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People can go into the south stand for £7 less but I understand where you are coming from as there are people who cannot stand for that long. Also a new stadium has extra running costs. At the outset of the GP,s I said it would have a negative impact on league speedway and I think it has, weekend speedway wiped out, the loss of all the top riders, and the watering down of the domestic product. We always ran on a Saturday for example along with the likes of Cradley, Coventry, Swindon, Kings Lynn sadly two of those have fallen by the wayside. Then we have fixed race nights which impacted on our crowds and caused Rye House to go under, Poole were lucky in that respect as you kept your regular race night, look at Swindons Monday crowds, Somerset seem to have managed ok but I think that's more to do with the M5 being easier to navigate mid week. All promoters are in the last chance saloon and this close season really have to get it right if the sport is to stand any chance in the future, Going off previous BSPA conferences im not holding my breath.

You don't have to even go that far back to note the alarming drop in attendances, play off finals are considered crowd pullers but even those are not great with non league games regularly pulling in more for mid season games. Well the carrot we dangled was a superb race track if that dosent work that's it I would say wouldn't you?

So United only pull in around 30,000 from the Manchester area? Ridiculous

Also we have non league clubs around here that consistently record higher attendances than any Premiership speedway club, lets face facts even what is considered a good crowd nowadays for a speedway meeting is bobbins, the sport nationwide is at rock bottom.

But only with an 11,000 capacity which rather limits attendances when compared to nearly 80,000 at OT

We are going to need all 6 riders to turn up in the first leg if we are to limit the score to something we can pull back at home. Reserves are definitely going to have to produce something better than last weds.

Totally garbage meeting the only talk being about the ludicrous decision to exclude Woffinden by a corrupt ref. But what goes round comes round and I think this could fire Woffinden up in the remaining rounds. I wouldn't go to this track if it was all expenses paid, surely its got to be dropped from the GP calendar?

I think Somerset will come up short over the two legs, Im going for them to take a 6-8 point advantage from the first leg and I just feel that wont be enough.

I suppose someone had to try to discredit the Heat 13 action from the other night, anyway its a far cry from the criticism that we constantly got at Kirky Lane, justified in the main but still became tedious.

Seems pointless rescheduling this one

I think you will get past the rebels

First thing i thought on entering the stadium was the track looks in great shape. As you say its no wonder the racing was very good. If all tracks provided good track conditions the riders would produce, then promoters might see an increase on the terraces. Last night underlined how entertaining this sport can be given the right conditions.

I enjoyed that a good meeting with some very good racing. Was looking a bit ominous for the Comets early on with Klindt Barker and Proctor not looking on the pace. Rasmus Jensen was superb with his heat 6 win a great ride. Wells Riss and Worrall very good for Monarchs along with Pickering who put in some good efferts. Heat 15 was shaping up to be a cracker until the fall, hope the lads ok. Thought they would have re run it as it was only the second lap. But well done to the Comets for the win and the Monarchs for making it such a good meeting.

Coming up for this one should be a good meeting, big downside is what happened to Dan hopefully he makes a rapid recovery and comes back stronger than ever next season, the most naturally gifted rider ive seen at BV since the days of PC and Mort.

Riss brought in for the away meetings and so far doing a far better job than Etheridge at Monmore.

Just about to leave raining now 20 mins from track

That's put the mockers on it now

Good final ride by Vaculik but overall not a good race meeting.

shockingly sad news RIP.

No points no surprise, I predicted we wouldn't get another away point a couple of weeks ago, what is a surprise is the margin of defeat. Not replacing Stevie who was never going to come back fully from 3 months out after a nasty injury has come back to bite us on the backside, I would never have had Cook back this season, the GP was always going to have a negative impact as hes way out of his depth, always talks a good game pre season though, this might wake up the owners as they have lost out on the most lucrative meetings of the season. The difficult decisions should have been made rather than any misplaced loyalty. having said that lets not take anything away from Leicester, well done to them.

Law of averages Leicester cant carry on losing at home and with our woeful away record ending that run tomorrow wouldn't totally surprise me.

Very surprised to see Sheffield totally capitulate, I would have had them down for a play off place. In football parlance it seems the management have lost the dressing room.

No points no surprise, cant comment about the ref as I couldn't get time off to get down there, not really great from the No1 but Worrall, Tungate, and Drozdz cost us as they never turned up at all, Lemon should have got rid of the Pole and Worrall has really let the club down by returning when he clearly is not fit to do the job disappointed in him, tbh his return is looking a tad selfish as he must have known he wasn't up to it. I predicted not another away point and still cant see it, Leicester being the best chance but I fear that would be too little too late.

Nope

Season over for us, Worrall should have been replaced as he was never going to come back after 3 months with such a bad injury and hit the ground running, throw in the decision to release Etheridge who would definitely have scored more tonight than Riss and Cook not really hitting the heights and a play off place always looked iffy when you consider our away form. Fricke, Bewley, and Tungate are the 3 I would be looking to keep out of this side.