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Its worth pointing out that Classtrend have been the promoting company at Sheffield since the days of Lucking and Machin - the losses only started when they stepped up into the top division, Machin was always adamant he would never run in the top league!

Hey. As it stands Kings Lynn are in the play offs...😄

So Louis plays the Sandhu card due to the proposed set up not being to his liking. Try being a Belle Vue promoter and having to deal with the crap laid at our feet with irritating regularity. No matter how disgruntled you feel about not getting your own way you do not jump ship. Think of the bigger picture for once and not solely your own club as this thinking has got us into this situation we are now in. It’s better all round to try and attempt change from within rather than just washing your hands of our wonderful sport. You never win every battle but you still have hope to win the war. I posted when the NSS opened my concern of not having any top flight clubs to ride against due to the volatile nature of many promoting teams. It’s come to pass in the main due to this insular me, me, me thinking that culminates in this situation when things don’t go their way. We know it’s not a financial decision as like Poole in the second division the witches have the best crowds and due to incredible work done by Louis they have the best sponsor support. Pulling the rug like this has MASSIVE repercussions to the WHOLE sport in the UK and even if he gets his way and performs a U turn the damage from that press release will last. I feel for the witches supporters who would turn out to see their team in what ever guise they appeared. To have that potentially removed whilst the perpetrator sheds crocodile tears is particularly galling. Keep fighting guys, someone’s got to. Up the witches!

No that's Norfolk, not Suffolk 😜

Good signing mate,looking like Workington mean business 👍

It is quite baffling isn't it? Millions shelled out over the past 20 years, as a collective... Non stop, year on year... And all to deliver what we have now? Quite incredible... Not for one single moment it appears did anyone within the ruling body think.. "You know what, I don't think that this is working"... Yet. Thousands and thousands of fans of the sport, by their lack of regular attendance, and social media comments, were clearly telling them that... Millions spent collectively to try and win something that they then choose to destroy the credibility of... I can only describe it as being akin to 14 bald men paying six figures every single year to enter an annual lottery... Where the first prize is a comb!!! A quite amazing two decades or so...

I personally think the sport has too take step back and rebuild.Dont know what the plan would involve but there are a lot more riders out there than some people are saying. Everyone know that even most Championship Clubs are barely hanging on.Self Interest has to put to the side.

Well the big crowd for the playoffs will be reported in the next figures, I know in the JL days he used to say a big BH crowd in May / Easter time set them up for the season. I always feel I wouild be a fairly good promoter, Ive worked in finance all my life so i understand better than most the pressures of running a business from the admin / financial side. The problem is all those 50-60k losses per season add up and eventually the funding either runs dry or someone stops being prepared to throw away 200k or more! The problem is not just speedway, i struggle to find any football clubs that are financially sound!

This is true - Sheffield lost another 60k last season and their accumulated losses are 500k - Bv have accumlated losses of 300k or more, only Ipswich appear to be solvent!

Well I have to say I am gutted as both the clubs I attend Sheffield and Ipswich are up for sale / facing uncertain futures. The truth will come out and we can all decide if Louis was taking his ball home or not (I suspect not) - but lets see - clearly someone who has devoted his entire life to UK speedway wouldn't just walk away on a whim / fit of pique!!

What I write about my Polish club comes from the club so it’s more factual based than opinion so that’s really not an insult 😂 shout me out if you want, I’d love another 15 people in the world knowing about me 😉

The people who have left the sport in this mess ought to hang their heads in shame. Self-interest and letting the tail wag the dog have ruined what is one of the purest forms of entertainment out there. There will be excuses. There probably won’t be any accountability. It’s easier to blame external factors than acknowledge they could and should have done so much more.

No change there then, so what's to lose with "OBL" (that's not really that big)

For me... Pretend no one knows about the sport... (Won't be too difficult).. And launch it as if were brand new... Build a profile for it, make it a brand, get its name out into YouTube etc, with 10 mins behind fhe scenes vlogs, focus on making riders the personalities of the sport, share all merchandise costs and profits using a generic look but with each individual club having their insignia on their version of the merchandise.... Employ people who can influence and hype up the sport to a younger demographic, make websites look like they were designed today not when the internet was invented, use an interactive UK Speedway App, with clubs having their own individual interactive versions... Stop being so insular, staying sat within a "Speedway Bubble Echo Chamber" and instead open yourself up and bring in people much younger from outside the sport (if the skill set doesnt exist within it already), who can bring fresh ideas that white, middle aged men wouldn't even consider... Put the fans' "match night experience" front, back and centre of everything you do... In short. Look at what successful sports do and use as many of their ideas as is possible to help grow Speedway.. But, most of all, run it on the bloody nights that your fans find are the best ones for them to attend with their kids!!! And also find a way to get a fair few dozen away fans in attendance to add some bloody atmosphere!!!

There is not 1 Speedway Club not for sale. The problem is, there are no buyers.

There’s one poster on here that is calling out British national league riders by name for some reason, but no it’s everyone else that is anti British speedway