Ouch is right though. Our injury curse was rotten for years come play offs. That cut be denied.    But its part and parcel of the sport. We got lucky recently with sheffield Injuries. That the rough with the smooth so to speak 

Do you mean this injury curse? 2018 Craig (2) 2021 Brady (1) 2022 Max (5) 2023 Charles (9) 2024 Ben (0) (Number of days before the playoffs that the injury occurred) Before last season, it had happened in 5 of the previous 6 seasons. All teams suffer injury throughout the seasons but no team has had a consistent streak of injuries on the eve of the playoffs, though I’m happy to be proved wrong by a similar list from other teams. If our situation is the norm then I apologies for my misinterpretation. 

Dan said last week it's £700 - £800 a point at his level... And £1000+ for number ones in the 2nd tier..  Plus that so important high five figure signing on fee which helps riders not only set up in Poland but elsewhere too. (Which is part of the reason the Poles are not too pleased when rides get injured in other leagues).. He also confirmed that his tier is also impacted by the rule, and he may have to consider not doing Poland if he doesn't get rides, like this season, and he can then ride in both tiers over here.. You would imagine those running the sport in the UK will have already sounded out the riders to see who is willing to do two tiers over here next year, such is the fundamental impact the rule could have, and have a complete list of them already sorted... Wouldn't you?... Edit. He also said there should be a BSP investigation into the standard of the Poole track last week..!!

I don't think your post came across as snything more that taking the pee out of the usual "Belle Vue Play Off Curse" comment that seems to get mentioned time and again.. I took it that way anyway...

From my perspective. If it wasn't on somewhere i could access easily and free i probably wouldn't of taken the time to do so. So the fact it was on ITVX and all i had to suffer was a some ad breaks made me tune in and watch all of it, and i'd hazard a guess i wasn't alone in doing do.  As for the racing, i think we all know Belle Vue has thrown up better racing in the past, but if any folk who had never seen or been to speedway match were there or watched it live i still think they would've enjoyed it, but sadly i think that number will be pretty small.  I think the best promotion the sport can get is from us as fans just bringing it up in conversation if the chance arises with our friends and people we know, I've taken a few of my friends along to Glasgow and they loved it, a few came to the odd meeting over the following years but obvs have never ended up being weekly attendees or became massive fans of the sport, and to me that's fine. I just think if we all just let people know we go to Speedway and they have someone they know to go with it might surprise you how many of your friends and social circle would jump at the chance to go.   

Have you seen how much Poland pay the riders , plenty of info via a Google search, all they have to do is offer a rider say £500 a point top riders are on 10 times that, then a clause in the contract you can only ride in one other league. Most riders are gonna put the polish money first, rather than ride in the UK for £75-£125 a point. Just got to see how little the British final winner got £1750 😲 look up Dan T's vlog