robbieblackadder fan club

I think the whole of speedway is at a crossroads,I have watched from afar this year and the whole sport is a mess mainly caused by the doubling up/down rule and I think the general public are getting cheesed of with constantly watching teams with guest,R/R or NL replacements for teams top riders, for years the PL was always a great product and the EL struggled I think the BSPA have destroyed the PL in their search to make the EL better, if you look at most EL teams bar the odd rider they are full of PL riders they need to get their house in order, all speedway promotors need to get together and do what's best for the sport not the individual. I agree with others in that the stipulations for reserves just hasn't worked and it has watered down the product and not delivered what it was set out to do, bring back the 42.5 points limit and let the promotors build a team to their means which ever way they can within the limit. I would hate to see Newcastle close as I think they have one of the better promotions out there and I feel the actions/decisions of others may have an effect on us

Decent looking team taking into account the parameters of the league, feel that the authorities have watered it down to accommodate of the Elite/premier or what ever its called always the same, I think the reserves will do ok and Phillips having a year under his belt should do him no harm and also taking into account most teams are going to be running with 2 pointers due to the build up of the team that experience could be invaluable

poor performance from Kus and Robson and a dreadful heat 15 Cost us, a heat advantage in heat 15 would have won us the meeting that's the facts the riders on the night did not do it, if they had we would be through simples , you can make up all sorts of excuses about guest but the facts are there our top men should not be getting beat in heat 15....................................

had a sneaky feeling the make up of this team might come back to haunt us, however we should have had more than enough in the team we had to win, probably would have been better to go with R/R than Robson, maybe some of our riders have more than an eye on whats going on in the Elite League

Wont be going to this one cant be bothered to explain to my little boy why we have guests again and why the sport is being ruined, I pay to watch 7 Newcastle riders and 7 of the opponents riders not a program full of guests and constant scribbling in the program they may aswell leave all 7 places blank..............rant over sorry but its killing the sport

first meeting back for a while and it was not a good advert for speedway, yet again to many guests and rider replacement, although the guests did their best, no wonder speedway crowds are down

is that another rider we loose to doubling up or do Newcastle get priority

Understand where you are coming from AC but it is probably a bit harsh, the whole idea of having British reserves was to bring them on for the better of the sport and to give young riders more of a chance , if you look at the last few results if the rest of the team had ridden anywhere near their averages we would have won, the pressure should not be on Danny to perform he should be allowed to develop also the constant chopping and changing of the side with guests cant be helping the other riders develop on track relationships, if you look at the guests although we are grateful for them helping out I don't think if my memory serves one of them has scored anywhere near that of the rider they are replacing. The problems of the team lie elsewhere and lets not heap to much pressure on a young lad making his way in the sport in his first full year of premier speedway, I think he has shown enough in glimpses to know he will be okay given time

Kings Lynn possibly changing to a thursday night racing

Top bloke awesome round enough. Heard a story about him when he had a coming together with another rider and damaged his bike and at the end of the meeting went to the spares van and bought him a new set of forkes. Also read in the star that brough was one of his least favourite track yet he was master of it and he went a long way to making Mark Thorpe the rider he became ...Top top rider

Whooooa didn't see that coming excellent signing..that's 3 back through the gate for next year just need the meetings not to take so long

Oooh u little tease come on give us a clue.is he Danish and when

To be fair decent solid start but unlikely to put anther 70 bums on seats let's hope the next announcements do

Hope so, as long as lingren is not a heat leader it will be ok ,typical spin should be in politics

Has Lambert been released by peterboro

Disagree with you totally I want to go back but I want to be entertained the last couple of times I have been bored with gate and go speedway and the fact that the meetings took 2-3 hours to run my little boy got bored and wanted to go home. One of the meetings I think it was Sheffield turned up with a team full of guests and I think we had riders missing cause they were doubling up !!!!try explaining that to new comers. It's up to the promotion to try and get the likes of me back,slicker ran meetings,better racing. instead of having a go at people try looking at it from someone else's perspective instead of your own all of the time,you will continue to go right till the last as a die hard which is your prerogative which I respect but speedway is in the entertainment industry and all promotions of all teams need to take a good hard look at themselves if they want speedway in this country to flourish..there are to many other attractions around these days to get your ££££s so this support it at all cost or loose it just doesn't washSorry to continue my rant but look at teams we have had in the past with Kenny,Rene,bjerre,both pedersons jesper Olsen they were entertaining riders who produced moves that kept you on the edge of your seat and meetings were exciting and you hoped they missed the gate. Who remembers james grieves blasting round the bends awesome. That's what you need to get punters through the door even when we had a poor team we had riders like Jason Lyons who made you want to come back each week. Riders who you know we're going to mix it with the opposition's men.

Have you ever stopped to think why people stopped going to support your team 1 meetings take to long 2 presentation is average 3 team is poor 4 racing no where near as good ad it used to be 5 people sick of teams turning up full of guest or rider replacement 6 sick of loosing riders to doubling up People say on hear only get a team u can afford,I get that but put together an attractive one from the start and you will attract the fans in..if u want to get me to come back put a decent team together to get me back instead of having a go for not coming.. There to many people on here that think they are always right and that there way is the only way and freedom of speech is no longer allowed

what the h@@l is going on. Sign riders who can't ride use under strength guests this season goes from bad to worse. Other teams are strengthening and were sitting dithering. Have the promotion lost the plot

How to throw a meeting away. Just goes to show what a difference an out and out no 1 makes. Hope Henry ok sounded a bit of a scary one

Ask yourself why are attendances dropping

Absolutely shocking performance tonight no wonder crowds are low. Something needs to be done now to save the season to many riders underperforming most of the season

It's a double edge sword you need to balance finances and the outgoings should in an ideal world be less than the incoming,however in my opinion if you put an attractive team together at the start of the season you have a good chance of attracting the fans back I think it's an uphill struggle to try and do it half way through the season but you need to try and I do think the season and possibly the future is at a crossroads. I think we need to try and salvage this season get the crowds back and build hopefully for next season..one thing for certain and not mentioning individuals this team is not good enough and we need to start winning at home

24 points from diamonds heat leaders against 32 from Peterborough was where the match was lost

Unless the tide is turned I fear it is only going to go one way

Attended first meeting a couple of weeks ago with my 7 year old and the meeting took over 2 1/2 to get done and on a night before school that won't be happening again..why do meetings at Newcastle take so long. Noticed the other week the meeting away to Berwick was over and done before 8.30 now that's more like it....all of these things add up. You say people moan isn't that what freedom of speech is all about expressing your opinions. There are a lot of people on here think that it's only their opinion that counts and if the don't tow the party line they are called..maybe it's that blinkered opinion that people just think sod it I just won't go anymore