THE DEAN MACHINE

Or belle vue could of joined 1 league with bewley or Kurtz (I explained this on the 360 podcast a few weeks ago )and given the fans a new variety of clubs to see and visit but no shortsightedness and possibly greed has prevailed and we get to see the same teams over and over again, it’s just not doing it for me and at £25 a pop I can’t see us bothering to attend very often

I was gutted and angry that wolves closed but I am around speedway so much it has softened the blow a little bit but being so close to it I also get to know a lot of the downsides which do sometimes pee me off a bit

No it wouldn’t excite me to lose any team but it’s not a small premier league or nothing,the alternative is/was the championship,which if nothing else is more sustainable and offers the fans more variety which is what everyone wants, hope I’m wrong but unless it’s backed up with some sort of financial deal I can see the premier folding during the year because they are not getting enough fans to watch it, without the deep pockets of a couple of people it may have folded this year and that was with tv money

I’m now hoping for a bigger better national league, because the premier league doesn’t doesn’t excite me with 5 or even 6 teams and the championship is too far to attend regularly so unless I attend national league my attendance is going to be limited to around 5 meetings all season

Pay all your money folks in 2026, you won’t enjoy yourself or get the product you want but it doesn’t matter it’s all about 2027, sport could be finished in uk by then, never thought the death would come from within, well they have halved my family’s money, my Mrs who is a belle vue fan has already said 5 team league doesn’t interest her so won’t be going to see the same teams over and over, may as well just have a play off tournament in late august

Clearly like the bspl you can’t read the room either, nobody wants it not even the fans of the 5 clubs

The riders definitely run the sport for themselves and have done for a few years and are the first to moan when someone tries to do something putting the sport first, Dickson (TM of the year)😂 certainly has a few quid to lose by it only being one league, I am determined to find out what is behind this insistence of a premier league from the collective though

We are the ones who ultimately are making the decisions, we are the ones that pay for it, without us nothing happens and we collectively are not happy about the decisions that are being made, your first 3 are not true, 1 with the exception of a couple of riders the riders are the same, 2 if common sense prevailed on both sides of the divide most of those top riders could ride in one league anyway 3 there is more than enough foreign riders willing to ride here without the need for NDL riders and even if they weren’t most of the NDL riders ride in the championship anyway 4 protected race nights have done major damage to British speedway and need to be scrapped , 5 the championship would become the elite

It is when you win big

I do sometimes feel like if I walked away then the sport would collapse alltogether, it wouldn’t obviously but I feel like I’m somehow being emotionally blackmailed by it, I love it that much. Sad really

I just can’t get my head around why the bspl are doing this and are so insistent on it,going against public opinion and presenting a bit of a joke of a concept that surely is going to do nothing but damage the popularity of the sport further, my gut tells me there is a gambling deal around the corner but if there isn’t I don’t know what to think. Also does the ACU have a code of care for one of its disciplines ? And could step in to stop these maniacs killing the sport

We can learn from Poland but we have got to stop trying to be or even compete with them

I beginning to believe that to be true

For me what’s happening now is another missed opportunity just like in 2020 to reset the sport on a better path

Derek sends us the monthly view fiqures which are over 400,000 over all platforms but I don’t know what counts as a view or which platform they are on YouTube,Facebook, Spotify or wherever you can watch it

Thank you much appreciated,I’ve tried this sport from just about every angle to at least give me an understanding of how it really ticks and try to put it over as a fan .we should do a podcast from the man cave,we proper put the speedway world to rights up there while drinking way too much tea and burning as much wood as we can find to keep us warm 😂

Story about Oxford stadium in the Oxford paper and £2m debt not paid ? Anyone know what this is about,can’t get story to open but one comment says that’s the end of speedway then

Yes Widnes with my accent 😂

Someone else said it and said he is like Alan Brazil, I had to google who Alan Brazil was 😂

We’re you the Alan Brazil comment on YouTube ?

Got to be honest, I do listen to a lot of podcasts,mostly when I’m on long drives but don’t listen to any speedway ones, I find they don’t delve into the actual human being being interviewed and I already know the topics,I also find this with most autobiography’s too especially speedway ones

Bit harsh about the stuttering but hey it’s your opinion and you’re entitled too it

What a ridiculous idea, I bet they have considered it

Why ?

😳 I’ve not been so insulted since Derek Barclay thought I was from Widnes