mikebv

As it stands, I can see the Aces going full in on the PCMT, and the GP's... They may need the money to pay for their season!!!

Good news... I have lost Eleven Sports on my fire stick!!!

And King's Lynn will still find a way to not qualify...

So... You have had the official press release leaked to you too?

CL didn't worry too much about change when he put together, clearly, the best septet by far last year did he? Nor did he worry too much about Birmingham when he made them weaker by signing Tom Brennan as a third heat leader did he?... The time for change was a long, long time ago... CL, and others, have had plenty of time to make those changes... However, they chose, season after season, to not make any...

Agreed... But those still within it will also be losing what is left of their much stretched, and taken for granted, patience...

Maybe the delay is down to the quality of team that now can be put out? Have they had certain agreements in place to ensure they don't end up cannon fodder, like so many late arrivals have ended up being down the years? And that now isn't happening? Or, is their last rider also possibly in the Northampton conundrum, so they are awaiting an outcome there..? Whatever the reason, it is (yet another), poor look for UK Speedway...

And if you compare the cost of living, and average salaries, in both countries, then the UK, pro rata, is quite a bit less

I concur re Poland, will be going again this season, several times... I think they miss a great opportunity to use the Manchester city centre as a "GP Hub"... Meet the riders etc.. Well over a hundred thousand people will be going through there on the Friday and Saturday... What an opportunity to not only advertise a "Flagship" event, to create some "Big Event" feel for Speedway, but also, off the back of it, advertise the Aces and UK Speedway in general... And all to an audience who, in the main, won't have a clue who you are, or what you do... A "gift horse" if ever there was one for the Aces.. As for the pricing? I will be watching world class action, with most riders there not riding over here... I woukd rather pay over £60 for that, than around £30 for some contrived, Mickey Mouse, domestic offerings..

Cardiff was an overall great day out... Until it wasn't, as the novelty wore off.. The racing certainly didn't often stand up to scrutiny of being the reason for going... I think just over £60 a night in the South Stand is VFM considering I have just laid out nearly £30 for the PCMT...

Pretty much the same was said last year. And they came pretty close to selling out both nights.. I suppose if they do the same again, then their pricing has been proved correct...

As the Great Tony Wilson said... "This is Manchester" "We do things differently here"..

Did they replace them with "Guests"?

A bit harsh.... He was only one month out.... Not a bad effort really when it comes to the history of Speedway promoting in the UK.....

Stifles aspiration, and ambition,and is clearly open to manipulation.. If must be quite annoying for a rider to miss out on a team place by a few decimal points, knowing one of his team mates last year let him finish in front of him, which, ultimately put his average "too high"... Even more so if a "bonus point king" gets the place he could have had!!!

Ahhh, but.... You need to use such a highly scientific system like rider averages because it means that every season, every team, starts the season almost completely equal... Well. Apart obviously from those teams who get named on here, before a wheel is turned, as a shoe in for the play offs, or, alternatively, correclty named as spending the season as complete and utter cannon fodder... It works so well doesn't it?..

So.... Basically, promoters thought that an authentic and relevant league, that had some resonance, and ran during the warmer months, would negatively impact their unauthentic, and largely irrelevant league, with minimal, if any, resonance, (that they would still run), using the colder months too?... In summary... "This product would deliver what many fans want, and would engage them to attend, but then they wouldn't turn up to watch the usual contrived stuff we cobble together each season".. They probably wouldn't be wrong would they?

Could make sense... Maybe 'The Mad Hatter' has been involved?....

Are any of fhe riders mentioned left handed? I think there may be a sub reg which allows a further reduction in averages of left handed riders... Just as long as they can a) prove they are left handed and b) prove it by the end of February.. All that needs to happen is for a BSP Official to hand the rider a pen and see how he writes with it... Mickey Mouse has just looked at his BSP watch that he got for Christmas off Minnie, and confirmed officially that today is the 26th of February, so still time left...

Mmmmmmm. Who will I pick? Decisions, decisions..... I may need to sleep on it, and decide tomorrow...

I like it.... "Come and watch UK Team Speedway!! (But ignore all the 'FAFF!')".. Just get that up on all the major Social Media sites... Bound to be a winner...

But if so.. You would be talking about going to see people who are the very top of their field of work, known around the globe by millions, and performing in an industry that generates billions of pounds... Not a tiny, minority sport... The standing admission fees seem OK... At the highest end of the scale I would suggest, but OK, (just)...

That's only £346.50 a night though Iain.... Take five hundred quid out with you, each night, and you will still have enough for the bus fares home and twenty Woodbines...

The perfect example of an overseas rider that adds something to UK Speedway, and will be greatly missed.. Unlike so many overseas journeymen down the years, and still the same today, who will hardly be noticed, never mind missed... Yet will have blocked medium to long term UK rider development... Edit. His Heat 15 at the NSS a few years ago, with Doyle, Kurtz and Bewley, when Ipswich knocked the Aces out of the PO's, was one of the best races I have ever seen in Team Speedway..

They have been quite critical of the whole thing in several pieces written... Fairly done as well...