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Barker won't come cheap, Kus & Vissing cost already in place, I know what Kracma would drop too, and he is affordable I wonder if I can get some Associate Sponsors for my business, I need an Aston Martin DB9

They aint got any money, they told you. You have 6 loan transfer fees fora start about £6000. Too many left overs for me, need new blood, if you are going to spend do it on new assets.

Wow!, thats an expensive line up.

Exactly 42.50, If only, oh! if only

I promise you, If Adrian could ride again, he would. As a bonus though, you get the best Race Suits ever, 'SPEEDWAY ANARCHY'

Got to be:- Self proclaimed No 1. BIGEDDIECHECK

No, it was if he came to the UK Have faith, it might Two thirds of that crowd are concessions If you go back to my last ideal team all 3 fit in Look I will say it again:- Barker----Covati----Vissing----Kracma-----Kus----Edberg----Barrett

If rumours are true, he wanted back to Berwick, but wanted to ride at home on Saturdays only, no away matches, LIKELY

Then they should not be allowed, if someone like Cooke makes a concious decision to ride in thr PL, then the PL it is no doubling up to the EL. If you are good enough for the EL then thats where you belong.

Hope your hand isn't shaking too much

You will find out if you ask them, the corporate sponsors, of which were about 10 at a £1000 each, did not sponsor speedway for their business to get any coverage, they did in their eyes to secure speedway in Berwick. Every one of them should be commended for that, but at the end of the day, they were not really sponsoring, they were donating.

Back to my point, although to you an extra £6 is a small amount, someone on a minimum wage or even the so called 'Living Wage' it is a big hike. The vast majority of employment in this area is in the lower salary bands, mostly being topped up with 'Family Credit,

I have worked out so many times what I would spend my lottery win on, in the mean time I spend what I have earned this week.

Scott, for this area I think the inbetween price of £14 is about right, perhaps an increase to £15. We both agree dropping the price to £10 did not work, as in general it is that 500+ that turn up week in week out, increasing it £20 in an area like this could be the straw that broke the camels back, ( as in your Travel Inn scenario). The conclusion for me is the product in general has lost favour with the paying public, the fans are predominantly in that older group, so what do you have to do to get the younger fans back to speedway. I don't have the answer, but speedway in general needs to change, Promoters have just had a jolly in Warwickshire, they have changed very little, just tweeked what they were doing wrong in the first place. I suppose as long as the Dinosaurs are still in charge, we will have to stay in 'The Ice Age'.

Oh Yes It Is (pie in the sky) In a more afluent society, perhaps, Berwick & The Borders are not by any stretch of the imagination an afluent society. There are people who are afluent but are in the very low percentages, and are they the type of people who go to speedway (unlikely), which traditionally has a lower working class following. You make a good arguament on paper, but this is the real world. If you have found a niche market that you can over charge for, good luck. However in general the more popular something becomes the cheaper it becomes. To buy an Aston Martin is aspirational, but they aim the product at the top 1% of the population, and are very successful at it, can you however translate that to speedway which is aimed at the ordinary working man & women. Employed Tradesmen in the Berwick area are only on about £10 an hour, North Northumberland has the highest percentage of 'Self Employed People' in th UK, but is in the lowest bottom 10 areas for pay, this trend reflects accross the Eastern Borders. I have tried many asprational brands in my shop, none of which worked, it has taken 20 years to learn to cater for what you have, and not what you would like. It is now doing better than ever, remember I am still trading, Northern Goldsmiths and H.Samuels have gone, and it is quite flattering when I get some opposition, they have tried to emulate what I do.

Strangely Gerald Ratner is still in business, sadly what he said was about a decanter and 4 glasses, the question if I remember correctly was ''How can you produce this for £4.99'', his reply ''If you pay crap prices you get crap. It was The Daily Herald in those days (The Sun today), tore him apart. Big Eddie is correct premium products command a premium price, they are aiming their products at a very niche market, and in general a very wealthy group ( a minority). I aim what I sell at the lower end of the market, the ordinary working man & women, in Berwicks case the vast majority are on low pay, so I have to get my product range and price range right. Berwick and the immediate Borders 60 % of it's population is over 50, so I have learnt by making some mistakes I must admit, that you cater for the majority not the minority.. Big Eddie has lots of theoretical ideas, but in reality few would work in the real world. One valuable lesson I learnt, is, look at what the big boys are doing and scale it down to suit my business, they spend millions in getting their product right. Speedway in Berwicks case needs to cater for the majority in this area, most of which have low quality low paid jobs, a family coming to Berwick using his criteria, would cost them about £70, thats a big chunk out of an incone in this area, and they would very quickly cut their cloth to suit. Speedway in Berwick is cetainly not a premium product, I enjoy in general what I get, but it can be borderline sometimes, I think at £14 the price is about right, so they only now need to improve the product, to attract more £14s

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I see that you have secured that consultancy post for the NHS, (salary co sponsored by McDonalds & Andersons Burgers) Think you would have to pay about £7000, to get rid of the ''Whining Supporters''

You are right they did drop the price, and it didn't make a blind bit of difference. So we must assume it is not the price that is the problem, it must be the product.

After reading the Star, I thought of the three wise monkeys, except we have a couple of dozen wise monkeys

Dave, the fans are voting, with their feet, and taking their money with them. Don't forget the fan uses his own money every week, the cumulative allows speedway to operate from the income it makes or does not make at the gate. The promoter that puts a million pounds into a speedway team with no paying fans, simply loses a million pounds.. He probably then blames the fans for not supporting him or her.

Only if you want to commit commercial suicide. Increase the value of the product, increasing the attendance, then reduce the cost to attract more people. The more popular something is the cheaper it becomes, the more EXCLUSIVE it is the dearer it is. You can however stay in Mr Camerons virtual world, don't forget ''WE are all in it together'', I wonder if that is DEEP DO-DOO.

Craig is Universally disliked by a certain group of Berwick fans, especially on the 3rd bend. I have no doubt he is a talented rider, but should refrain from commenting on social media, as he generalyy 'Puts is mouth in motion, before he puts his mind in gear'

When he isn't pissed off with Berwick Promotion, he is a Bandits fan

Trouble is certain Promoters are already looking at cost cutting measures, instead of how to improve the product. They seem to have the idea they are doing everything right, and it is the fans fault for not going to speedway meetings. I agree with you speedway needs to go back to basics, starting with massively simplifying the rule book, which is one of the most interpretive piece of work in modern times. The BSPAbeing a closed club, and a law unto themselves, it is unlikely they will take heed. You will know bt Monday.