Littleze

I think that’s a fair and reasoned outlook. 👍🏻

Good question, should they? Probably.. it’s a boys club as we all know. The same on point messaging/club statements, albeit now with a few closer to home dissenting voices.

You Cnut!!

It’s not unfair on the clubs surely, it’s in their interest for them to run (presumably) hence why they are giving it as long as possible for it to come to fruition. If you’re a rider waiting on a new project, surely they would know of any risks or asking ew Northampton questions behind the scenes. As for fans, if they don’t run you haven’t lost anything. It’s the thousands of new Northampton supporters who I feel sorry for. 😉

Yes, I love that too.

Speed skating is everything Speedway should be. I ❤️ it, just watched a great final.

It’s Speedway, and you want transparency 😉

You’re correct, I remember it now (for all the wrong reasons) My mate a lapsed Speedway supporter and Ipswich fan attended with me, we had gone to Peterborough a few times as the most local track to us. I thought the day experience was poor, and after the event was crap too, this on top of that s*it show. My team is Rye House, I went to various meetings in the hope of good racing/meeting with no emotional attachment as Rye had gone. 👍🏻

Yes to all of the above, many Sports have lost characters and have adapted accordingly, Speedway obviously suffers because it’s expensive to get in to, it’s reliant on the weather and the model of the Sport imo no longer works, especially for a modern audience, new sports have sprung up since the time we were kids, see examples in the Winter Olympics for an obvious example and the emergence of Women’s sports. Many of these newer sports are niche/minority but they are slick and professionally presented, yet look at the enthusiastic crowds. We have had GP’s in ready made stadia, that were established and served up dross, the Cardiff GP (I forget the year, but myself and a mate went) it was appalling, and still people defended it. We can’t keep looking back, if you can’t market a team sport, that is fast, dangerous and colourful and in which a race lasts 60 secs, which is about the average concentration level of a modern day person (tongue firmly in cheek) and you have multiple Social Media platforms to do this (Insta, X, BlueSky, YT, Reddit, Mastadon, FB etc) oh and David Howe’s daughter then what hope has the sport got?!

You said it, it’s no longer relevant..it missed the boat,and is still wide of the mark on most levels, on which this community has mentioned. Unless the whole sport is restructured I see no tangible future, that would obviously include the other federations too, I don’t see how that comes to fruition given the varying levels of infrastructure across the board, let alone anything else, I’m sure it would require a tonne of money, but who is going to provide that and get/expect a ROI in real time.

I am unsure why anybody would be optimistic about this project, where does a crowd come from to support it? Any new people to the sport will surely become disinterested once all the normal nonsense kicks in, guests, late rains off & all the other stuff that has been mentioned to death. Until a complete overhaul is looked at, I fail to see how the Sport is turned around.

They should be stripped of the title 😊

Linda Lusardi again?

I’ve just caught up on this, my effing god! Someone sat down and actually thought & spent their time coming up with this. They should have put one of the traffic cones they use to keep the tapes up and put it on her head, for a bit more authenticity

What I expected really.. eff all! Nothing to look forward to (not that I was going to attend anyway) Hardly a press release to spark optimism or a future vision.