King's Lynn 2016

[semion 2,192]

8.05pm and no announcement of a new rider.... do I have the wrong day or have I missed an announcement announcing that the announcement has been postponed?

I would have Thought if anyone was in the Know it would be you JC. The old man must be playing his cards close to his chest.😀 What do you mean 8.05 it can't be that time where you are🇦🇺

Edited December 17, 2015 by semion

[Theboss 727]

I would have Thought if anyone was in the Know it would be you JC. The old man must be playing his cards close to his chest. What do you mean 8.05 it can't be that time where you are

 

Not in the know anymore I am afraid, just a regular fan like yourself watching from afar and hoping that the club does well. Was looking forward to finding out who the next rider is going to be.... shame no official word on the delay, not even on the official twitter account

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[Speedball 566]

Think it's a bad case of Chinese whispers. Not seen anything that said there was an announcement due tonight!

[semion 2,192]

 

Not in the know anymore I am afraid, just a regular fan like yourself watching from afar and hoping that the club does well. Was looking forward to finding out who the next rider is going to be.... shame no official word on the delay, not even on the official twitter account

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Good to see still showing an interest. Many fans at Saddlebow and indeed The Walks have said your marketing skills have been missed. Only have to look at the crowds at the Football these days. No chance of seeing you back in the fold anytime soon ?

[Theboss 727]

Good to see still showing an interest. Many fans at Saddlebow and indeed The Walks have said your marketing skills have been missed. Only have to look at the crowds at the Football these days. No chance of seeing you back in the fold anytime soon ?

 

I had noticed the drop in attendance's but it is hard to tell the reason why when you don't live and breath it, so can not comment on whether it is marketing or other factors. Whist I would 'never say never' I am afraid the chances are incredibly low, and even if I did have the desire to be involved in speedway again I could not be sure if it would be with King's Lynn.

[semion 2,192]

Maybe 'Don' Buster could make you an offer you wouldn't refuse.😀 When you were involved at Saddlebow the place had a buzz about it. Always fresh, new ideas being tried. The kids loved the theme nights like 'Cowboys'

 

Shame that perhaps The old school boys at the BSPA never fully embraced what you were trying to do with things like the Super Se7en etc

Edited December 17, 2015 by semion

[hans fan 1,001]

Maybe 'Don' Buster could make you an offer you wouldn't refuse. When you were involved at Saddlebow the place had a buzz about it. Always fresh, new ideas being tried. The kids loved the theme nights like 'Cowboys'

 

Shame that perhaps The old school boys at the BSPA never fully embraced what you were trying to do with things like the Super Se7en etc

if you have ideas (forward thinking) you'll get blacked balled by the promoters ,

[Daniel Smith 5,675]

if you have ideas (forward thinking) you'll get blacked balled by the promoters ,

 

I think jc would agree with that. After knocking up the super7 series (forward thinking) the old cronies got their hands on it and totally fooked it up.

 

Anyway, great to still see ya popping in now and again fella. Think it's safe to say, you're better off out of this game as it's one serious sinking ship

 

Your old man has a stinker of a job trying to save British Speedway's future

[semion 2,192]

In fairness Screamer Buster is doing the job that JC started, what some 10 years ago ?

[Daniel Smith 5,675]

In fairness Screamer Buster is doing the job that JC started, what some 10 years ago ?

Correct, and you could see things going in the right direction 10yr ago. Since the cronies thought they could do better British Speedway has slipped back another 20.

 

Unfortunately, as I've said previously, Buster is on a loser as anything he wants to change, the old boys will still have the power to veto anything that is progressive.

[Alan_Jones 1,005]

This was re-tweeted by Rob Lyon earlier;

 

@Marc_7_7: I'm not sure where it came from, but there is no Stars team announcement planned for tonight or tomorrow night.

Edited December 17, 2015 by Alan Jones

[Star Lady 5,400]

Certainly true that Lynn, if not the wider speedway community miss JC , even his spelling has improved nowadays

 

Lynn have missed a trick. For a team that have a commercial manager what happened to the announcements being made on Thursdays at 7.45pm? That actually made a lot of sense, getting fans into the mindset of speedway on Thursdays. Even an announcement last night (Thursday)that no rider would be revealed but negotiations are ongoing would have continued the theme.

