THE DEAN MACHINE

I agree and I would go, it just wouldn’t be my first choice of destination

No im saying British people don’t visit the Capitol like they used too, foreign tourist do because they still believe the dream,I have been to big events there, I went to see Guns n roses at West Ham stadium 70,000 people coming out into what used to be hackney was an eye opener to anyone who was there, all places have there crime, I went to Hamden park to see Bon jovi and you get warned by the police not to leave the stadium just as a couple to stay in groups because of the kids targeting easy pickings but London has become a hell hole

Same here, Cardiff had run it’s corse around 2014

Contrary to belief and myths the north has discovered electricity and does have a really good transport network and is no more a problem to get places than London,putting it plainly London is a sh**hole these days and nobody wants to go there anymore, while staying in London by St Paul’s cathedral, me and the Mrs have never felt so scared for our lives as we did on that trip and we haven’t been back since and I even gave up work inside the inner A406 because the whole place is just hassle and gridlock

Not against a London GP but most of the remaining speedway fan base is based in the north so a GP based in the north would be a better option, London has changed from the cockney knees up type of city it used to be and not in a good way either, working there I’ve seen major crime in broad daylight and I’ve also watched the police do nothing about it because they don’t rule the streets, I would still go if one was in London but it won’t be Wembley 81

One thing I absolutely despise but is an absolute must for the promotion of any event is free tickets to social media influencers, I know half of the crowd on here being of a certain age have just googled what they are, they really are lazy narcissistic layabouts but the fact is the youth of today buy into their whatever it is that they do, for the price of a ticket you get publicity you can’t get anywhere else, I know other sports and events use it to great success, the kids see the hero 😂 at these events and want to go because if it’s good enough for their hero it’s good enough for them and they want to be like them, as I’ve said I despise these waste of life muppets, I know they are a product of today’s society but they do have one good purpose and we like other events need to use them

No what focuses the mind is things like being deducted £5000 by the club for your mechanic not having the right shirt on or not having a extraleague sticker in the right place on the back doors of your van or being late for a practice or not attending a school to give a chat to local kids, the list is very long and the total of your pay packet often doesn’t match what you scored , it’s called discipline and it focuses the mind

Well if he can still gate nobody is coming past him no matter how slow he is these days, I remember a couple of years back when he destroyed part of Birminghams fence with the track grader, must of thought someone was trying to get by him and turned right 😂

The first Cardiff GP the attendance was around 40,000 up from the previous year at Brandon Coventry which was around 12,000 and stayed around 40,000 for about 10 years,why ? Because there was a buzz about it, it had a sense of occasion, it was the new kid on the block and we all know not one person there went for the racing as more often than not it was crap and the track was more often than not awful but it didn’t matter and every year we saw people who hadn’t been to speedway for years turning up and it was the same for the Toruń and Prague GP, the place was buzzing with Brits of which many hadn’t been to speedway for years but had heard of the great time British fans were having through mates and went over there, BV is fantastic we all know that and they were the best GPs for racing but as I said at the start of all this it didn’t attract me to go because it felt like just another meeting and not the bombastic all guns blazing social event that it should be and Cardiff for the first 10 years was, which when imo the circus should of moved to a new town but it didn’t and became stale, a new city venue would give a boost to the GP which I think it needs but if discovery think BV every British GP then the sport is done for because this tiny bubble that BV has inflated will burst, there is no easy answer but whatever that answer is BV in its current guise ain’t it

Brilliant glad you enjoyed it and so did I watching it on tv but when it’s analysed without rose tinted glasses or as long as I’m ok then it’s all good then the reality is our premier event attracted a crowd of less than 6000 and quite frankly thst is embarrassing and if you ever want speedway to move forward out beyond it’s dwindling fan base then a new Cardiff is needed, bad racing or not, it could maybe run alongside a round at belle vue but BV is at its maximum impact on the general public and is only keeping the already converted happy, this is not anti belle vue and I’m not having a pop at anyone who went and loved it, I just care about the future of our sport and without a vision of some like posslewhite I don’t think it has one , 6000 fans at BV at its best is 13,000 down on Cardiff at its worst

Well that was dire,worth about £4 admission,no good blaming the track for Bham’s performance they were just awful, how many bike failures again ? One rider turning up without a steel shoe and had to borrow one off a second halver, they are highly paid professionals it’s not acceptable the track is too smooth too easy to ride and no passing lines available and the racing is all but non existent,it’s not the shape as it’s been a decent racetrack in previous years but this year it’s been awful but as I said that doesn’t excuse the brimmies performance, Sheffield seemed to cope,it was a slightly better crowd this week I thought but if they feel like I did then they feel cheated out £23, barring musielak and to a point zagar as he was ill I’d of sacked the lot tonight

Can someone tell Chris adams as he doesn’t seem to know

It’s strange whenever safety is brought up like it was in the speedway star the last few weeks, the machinery never gets put under the microscope , a few ex riders have spoken about the tubeless tyres but the train keeps a rollin because the sport is run by the riders for the riders, you only have to listen to the woffy interview about protection under the suits and boots, because nobody reigns them in and when you let children have a free for all in a sweet shop they are going to rot their teeth

It is on BSN tonight

It is on BSN

Then by that he won’t be riding for leszno away at Łódź next Saturday?

I didn’t actually mind Darcy, in the few times I came into contact with him he was always courteous but I am fully aware of his off track shenanigans

But he didn’t and that was never going to change because that’s the person he was

When your dad is in the CIA they never take their eye of you, terrorist attacks don’t happen without being facilitated

Darcy was around a few years and did grow up abit towards the end of his career but fact is this Darcy as great and natural talent as he was he didnt have the discipline to be a great, Darcy was a modern day Kelly Moran

And we could all step out the house tomorrow and get run over by a bus but statistically that ain’t going to happen just like the chance of you getting blown up by a bomber ain’t going to happen, you can’t live life on what if

The iow are having their own struggles with the ferry company putting the prices up for crossings making it unsustainable for the speedway, however Barry and Martin have forged a plan through sponsorship and will be running 7 meetings this year and I believe they will be running under Nora ,On the subject of Nora the SCB have in their short sighted way pit blocks in the way to use Nora, I was talking to a current promoter a few weeks back about running an upright meeting and he told me they can’t use Nora while under ACU/SCB,even the FGA grasstrack wanted to use Nora and the ACU had to fight to keep it, I’m sure all organisations have their bad points but the ACU SCB seem to specialise in theirs

Pickering picked up a shoulder injury in Poland today, he finished the meeting but has gone to hospital after meeting

Not saying this is how it is in zmarzlik’s camp but at the first GP he has 15 threats to his crown by the 3rd GP he is down to 8 and after last night he down to 3, after Gorzow it could be down to just Kurtz, so mentally is this how he plans his strategy? By eliminating the threats, less to worry about more freedom in his racing, every GP just needs to finish ahead of Kurtz and unless Kurtz starts beating him then it’s just another no pressure meeting because although he always looks serious he never looks under pressure and why would he because if say vaculik or bewley wins a GP so what it ain’t going to cause a ripple on his quest to glory, I say this because any rider will tell you, if you are thinking about others you will not ride to your full potential and I believe this is why laguta beat him because he couldn’t eliminate laguta as a threat

When you are serious about being world champion there is no having meetings like bewley last night, track conditions are irrelevant