THE DEAN MACHINE

NL riders want the big money like professional riders but when it suits them they want the amateur status , riders have pulled out of this meeting for years because the pay is standard money , I guess the SCB have finally taken a stand and good on them , more and more I hear I wouldnt get out of bed for that money and thats from average NL riders

They delay caused by the non arrival of the tyres reminded me of the scene in the Mike Bassett England manager film where they have a training match but have no balls cause they are in the back of the blokes car and he has gone shopping

So bspa vice chairman Rob Godfrey says doubling up has been something of a nightmare but it will change for next season, there is light at the end of the tunnel ,in my dreams I wish he had finally seen sense and going to scrap doubling up altogether but the reality is they are just going to change the days team race on , guess thats another year I wont be attending the top 2 leagues then 🙁

speedway isnt booming in Poland , its healthy but crowds have not increased ,not enough people go to leszno to pay Nikki pedersen let alone the others , its sponsors and council money that pays the bills , companys like Fogo spend a lot of money in speedway , look at the Center greens in Poland it is packed with sponsor boards , add their sponsor money together , chuck in some council money and you will get most of your income

what I am saying is the gate money becomes irrelevant the sport becomes financed by sponsors , Poland has a good percentage of their wages and bills paid by sponsors and as good as crowds as some of them get it doesn't cover the wages ,that is where we need to be aiming ,so it doesn't matter if the crowd is 1000 or 10,000 the wages and bills are paid for , if we were get to that position we could make every meeting £10 ,its getting there that's the problem ,one big company like coca cola spend more on advertising per year than the entire wages for the whole of the speedway world and there are 1000s of company's who do similar but why would they give it to speedway as it is, if I had the money I wouldn't and I love the sport , we need to get our act together first , take stock of where we are and build from there, we are in a shocking state and not a month goes by without some sort of balls up , these company's reputations depend on the products and sports they back , the exposure they pay for on tv in other sports is eye watering but they don't get embarrassed by those sports ,we have that exposure, the company's are there we just have to show we deserve their money and at the moment we don't, when we first got our sky It pretty much went to the riders , where was the fans part of the deal? ,where was the re investment of the sport ?nowhere is the answer and look where we are today ,riders demanding ever more and there is no sky to cough up so it basically falls on the fans to meet the ever rising costs , im sure I read or heard that even sky were not impressed how the money was spent

the reason I started this is talking to a couple of friends about speedway and why they dont seem to go anymore , the one guy said he simply cant afford paying £18 every week and would go more if it were £10 and the other said He wont pay £18 its just not value for money so I just thought Id put it out to the wider public , my own view is we should be aiming for £10 admission but the sport is not paid for by the fans attending but by sponsors ,so the number of fans attending becomes irrelevant but and it is a big but how do we get to that situation because in my opinion any company who would invest in the current sport is either mad or has money to burn ,so we in a bit of a catch 22 , we need the sport to be successful to attract sponsors and we need sponsors to make the sport successful and we are stuck in the middle with neither but this doesnt detract from the fact that most of our issues are self inflicted and we deserve to be where we are and it isnt going to change anytime soon because there isnt a will to change within the current regime

the results of the poll were 58% think speedway is too expensive to watch , 21% think it the right price and 21% think its not value for money

were going to the 2nd leg now on the 8th

and thats where the bspa need to show some balls and stick to their guns, but the demand wouldnt be greater, people seem to think this would open the floodgates for teams to sign all the best but all these best riders dont exist outside the GP and half that do exist dont want to ride here

Averages have had their day , speedway needs to change , it doesnt work anymore and juggling numbers isnt going to achieve anything

in years gone by it wouldnt of worked but today you cant just buy the best team cause of the riders who want to ride here there isnt that many top riders about , take Poole as example ,they sign Hancock as their GP rider, they have to sign a Brit and dont get first pick of Harris nicholls,cook so will prob go for richie worral , so who do they get for other 3 that are not in GP ? Andersen ? Gomolski j holder , who else is there ? And thats not much difference to the team they have now ,why wont it work ,

Need to get rid of averages , teams can sign any rider in top 5 but has to be 1 Brit and only allow 1 go rider , 2 reserves have to be British u21 and like in Poland they can stay at reserve till the 22, a team that had a rider this season gets first pick on that rider

BT dont capture the live event feel , the were times last night when there was no background noise at all, you wouldnt know there was a crowd there if they didnt show them, you can make a poor meeting captive viewing if you can capture the atmosphere, I kept thinking of the saying last night ,I guess you had to be there

may be on eleven sport , I will have a look in the week

A world champion , a presenter and a team manager ?????

is Torun v gdansk on tv ?

Ive started another poll on twitter about admission price to speedway , please vote and retweet @deanfelton1👍🏻

while the lack of British riders is certainly an issue, even poor foreign riders can become heros for teams, while your points may be valid they are not the problem with team speedway in this country ,it has no identity and is just a free for all and that has nothing to do with lack of British riders, my two speedway heros were both foreigners

For Wroclaw which is really a dreadfull race track it wasnt to bad a meeeting but the tension made it captive viewing

the product in this country is faulty and until it is fixed no amount of plugging,advertising or publicity is going to change that ,you are selling a team sport with no teams just names , why cant we seem to grasp that ?

Emil on the wrong gate choice again , maybe in his head he thinks if he pics the best gate he puts extra pressure on himself , does seem odd decision

Could of gone either way , holder doesnt really hit him hard enough to fall and kildermand is a rider that does go down easy but touch him he does and my first instinct would be holder out

You know what this and the last 2 GPs need ?? NICKI P

same again there , smolinski has already stopped the race before it started so lindback going through the tapes is after the stoppage ??

Track looking a bit choppy on 3 and 4 bend