Mimmo

I don't think an App on a phone would attract a younger person to attend a speedway meeting if they don't already do so. If you like speedway, you're already there, you don't need it. If you don't like speedway, you wouldn't have it on your phone in the first place, and if you've never heard of speedway, it wouldn't be on the phone either. I stand by the guy who sells the programmes at King's Lynn, and he sells them by the box load at £3 a time, so there is still a big demand for the printed matter, as a lot of peple like a keepsake, and hopefully that will always be the case. I'm sorry, but modern technology is killing this world. You've only got to look at the amount of shops that are going out of business (forgetting the pandemic) because people buy on-line, thus putting shop workers out of work. The same goes for a lot of factories, which are maned by robots these days, and I think the council workers are already out of work looking at all the pot holes in the roads. I really do fear for the generation that are entering this world now, because by the time they leave school, there will be no jobs out there for them, which will just lead to more and more crime. Just my opinion.

First, I hope clubs NEVER do away with a payable programme, but if they did, I'd just print a score sheet and keep it that way, with the collections of programmes that I have from down the years. At the moment, and have done for years, printed a score sheet to fill in at the meeting, but have ALWAYS bought a programme too, to fill in the next day.

Why do people always assume everyone has got a smartphone....they haven't.

I was typing my post as you were Ray, so we must have just watched the news on BBC.

BoJo is talking about the possibilty of summer, hope for goodness sake that isn't right!!!

Okay, so we've read about the Youth Policy, Premiership & Championship Leagues plus Eurosport, but nobody has mentioned the equally important NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LEAGUE, as I'm sure stand alone clubs like Isle of Wight, Mildenhall and Plymouth if they don't join the Championship would love to know what's going on.

Yep, he's 50 in October. Sullivan is 46 tomorrow. Crump is the youngster at 45.

I'd rather he finished up at Leicester as I don't think King's Lynn would suit him at all...........yet I get a nasty feeling!!!!!

They're hoping to build the new Southampton Speedway Track between Locks Heath & Fareham. Infill land just off the M27 is now in the process of being bought by a former policeman, and planing permission is going in shortly to build the speedway track . Infill land means houses can't be built on it, and noise issues wouldn't be a problem. The initial plan so I'm told would be for use as a training track along with amateur meetings, which are becoming more and more popular.

I think I've got a kitchen arriving for a new bungalow that I seem to have bought.

Nothing to do with this topic, but is anybody else getting adverts popping up between postings.

As things stand, I find it hard to see how the season can start at Easter, still, here's hoping.

Happy Birthday to you, and hope you have a day that you deserve, after all your hard work these past 9-months. You and your team have worked so hard in continuing to give us speedway supporters a magazine that we crave for each week, in the most difficult of times. As far as I'm personally concerned, the Speedway Star is a top quality magazine, being the best I've ever known it. I have every copy at home covering the past 61-years, plus numerous copies from earlier years, and none compare to the quality of what you are producing for us now. So a huge thank you. You and ALL of your staff and contributors, are a credit to your profession, to each other, and to the sport in general. So once again, HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Mike Moseley

Great article by Peter Schroeck too.

I ordered and paid for something from a company in June, and still haven't received it. As they are ignoring my e-mails, they are obviously a fake website.

I agree with Steve about going back to basics. It's going to be extremely difficult for everyone, Promoters, Riders & Fans alike. With so many out of work, with the situation getting worse all the time, and I'm sure that we're still quite a long way from being safe despite the vaccine, it's a very worrying time for everybody involved in our beloved sport.

Thanks Steve. That would rule any chance of us visiting if hopefully speedway does reopen there.

Is it far for disabled people to walk do you know?

Fingers crossed that we do get speedway back at Oxford, but the thing that puzzles me is where will everyone park, if it's proposed that around 100 houses/flats be built on the car park.

If that's the case, I will not be renewing my BT TV deal. As for Eurosport, I'll wait and see who the commentators are before I give any thought on taking them up.

Wimbledon FC should have moved in there, ample room for their crowds, and left Plough Lane alone, and not trod all over Kingstonian!

I guess nobody is ever going to win this debate. I agree that the REAL Wimbledon (A club I once supported too) is now Milton Keynes. But I can see the other side of the discussion too, although as I said, I don't agree with it. I can see it being a financial disaster for them, and whilst I despise the past, I would feel sorry for the supporters of AFC Wimbledon if that should happen.

So do I.

Been to one sporting event which I enjoyed, but can't really say I'm interested in going to anymore, anywhere this year.

Quite agree hammer1969. I'm asthmatic, which is getting worse by the year, although still very much controlable, and although I wear a mask in shops etc; I do find they hamper my breathing after a while, and I start to panic. I've tried Face Shields, but find they mist up all the time. So whilst I'll wear one at King's Lynn next Sunday, I'll have to keep lifting it up to get some fresh air, which I have to do in shops.