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Leicester.

Rolf Gramstad. Lovely lad who’s career was cut short by a fellow rider losing control of a practice start & crashing into the back (literally) of Rolf.

Unless anyone knows better Halifax no / stands built on the bends Bradford, yes and stock have run there but questions exist re closeness of some structures for speedway.

Improving bends 3&4 with appropriate banking would appear the most obvious given any adjustment to the curb would involve additional work on the drainage system.

Well done Birmingham. Does the tie up include the Bears? If so great opportunity to promote speedway to large numbers at limited over games. May even get some tv exposure if bikes are present at Bears televised matches. I hope it pays off for the Brummies.

Looks like Lions paving the way for strong 1&5 instead of balanced middle order as per last two seasons. SD has preferred to build his Lions teams with riders based in UK so maybe a Brit big hitter to partner Max will be the case this year?

Does that mean he knows there’s no place for him at Leicester?

Yes “top flight” Adult Leicester/Coventry but have amended my memory to £2.00 cuz my wife has reminded me we could both attend for a fiver including program & a shared pie! Incidentally, back then litre of petrol was 18p

You maybe correct re £2.50 being high and more likely to be early 80’s level. so using raw CPI data from office of National Statistics and weighted compounded inflation (more indicative than pure BoE inflation figures) £2.00 would equivalent of around £15.60 Also worth remembering that back in “77” Vat had two heady rates of 8% & 12.5% - Those were the days. Anyways - on Topic. Yes cost of attending speedway in 2024 is more costly in real terms than “back in the day” most probably because actual attendance has fallen meaning less number of fans have to meet the running costs of meetings.

In 1977 adult admission was around £2.50 Since then Sterling has had an annual inflation rate of 4.5% a cumulative increase of 695%. Put another way £19.50 is todays equivalent spending power of £2.50 from 1977.

As & when he thinks Will is good enough, then the Lions team manager will make every effort to sign him, most probably alongside a number of other like minded TM’s

Highly doubtful that clubs/companies can finish a season in Sept/Oct & then have their accounts completed by the time of the AGM. And frankly hard to see the relevance of clubs accounts at the promoters/league AGM.

Think this fits to 40 points with GB reductions. 1. Fricke 2. Sedgmen 3. Lawson 4. Becker 5. Bewley or another brit circa 8.7 6. Mountain 7. Hagon.

Agreed. Team manager said at the time of signing young Sam that nothing was expected of him in 2024. so onwards to 2025 when as you say he needs to be beating his opposite number especially at home. Lets hope he comes back from Aussie up and running. To state the obvious, Lions need a strong no. 6 to make them competitive in heat 2 and a big hitter 5 especially for heats 13 & 15. Interesting close season ahead...hopefully!

I write as a person of pensionable age who considers himself lucky & fortunate enough to have had a career with associated remuneration/pension and investments to comfortably afford retirement....as I say, I am both lucky & fortunate. Now onto my post inspired by the the points you have made which appear to be both insensitive and inaccurate. Please consider that the vast majority of folk retiring in 2024, started work back in 1974 (with folk over 66 starting work even earlier) when types of pension schemes were limited and yes, the state pension was a sum which was considered & promoted to be sufficient to live on. That said, many larger companies did provide a contributory defined benefit scheme based on accruals of 1/70 or if you were lucky 1/60. Of course many of these schemes are now closed as a result of the disappearing business's with the funds (if remaining) managed by the Pension Protection Fund offering fixed rates of income that are not in line with final salary. This scenario currently effects some 9.6million folk which is 74% of current pensioners. So although many folk had made provisions in addition to the state pension they have been greatly affected by the collapse of such schemes with little time left to make up via other means. Conversely, there is no "myth" about civil servants/local government pension schemes. Example, The Local Government Pension Scheme is a salary related benefit scheme (not affected by stock markets/investment fund performance etc) based on 1/49 accrual rate with employees contributing 25% and the employer 75% of the required contributions. This is a long established and exceptional scheme in comparison to anything available in the private sector and one of the main attractions to working in local government and similar public sectors and as previously stated - no myth.

A nice idea but unfortunately, the dreaded VAT needs to be considered too. A £23.00 admission would actually generate £19.17 for the club. A £10.00 admission would actually generate £8.33 for the club. Following your assumption of a 1200 attendance (all adult) the reduced admission fee would result in a drop of £10,000 in income. This means that an additional 1200 adult attendees would be required just to reach the original income figure based on 1200 attendees at £23.00 less vat. Frankly no accountant/business consultant/speedway promoter would see the idea as a worthwhile risk considering their fixed costs such as riders wages (home & away), stadium hire etc would remain thus putting a huge risk/burden on the scheme immediately being successful.

My apologies. Should be a section 215 notice

Is it a matter if time (not sure how long that is) before Rugby B.C. serve a section 21 notice on Brandon Estates? Could be a good way to get the area cleared at no cost to future promoters/owners wishing to bring the sport back. Or at least force Brandon Estates arm to consider selling given that to clear the site will be significant cost.

Its difficult to imagine, why UK speedway promoters believe they can disprove the saying, "if you keep doing what you've always done, then you will always get what you've always got" - and grow the sport whilst still serving up the same old......"speedway, the family sport" concept. They have, for many a year failed to add (or even provide) value to the show they put on, whilst nearly every other sport has, be it improved facilities, different formats, world class social media etc. The result, Cricket, golf, football, Rugby and more all report increases in attendance & revenues whilst speedway struggles to (survive) significantly grow its fan base . All these sports regularly increase their admission prices and sure some fans may voice their discontent, but the the sport thrives. In the great scheme of things £22.00 is not a great deal of money to spend (neither is it insignificant) but if a person only has that type of discretionary amount available, then it comes down to choice, and the event providing the most perceived value for money will more than probable, get the nod and for many, that is not UK speedway.

No doubt the single reason why he didn’t get the gig…thank the Lord!

Ah My apologies. however the situation would still remain because of at least two reasons. 1.The PZM would not nominate Russian born Riders ahead of Polish born. 2. (More importantly)The FIM are highly unlikely to instigate any move designed to circumvent one of their own rules.

Yes, yes folk know you mean the track commission- just haven’t got a sense is humour have you…

Heathens, but maybe the same location?

Difficult to understand the point you are attempting to make. In your posting you stated CCP which is the correct acronym for the Chinese Communist Party. You may have meant CCCP which of course ceased in Dec 1991 so hardly relevant in 2024. As for Croatia possibly offering to issue two Russian born riders licences to race international events, well if they did (apparently now confirmed), why not go the extra step and bless them with nationality as well (Tongu in cheek)

Seems consistent with the 21st June posting.