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Just wish we knew. All will be revealed sometime tomorrow no doubt.

Oh Yes They Could! And continue to do so.

Nights like that which turn to ashes in your mouth will only make the champagne taste all the more sweeter next time it comes. and it will come and turn into a waterfall of the bubbly stuff. Onwards and Upwards. Good Luck for the Under 21 round. The world is indeed your lobster Robert.

Now that is the best short description of some of the problems that UK speedway has allowed itself to descend into. Read, mark and learn - but few promotions learn from such a simple but vital lesson. I still demand better racing on a regular basis to tempt me into a season ticket or even going to every home match. We need the whole package if we are ever to attract these mythical new fans. Promotions must learn not to be surly and make sure their presentation is far from puerile. But will they? I agree with Pinny that they cannot be losing thousands year on year - unless it was a tax break for their other business ventures.

Pity that now there are so many young British riders coming through that there are fewer and fewer places for them to ride at or earn a living from.

My plea to BT for next Monday at Swindon ( they were never going to change it ) is for Pearson & Tatum NOT to harp on about it being the 69th anniversary because the rest of the world ( well those watching ) will never quite understand what is special about the 69th anniversary. Nothing is special about it unless it is the final season there. In which case say so. Many of us suspect that it is likely to be.

Praise the Lord that there is so much speedway on TV for me to enjoy. Thank you BT, Freesports, YouTube and Canal. I love it and the quality of coverage is awesome. I can see all that happens without binoculars. Just my cup of tea. But I will still go on Monday to see King's Lynn live because my good friend also wants to go.

And except for one or two clubs, that is pretty much the case across the UK. The BSPA should be renamed the BSOA - British Speedway Organisers Association. Or take out the selling / give publicity to - part of the dictionary definition. There never will be "any word from the BSPA" until they say so - it's their ball and they can take it away at any time. They won't say anything about 2019 until their next winter AGM.

Greg H. is famous for smiling and his superb starting technique. He is not known for sharing.

Woffinden should do that but is far from a cert. Lambert to just miss out on the semi-finals. Cook, if he has discovered the set up that works for him, needs to show us that that is the case tonight.

Craig claims to have discovered the "secret" of success in the GPs ( for him at least ). He needs to show us that he really can it do at that level tonight.

Sadly only those chappies you and I don't like or much agree with, can change the short-term future of speedway. Us on the terraces cannot do a thing except go on turning up and handing over our pennies. Or not.

Long time fiddling while Rome burned.

There won't be any "coming up" about it. It will be which teams want to cling together to survive in one medium-sized league. Several clubs will go out of business in the championship and the premiership at the end of this season. Or run at National League level. Without race night changes some just can't go on I feel sure.

Indeed! Memories overflow from the Blackbird Rd days, high up on the back straight. So why didn't David Helmsley build a track more like that? Had every opportunity to.

Sadly I have to agree with you there mostly, as neither of them have been able to really cut it - not that I regard them as crap ( except perhaps poor at world class level ) But as for Bomber's ridiculous point of view -delusional is about right on how much he is worth in the UK. He seems to believe he is worth about 250k profit here. Most of the doubling up - top riders - have never glanced at the terraces in the last 2 -3 years to see how many are now interested in watching them chase each other ( after the gating competition is over ). I agree with all the dangers of the job, but it has always been a choice they make to chase glory and fortune. At the moment hardly any rider is worth more than 75k profit / nett income ( inc. from both teams ) in the UK - based on the interest of the general public. If there are many more who agree with Bomber they have no chance of acquiring that lifestyle unless and until they crack Poland and Sweden and are "in demand" outside of the UK.

Lambert to do well on his full meeting debut but just miss out on a semi-final place. I dream of him winning it but that is the stuff of fantasy. Ride on Ruthless. ruthlessly!

I think that if speedway continues in any way, shape or form in 2025 it will be nothing like the present "business model". cityrebel summed it up when he said "At AtSwindon last night I handed over £20 inc prog, to stand in a dump of a stadium, to watch 15 processional races on a dust bowl of a track. It's not rocket science is it."- And I added that of the many, many thousands who have walked away over the last five years - would tell the same story of disillusionment. It rings true mostly for me. I know a proportion of elderly fans have passed away but not that many! The continuity of UK speedway is directly linked to the continuing decline of it. Until the promoters collectively realise that - if they haven't already - there is a possibility that there will be NO continuity at all. Instead of our 20 quids being wasted it's their many thousands of quids of investment being washed away.

And of the many, many thousands who have walked away over the last five years - would tell the same story of disillusionment. It rings true mostly for me. I know a proportion of elderly fans have passed away but not that many!

After the second bend, first lap, most of them are when not in front. "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" springs to mind.

The track preparation needs to be way better than those who went yesterday reported. Another own goal if the racing is poor because the track offers little to those who want to race at Swindon. If it always looks as if it is "first away wins" no newbies will be tempted to try a track visit near their own base. And even die-hards like myself will believe even more powerfully that the racing part of speedway racing is now a distant memory on most UK tracks.

YES! And please don't let it be under the control of BSPA / SCB.

Years ago based in Northampton the speedway world was my oyster and I very regularly rode my own road bike to Sheffield, White City, Kings Lynn, Rye House Oxford and Coventry as well as short-lived ones like Milton Keynes. I thought nothing of a 150-mile ride ( which I greatly enjoyed as well as the racing ). Now I live 3 miles from the King's Lynn track and can take it or leave it - not through ill health because I get a lift on the days I want to go. I like many, locally based fans am unimpressed with KLS over the past three years - coincidentally it seems since Buster has been miles away thinking of the whole sport ( even when physically at the track ) and - perhaps taking his eye off the ball at Saddlebow Rd. Not that he would agree with that!

Has to be part of the way forward.

That is likely to be the case from what little we really know. Houses V Track locations have never turned out well for various tracks over the years.