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I'm talking generally, afa Tai is concerned, he may never win a gold swc medal or even another swc medal ever, who knows ..... my last comment on this thread, it's up to Tai what he does with any medal he wins .... I don't really care, I'm just saying ......

Quite, as adults we just don't need the aggro

May be the only ever medal a rider wins, you never know .....

When we had more weekend meetings of course people would stay behind, now they race on work nights then off we go home ....

Let's hope 2017 EL teams will all be strong and entertaining to you What criteria do you use when choosing whether to go to EL or not? How would it differ in the PL?

Thought a little bit more about this, maybe for the playoffs this year, the British guys who started at reserve should be down there again, whatever the averages say .....

Whatever suits BSI financially is what will happen, doesn't matter to them .....

What and lose watching our TeamGB future and Norfolk boy, Robert Lambert and top man, NKI, as well as seeing Rory get back to his best, Batch find his full potential, Rosey continuing to improve, get Si Lambert back from injury and raring to go again and the improvement of Nicolaj ..... Of course a few of those boys could race PL too but with the potential changes to the league for next season I hope things generally improve, I think we have much to lose to go PL again, been there, done that, got loads of trophies .....

I'll always try to take a positive m8, I was pretty scathing of one rider last year, hate doing that really, no way am I joining the constantly moaning minority on here, what is the bloody point, there's loads of positives about our team, and I've enjoyed the speedway. I'll just carry on supporting and if it doesn't happen this year, so be it. As far as the Supporter's Club is concerned, we've had a great response, the kids have loved being mascots and the fans presenting Rider of the Night and watching from the centre. We are building on the total from the 50/50 most weeks from which the fans are pleased as punch to win and the riders, in particular the Young Stars, to receive. So nothing but positive on that score By the way, do you want to join, by post? 😉

No excuse for BSI not to utilise the Cardiff screens for running totals really, I would never pay what they want for a programme either ....New people could use the twitter updates or updates site I guess if the stadium has 4G. Mind you that is where a good tannoy system comes in .....

Unless GRW123 spoke to them or watched them, how can he accuse them of not trying or applying themselves? WWII, erm hardly the same ..... are you saying the Nazis didn't try to win? 😯

Timeless 😊 So 3 riders agree, perhaps you are wrong m8?

When folk lose their home track, nothing feels the same anymore, I'd be the same if Lynn went under ..... you've got to have that connection with your club and care imo. Of course loads of things need to change for the better but even if they did it's still not the same having YOUR TEAM to support. Loads of posters on here have this problem, nobody will convince me otherwise. There is NOTHING like that piece of paper in your hand to read and of course given the age of many fans still they don't frequent the www.

Unfortunately we are cancelling the Quiz Night on Tuesday 9th August due to lack of interest .....

Peterborough did, aren't they where the people are sorta thing?

Times have changed, people have changed, young people need to be asked what they want really ....

Why would you want to get rid of programmes, electronic scoreboards are just a nice addition to race nights surely? Something else they could put in progs, some do, is the merchandise available ....

Poultec are offering youngsters some mechanical experience in the speedway course they run .....

Play offs are exciting but there should be no double points or tacticals allowed in them imo. Straight meetings, not even reserve replacements this year given the balls up with reserve averages .....

How can you say that GRW123, were you in the pits, were you there?

Lynn have one but I never look at it unless I don't buy a programme. Many programmes are choca block with sponsor pages, of course they are important but often they are companies your every day supporter will never be able to use, imo the majority are better off on hoardings and kevlars. The programme needs to be mainly for the fans, years ago Lynn had their last page divided into lots of squares full of small sponsors, businesses the fans were more likely to use ....

I would like each of our promoters to make their tracks the best they can for entertaining racing as possible for starters. I'd like them to consider the music they play, making sure it is loud enough and appropriate. I'd like them to get the best guys as centre green mic men that they can, who are entertaining, know the sport, know the riders, have rapport with the fans, are fun and totally bias towards their team 😊 I'd like them to make sure the stadiums are looking good, that their track shops have good quality, current, smart merchandise at decent prices that the fans want to buy. Give their supporters clubs a proper base and all the help they need. Make sure their programmes are interesting, a kids page, competitions, stats, fans page, supporters club page ... Then turn to the race format, if they're going for 6 man teams, as long as we don't have any more protected heats and riders end up with proper, fair averages that's what we want isn't it? I'd like the promoters and refs to give time for riders to do a victory lap and for riders to always do them too and celebrate with their fans. I'd like all clubs to do some sort of press conference or talk to their riders after a home meeting, win or lose, the fans want to hear what they have to say. I don't want to see the return of tactical substitutes because riders don't get their full compliment of races but maybe it would be interesting for the team manager to have to pick the riders for the 2/3/4 races and/or a losing team could choose gate positions in a race if 6 down as a small tactical positive? How on earth you could encourage or make all EL clubs have a NL or DL team I don't know but they should all do something to develop our youngsters, thinking particularly of Poole here who are one of the best supported clubs in the country who don't 'seem' to do anything? I'd love to watch and support some test matches at BV, Lynn and Peterborough to give our best riders good, tough meetings on our big tracks. But of course to put anything like this together is near on impossible with the GP series taking up so much time of the top guys, I doubt it could be fitted in 😕

Not keen on the track but love the music 😊

Perfect example of not counting your chickens, oh damn ......

Least we know he likes Swindon.