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Charles Wright has to get back from Gorzow on Friday evening too...

According to Luke Killeen's Vlog most riders are on a minimum three point guarantee...

According to Luke Killeen's Vlog most riders are on a minimum three point guarantee...

Isn't the capacity well over 10,000?... Improve the track for racing and I would think they could get 10,000 there considering KL, Peterborough and Mildenhall all will have a fair few in attendance... 5,000 or so attended the PO final didn't they?... A weekend in Ipswich would be OK...

Promising numbers then for a non mainstream channel, Saturday evening backwater slot... Hopefully good enough to see some further development into league racing...

So Arthur73's 134k off BARB, and screenshot by eric i, was accurate given some will have watched post those numbers coming out...?.. Where did Phil get his half a million from that PTA mentions? Any idea?..

If the local authorities help out, like Cardiff used to, with the staging costs, it could maybe work..? A suburb of Adelaide and is only about 9 miles away from the city centre...

That's a lot of middle aged, and over, men to target for advertisers...😁 It will be interesting to see how that number came about as the BARB figures, already shown, show a lot less than that... Maybe Social Media and YT views added?...

Careful.... I can see some stats coming in from "someone" soon, detailing, to the penny, the money paid out to each individual rider, by the Aces and Ipswich... Probably covering the past five years or so, in an attempt to disprove your theory......

So is not finishing your job, and stopping many times without any good reason before it is completed... Promoters certainly let the tails wag the dogs, and it does them little favour.. Even worse, they lose even more respect by still giving certain riders jobs...

I am the target audience.... Like 90% of everyone else that follows the sport... Those who identify as male that is...

Just for Men?.... Tena Men?.... Steradent?... SAGA Holidays?.. Over 50's Life Assurance?.. Those "Cheapo Funeral" Adverts?.. Just like watching U&Alibi and C5 now.....😁 Edit. Almost forgot... Those chairs that tip you out of them.. Walk in, sit down baths .. And those trainers that you don't need to bend down to put on, or tie any laces...😀

Dan T's Vlog was very telling... For the CLRC there wasn't even race jackets and he got sent the wrong numbers so had to use duct tape to make up his number!!!😁 He also said how many people came out of the Sheff Wed match and mentioned that maybe someone giving some free Speedway tickets away as they came out would have been a good idea.. He shared £800 at the pairs, and got £500 for the CLRC, which after costs, at the pairs, he said, "we won't be eating well tonight"..😁 It cost him £100 in fuel to Poole, and bought new clutch plates for the event, and paid his mechanic... There also wasn't a team manager at Poole for Edinburgh and they went out in one race in the wrong helmet colours..😁 He was very positive about Mayfield's plans and said some news coming out in the next few weeks would be extremely positive..

Given it is an offficial fixture, the rules for missing it should apply as per all meetings... And only if rescheduled, and riders already elsewhere, should any drop outs be allowed . The BSP don't help themselves when these events always have riders missing from the original line up, and their compliance with riders dropping out just undermines both themselves and their competitions... And running them so late in the season, (after many blank weeks during the summer for many tracks), is just asking for riders dropping out given many will have play offs in their respective leagues to focus on.. And also for the majority of competitors they potentially will earn less than a normal meeting... The irony of that of course, being that the last decade or so has seen riders not take part, which then dilutes the prestige, which then reduces the fan numbers, which then reduces the money on offer.. Another vicious circle UK Speedway got itself into given its lack of clear independent, disciplined, leadership..

BARB are the official company that gets used by the industry...

That's a pretty decent number for a Saturday evening slot on ITV4 I would think.. Don't think the Motorbike Show, that has that slot, would pull that many in...

A great night ahead for the last GP.. Best of Luck to Lambert, as he is easily the best rider of the 2nd half of the season...

And the year before that.... And the year before that .... And the etc etc etc....

Who would have thought?..…

Because he loved riding in it.., Knee deep in mud, and grippy as f**k was Kelvins favourite track.,

Wasn't the NDL seen as being "too good" by those in the top two tiers?.. I used to go and watch the Colts with my then under 16 lad and it cost me a tenner for the both of us to get in . Brilliant value for money and the racing was often on a par with the top tier stuff you paid out almost three times as much for... So much so, I barely watched the Guestfests in tier one and, instead, went most meetings to watch the NDL Guestfests, (perfectly ok at NDL level as it gives riders track time).. I would suggest that the issue wasn't that the NDL was too good, but maybe it was the top two tiers that weren't good enough.... For me, clubs like Birmingham and Workington were perfect for NDL level racing as when they moved up the costs grew but the crowds barely did .. Best of luck to all those under the NORA umbrella...

Has someone told them..?

Or averages to sort..

Who gives a toss?... Tedious in the extreme,. I remember the Witches beating the Aces in the 70's at Hyde Rd.,.. John Louis et al...... How far back do we go to score non existent points?

They are just pretty poor at running the sport... There can be no surprise to see it where it currently is... Self inflicted own goals, one after another..