Alan_Jones

He did sign for 2nd division Rye House before the 2016 season but then 1st division Leicester offered him a place and because of the Saturday night clash Rye House let him go and replaced him with Rider of the Century, Peter Karger.

The Aussie championships aren't until the beginning of January but the Victoria State Championship (Proctor) is on the 27th of this month. Top 4 in either qualifies for a visa. Can't find a date for NSW (Campton). Sacking a rider is changing the team and so not allowed after the cutoff date. A rider withholding his services is covered by the guest rules, as is a rider returning home to ride if their FMN has an agreement with the BSPA, which I would assume MA has.

Reporting on major changes to the national squad leading up to a World Cup seems pretty reasonable for a sports broadcaster. You're not making a fair comparison. All speedway v. <10% of women's cricket. The '20,000' figure comes from the league stage of the the 2017 "Kia Super League, an end of season professional competition after a whole summer of county level competition. There were an average of 1,379 at each league match with over 3,000 at Finals day. (I may be wrong but I don't think the matches which were double headed with men's Blast matches are included in those figures.) That was ~30% up on the first season (2016) and the same sort of progress was made this year with double the matches and ~4,500 at the Final. I think a few speedway promoters wouldn't mind figures like that. Lord's holds 27,500 and was massively over subscribed with applications for the WWC17 Final, especially when India qualified. Regarding professionalism, the organisational side of cricket is light years ahead of speedway, as are the stadia. I've lost track of the sort of money that riders are earning these days, but in the KSL, which you chose to highlight, the 19 England squad players are on central contracts with the top tier on about £50K. The 2 Indians involved would be on slightly more and the Australians more than double that. Oh, and 'Kia Super League'...it's a title sponsor, remember those? Kudos to the SGB Premier League for ending up with one more team than the KSL. I know it's not debatable, but there are 36 teams in the County Championship plus the 6 KSL franchises. I wouldn't try and pretend that the Division 3 group matches have fantastic crowds, probably not even NL level, but it puts the lie to "In total last season 20,000 people watched all matches". On the other side of the argument, the 180m worldwide TV audience for the WWC17 final is a bit of a red herring because 179m Indians tuning in to watch their team has little relevance to the English game. Going by the comments on here in the past week, speedway is probably punching way above it's weight with regard to national coverage. Re: attendance figures, professionalism, competing teams, and I'd add in number of participants nationally as being significant, I'd call it 3-1 to the women.

The FIM ISL regs only include Extraliga and Liga 1 as having priority but the actual ISL calendar also shows Liga 2 with Sunday priority.

The original Cornish Stadium was, according to HoBS, off the A390 at Par Moor, to the east of St. Austell, on the way to St. Blazey. and the site was sold for a retail site. The Eden Project is about a mile to the north of that road. Clay Country Moto Parc was in the disused Longstone Pit near Nanpean to the north west of St. Austell until Imerey's, the French owners of English China Clays, decided to reopen the pit. The location is at https://goo.gl/maps/AX3NyK1XGyT2 at the north east point of the lake.

Not true.

Quite right. Don't let the facts get in the way of a poor conspiracy theory.