THE DEAN MACHINE

They are paying the clubs but it isn’t a fraction for what a major company like discovery should be paying for a sport like speedway of which if they did the sport would be in a better financial state that it’s on now

Hopefully track is on the slick side like last week against Leicester but even then can’t see a win for Birmingham here

Does seem an odd one, rode for Poznan on Friday scored 3, couldn’t see anywhere else he rode over weekend but maybe carrying an injury from previous meeting ?

I do that journey on a Monday to watch the Brummies and it takes 25 mins, even quicker getting home, I could do it in less than an hour on my pushbike

I never said they weren’t rubbish, I’m just sick of people who don’t go constantly having a dig and have nothing constructive to say when they don’t go

When/ where did blodorn pick up this knee injury ?

Well when you are so vocal about how rubbish they are all season then you would of thought to justify your opinion you would show up and criticise but I guess not

Kvech out of meeting now

That should make KL stronger with Kvech but he having a bit of a tough meeting at moment

Will always be fan of bomber, great ride then

Yep but for once Birmingham actually seem to be able to gate

I’m in shock of birminghams gating tonight, where has it been all year ?

Barker was back infront of when Hagon crashed, barker hit Hagon

5-1 in heat one musielak wins, was on a 5-1 in heat 2 and Hagon fell 🙄

Anyway enough cackling about what we don’t know let’s just get Workington back to the tapes and wish them well in this current hiccup

If your referring to me as someone in the know I’m not, I have no association with the bspl or scb and have been in the past a thorn in their side and haven't they let me know, what I have is friends that I’ve built up over the years through the sport on both sides of the fence and that includes fans and we have a mutual trust of what we would pass on,imagine if I or they were to break that trust and tell the forum what they earn or what I earn (just for the record I haven’t got a pot to piss in ) others may feel it’s ok and that’s fine but I just feel riders income is a private thing unless they don’t mind telling it

Not really, all you got to do is ask them , there is no closing ranks, I just think it’s nobody else’s business what riders earn that said speedway as it is now speedway can’t sustain it and having been on both sides of the fence I am trying to come up with ideas to keep both sides happy because as I see it that’s not what’s happening and no it isn’t my job to do it but I have little faith in the people who’s job it is, so if I can pass ideas on then maybe someone will listen, maybe not

Don’t be so niave, what you see in newspapers and on tv about footballers wages has no basis in reality, it’s said to create headlines

I said first 3 questions of which you agreed with and then posted give over marra? to me putting boot on other foot

Would you like to tell us all on here how much your income is please because we would all like to know and all your outgoings, how much your pension plan is and any relevant financial dealings you have because we are nosey and feel it is our right to such information

Then ask the rider or the promoters themselves, if they tell you then great

Do you want to know the colour of his underpants too ? Not being rude but those first 3 questions have nothing to do with you, it’s someone’s private financial agreement

Musielak has been brilliant after heat 1 but I think it’s 7 races he had at home in heat 1 and only beat an opponent once, he for whatever reason is dreadful in heat 1 and straight away we on the back foot, hoping barker can do something cause as I said those first 2 heats usual set the tone for the meeting

Speedway is in comparison to thinks like motox relatively cheap at low to mid level and because of the low numbers of competitors is pretty easy these days to get into a team and if you want to just do for fun then there is tracks you can go almost every week, the downside is you will need to travel, as it is now it is unsustainable to carry on taking out more than is coming in but that doesn’t mean the team thing can’t work, it can and will but it needs leadership into the corporate world of which it doesn’t have, I agree the world is going to some dark places but that’s not speedway problem and neither should it be, I get you want to ride your bike for fun and you can nobody is stopping you, I do it myself a couple of times a year but the sport of speedway isn’t really aimed at the guys and girls like us, we have had our day,,we should know better by now and where we differ is I now want to watch league racing as I’ve always wanted to and there are 1000s who do but for whatever reasons as discussed above are choosing not too attend, speedway differs from other motorcycle sports because they are participant sports and speedway is primarily a fan sport, it is a team sport on bikes rather than a motorcycle sport

The only thing that is healthy and grassroots like is the GT140 grasstrack which they run on speedway tracks too,I have considered it as a bit of fun but decided it’s not for me as the engines are just not fast enough but it seems to be having a bit of a surge in participants and I think the GT140 championships have about 10 rounds per year at different tracks