Teromaafan

Why on earth haven’t you made everyone aware of Laguta’s availability and keenness to ride in the UK before now? If you hadn’t been keeping this under your hat he would have been snapped up long ago. You appear to be a big fan of his and perhaps ought to have done a bit more to raise his profile and the speedway world’s awareness of his availability. The first thing for British teams to check of course is his average which will be important when looking at guest options after he has completed a few laps and decided that having to constantly turn left in cold weather is not for him.

The main reason that I don’t attend that many away meetings is the uncertainty as to whether it will be on and if so, will it be completed. It seems that more and more meetings are postponed due to weather forecasts and the call can sometimes be made late. I’m too old to see the funny side of travelling a couple of hours or more to probably not see a wheel turned. If the meeting is streamed/televised though, I don’t have make any commitment until tapes up. Greater certainty of meetings taking place can only be achieved if tracks can be prepped and covered. As we all know though, this will never happen.

Whilst the BSN streams (which as you say are very good) may impact attendances, what about the people following the away team who purchase the stream? Away supporters at most tracks are in the minority and I would expect that a sizeable proportion of stream subscribers are following the away team. The purchase of a stream is approximately half the cost of attending a meeting. I don’t know what percentage of the stream fee finds its way to the club, but they will be getting money from people who would never have attended. Whilst we don’t have access to figures, look at the turnstile revenue shortfall on a streamed meeting and compare it with money received from the stream. Bottom line - is there a significant net loss or profit, which is more important than the number of people in attendance on the night?

Although this was a better showing from the Lions I’m pretty sure Dickson is trying to line up his next team change (if he hasn’t already). I would think that Becker is the one looking over his shoulder. Change for change sake though is not the answer (unless he has issues with a rider). The reserve changes he has made have made no difference. Still think that Kemp will score more points over a season than Craig Cook.

Well that would appear to tip the balance in the Ace’s favour then! Honestly, who gives a stuff, I expect the Aces to comfortably rack up 55 points regardless.

But Manilow gives people what they want. When he was at the Co-op he cleverly came up with ‘Have a Co-op, Co-op banana’. People felt a connection. Mind you, the following day he did the same thing in Aldi and people ignored him and just carried on shopping.

That’s not true though is it and doesn’t explain why Belle Vue can announce the opposition’s team?

Why do I have to look on the Belle Vue website to find the Lions team and riding order? At the time of posting this, there is nothing on the Lions site for a meeting taking place tomorrow.

All looking good for the televised Eurosport meeting then! Kelvin needs to dig deep into the bullrubbish vault to convince viewers that we’re in for a great meeting. Bullrubbish? Bloody auto correct again! Insert bull5h1t instead……obviously.

This reads like there is something you know but the rest of us don’t.

Can’t believe I forgot he already has a Prem spot. Thanks Phil! (Decent bottle of wine this though!).

After the mauling at Ipswich, Dickson will leave no stone unturned looking for replacement options. Personally I would get Sedgmen back in. Hardly a gamble, a good trapper and rides smart when in front. Who does he come in for? take your pick on an average of 5.07, well over a point lower than Becker for a start.

You could make that excuse for Becker maybe but the other two have plenty of experience of the Leicester track. ‘The very best and quicker riders ‘ have something in common, being prepared to attack the track and not beaten by its reputation.

As piss poor as the Lions were, I’m not sure what the options are for replacements. As has been said on this thread, only Lawson can hold his head up. The Wolves riders have been a bitter disappointment, considering two of them were Lions previously. Even if (and that’s a big if) they could scrape into the play offs, the only teams that they have the slightest chance of beating over two legs, will not be in the play offs!

Witches to win by 10 or 12.

Agreed. A top four finish is easily achievable, but there is no way the Lions will over turn BelleVue, Sheffield or Ipswich over two legs in the play offs. We have recently faced two of these teams (away) who have fielded the weakest side they will field all season due to injuries and we still couldn’t land a blow. Whilst speedway is a team sport (which is why this is the only motor sport that interests me), the current heat format puts heavy emphasis on having two big hitters that can be called upon at the back end of a meeting. Compare the Lions team with those mentioned above and we are clearly fourth best.

I wouldn’t attend Leicester anymore , not even if you paid all my travel expenses, my admission and the cost of having to take a days holiday from work to attend. Think we get the message.....I bet if the club were to throw in a free programme as well you might be tempted though?

We all want to see the best riders over here regardless of which team we follow. Nice one Brum! What average does Freddie come in on?

I’m sure Doug was a nice guy but my lasting memory of him was him taking out his team mate Ray Wilson on the fourth bend at Blackbird Road. Poor Ray ended up on the dog track and then spent some time in hospital. Pretty sure Ray never represented the Lions again after that and then joined Birmingham. I think that Doug remained at Leicester for another season or so but would welcome any comments correcting my memories of events nearly 50 years ago!

Only going by the Updates website, but an average performance from Fricke would have got the Lions over the line. Dickson will be furious.

Guilty as charged then! I swear that there was nothing there at the time but probably didn’t scroll down enough.Apologies to all at the Den!

Thank you for starting this thread. There is still no preview for this on the Speedway GB or Lions website, only on the Sheffield site. I was going to highlight this apathetic approach to the Lions management………..but then couldn’t be arsed.

Very respectable performance from the Stars based on my reading of the updates site. Probably could have made more of the reserves looking at Lawson and Klindt's scores it seems? The R/R return of 3 points must be frustrating. You would expect Musielak to score about 9 points, which may have tipped the balance on the night? We'll never know of course! This showing will hopefully lift morale at Lynn considering the apparent dark cloud (the one Buster calls upon when convenient!) hanging over the club.

No, the speedway community don't want a team to suffer, but they will not tolerate a club manipulating/breaking rules to survive. Its unethical and Lynn should not expect sympathy from anyone. As has been pointed out on numerous occasions, its Buster's fault for not assembling a competitive team from the outset. He is not bigger than the sport and I hope the outcome of SCB review will be something to remind him of this.

Puppets aren’t big and don’t have muscles. This is why Sooty turned this position down before it was offered to Phil.