Steve Shovlar

The deal that the BSPA have with BT is not worth it. A few promoters argued this at the time and I was one who thought it was imperative that speedway in the UK had a tv deal. Now I have changed my mind and believe BSPA should pull out of the deal and get a streaming channel up and running for next season. The BT deal brings in no money. In fact it costs clubs as the hosting club loses revenue when BT are in town. Unless BT come in with a deal similar to what Sky were paying, then time to say goodbye. In its place, a monthly subscription to a streaming service. £20 a month for 2 live meetings a week, one from the Prem and one from the Championship, as well as behind the scenes shows, interviews, q&a sessions live where fans can ask questions to riders/promoters etc, which are being produced by companies such as speedway portal. The money is then divided up between clubs. This will bring in far more than BT are offering. Promoters may think they would lose money as fans would watch online and not attend. But I wouldn't’ attend Belle Vue v Swindon but would pay a subscription to watch it. And then clubs would benefit. There would be no problem having video companies do the streaming. I bet Pete Ballinger or Speedway Portal would be keen as mustard to get the chance. Thoughts?

Great meeting. Thought Leszno had that sewn up. What do I know. Great comeback.

1.Frederik Jakobsen - 1,1,0,1,1 = 4

Never rode over here. Belle Vue in the 90th anniversary, that’s about it. Rode at the Poole P&P in March. Looked quite good.

The problem is clearly Worrall and Grazonek. Neither have done anything of note this year.

What the hell happened there? Taking grass track to a new level!

I don’t. He spent 95% of his time on here being abusive to nearly all and sundry. Puts himself on some kind of pedestal when in fact he is nothing more than a speedway fan, like the rest of us. Calling people names in virtually every post that are brimming with venom. Not a nice person.

Spanner seemed to lose his bottle in recent weeks. Bit lightweight and moved our easily. Looks the same in Poland. From a ride topping the averages last season to where he is now is quite startling. But no wonder he has been moved out the team. We can’t really lose with Jackobsen. He should score no less than Spanner but could possibly score more. Looks the part. But there’s plenty of riders about with all the gear, no idea. Time will tell.

A decent race and yep, Nicki does his dying swan. So bloody typical.

This is absolute, utter *ollocks.

There may well be other teams who can put together more impressive teams under a no limit system. At least this way we are not pandering to the weakest link.

Dire first 5 heats. Will the footy take over at 7?

It might have with the first sentence, but you soon put the boot in.

Didn’t see Steve0 moaning much on here last season when Museliak signed for Swindon. He was the biggest ringer in the sports recent history.

Well found PQ7. SteveO major culprit. Hypocrisy of the highest level.

That was me and I stick with that scenario. Get rid of the points limit completely. Teams build to whatever level they can afford. Clubs on a sound financial footing have been dragged down to the level of clubs living on a wing and a prayer. Some will say typical selfish Poole fan but they miss the point. If for example, Rye cannot afford the team they put together, then put out a team with Championship strength. When a big club comes to town it could be a bit of beat the big boys. Crowds will turn up to see it happen. The removal of a points limit will mean self policing. If a team discovers it can’t afford the team, out goes the 9 pointer and in comes a 4.5 rider. Promotions want to make a profit and it might take a season or two to get it right but it would stop the pandering to the weakest. Also bring back two British youngsters in the reserve berths. Worked well and totally wrong to be scrapped.

Good detective work there Doc. Clearly mental issues going on in this persons head and he clearly needs psychiatric help. Gavan being called out by Pinny as being a letch and then threatening MFF with violence on here yesterday for a well worded post by MFF and we get a new angrier re-incarnation in trackrat. Really the mods should step in and ban his sorry ass for good.

The reason crowds are dropping isas people are dying and not replaced a yonger generation of fans.A look at the crowd would sugest they are watching crown green bowls.

I would like to know the reason why the track was prepared differently again so it took POOLE RIDERS HALF THE MEETING TO GET DIALLED IN.

The idiot is nothing but a troll. Stick the moron on ignore.

Just use a vpn. Sorted.

Is Woryna out of reserve already? That was quick. Looking forward to seeing our new young Dane in action and new young superstar Dan Bewley take on Kascper. Let’s hope the track is as the riders want it for a change. It’s been different every week.

Well we have Jackobsen and Woryna at reserve with Covatti guesting for Klindt. Weather is set fair. Should be a great meeting let’s hope a decent crowd turns up.

Looks like Gavan has been banned again today judging by his couple of posts earlier on which have been deleted. MFF actually made a very good post on Gavan which resulted in a threat of violence.

Will be at reserve and watching him in action in the u21’s tonight shows he has ability.