 

Even better why not delay the announcement of the Rory Evening for a couple of days and announce that last night at 7.45. FFS they didn't even start selling the tickets at 7.45. but did it at 8. Maybe that's a portent of things to come and 2016 meetings being delayed For the sake of 2-3 days advance publicity IMHO it would have been worth the delay.

 

The theme of Thursday 7.45pm announcements could be continued throughout the close season, there will be 2 more rider announcements, new race suits, new sponsors (hopefully), new rider sponsors, P & P day times etc. All of which could easily cover every week between now and the new season. Press releases can always be sent out in advance under an embargo so the media can publish on the Friday morning (it's always worked in the past).

 

 

But hey what do I know, I'm a mere fan with no training in publicity or commercialism. If you think I'm wrong just look at the number of posts/tweets made last night when fans obviously expected something/anything.

 

 

I also apologise if anyone was misled by my post that someone (i.e. not me) had said Radio Norfolk had mentioned that a new rider would be announced today.

Edited December 18, 2015 by Star Lady

[semion 2,192]

It does seem rather strange that even the son of the owner of Kings Lynn thought there was announcement coming at 7.45 last night. Then again he could have always picked up the phone and asked. ( then again maybe not)

 

With no new signing yet, why could they not have made an annoucement at 7.45 last night, and said something along the lines we haqve identified our number target and talks are ongoing etc etc... or if nothing was in the pipeline, let the fans know. fans like to be kept in the loop, even if there is nothing concrete to report.

 

Since JC left the PR at the club as been poor, to say the least. He has never been replaced. Maybe Buster felt there was no need for him in the first place. Its Buster business and Im sure he knows what is best. It just seems when JC was onboard the Club had a real feel good factor about it, that has gone downhill ever since.

[Haza 1,774]

Certainly true that Lynn, if not the wider speedway community miss JC , even his spelling has improved nowadays

 

Lynn have missed a trick. For a team that have a commercial manager what happened to the announcements being made on Thursdays at 7.45pm? That actually made a lot of sense, getting fans into the mindset of speedway on Thursdays. Even an announcement last night (Thursday)that no rider would be revealed but negotiations are ongoing would have continued the theme.

 

Even better why not delay the announcement of the Rory Evening for a couple of days and announce that last night at 7.45. FFS they didn't even start selling the tickets at 7.45. but did it at 8. Maybe that's a portent of things to come and 2016 meetings being delayed For the sake of 2-3 days advance publicity IMHO it would have been worth the delay.

 

The theme of Thursday 7.45pm announcements could be continued throughout the close season, there will be 2 more rider announcements, new race suits, new sponsors (hopefully), new rider sponsors, P & P day times etc. All of which could easily cover every week between now and the new season. Press releases can always be sent out in advance under an embargo so the media can publish on the Friday morning (it's always worked in the past).

 

 

But hey what do I know, I'm a mere fan with no training in publicity or commercialism. If you think I'm wrong just look at the number of posts/tweets made last night when fans obviously expected something/anything.

 

 

I also apologise if anyone was misled by my post that someone (i.e. not me) had said Radio Norfolk had mentioned that a new rider would be announced today.

in all honesty the commercial side /PR are at an all time low it was last season and its carried on through this closed season - I'm might be speaking out of turn but in my opinion this is were we miss JC - In the age of social media and Internet were updates can reach fans in seconds - We seem stuck in the 1980 were PR are concerned we get more info out of news papers of Radio and other riders via Twitter than we do from the club - ok perhaps there is nothing to report regarding the no1 position and no6 position but how about an update of what's happening?? Fans seem to be taken for granted one day there will be no fans if this carries on the way it is - time to wake up to what fans want .

[semion 2,192]

As I understand it, Its not just at Saddlebow that JC is being Missed. Buster also owns the local Football Club and there average numbers have dipped alarmingly. Again he has never been fully replaced there either.