Bagpuss

Really looking forward to this, the best two teams clashing on the opening night. Fingers crossed all fourteen riders are present.

I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody from Lynn’s team can’t make it tonight but the EDP mentions all seven riders in the main part of the preview so I don’t think that should be a cause for concern. In all likelihood they will all be there but we’ve all turned up to a meeting at some point only to discover at least one rider absent from the parade. Hence the scepticism I guess.

This thread is like a turd that just won’t flush away.

Would be surprised if this doesn’t sell out by Monday evening but at the same time there are several reasons why people might be reluctant to commit to a ticket for the first meeting.

Definitely Rowe, you can tell by the elbow positions going into turn three.

Really? Just a few showers forecast.

Good news and I hope that’s the case, it’s just we’ve seen Poland flex their muscles before when they want their riders to stay put.

Yep that had crossed my mind too.

Well that’s decided it for me, R/R a guest and a showery forecast means the chances of getting VFM for my twenty quid are a lot smaller. Cynical me also wonders why this was announced the day after tickets went on sale......

Belle Vue, Sheffield, Wolves and Ipswich must all be concerned about their riders getting in and out of Poland.

It would be so easy to let everyone know via social media and websites why there is a delay, to apologise for it and give us an indication of when tickets can be bought if possible. So quick to do. You’d think with the few loyal customers it has left that British Speedway would treat them as well as it possibly can!

Stumbled across some Go Pro footage from Lynn which appears to have been filmed in April, seems to be a training session for young Brits under the coaching of Rory Schlein. Looks like two lap bursts from the tapes. I could see Bickley, Rowe, Jenkins and Pailin amongst those riding but there are one or two others I’m not sure of including the one wearing the camera. Anyone know who, what, why, when etc? We know the where at least

That’s the crux of it right there.

I’d agree with whoever said fifteen quid for the standard on offer in 2021 (Haza I think) I’d go every week I possibly could at that price. As I said earlier if it was retained at £18 I’d go occasionally but at twenty I will go two or three times I suspect at the most. My other half is a Manchester lass and if we lived up there instead of down here I’d go to Belle Vue every week at £20, it’s that good. The only place I would though!

It won’t be sitting at home though, it’ll be finding something else to do which feels like value for the money paid to do it!

I can see you point of view but consider this, these are the top eight averaging riders from the 2019 season in order; Doyle Batchelor Fricke Jensen Lambert Cook Bjerre Iversen Only two of those will be riding over here this year, the other six have essentially been replaced with junior riders. The pros and cons of that will become apparent as the season progresses but you must be able to see why people are miffed at having to pay more money for a weaker product? That extra two quid will make quite a difference to me, the absence of Robert Lambert takes some of the appeal away immediately but I may have been tempted to go more with a price freeze, bumping it up to £20 just seems like a mickey take to me. Especially if the racing is as timid as it has been in recent years. If they sort the shale out and the AFA suddenly turns into the NSS I’ll eat my words of course

To be fair the confusion created by the EDP was not the clubs fault as the situation was quite clear in the Lynn news but the ticket situation is really poor, and not just an issue with King’s Lynn which makes it even worse.

Spot on, it’s that air of unprofessionalism and lack of customer care. And the annoying thing is that its so preventable.

An explanation would be nice seeing as it was announced officially that all clubs would be putting tickets on sale this morning at 9am. May well be an understandable reason but it would make the governing body / clubs look a lot better if they told us why.

Lynn News 1-0 EDP

I’d already read on Facebook that Riss has a meeting in Denmark this week and that he has no equipment in the UK until he drives it over so that’s why he wasn’t there yesterday and it seemed pretty clear he would be coming over at the end of this week ready for next Monday.....however Chris Lakey has worded the EDP article quite badly and it makes it unclear which Monday they are talking about. I wonder if his articles get proof read properly as his Linnets stuff in the EDP often has errors in it too.

No Riss at P&P today, nothing to worry about I hope......

I expect the issue people have is that we are paying more for a weaker product....no Lambert, Doyle, Fricke, Thorsell, Tungate etc compared to last time but more to get in. Pubs won’t be serving weaker beer or hotels offering less comfortable beds you’d imagine!

The NSS is the one place I could stomach paying twenty quid regularly.

Absolutely, am sure there is a perfectly good reason for it but imagine how good he could potentially be if he was a few years younger? Hopefully he can still improve rapidly and have a good career at a higher level.