Northampton, a mere 5 miles away has a population of 240,000+.

Some of the riders with certain attitudes are a cancer in our sport and like all cancers they need removing. To have riders minds (and often bodies) elsewhere is not what the fans pay to watch. There's no buy in from many of the riders and if they don't buy in why should the fans? Come and support your team... but your Captain is really only interested in another competition, your number 1 earns more money on a Sunday in another country so won't be riding on the Saturday night... and there's far too many examples to continue to list on here, we all know what goes on. I DO NOT blame the riders, they have to do what is right for themselves as self employed participants. But are there any other team sports that operate with self employed participants? Like I said in an earlier post, riders should be salaried employees it's the only way to get buy in. I know it will never happen and for that reason team Speedway will probably die a lingering death.

In the hundreds from each? As that is what I imagine Northampton would need from each of Coventry, Peterborough and Birmingham as their natural catchment area is not that highly populated.

So that was the worst meeting I've seen at Foxhall this year.  Smooth slick tracks do nothing for entertainment. Brennan was fast, his race times much quicker than anyone else, hope that continues to the SON! Kurtz has ridden worse at Foxhall this year so don't think he wasn't trying but was just very bad out of the start.  Bewley looked good when he popped out for a win but when behind didn't try the outside line once.  Blodorn, Zischke and Mulford did all they could, it was the top two stars who let the Aces down.  Heading into the GP, Doyle will be feeling more confident than Bewley and Kurtz.  Emil was just awful. I'm hoping for Leicester to make the final as I don't really like any of the Sheffield riders🙂

And so the biggest issue British Speedway is summed up, the league matches do not matter to the fans and sometimes not to the riders, the play offs do matter to the clubs who see it as possibly a break even pay day, but for whatever reason not all the riders are equally invested and some fans are smart to that, so if league matches don’t draw and the play offs by design or accident don’t draw, what is the point?   I don’t have the answer, I think we will lose more clubs as the sport in the country will become a very small league setup with maybe only seven or eight home fixtures a season plus a koc match or two, or become similar to what Isle of Wight do or what grass track does, a few meetings a season. (That won’t be viable though if speedway is the only sport in said stadium)

Duh, of course he does.