mikebv

Exactly SL... When coming up through the ranks the likes of Doyle would want to race EVERY night to improve... When they then reach World Class their priorities (naturally) will change... Time for Britain to realize it cannot compete with Poland, therefore will always be an 'after thought' for the really top riders and go it alone... If the top lads want to come on board under British Speedways terms then great. If they don't, so be it...

It certainly belies British Speedway's Mickey Mouse image.. Any non Speedway fan coming across a copy would ask themselves why they haven't heard of the Sport, given it must be so popular if their rationale is based on the standard of 'its' magazine... A Professional publication doing its best each week to portray the Sport in the same light... (Which let's be honest, must take some doing)...😮

More Guests = Less Credibility.. Less Credibility = Less Fans.. Its a simple equation.. Yet the person in charge of the Sport has a 'better idea'...😨 Wow....😓

That's the beauty of 'British Speedway'... You can guarantee another fiasco will come along the next day to out do the one previous...!! In British Speedway you are only ridiculed for 24 hours before someone else kindly relieves you of that... "You really couldnt make this 'Barry White' up" 2017 Title...😂😂😂 (I sometimes even think they must plan it this way)....😉

This should be printed on a 6ft by 3ft banner and hung up at the next AGM... Above it should be written... "This actually happened"... Underneath it should be written. .. "If you were a fan of a Sport ran like this would you attend it regularly. Or, would you view it as so very poorly ran it simply wasnt deserving of your support?" - (Discuss).... Make it the Number One point on the Agenda...

Tonight's meeting is a perfect example of why the Play Offs were designed in that instead of it being a 'dead rubber' late in the Season which could result in a poor crowd, it now becomes almost 'pivotal' as to who gets those important second and fourth places. A meeting that actually 'means something' and one which can be marketed as such... So what do the Promoters of the Sport do? Render it alongside other farces by allowing key members of both teams to miss this 'pivotal' meeting to ride elsewhere... Its a simple conclusion to reach therefore that says if 'they' don't see a meeting such as this 'important enough' to run 'properly' then why should the fans treat it as 'important enough' to attend? I truly now believe that (in this Country) the Promoters have simply 'given up', and accepted that years and years of leaderless, no direction, make it up as you go along, decision making has rendered the Sport 'beyond repair' and now just 'wing it' the best they can on a daily basis to (hopefully with a good wind) complete a ridiculously disjointed fixture list.., Hope they can find a couple of guests for me and my lad tonight to replace the cash I would have spent.... Or maybe a FR (Fan Replacement) Facilty will be granted...😉😲

Could Peterborough let Bomber ride for Rye...? Seems they don't appear to mind letting their riders ride elsewhere instead of for them....!😉😲

😂 And Promoters will actually want the fans to take this seriously and turn up... A potential season defining meeting....😲 British Speedway at its best....😆

And why not.? When you are allowed to do so by the 'authorities' then do what you feel is right for you... No No1? No problem, have a guest.... Who knows, it might even improve your team...😩

Think Woffy has more faith in his machinery now which may have led him to have so many 'ragged' races early in the Competition... Second place seems to be 'ok' for him now and with Woffy's level of capabilty, in most races he can deliver that as a minimum..... The only one in contention going down the stretch who knows what it takes to get over the line... Could be the first British three time winner!!

14 wins in a row!! Well done Swindon. .. But let's be honest... Who really gives a toss?... What should be greeted as a tremendous achievement will never be seen as such because frankly who cares which select teams beat other select teams? It's all sadly utter nonsense.... Still, no doubt we will now move on to even more of the same nonsense on an almost nightly basis as we reach the end of the season...

You really might as well give up trying to run League Speedway in Britain... Far, far, too far gone to save... It just stumbles aimlessly from one embarrassing episode to another.... "I want to bring integrity and transparency to the Sport".... Well that worked didn't it...?😲

And saved a good few quid in points money too!!

Beat me to it....😁

Have they now called Michael Lee over the tannoy?😁

Wonder if Dave Gordon and Chris Morton are going to be blamed for this fiasco? Maybe they should put out an incredibly hasty press release stating that tonight's meeting is nothing to do with them...😁😁

Is there a Speedway rider in the audience? if so please make yourself known to the nearest steward and they will accompany you to the pits....😀😀😀

A Rule being scribbled down on the back of a fag packet as I type Star Lady..😀

I seem to remember during the close season "someone" saying something around Speedway needing to have more integrity and transparency if it was to regain the faith of the fans and that was a major part of his mission...... Now, who was it who said that again?...😀😂😆

More 'top riders'? More admission costs I presume to pay for them? How much to get in if so? £20? BV and Swindon showed in the past couple of weeks with their TV matches that a tenner and free entry to 'kids' will get you a very good crowd regardless of level of rider on show.. Not sure having more 'top riders' will deliver much better crowds than we currently have.. One thing a fixed night(s) will do though is cut the number of guests (cannot be in two places at once) so that has to be a positive..

Spot on.. I saw Joe Screen make his debut for the Aces in 88... He was 16 years of age. .. That season Joe went on to quite regularly beating some of the very best riders in the World in what was (at the time) THE toughest league in the World.... Joe went on to finish 6th in the World Championship one year and won a World U21 Title... No disrespect to any of the current crop of 'young' lads but (maybe Lambert and Bewley apart) none of them could do in a much weaker League what Joe did all those years ago... Jason Doyle is the only rider I can think of recently who after a few years of riding 'suddenly came good'... Speedway is a Sport which appears to have no age barriers as to how good you can be but is simply down to the aptitude of being able to ride a Speedway bike faster than your opponents... That natural aptitude will show itself at any age but so will the natural level for each individual rider.. Regardless of what age you start racing professionally, if after three years of riding you are still not in the top league at I would say second string level or a second tier heat leader (at least), you are, in the main, not going to be anywhere near a World Level Speedway rider.. Good to see British riders given a chance but we need to be fair to them re our expectations of their careers...

It does seem strange that teams go so many weeks without a fixture yet as soon as TV give them the fixtures they want to show on Monday nights it appears never a problem in putting the meeting on... With only Wolves (and their opponents) riding on a Monday, surely teams should be using this night to complete re-arranged matches..? Rider availability also seems good on a Monday and given each team appears on TV on this night I presume planning permission to race on a Monday is sought and granted by clubs? Better than cramming in meetings...

The dichotomy of British Speedway... Absolutely made up for Cook tonight... Yet at the same time, couldn't give a toss about my team gaining four points towards winning a Mickey Mouse League, gaining those points in a select team guest fest at Leicester... Strange Sport Speedway in Britain... Credible success means something I guess...

I think this is covered by the... "Look to be honest we haven't got a clue anymore what the rules are, just say it's OK if anyone asks because its in the interest of Speedway (or something like that)". 'Rule'.... It probably will have a number like '101.3: sub section (d)' to give it a bit of gravitas..

Come on the Aces/Pirates/Rockets.. Hope Paul and Scott can score enough points to consolidate the Aces' position in the top four and at the same time reduce their own teams' chances of catching the Aces in the League.. Cannot wait...