THE DEAN MACHINE

If we go with the mindset of there is no benifit of to putting our product out to a huge potential audience like on BT and all that matters is to stop the dwindling fan base on a Monday night tv meeting then we may as well go with no tv coverage at all and you say BT get all the profit for nothing, we get live speedway put on a major TV network and it doesn’t cost us anything, we lose money because we can’t get people to attend in numbers anymore but that’s not BT’s fault it’s ours

Think so, must be doing maintance or they haven’t paid their staff their Twitter is still working although no posts for a few hours

Don’t know what figures they get but the 11sport channel also show Swedish league as well as polish first division and a fair few polish test matches

That’s because speedway doesn’t have anyone to deal with these company’s, BT does, my point is the £50,000 sponsorship deals are there, it’s a question of who goes out gets it? . The sport is bordering on shambolic and every decision says desperate, get our act together and show BTs audience we are worth it and maybe these company’s will want to come on board like they do in poland but if they do they want nationwide coverage like BT not some channel seen by one man and his dog ,a good case in point was the GP at the weekend ,it was sponsored by WD40 a house hold name, on every bike, pretty much every TV shot and caption, shown on BT sport, Nsport, danish tv, Swedish tv and a few other channels around the world with exposure to around a million people and they didn’t pay a penny to the tv company’s it all went to bsi, they wouldn’t be interested in a channel seen by 1000 if that, BTs league coverage is also shown on polish tv 11sport

It’s not a guess, the viewing figures are good for such a minor sport.10,000 subscribers to a speedway in house effort ? Knock a zero off that and you would be closer, on sponsorship there are company’s out there who think nothing of throwing £50,000 at a live event on tv, we just need to show we are worthy of which we curently do not , in house nobody will see it and no company of any statue would be interested in sponsoring it, why would they ?

And playing right into osbournes hands

If speedway went in house that’s pretty much where it will stay, only current fans would get to see it and personally I wouldn’t purchase it, I can see a tiny financial benifit for speedway itself but no sponsor in their right mind would be interested as it has no audience, I do think BT is selling us a bit short with the money but that’s totally our own fault, BT deal in millions v speedway deal in peanuts, no wonder who the winner is there, we have the perfect platform and get decent viewing figures but we can’t get our own house in order, we need to turn the viewing figures into punters on the terraces and we will never do that with in house filming, we have to be out there in the big wide world

I haven’t looked into the figures but at least you are thinking outside the box and on the face of it does seem something that should be at least looked in to

I don’t buy that, tension is created by the riders involved a Brit in Britain, a Dane in Denmark and so on, tou can feel the tension flop in a GP when the home riders gets knocked out in the semi final or whenever, the tension is the same ,there was just a much a dreary world final as a GP, the world final has had its day and they were good days but the GPs are much better

Surely there is some Brits they could get over there

That’s one of those meetings that proves speedway still is the greatest sport on earth

Not just riders the GP has a good british following even overseas, in Torun especially you see plenty of Brits and even ex British riders who don’t follow british speedway anymore, the one off world final along with 13 heats is I’m afraid rose tinted glasses view, it wasn’t better than the GP or 15 heats it was just the way it was

It is one of those tracks where it is so wide the leader can’t defend himself and is open from attack from 2nd and as we have seen today even 3rd, it is not got a lot of dirt either

I would happily drop gorzow for czestochowa, only downside it has no cover for fans so if it rains

Amazing racing at czestochowa

Brilliant race from lindgren, love this track, so wide so many lines

Smektala has got some eye opening pace in those 1st 2 heats

I understand if they have been gagged but that still shouldn’t have a bearing on the bspa putting out some of statement, it is very poor

They must know it, but whoever try’s to address the issues and get control of the sport is going to as popular as syphilis in a lot of people’s eyes, while the sport is attending its own funeral there are some who are doing ok in their own little way and when you try to take that away is when the wall gets put up

It has to be resolved somehow, the league depends on it, I don’t know how but this season has to make it too the end of season and then speedway in Britain has to change

You could the rye house riders a call, unless they have been gagged they do know the whole story

That was a hard lap from Doyle on dudek, fair play to dudek there was more than enough contact for him to go down

That’s how chris Louis got injured

My old mate sqora has got a team of misfiring riders ,dudek, zengota, Pepe and gomolski, only MJJ really lived up to their reputation so far this season

Quite a few people know what’s going/gone on, let’s just hope a resolve can be found but I do think the bspa should make some sort of statement even if it doesn’t go into the major details especially for the rye fans more than anyone