John Leslie

Yep. email to 5livesport@bbc.co.uk HIt the BBC Sport website with loads of comments and tweet to @BBCsport and anyone else we can think of.

Amongst the discussions on this forum, we often criticise promoters for failing to promote the sport properly, and accuse them of not using modern marketing techniques like social media effectively. Tomorrow, (barring disaster), we should have Britain's 8th World Champion. The first British World Champion for 13 years....but inevitably one of the following discussion threads on here on Sunday will be bemoaning how the event has been largely ignored by the sunday papers and TV. So I'm wondering about an experiment into promoting the sport using social media. Now facebook is mainly for talking within your own circle of contacts, but Twitter makes messages available to the world, and produces a list of the most popular topics currently being discussed. The last time I know of Speedway trending on twitter was under sad circumstances when Lee Richardson was being tweeted last year....So can we get Speedway trending under happier circumstances this weekend? What I'm suggesting is that just before the TV broadcast starts tomorrow, we all join twitter and tweet using the phrase #ComeOnWuffy in any messages and get it trending. (and then hopefully a suitable message at the end of the meeting). Curious twitter users will want to know who or what a "Wuffy" is. Lots of TV programmes use these twitter hashtags these days to promote their programmes... ..Maybe we could cause a surge in interest and boost the Eurosport viewing figures (and make sky take notice)? ...Maybe we could tweet to sports journalists and newspaper editors and get them to take notice? ...Maybe we could get a patriotic celebrity or sportsman tweeting about a British World Champion? ...Jessica Ennis and Cheryl Cole talking about Speedway? Who knows, it could happen? (after all Cheryl is hardly likely to be watching X-Factor on the other side is she?)

There's never been car racing. "Water motorsports" were included in 1908, but quickly abolished, with the IOC ruling after the 1908 games that the Olympics was not meant for motorised sport. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_motorsports_at_the_1908_Summer_Olympics

It's not as good as the Benji Compton one where Dave Dowling just stands there eating his burger and defying death

My bus will have a built in turntable under each seat. Surprised no one else thought of it. Why? What is there to be unsure about?

Load of fuss over nothing. It's what all the young kids are doing these days. Ain't that right Muddlo?

Have you just got in from a night out with Michael Lee?

Was the 10th April 2013 really a year ago? (well the last post on their facebook page was actually today, but the last post about a major stadium development was 10/4/13....not quite a year ago)

Those people are going to be very disappointed very soon

So who do you blame for dropping Cook, picking Barker, and not giving Worrall a run?

Rye House?

ISG plc (formerly Interior Services Group plc) who won the tender to build Belle Vue, is totally unrelated to International Stadia Group Ltd.

I don't recall using the word massive. That's a relative term. They do however seem to have a £1.3bn turnover, and have built the London Olympics Velodrome where we swept the board in Olympic gold. If they're the 17th biggest building contractor in the country then I'd be pretty convinced they can knock up a pretty decent speedway stadium inside 6 months and maybe we can move on to British Speedway picking up some gold medals in future

No concrete action? Just 3 months ago the council executive (the highest authority in the city) formally approved the plans. Within the last month or so they have awarded the tender to build the village to ISG. Doesn't sound like no action to me. Just as well that not one bean is coming from council tax then!

Believe they're building the whole sports village. They built the 6,000 seater London Olympic velodrome, so a 6,000 capacity speedway stadium with 2,500 seats should be within their capabilities http://www.isgplc.com/projects/

Does this help solve your dispute? http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/epw042089

Well that was a sensible response. Still, it proves you have no answer, but can't admit I am correct

There are plenty of people who would do a better job that Diddlo. Phil Morris is better for a start. It doesn't have to be an egotist like that grinning ape Rosco who just wants to be on tv. George English does a very good job quietly at Newcastle. Rob Lyon is pretty competent. Neil Vatcher does a good job with the youngsters down south, Richard Hollingsworth does a similar good job with youngsters up at Scunthorpe. There a probably quite a few people who do a competent managers job that I haven't even thought of, because the egotists overshadow them. 1. Get a managers licence.....why should riders be arsed to give 100% if the manager can't be arsed driving to Coventry to get manager's accreditation? 2. Never pick an off-form rider like Ed Kennett for a world cup event where he'd be lucky to score a point without his Black & Decker 3. Never pick Ben Barker for an important meeting that he's never been capable of performing in 4. Study the rules and race format so that they can get the tactics right 5. Create some team spirit in the camp...The kind that turns average riders like Ricky Wells, Ryan Fisher, Cam Woodward and a bunch of Latvians into competent performers.

So any success Poole have had is down to Matt Ford and his bank manager? Agreed. In fact Matt Ford and the bank manager would be entitled to ask why, considering the amount of money they have invested, haven't Poole won more? Again it shows Muddlo isn't very good and certainly shouldn't be GB team manager

I wouldn't bet against the Poles tonight. Did dopey Pearson just talk about "Yuri" Stancl?

Muddlo has to go...No question about it. The bloke couldn't even be arsed to go to an FIM seminar to get accreditation for a Team Manager's licence.....So he wasn't even our manager anyway, even though he was pretending to be. Anyone who thinks picking Kennett on Monday, or letting Barker anywhere near the British team, is a good idea should never be given a team manager's licence. Apart from not having a licence and being clueless as to which riders to select, he seems to have no tactical or motivational skills. But once Muddlo has gone, please let's not talk about halfwits like Rosco or Havelock as his replacement. They're just people who want to see themselves on telly and are in it for the ego trip. They have nothing to offer the job. Phil Morris is a good choice. He knows the young British riders and is working with the youth set up. There are also plenty of tactically aware managers at club level who do good motivational jobs without the publicity of forcing their faces onto the TV screen at every opportunity. Probably a pairing of Phil Morris together with a manager from the PL who has seen/is seeing the likes of Cook, Worrall, Howarth, Ellis, Lambert progress would be the best option.

Has Middleditch resigned yet? (That seminar that he couldn't be bothered travelling all the way to Coventry to attend to get a team managers licence, it didn't include an IQ test did it? Was that what he was dodging?)

Good to see the bloke who is running an Academy to make himself a few quid bring on the British riders (and indeed has his academy promoted on the BSPA website) is there in his American team colours cheering on the US riders. ...when's the next series of Rogue Traders?

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