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All too predictable in 80% of races. First out of the second bend ( first time around ) wins nearly all the time. Woffinden IS the best ever British rider.

I did not realise that the scale of changes at Swindon were on the same level as those involved in building a whole new stadium to hold 50,000 plus. If that is so, then yes a week is nothing. If we don't get a brand-damaging opening night a week later.

Now it's treble up then. Or maybe just Buster's new idea of Drop In and Ride Where You Like lads ( and when you like ). TIC a little.

Less than 20.

Blooming heck Webby. You are a man of mature years and stable temperament. You should have long ago sussed it that we do live in a strange world and with some strange people. Speaking the truth is often unwelcome to those who have delusions ( or their own agenda ).

Get the lad in! He cannot do less than Kasper and is going to do as well as Simon Lambert, who is past his best, Fresh new capable faces please ( capable of improving that is ).

Hoi! You forgot about the DENNIS's. I have been following the Stars since they moved from Norwich ( and since Ove Fundin pushed his bike from Thorpe Station up to the Firs -he must have been fit )! I was even going to be mug enough to go last night but neither of my regular chauffers were going so I had to suffer it on Updates. You are right, last year was an exception and we are in our former role of also-rans. Last year was our Worky year! But we could not cross over the line. That is King's Lynn Speedway.....

I see the tone of the early part of the season being set with a narrow home defeat. We will then see the nature of the promotion in sticking with who they have signed ( by the end of May ) or making necessary changes. Hmmm.

Seemingly all the time he was not on the bike. All the gifts he was given as a person appear to have been with regard to riding a speedway bike.

All riders at his level do improve, some just a little - some to a reasonable level and others become international class. I don't see many signs of huge potential or improvement despite Kasper's tender years.

Rumours and Fake News abound when the truth is denied to the people.

Not liking it as it seems at the moment. Onwards and Upwards may be a dream for Andersen but someone somewhere believes in him. Sadly I don't.

Now THAT's Speedway racing! Four or five times in every match and the crowds would be flocking back in the UK. It tends to be a rarity here ( once a week if you're lucky or you watch your racing at the NSS ). Magical and entrancing Magic.

IF the crowd was 2,500 it would indeed not be a failure. IF it was. If the average can stay between 1,000 and 1,500 he will have done well. You may well be right about that but I feel that any successful business owner must engage positively with his customer base ( and not combatively as Buster has in recent years ).

He has set fire to his "boats" and though they are not yet burnt below the water level he does need to be more prudent in future. Being outspoken / plain speaking is all very well if it is carefully thought out as to it's likely reception. It's not what you say but what other people hear that counts. The main point in his favour is that he can cut the mustard on track ( in the UK ) and so likely will get a PL place within a couple of months. The sponsor's logo issue was just a smokescreen and we will never know what really happened in the world of masonic-like dealings.

And fail he will, Buster that is IF he continues to fail to engage with fans and disregard them and their opinions. Even the loss of 10% of fans from each his three clubs would put an enormous strain on the finances of them ( and perhaps cause disillusionment among his backers ).

There would be no domestic UK racing on TV but "league" racing would continue with six teams. If you could call it a league. Unless Buster goes bankrupt or his backers pull out he won't be pulling the plug on any of his clubs, I feel sure of that. Catastrophic failure is not his cup of tea.

Even when the BSPA recognise and attempt to embrace modern technology, they get it wrong. A Red backwards wearing your blazer move. Anyway, how will this use of social media bring more fans as paying supporters into the stadiums?

Did you expect anything else from the man who is determined to destroy UK speedway and throw away his own fortune ( or is it someone else's? ).He has reduced the entertainment value in the racing at Saddlebow Rd and now has the power to do so at two other tracks.

However, keeping to such a strictly controlled budget ( which sounds sensible ) does present a huge problem IF the crowd of diehards falls away so that the budget is endangered for all three of Buster's clubs. That could easily happen and depends on the continued support of the diehards who are becoming more and more dissatisfied ( and who Buster continues to ignore ). UK speedway seems to have given up on chasing a new generation of fans ( having lost out on the missing generation pf them ).

Spot on! Buster Chapman is very trying and at times it's impossible to put up with his chosen direction for UK speedway.

There you go then. ALL of the UK speedway problems solved. The BSPA bring in these conditions and there will be hordes of flat cap wearing and waving supporters. Now it's not like that is the reason they can't be bothered to go. Who would have thought it would turn out to be so easy.

Naturally, especially with Buster Chapman at the heart of it, pulling strings and lots of wool over supporters eyes.

The Peterborough club / Buster Chapman must be in the right - assuming that Cook was offered a deal along the lines of Lewis Hamilton ( for the club to own his image ). Perhaps £100k up front, all equipment and accessories supplied and a team of at least two mechanics. If it was a deal like that then ( or £1,000 per point ) I am sure Cook would have been swayed. Speedway is far too tiny a sport financially for clubs to own the image rights to riders. I suspect that basically on the question of money Chapman and Cook fell out and this rights image row is a good face saver.

We are King's Lynn are much more familiar with a Buster says "Do It This Way" request / order / command. The nature of how he prefers to run his speedway clubs.