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Unless we try we won't know ...The one thing that is certain the crowds have dropped as the standard has so if we just keep doing that year after year it will kill the sport off very slowly . Time for people in the sport to be brave .

Move on ? then you suggest a idea from 1965 A big league has been tried it never worked and never will . As for Pl standard how on earth would bring the fans back in ? as the crowds are poor in that league . You might not like fans want to see the big names and that will never change ....the thing that drives fans away is the lower standard of rider .

Any Basketball games going on at the weekend ?

Wish you were

Why ? yet another average meeting bigged up to be one of the greatest meetings of all time because it was in the PL .The fact that the crowd looked up 250 shows that people do want watch top riders no matter what the racing is like .

What about putting a side together that was the best in the land .

Yea you just wait and see no one can do better than Middlo

I see that they have booked Richard Lawson for all of the Matches for Stead while the World cup is on .This is most odd as surely after The KL match team GB are surely going to use Stead again away form home

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Of course they would not be able to ride at home on the same night just like they don't in Sweden in Poland ,the idea is to have a home match every two weeks . Having racing every two weeks on set days in Poland and Sweden has worked so not sure why British fans would be any different to fans in Sweden and Poland who have got used to the habit of going every two weeks .

Plan b has already been done ...as has been said it never worked

So get this right you are saying that if it was known that Zagar was to be replaced by a junior that it would no effect on the crowd ? in the lifetime of Speedway Zagar is a not big name but in the UK as we speak he one of the best riders and one of the biggest draws . Still waiting for your answer about what teams can't ride Home matches on a Monday night .

Of course a rider like Matt Zagar would have an effect on crowd figures .it's common sense that the stronger the side the more likely the crowd's going to be bigger .

If that's what the Fans wanted then Pl and Nl would have the bigger crowds the fact that they don't shows it's not what the fans want Are ask the question again what team's in the El can't home Matches on a Monday ? Because a lot people want to watch the better riders I understand you don't but loads do

What team's can't ride Home Matches on Mondays ?

Putting crap teams out is a risk, as I said you don't save money if you lose most of the crowd . Putting out a cheaper product won't always save you money . I have already said have a go at running top speedway on one or two race nights . Not sure if it would work but at least it's a new plan

The Pl is full of foreigners ..no doubt the idea of flying crap foreigners to appear in front of 500 fans is a fantastic business model ..Clubs go bust in both league's and find it hard to survive . Intill the likes of you start to understand that then Speedway has little chance of going forward

Spot on ..then the bigger clubs start getting the best riders just like last time and the smaller start to moan ...We need some new plans not olds one that have been done before .

Cheper to run but with less fans and income ...a big league has been done before and it never worked There are good and bad meetings in all leagues and in all Speedway ..What I would say is that the Pl has the better tracks at the moment and that is the key thing ..A big Pl might please a few but there will always a massive amount fans you will want to watch the best riders and with all due respect we can't afford to lose them

You could say that about any TV sport . A lot of new fans no doubt got into speedway by first watching a Sky match To be fair I think they have made a much better effort in terms of picking matches this year ...more matches on normal race nights a nice mix of El and Pl etc

Most fans can only afford to go one once so that's not a problem .if you want to watch more then is nothing stop you watching the PL and NL on other nights . Speedway can't go on as it is and we can't go back to the good old days so let's give it a go .

Another new poster I wonder who you could be .

Yea it's a joke team's at the top level still trying to ride on Fridays and at Weekends meaning 3 or 4 changes per match . I said it for ages, change it to one or maybe two race days with say 8 teams no Eastie etc . As you say it will be tough but it's about people get brave and gave it a chance . Swindon had a big crowd to watch him do just that the other week .

Nearly fell of the chair ..how will Garrity scared the oppo when he is half a lap behind ? The bottom line is Garrity is hopeless on big tracks . I bet Hancock and Ward are not sleeping just in Case Garrity makes the side

As I said there were plenty of matches in the old days when riders done the same as Troy Batchelor new I remember riders getting teams into ko cup finals by guesting only for that team going on to beat the riders parent club in the final it's nothing new .