Bagpuss

Sidney, you are missing the point, not for the first time in this thread. Nobody is saying that the speedway in the UK isn’t in big trouble or that King’s Lynn have made a good job of this. People keep asking WHY they have spread out the announcement of riders through to March and what the point is, and we are trying to explain why the club are doing it. Robin Brundle is doing this as a marketing/media strategy, it’s been thought through, not just done on a whim. For the benefit of people who don’t go on speedway forums every day through the winter and whose attention the club is trying to grab during the off season. They are trying something different. As Ive said I don’t think it’s been done particularly well and could have been carried out much better with a structure and without such big gaps between news as that has annoyed regular fans too. So hopefully they will do it better next year. But whether you agree with it or not it’s pretty clear WHY they have tried it this way and what the point is, and it’s frustrating that people keep asking the question. Mr Brundle is a different animal to Mr Chapman, one would like to think that he will listen to and act upon feedback on this matter and others too.

It’s for the benefit of those people who don’t know it’s Riss. It’s to keep Lynn speedway in the news over the winter period rather than naming the whole team with three months to go. To keep people interested who shut off from speedway from November to March every year. Not saying I agree with it (in fact I think they’ve made a bit of a dogs breakfast out of it) but that is the point of what they are doing. It was pointed out by several people way, way back in the thread.

Not at all, I’ve never made excuses and have often said that the action at Lynn is poor, and even offered reasons as to why I think that. It’s one of the reasons I don’t go very often any more. But speedway has predominantly been gate and go for many, many years and a successful team will nearly always attract healthy crowds whether the racing is good or not. I would argue that a team winning every week with no passing would get bigger crowds than a team who loses every week with brilliant racing. Shouldn’t really be that way but it is.

A large proportion of speedway fans all over the UK (world?) have always been happy to see gate and go speedway with a win at the end. Don’t think it’s ever been much different to be honest.

Eveybody is entitled to an opinion, positive or negative. At the end of the day what any of us say on here is pretty irrelevant, results on track are all that matter in terms of where we end up in the table.

Apart from at number one presumably. Ive predicted 4th/5th and I’m pretty confident on that. Certainly don’t see us topping the table again, but nobody thought that last year.....

Exactly. The team which finished comfortably top last year with an excellent away record is unlikely to struggle at the bottom in a weaker league by changing one rider. They might but it’s highly unlikely.

At Lynn it’s stock car friendly stuff, don’t think you’ll have that problem at the EoES. He has many faults but when it comes to making a circuit smooth and even there are few better than Buster.

I’m sure Cook it whoever else would have had the good sense to apologise the next morning and not force the club to sack them.

Nobody knows how Kasper will do but MPT ought to be one of the best reserves in the league.

Mind that gap mate

I don’t think Lynn are ‘way weaker’ than anybody but humouring you for a minute do you really think they look weaker than Ipswich?

Have said all along sid that the spreading out of announcements is for the benefit of people who switch off from speedway in the winter months and not the likes of us who use this forum. I don’t think it had been done particularly well but can understand the theory. They could have done so much more with better planning. People who eat, drink and sleep Lynn speedway knew the team before Xmas.

Yes although we didn’t wait for it, it was known about three months ago.

I thought the release of names was Robin Brundle’s idea, could be wrong.

And the staff have to pay too!

Not entirely surprised that car parking price has been introduced eventually, expected it years ago to be honest. Doesn’t make it any more palatable though. The car parks are better than they have been but I believe the one behind the back straight will never be done with tarmac or concrete as it belongs to the council and not the stadium. When it’s muddy and full of puddles after bad weather its not really good enough for a sports venue which asks for eighteen quid to get in.

I’m all for a range of opinions as I think it’s the only way you can get a true picture of what’s going on, but unfortunately we seem to have a core of people on Lynn threads who moan about the same things day in, day out and don’t seem to recognise the good things when they happen. I’m not for a moment saying that some of the criticism isn’t justified because it absolutely is as Buster has alienated people and the promotion are far from perfect but I think the best opinions are the balanced ones rather than constantly moaning about the same stuff or as you say ‘happy clapping’. The truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

Funnily enough even though my memory is pretty good I can remember very little about 1998

If you trawl back through the thread the three riders have been mentioned enough times.

I think you should have another go at that post to see if you can miss the point any further

Have always hated ultra top heavy sides, for me a solid team with at least one good reserve is the better way to go.

Bored of the argument about revealing names (we know who the other three are anyway) but really good to hear that the fitness programme has been improved and that the riders are all hitting targets.... I’ve no doubt whatsoever that this contributed significantly to us punching so far above our predicted weight last season and hopefully it will again.

Because we do.

Like him or loathe him, without him owning three teams there would be no Play Offs to get into because there would be no Premiership. Whether that would be a good thing or not is up for debate. Probably no surprise though that a man spreading his money three ways hasn’t produced a particularly fancied team - not that that necessarily means anything anyway.