stevebrum

Sorry but your attitude of we are ok so leave us alone is part of what’s wrong with the sport today. No one league is ok at all. The CL doesn’t play out to crowds of people (ask Workington and probably at least half of the current teams who have been mentioning poor crowd numbers for many a season now), CL tracks aren’t any better prepared or undoctored either, CL don’t prepare tracks to suit the home riders??? Of course they do. The only valid point you make is regards to the amount of double fixtures and triple with the season opener competition. It doesn’t happen in the European leagues who function fine with 8-10 teams. As I previously pointed out only a radical address of the current situation of ALL leagues will potentially address the decline and if it means one big league then so be it. Also to add I’m a fan of the top flight and wish to see it made stronger not weaker. Only a stronger league would bring the fans back to the top flight however that’s about as remote as it gets and hence why my attendance has waned also. On a separate note where do you get Birmingham being a team that might not be back in 2020? You must be the only person I know that has seen that as a possibility. Birmingham, like the Isle of Wight have a very customer friendly fans first approach that’s working well for the club and whilst it was a huge gamble for the club to move up I’ve not seen any news that this might be a one off season. Sheffield I get because it’s been put up for sale. Never before have all leagues and promotions needed to work together to save the sport than now. They must all do the right thing to save the sport. This my league is ok nonsense has caused some of the issues we are now faced with.

I think Janet Jackson singing Control.

If it’s prepped for the away side we may as well call it off now. Hopefully the racing will be good enough now that Doc has been advising on track prep. It’s not been the same since he left however. Huge loss.

On those 2 occasions doesn’t mean every occasion.

He doesn’t get on with the NSS so would be low on his list to join again.

Nicholls I’m sure loved his time with Wolves because he knows the track well and knows it’s usually well prepared for racing.

You must live in another world if you believe that the CL is all rosey and healthy. What happened to last years champions?? All ‘fine’ there is it? The amount of clubs running must be at an all time low in this modern era as clubs from ALL divisions are closing because of speedway not being profitable. There are litters of clubs no longer running from all tiers. This is a British Speedway problem not a one league issue. I thought it was the top flight that had a snobbery to all other leagues but you have proven that is not the case. ALL leagues and clubs need to work together to find a workable way forward and it needs to be radical and not just silly little tinkering here and there. What we don’t need is this snobbish attitude that we are fine thanks in the slightest because it’s this attitude that will see more clubs struggling to survive. Although I guess no clubs in the CL struggle because everything is fine. Cough cough Workington.

I believe it’s end of August?

Exactly. Cook is unlikely to reach that status.

I didn’t think it was possible but it’s looking that way.

Are Belle Vue trying to take the worst travellers this year from Wolves. Shocking.

Said so at the time, a completely backward step. Sign a rider that will struggle to score anything for a rider that at least gets 2 or 3. Crazy decision.

I must admit quite a lot of the Swedish meetings are overrated although late on they can offer good racing and sometimes the odd great match. We are a nation of moaners now so of course if every match (or game dependant on sport) isn’t full of quality action they will be met with torrents of complaints. Sometimes the consumer expects to much!

On paper yes, but we all know we don’t ride on paper! Be interesting to see if they give us the same power as Ippo.

It’s still a solid day of work to completely relay a track and pack it in.

I agree the bikes do struggle with the tracks here as well but that’s been an issue for a while now. The lack of suitable shale over the past 2 seasons as seen quite a rise in fans of the home clubs complaining about the poor racing and acknowledged by a lot of promoters. There are still tracks that still get praise tho (like NSS, Peterborough, Scunthorpe) so for me the current issue was tracks as well as the current bikes.

Have you seen Wolves away? We are as bad as the Aces! Nothing to brag about beating the Panthers home and away. Hopefully it will ensure we won’t finish bottom. But I’m more than happy to be proved wrong on Thursday!

Better track prep is needed and I think the availability of the right shale has had a major impact on the majority of clubs.

Good to see the Wolves have found the ability to win at home again. At least we have bought a little distance from the basement.

Ditto most tracks. I remember a time when Poole was brilliant as well. Those days are long gone.

But Wolves aren’t Poole, not this year!

Standard home win.

Battle for the wooden spoon. No interest.

There used to be a dick-a-dum-dum too. According to Des OConnor.

Should be a routine home win, with the Aces sent home pointless. I reckon this will be the start of the Robins securing that top 4 spot.