lisa-colette 6,031 Posted November 16, 2023 1 minute ago, HGould said: Poole benefit from a very well appointed stadium, at least by Speedway standards, that they rent so don't have to maintain. Plymouth have a field where they can't build permanent structures, everything built by volunteers apart from the Changing Rooms. A 400 seat Stand built in Covid year by volunteers. They compete v one one the most upwardly mobile Soccer and Basketball Clubs in the Country. No way you can compare the two really. Poole very much plug and play pat the rent turn up. Plymouth graft graft graft just to survive. There is a Premiership football team 5/6 miles up the road to compete against. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bagpuss 10,780 Posted November 16, 2023 57 minutes ago, W9 Lion said: Poole have three advantages over other clubs IMHO. They are very well run, as the only professional sports team in the town they get very good sponsorship (which they work very hard to generate and then maintain) and then the demographics of the local population, both in terms of age and income is helpful. And holidaymakers. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jaizer 2,864 Posted November 16, 2023 31 minutes ago, lisa-colette said: There is a Premiership football team 5/6 miles up the road to compete against. Tbf with the supporter base of a league 1 club. Compare it to clubs size of Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow the can see a fair difference in what the competition is in these places 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
W9 Lion 222 Posted November 16, 2023 2 hours ago, Jaizer said: Tbf with the supporter base of a league 1 club. Compare it to clubs size of Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow the can see a fair difference in what the competition is in these places If you want competition Leicester has it hard, Championship football 30k, most successful English Rugby Union club 24k, most successful basketball club 2k, Netball 1.5k county cricket (one man and their dog, but does well for sponsorship). Its bloody competitive in erms of choice for both spectator and advertising monies. They only need an Ice hockey club for a full house. 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AceBelle 43 Posted November 16, 2023 7 hours ago, lisa-colette said: There is a Premiership football team 5/6 miles up the road to compete against. who only get 12 thousand crowds !! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lisa-colette 6,031 Posted November 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, AceBelle said: who only get 12 thousand crowds !! Because that is their capacity? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Shovlar 10,439 Posted November 17, 2023 13 hours ago, AceBelle said: who only get 12 thousand crowds !! Might only get 11,500 crowds but virtually impossible to get a ticket. Demand outstrips ticket availability 3 to one. A 25,000 seater stadium would see a 25,000 crowd every home match.AFCB going the same way as Brentford and Brighton in the next three years. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
therefused 819 Posted November 17, 2023 then some of that 12,000 that miss out might go to the speedway instead? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skidder1 7,637 Posted November 17, 2023 6 minutes ago, therefused said: then some of that 12,000 that miss out might go to the speedway instead? Currently,except for occasional TV stipulations, and in recent seasons AFCB have held their midweek matches on Tuesdays to avoid clashing with Pirates Wednesday meetings. Hopefully the new American owners will continue with this arrangement as a good number of locals support both clubs! 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steve Shovlar 10,439 Posted November 17, 2023 7 minutes ago, Skidder1 said: Currently,except for occasional TV stipulations, and in recent seasons AFCB have held their midweek matches on Tuesdays to avoid clashing with Pirates Wednesday meetings. Hopefully the new American owners will continue with this arrangement as a good number of locals support both clubs! More likely now to be down to TV scheduling. If AFCB play on a Saturday 5.30 or Sunday then it would be a Wednesday night match. Barker the only signing for Plymouth so far. Hearing Continental riders of middle order not interested in the U.K. due to Brexit, distance and little value. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SPEEDY69 1,260 Posted November 17, 2023 (edited) 24 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said: More likely now to be down to TV scheduling. If AFCB play on a Saturday 5.30 or Sunday then it would be a Wednesday night match. Barker the only signing for Plymouth so far. Hearing Continental riders of middle order not interested in the U.K. due to Brexit, distance and little value. Good, will force them to look closer to home to entice and build our pool of riders Edited November 17, 2023 by SPEEDY69 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lewy 2,326 Posted November 17, 2023 36 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said: More likely now to be down to TV scheduling. If AFCB play on a Saturday 5.30 or Sunday then it would be a Wednesday night match. Barker the only signing for Plymouth so far. Hearing Continental riders of middle order not interested in the U.K. due to Brexit, distance and little value. Barker only signing??,really!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RogerM22 95 Posted November 17, 2023 35 minutes ago, SPEEDY69 said: Good, will force them to look closer to home to entice and build our pool of riders It is good, but what do we do in the meantime? Build teams filled with NDL riders? This problem should've been fixed years and years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ben91 1,743 Posted November 17, 2023 35 minutes ago, RogerM22 said: It is good, but what do we do in the meantime? Build teams filled with NDL riders? This problem should've been fixed years and years ago. You build to the standard available. If that is “NDL” riders then so be it. The problem is of British Speedway’s making, so the sport here has to fix its own mess. Sadly that is done in the form of papering over the cracks with more doubling up generally. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tosh1218 592 Posted November 17, 2023 22 hours ago, Jaizer said: Tbf with the supporter base of a league 1 club. Compare it to clubs size of Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow the can see a fair difference in what the competition is in these places AFC Bournemouths ground only holds approx 11 thousand fans and that includes away support as well Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
