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Won't last that long at this rate

Or maybe they were charging too much so people stopped going. But for Newport read Sheffield, Peterborough, Berwick, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Glasgow. All charging about the same £7 in 1997 and all now charging about £16. Why has the cost of speedway shot off at a rate great that inflation?

How did he get back in the rerun lol https://mobile.twitter.com/SteveDixonPhoto/status/585124619285356544/photo/1/large?utm_source=fb&utm_content=585124619285356544&utm_campaign=SteveDixonPhoto&utm_medium=fb

More Sheffield look great And Alex Davies is an abysmal signing.Only score points at Somerset last time he was here and has had a year out. Never made sense. And bets of all they have had to ignore the guidelines/rules to get him a visa anyway!

Weirdly, in all my years of watching speedway I can only think of one time a rider got excluded because his silencer fell off. Newport vs Newcastle in 2000 when Andre Compton fell off and flew into the crowd.

You can't copyright news. All they're doing is reporting a result.

Im not looking back for it but I wonder if the Kent fan who bemoaned that Eastbourne had signed a grasstracker with little speedway experience now regrets that little moan and in fact wishes that Kent had done the same?

So Davies gets a dodgy work permit then fails to score in his home debut having only managed to beat a reserve a couple of times in his first away meeting too. Maybe Scunny will be wishing they'd stuck to the rules on this one

Really? I think 90%of speedway fans would prefer to see a boring meeting and their team win than any good meeting. It's neutrals and newbies that need to be entertained. Obviously if you win 60-30 every week and theres no passing it will eventually get boring.

When Newport opened up in 1997 it was £7 for adults,just used an inflation calculator online and thats £7 is now £10.60 - yet promoters are charging £16. Where the £5.50 gone? Or the nearly 50% extra? The sport charges too much, far too much (and it does that at EL and PL level). But it does make me laugh when anyone claims the EL is a con, a rip off, over charges and that the PL is some sort of great deal. EL prices are £1-2 more, I'd prefer to pay the extra pound or two and see a couple of decent riders and riders racing against others of their standard, not reserves vs heat leaders.

While the Premier League really is Premier! Oh no, it should be the "Secondary League"

So it's £23 for Rye House then if you're including a programme. So it's not that close to what you pay at EL level. In fact what you have done is highlight Rye House charging £16 for PL speedway while some EL clubs are only charge £1 more! There your scandal!

This winds me. I got there on time despite a 2 hour + 140 mile journey. If people can't get there on time start without them. They'll get there on time next time. Basically the mugs who got their early had to wait around because some people couldn't get there on time.

It's £17 or £18 at every EL track. Someone above posted a simple solution, anyone wanting to leave after the first meeting gets a refund on the way out.

And in the same period (had it not rained) you had 24 planned speedway meetings. So thats 1 stock car meeting for every 8 speedway meetings.

Has the BWD bet been paid up? Wasn't it that he wouldn't score 10 in any meeting in his first month? And he's already done it

TBF to Gemini, it did take a long time to start the meeting - the minutes applause didn't happen until nearly 7.35 and then the parade took another 5 minutes. So we had an advertised 7.30 start time but it was probably nearer 7.50 before we had the first race. there were then quite long gaps between the first 4 heats (yet they stuck the two minutes on for heat 5 quickly as my niece needed the toilet and I'd told we'd go after heat 4, we'd not even moved and the 2 minutes was on!) But 7.50 for the first race with an advertised 7.30 start time. Seriously?!

I agree with you wholeheartedly. We need everyone we can get, the sport shouldn't be alienating anyone. But you first comment, "take us so called oap away now there probably wouldn't be any speedway" is exactly why there is a problem. Sadly, nature will take away the OAPs over the next few years - one of the harsh realities of life. It's been happening for the last 30 years, the people in their 70-80s are dying and not being replaced so crowds are dwindling. We're now at a point that 50 year olds at speedway are the youngsters!! If you assume that speedway has as even spread of 50-80 year old people attending that means in 10 years time when the people 70-80 now pass away you'll have lost 33% of your crowd. So this isn't about not wanting old people or hating on old people it's about wonder, "what the hell is going to happen when they die". Older favs are stuck in their ways now, they're going to go to speedway forever. It a habit now. So the sport needs to drag its into the 2010s to start attracting those aged 10-40

Also worth notng I took my 6yo niece to her first Bees meeting (she's been to 3 Cardiffs plus a Somerset/Birmingham meeting when she was too young to know what was going in) and she loved it and informs me we have to go every week. She even understood the TR, she found it funny that "red and blue were rubbish" so needed us to give then a chance. The sport CAN attract them young if some effort is made.

Another one who totally misses the point when someone comments on the age of speedway fans and goes off on a rant. The point is in 20-30 years time the current crop of fans will all be ages 80-110 (which basically means most will be dead or in too poor health to get to speedway). Without the favs the sport will die.

There was more passing tonight than Tursdays Sky meeting. Bjarne and Lambert must have been picked off about 6 times between them. Not a classic by any means but a long way from the worst speedway meeting I have seen.

Fair play, everyone told Helmsley his meetings were boring so he signed Bjarne Pedersen and Simon Lambert so they can gate and be picked off A great Bees performance from 1-7.

Part the fun of predictions is to be able to smugly remind everyone what you predicted when it goes well and to mock others when they're wrong. Whats the point otherwise FWIW, I had Rye House down as dark horses. I've gone with Sheffield to win the league this year though.

I'm sure the people of Poole all turn up at 6pm for a 7.30 start for home meetings too! Or probably not. The reality is if you're a home fans you know quite accurately the time you need to leave to get there for start time so you're not going to arrive 90 minutes before start time to stand around getting bored (and/or wet). Where as away fans have to allow some contingency for traffic so will generally arrive earlier. But thats just logic and the post was by starman so we can see why it failed!

It was a jokey comment based on the "so called expert" (ie the fans) that the promoters, manager and riders often ridicule. Nothing more sinister than that.