Deanomachino

one aspect which I do think should be addressed is the extra's that riders get from clubs , firstly I would just like to say riders deserve millions however the millions are not there so something has to change ,I recently saw the demands of a premier league rider and points money aside he was asking for the equivalent of £10000 in add on's up front , add on's being flights,van,mechanic ,workshop,signing on fee + a few other things and this seems to be the norm these days, ive even heard of national league riders asking for some of these things , now can clubs really afford this ? if all 7 wanted this then that's £70000 even before a wheel has been turned , I heard today of one of the tracks in financial trouble hadn't paid the lease money for their reserve riders van and it was returned to the company ,why is he even getting a van ? this didn't happen 10 years ago, i really do think that some riders have lost perspective of why they ride and where the sport is financially ,maybe these deals are ok in the elite league but I do think the premier has got to return to be a semi pro league as it was at the turn of the millennium ,we are getting national league riders turning down meetings because they only pay £10 a point, some will say its not enough we are struggling to make it pay , its the national league your in its not supposed to make it pay, we have to nip this in the bud now ,this is about the future of our sport if it has one

the real point is never expect a fair solution from someone who benefits or loses from the outcome because they will always look after no1 , a tuner will never put himself out of business to make the sport better, but you go and talk to them and they are the first to tell you the sport is knackered , they may be right but then tell them they are a part of the problem

aparently they couldn't make it work any more but I heard Nicki shoved her in to the shelves in the fruit and veg section while doing the morning shop , he said "she saw some banana's on offer but I was getting to them first "

Nicki pedersen for 2017 world champion ?now barbie is off the scene

to be fair to them they only do what the riders want but when they start to be a well known as the riders you have a problem , costs have rocketed in the last few years and I believe that's part down to tuners sourcing their own parts which are for that little bit of something extra but ultimately costs a lot more

a sort of system would work at any level , unfortunately the sport is currently run unofficialy by the tuners with the riders backing and that isn't going to change anytime soon even if the riders were to benefit from it , a soon as the powers try something all hell breaks loose we end up back at square one ,

I know but im thinking about the sports already embarrassing reputation , can we really afford another big embarrassment ? I agree he shouldn't get off scott free but I care about my beloved sport and just feel this will make us more of a mickey mouse sport in the eyes of the general public

just to add I don't think greg should lose his title but should get a big fine and start next season with a 10 point deduction

one thing that is crystal clear on all this is that monster joe should be banned from entering the pits during a meeting , it should of been done a long time ago , you cant have a sponsor of a few riders openly acting like a chimp in the middle of what is supposed to be a professional pit area, he has no right to be there , last night I spoke to a member of the FIM who said in his opinion greg's actions were obvious but he doubted it was greg's idea, so it was obvious where he thought that idea had come from

The agm should be about 1 thing ,not enough people coming to watch = ideas to address this issue . Changing the format and rules isn't going to bring a single person through the gate , I firmly believe the starting point is price , you won't tempt anybody if you overprice your product , yes I've heard all the "we can't do this cause this costs this" etc , we'll change the pay structure of the sport then , painfull short term gain long term or stay as we are bury our heads and everyone can not get paid , if rumours are true £200,000 is owed to riders, suppliers and track owners and still we carry on like all is well

there are a few things but you have to convince the riders and tuners of it and well it would be easier to convince the queen to have a skid

Whatever the machinery solution is it must have big flywheels cause the nature of speedway requires them and neither the Honda experiments or the current f2 idea has them

I believe buster has the balls for radical change and a way forward however he has to convince all the promotors of his vision and it won't be an instant reward fix and I believe they would kick him out before going for his ideas

personally if there was to be another British GP I would rather up was up in some stadium around Edinburgh / Glasgow but I just think another on would detract from Cardiff so happy with one

i agree but Britain is the second biggest money on the GP circus with Cardiff and to a point Torun, apart from Poland I would say Britain has the highest number of traveling fans to other GPs

Are bsi thinking the future ,vaclav milik, Robert lambert or a young pole , excitement Nicki pedersen greg Laguta or commercial any pole and a Brit , lots of brits go to Torun , would that take a hit if there was no other Brit apart from woofy and he isn't the most popular Brit ever

Well done to zmarlick , excellent achievement in your first year GP

Good to see the sport does have some integrity even if monster and certain riders don't

Monster manipulating the results , come on the poles

Not sure why Hancock helped out holder there but clearly did

Kildermand should of gone there , perhaps he was unsettled by he mini straight half way round the corner

Does anybody else find max clegg riding for wolves just wrong , this is nothing personal against max clegg just how did we get to the point where a spoon also rides for wolves . Its bad enough that they squat at our home , It's just wrong

to be fair sliding a speedway bike is fairly easily , once you have the confidence it's extremely easy however doing it at speed and with 3 other idiots who you are convinced are trying to kill you makes it a little more difficult

riders haven't been ripped off by tuners after all it's the riders that want the extra speed/performance so the tuners are just doing what riders ask but the free for all that tuners have has pushed the prices up and up , apart from 500cc and 4 valves tuners are pretty much unregulated in what they can do and basically the parts they use are to get the best performance rather than reliability from them but if parts were made for reliability and holomagated and no machine work was allowed on the parts so everyone had to use them , no one would have an advantage and costs of parts could be set accordingly , I have been a rider , mechanic and done pretty much done everything in speedway but my thoughts these days are from a fan point of view and my concerns are for the future of the sport , I don't just pluck these ideas out of thin air , I ask questions from both sides of the fence , if I'm off the mark then fine , I have no axe to grind with any individual in the sport , I just want to see a future in the sport and one other point I would like to make is i have no financial intrest in any of my thoughts/proposals so I can't really be biased towards any solution or idea and that can't be said of other people who have had their say over the last couple of seasons , I believe the sport has come to the end if it's financial system and a new financial structure is needed and everyone from riders mechanics and tuners are going to feel like they are being hard done too but it's got to happen with the end result being a cheaper sport for fans to attend

then why won't you say anything against the tuners ? They are the cancer that is eating away at the sports finances , pushing and pushing the limits and making speedway like a poor mans f1 and speedway never was and never will be an engineers sport