00 2010 SUPER7EVEN EVENT ELITE RIDERS CHAMPIONSHIP - Saturday 16th October, 2010 Adult: £20.00 Concessions: £15.00 Juniors: £5.00 Children (11 and under): FREE Programmes: 4.00 Parking: £2.00 Now how much more accurate can that be? The point I make is that even accurate information is not fully absorbed so when inaccurate information is misinterpreted we have a problem that can create internet mass hysteria. We all know that we are in a very difficult economic climate and those of us who are fortunate enough to have disposable income at the moment need to get the best possible value, I said this last night, you have options that compete with Speedway but what was served up last night on a fresh night surely has to rank with the best. The Peterborough promotion have everyone pulling in the same direction, the SCB Officials drove the pace and from an organisational point of view it ran like clockwork. If we can bottle last nights event for uncorking in the future then we are going to make progress but we need you to share that with us, not just through the turnstiles but in your opinions and advance appraisals of what we are trying to achieve. BSF is it good for the sport? In a word, yes, it is some of the topics and postings that are not. As many of you will recall I used BSF to great advantage to maintain interest and raise funds for Garry Stead, I'll never forget that, the response was tremendous, thank you again. At Sheffield we have migrated our forum to Facebook to make the posters and what is behind the comments transparent to all, needless to say the negatives have all but ceased and there is nowhere near as much debate but when we are promoting our club and pointing corporates and enquirers to our website they do not now see our customers squabbling on a forum. Finally, with apologies for the length of this post, I'm not in a position to debate some of these points but felt the need to reassure many of you that we do have ears and contrary to popular opinion do respect our customers. Thanks again for last night and thanks for your indulgence this morning .....................David

Been here since 1pm, no rain since 12 30, blue sky and sun going down. Chris Harris is here!

Good Day, Just a brief post to say a very, very sincere thank you to everyone who came along to Sheffield yesterday. A fabulous atmosphere that made everyone's hard work behind the scenes worthwhile, you did Speedway and the Premier league proud. Thank you ...............David

S6 2DE Owlerton England 10am 13°C Partly Sunny Noon 16°C Partly Sunny 2pm 17°C Partly Sunny 4pm 17°C Partly Sunny 6pm 16°C Partly Sunny 8pm 14°C Mostly Cloudy

A66 closed in both directions at Temple Sowerby, very long delays and unlikely to re-open for some times

Paul Cooper and Ben Barker are the track reserves, once the programme goes to print and another rider can't make it the reserves go in. Paul and Ben agreed to be reserves on that basis. A bit unethical I think to pass them over when they have been on the hook for a month. Hope you agree.

Recognising that many of you will be travelling from afar we have pegged the admission prices to our usual level. We would rather have more fans celebrating Garry's career than price them out at £15 plus plus plus. The programme is a magazine with only one advertisement, 28 pages of copy and photographs, it does contain the race card but at £4.00 is excellent value. Under 12's free - we also recognise that a number of youngsters want to make a contribution so there will be collecting boxes for say 50p or a £1.00 of their pocket money if they so wish. We don't want to offend anyone's dignity on this. Official Passes will admit 1 person only, no guests and our Rotweillers on the pit gate will take a paper contribution from every passholder, their guests pay on. I am tempted to charge passholders £30 for having the audacity ; For the record here is the Press release on the pricing strategy Steady as you go” With only a few days to go before the Garry Stead Benefit Grand Prix Speedway meeting Co-Promoters, Neil Machin and David Hoggart, have announced their admission strategy and it is very much business as usual at the Owlerton venue. Admission has been pegged at the regular Premier League weekly rates of; Adults £12.00 OAP’s £9.00 Children Aged 12 – 16, £5.00 Children Under 12 FREE Neil Machin commented “We are indebted to Cyril Chell from Easy Rider Motor Cycles who has taken on the main sponsorship and allowed this to happen. Everyone is working on a voluntary basis but there are some hard costs and Cyril has covered this”. The Sheffield club have produced a 28 page glossy colour magazine featuring Stead, who is paralysed following a track crash in May, Co-Promoter Hoggart is full of enthusiasm “The quality is excellent with only 1 advertisement, editorial from Garry and superb photography it will rank as one of the best ever. Elvis Jones has designed the cover and we have already been offered £1,000 for the original artwork which is signed by the 2007 British Grand Prix Riders” The cover price for the magazine is £4.00. Donations may be sent payable to, “Garry Stead Benefit Fund” c/o Yorkshire Bank, 14 High Street, Alfreton, DE55 7BB or paid in at any Yorkshire Bank branch quoting the above detail.

Down to me this one I am afraid, sorry if I have put it out of reach of some of you but if I can explain my strategy. Next weeks PR will carry the pricing structure but you will see that we have put attendance by admission very much in reach of everyone. By not hiking the admission price to £daft we are looking for numbers to turn up and enjoy. There will be a raffle but not an auction on the night, I have tried to open up the auctions to the wider Speedway Audience by using Ebay and in the case of the Referee we need a winner beforehand and could not realistically sell tickets all over the country. The strategy is simply to raise as much money from the widest audience, sorry if it hasn't come across quite as I intended. The Coup de Grace will be the Souvenir Programme, A4 glossy, more a magazine than a book of adverts, sure the main sponsors are featured but out of 28 pages at the moment there are only 3 set aside for advertising. We have tried very hard to make this different to every other benefit/testimonial you have seen. At £4.00 you will own a piece of Garry, much of it written from his own words with candid photographs that will bring tears. It's not to be missed, promise. David