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Cryptic. All we need to see is a professionally run speedway club and we will be behind it. What could be simpler for KLS. Are they the words we need to eat? Don't know what was going on here deltafox seems to have worked some magic somewhere! But Yes, Jacob does need all our good wishes as any back injury is very concerning.

Cryptic? let's just see KLS speedway run competently and with the fans in mind whenever possible.

All the gardening and all the back to the pits traipsing etc etc etc IF Only that were to happen. Two minute hooter needs checking well before the start time.

Panting for the link on Friday and praying for good weather there. I added my email voice of thanks to Onesport.

I saw a hell of a lot more passion and "desire to score" racing with committed riders fighting for every point rather than waiting for their next race and hoping to gate then.

More foot shooting for speedway at Glasgow I see. Both feet this time and in true Monty Python style, Speedway UK - It's a very long running joke now. Thankfully not many people in the real world know it exists.

Hardly sometimes. Invariably always.

Doesn't matter to anyone in a position of influence. They care little for the lost pleasure of the fans UK wide.

Better than very good. IMO the best for many a long year.

If that is the case then PPV is worth a try because there is very little else to try to salvage the sport.. However once the BSPA take a stand against something it will never be tried.

There seems to be some confusion about Freesports and Freeview. Freeview is the normal TV free channels available to everyone and Ch 95 is a quite recent addition which you might need to re-tiune your Freeview TV channels to be sure of getting it.

Better this coverage, with a few small problems, than no coverage at all, which speedway is facing if BT decides it's not worth it. I enjoy it greatly and hope that it does continue next year. And / Or that the BSPA embrace some kind of Pay Per View for other matches ( for which I believe there is a viable market for away fans especially ).

Of course there are methods to prevent the track getting too wet in the first place and there are ways to dry out the track given a few hours and the staff. There are even as has been mentioned road works machines that could dry it out. But it is the rain sodden brains of the various promoters over the years ( especially during the Sky income years ) that have just not bothered ( or perhaps left it as a low priority ). Until around five years ago enough die hard fans kept coming regardless, either to a rain ruined meeting or to the next one. It is that which has changed and now there is not only a lack of willingness to sort the matter out, there is no money in the sport either. Making the racing exciting and unpredictable again and attracting a new generation of fans are the only two priorities the speedway "brains " ( innovators ) should now be working on.

And a terrible advert for speedway, assuming that a lot of neutrals were casually watching. I realise the TV schedules forced it to go ahead, but a bit pointless really. Riders appeared not to be able to adjust to the track condition especially at Wolves. We can't go on blaming the modern bikes for that can we? If so it's game over for the sport on that account, unless all tracks are covered or stadiums roofed!

Thanks to Racers and Royals I really enjoyed that and my link worked well.

If you ever get the chance please do not use all of those phrases ( some of which we really dislike) gathered from Nigel & Kelvin. Be yourself and use your own racing phrases. I could join as your commentating partner quite happily. If not me then Dave Goddard gets my Thumbs Up.

Because, as we are told, they won't put their leg over the bike for the money on offer.

mikebv wrote " Promoters should forget bringing in new fans for the time being and just try and entice back those who used to go" ​AND essentially that is right because if another 10 - 20% of existing die hard fans do walk away and there is an almost 0% increase in new fans , it will be non viable across the country. The end is indeed nigh. ​Tsunami wrote" sometimes you have to accept that times are changing" THAT all changed 10 -15 years ago and no promoters noticed enough to listen to the feedback of existing fans or even consider their opinions, ​theblueboy wrote "Speedway is a young mans sport, run by old men for old men. Until that perception changes the sport will continue to die". ​LIKE it or not that is entirely true. Not only are the old men that run it, old, they have few ideas of how to turn it around. If you can't please the existing fans and you can't attract new fans - you can work out for yourself what the result will be.

Can't yet make any of them work, sadly

Miss every trick that seems to be a BSPA mantra. Far too busy tinkering with the rules to pander to fans.

Many fans want this but the BSPA have decreed otherwise. Only time will tell which side is correct.

I bet you would for £1,000 a point and a win bonus.

The BSPA are daft enough to run the "dramatic all or nothing" matches when they know full well that the relegated team will not go down and the promoted club will not come up if they don't want to. Let's hope it's quietly forgotten.

Seems like a lack of confidence in promoters all round then. Not only in what they have done to the sport but what they are likely to do. If they do not have the clear headed thinking that is required to "save the sport" ( IF that is possible) , they should employ someone who does possess those skills. Otherwise it's game over in two or three years. That is the only test of what they intend to do - increased attendances.

theblueboy wrote" So yes, I do think they are monkeys. Nothing changes. Shambolic governance at all levels, which are well documented and discussed ad nauseum on this forum, yet promoters, and I believe from previous comments you have made you have been one, continue to fiddle whilst Rome burns. Promoters are the cause of every single problem within speedway, not the customer, however, promoters continue to treat us all with contempt." Hurray! Someone writes it truly as it is. When the Promoters sit among the smoking ruins of the sport of speedway with maybe half a dozen viable clubs there will be nothing to rejuvenate. The fanbase is so eroded now that when that last happened within speedway there was still enough fan goodwill to re-build with, but the monkeys are still fiddling while Rome burns ( or is that diddling? ). They will, however when sitting by the burning embers of what was a great sport beloved by hundreds of thousands of supporters, bemoan " we put it on but the fans turned away from our best efforts". But we will know who is really at fault.