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By RoundTheBoards · Posted
You're largely right. This saying that people don't go to speedway because they "don't like seeing the same riders every week" or "the Rider Replacement rule is too complicated" is utter nonsense. That's not the reason new people don't come to Speedway. It's the reason who old people who've been going to Speedway for 50 years THINK that new people don't come to speedway. They're wrong. Look at Darts. No one complains they're just seeing Luke Littler every week in different competitions. They go for the atmosphere. The razzmatazz. Being able to shout and sing in a large crowd, creating an atmosphere. The lights, the music. They can't even see the darts go in the board, but they don't care. They're wrapped up in the atmosphere. Cricket - again, look at crowds for the 20/20 and 100 ball stuff. They go for the atmosphere, the razmatazz, lasers, music. Bands playing in between innings. They don't stay away because Freddie Trueman was playing for Worcestershire last week and today he's playing for the Birmingham Broncos. They don't stay away because they don't unfderstand Duckworth Lewis. Speedway just hasn't moved with the times. The sport is far more exciting than darts or cricket. The one minute races are perfect for today's short attention span customers, but we're not providing the atmosphere and value for money around the basic sport. We're not making it cool to go to speedway like it's cool to watch the darts or the short-form cricket. -
Just say he can't fly, all good, no questions, move on. Hey, you could even get Kennett to guest!
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Been saying it for weeks, first bit of rain comes and you will see rain offs left, right and centre because everyone has got used to riding on dustbowls and anything else, they will not want to know.
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And all 3 meetings scheduled for 7th September, so unless Sheffield sign Basil Brush or something at number 1 then they will have to go with RR again then.
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