OveFundinFan

Dont egg them on!

Thats the current going rate if you with BT, think it is reviewed August time. Its good value for money - lets hope they stay sensible.

Cant remember what year I first saw the Golden Helmet races at Hyde Road, maybe late fifties when I was 12-13 but defo remember those in the 60's, especially Craven v Fundin, and what cracking races they were. Two completely different riding styles, yet so much trust between them to be able to ride so close at the speeds they were doing. Amazing.

A few matches - 11 GP's, and 18 british league matches. Heres a link to BT fibre b/band at a speed of upto 52mbps, unlimited monthly usage for under £30pm (includes line rental) for 12 month contract. Add £8pm for a TV box and BT Sport 1234 free until Aug then £3.50pm. A bargain I think. https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband-packages/?s_cid=con_maxus_display_vidZ60&vendorid=Z60&dclid=CKev4JSd1NICFXWi7QodLVkIIg

I can see this going to "my dads bigger then your dad"

Its on the official BV website as well

It shows, Danny, that loyalty means nothing these days. I have learnt to shop around for likes of car insurance, house/contents insurance etc. Lat December my Sky bill was £49pm and tel/bband another £28pm. I am changing to BT tel & fast fibre b/band c/w tv entertainment plus package in 2 rooms (had to pay £99 for 2nd tv box, but for £43pm. Thats a 12 month contract but was told in 12 months time due to go up £20 month but was told just talk to us and a deal will be made. Hope you get your Mum and Dad sorted well.

Track covers were another thing Man. City Council didnt provide last year at the new BV stadium. Its in their list "to do" during 2017

Thats the one I was thinking of. I am sure I read somewhere it was agreed between MCC and BSPA representatives for the complex to be called NSS. It was a link from somewhere on here, probably in this thread.

I signed up this morning to BT to supply tel/b-band/tv (in 2 rooms) for just over £40 per month. Thats broadband at 55mb/s Its a hefty upfront cost cause I wanted both rooms to have a recordable tv box, so that was £99 in itself, £50 activation fee for Infinity1 and then delivery of the package at £10, and a set of 3 connectors for the router to extend in the rooms. Should be up and running by end of March. Current broadband is 1.2mb/s so 55 is a massive gain.

As Sky pulled out less then a week ago, maybe BT do not have the resources to pick up at a moments notice. Resources as in manpower and equipment.

Who at the BSPA do you think could negotiate a deal with Sky/BT/whoever competantly enough to get a good deal? Many high profile companies engage PR personnel managers/companies as it is a specialist field

I think the NSS cme from MCC wanting the title. The stadium is part of a project on the east side of Manchester promoting sport. Man City Etiad stadium is only couple miles away - as is the National Velodrome and I think there is another "National" sport event closer to the NSS, cant remember what it is though.

How can BT offer you BT Sport when you havnt got BT TV. Surely to get BT Sport on an active Sky box you have to go through Sky. Have you not thought of ditching Sky and getting a BT TV box - its cheaper I think.

I dont see anything wrong at all watching speedway on the TV. If no one paid Sky/BT/Eurosport the fees they charge then there would be no funds going to British speedway - its what British speedway does with the money they receive from the TV businesses that really matters.

I cancelled my Sky subscription which did not include Sky Sport (so no Britiish league speedway) but could watch BT Sport via Sky through paying Plusnet (my b/band supplier) £10 per month for those months I wanted to watch GP's. I was paying Sky £49pm for TV viewing, plus my tel/b-band package through Plusnet of £28pm - so £77pm plus another £10pm when GP season on. My Plusnet contract finishes in 2 months so I will be free (for the first time in a long time) to choose who I want and maybe a tel/b-band/tv package and BT is top of the list. I reckon at the moment with the deals on, could get from BT - tel/fast b-band (56mb/s)/tv box for £60 but for 1st 12 months reduced to around £42 plus a £125 preloaded onto a mastercard. You need to know what usgae you have on broadband. The above figures are for 25gb download per month. Im currently using 12gb-23gb depending what I download obviously. That could increase depending on usage with a fast b-band available but up to 100gb download is about £8 per month more.

Now got the link, need to read through again.

Seeing as DG/Cm were at one time to keep there nose out of MCC/ISG affairs I find that story hard to believe at this point in time.

Sky paid £10million per league match - surely thats not correct, is it???

The link is not working for me. Interesting twist.

As MCC and BV had an agreement, BV would put the loss assessor claim to MCC. I would assume as the claim was the result of negligence (or whatever) of ISG then MCC would put a stop on the payment to ISG iie Pay Less Notice.

When the fullness of that report comes to light it could be very damming on the council. They probably knew of the REAL problem because of the loading tickets submitted by the contractor to the council, as part of conditions of contract, thus they have brought in the correct QUANTITY of material to the track. Those same tickets would probably identify WHAT the material was as well. If this is the case then BV would have no idea that rubbish was being dumped on the track (contractor not under their control) but Man City Council would. That £696,000 that the council stopped from payments to contractor is the exact amount loss assessors showed as the monetary loss to the BV business. If that money had gone to BV, as I believe it should, then the BV story would have been a success story rather then a tragic story. I would say that £690,000 is due payable to DG/CM business. They could then pay off whoever they owe money to. Lets face it, yes the public who paid to see the opening meeting accumulated losses, but DG/CM lost their means of making a living, and seeing their dream that they battled for over the previous 10 years. They are left with nothing, except the abuse the got from this forum, when now it is becoming clearer as to what happened. Edit. What I now looking forward to is the input BSPA/SCB had in the undoing of BV speedway during 2016 ie going behind the back of DG/CM Lots more truth to come out yet I am sure.....will we see it?

I missed the leg trailing of old (I started going s/way early 60's) but saw couple demos at BV, looks spectacular. Photo above (from Iris) looks a lot like Peter Craven used to ride, except he kept his right leg on the foot rest.

Looks a good stadium, I like the spacing between seats.

Correct, (as EE is as well) and one reason I went with Plusnet. But £10 per month is pretty good....but you do need an active account with Sky. You dont get the same as BT though, they keep the business separate. For example - I am on very slow b/band, 1.2mbps and the same was quoted by all the copper wire suppliers. That is until earlier this year when I visited the Openreach website and saw my post code was now with fibre b/band. I contacted Plusnet but nothing available for offer. Go to BT website and it says I can get fast fibre b/band. One of the Openreach guys working round my area says BT will probably keep it to themselves for the first 6 months. So I got 10 weeks before I can jump ship from Plusnet (contract ends) to BT, by which time maybe Plusnet will be able to offer fibre b/band, but now I dont have an active Sky account, will be interesting.