Ben91

I think that could sadly be the case. For a year perhaps, maybe two it may work. If there was light at the end of the tunnel in the form of a track back in Peterborough. Otherwise it’s would likely just be delaying the inevitable end of the side altogether sadly.

Mildenhall barely works for Mildenhall so it would be an incredibly long shot.

If it isn’t going to happen then it should be announced. Staging it a season late was a shambles in the first place. To sweep it under the rug is unforgivable. Imagine the FA Cup final wasn’t played and the FA kicked the can down the road a little way before dropping it altogether and just hoping nobody noticed. Make an announcement. Stop treating your supporters like mushrooms.

Wojdylo beat Doyle who has beaten Zmarzlik in a race this season. That means he is the best rider in the world. But last week Wojdylo was beaten in a race by Leon Flint. Flint has lost a race to Ace Pijper before and Ace Pijper finished a heat behind Elliot Kelly at the weekend. From this I deduce that Elliot Kelly is the best rider in the world.

True. Coming from any sportsperson it would be unprofessional. I’d like to think Harris would be more mature and has a better grasp on “real” life than Mbappe though at his age.

As I said above, he’s not the first, nor will he be the last to fall foul of the numbers game. Be aggrieved by all means, but to take to social media and threaten an expose isn’t really very professional. Of course this is speedway.

He has been dropped from his side. What groundbreaking information is he going to release? I can sense some sour grapes coming sadly. The tone of his Twitter post suggests as much.

Sorry but the bloke has been released because his team want to make changes within the rules. He’s not the first victim of the numbers game and he won’t be the last. Little bit woe is me all this. He’s a very entertaining rider but the sport owes him (or any other rider) nothing. Yet most of them who ride here get two team spots and multiple guest bookings. Ill treated and placed in situations he hasn’t wanted to be in. Welcome to the world of being a British Speedway fan.

Yep. What a bad career move it would be if his average went down so he could take more guest bookings and be a more attractive proposition for teams to sign next year.

It could, but it would require rule changes and making a decision that wouldn’t appease the riders.

To the detriment of the sport.

Saves a lot of needless back and forth with the referee. Makes sense to have your stronger rider in easier heats.

Probably not the time for conjecture. Let’s just hope that the person who has been hurt makes a full and speedy recovery.

Does the lowest averaged rider have to be at number seven these days? If not Berwick are missing a trick not putting Boxall there.

Not bad for a cartoon dog to be able to bankroll a speedway team.

Roynon’s accident at Lynn was a bit of a freak situation with regards to his bike. Could have happened anywhere at any time as far as I recall.

And this is the nail hit squarely on the head I believe.

You do realise the irony of moaning about moaning. This place is the same as it’s always been. People complain, people squabble, people troll. But nobody would be here if they weren’t speedway fans.

Prospective fans aren’t going to be watching BSN. TV/streaming coverage isn’t there to promote the sport, it is there to cover the sport. Warts and all, and boy are there a lot of warts.

Don’t get me wrong, we wouldn’t have had Speedway back at Rye House if it wasn’t for Len’s efforts (as well as those who got the team back on track in the first place as a nomadic side). But for all the good it wasn’t all roses. It’s important to not think everything was sweetness and light. 2005 and 2007 are two seasons I will always hold dear to me however.

What he did at Hackney never really materialised at Rye in terms of promotion but we had some special times in the Premier League under his stewardship. Hoddesdon was never a town capable of sustaining top tier speedway, as the last promotion found out. Towards the end there were bad decisions from Len. Doyle for Boxall being the pick of the bunch, along with the “if you don’t like it, don’t come” quote from him on parade before a meeting. That kind of comment has never been good for business. The issue fans had then wasn’t that Boxall was coming back. It was that he could have replaced a lower order rider and we could have kept Doyle. It would have made us a pretty formidable team. There was also the debacle where we declared ridiculously early one winter before the rules regarding doubling up and average conversion were changed, during which time we’d sold Linus Sundstrom to Peterborough. We could have kept him had we waited until the AGM. That rankled at the time, in hindsight that rule change was one of the major ones that has left the sport in Britain in the mess it now finds itself in.

With Woffinden there will have been five GP riders in the Premiership this season. Last season there were four (including Lambert’s cameo). They GP riders are hardly coming back in droves. Sayfutdinov and Laguta aren’t GP riders because of a war. If they still were in the GP they’d most likely not be racing in Britain other than at Cardiff.

The sport doesn’t need gimmicks in my mind, it needs rebuilding. The product needs to sell, not specific riders or gimmicks. Premier League football, WWE wrestling, PDC darts. These are a few examples of products that can sell tickets solely on reputation, not off the back of one or two competitors. Keep it simple. Focus on the racing. No silly points systems, strip everything right back. Super heats in the bin, the overly complicated gate choosing process after the coin toss in the bin. Tactical rides of any sort in the bin. Play-offs in the bin. Doubling up in the bin. Guests in the bin. Some of the above will need working around, but that is doable. Close, competitive racing sells. Stop holding out hope of the “big names” deciding to come back and build a product that will draw fans first, worry about the rest once we get the basics right. Otherwise we continue to build on sand. Poland has the reputation of being unassailable as the best league in the world. The reality is they could still do Speedway better too. That means anyone could do Speedway better, but it has to come from a place with solid foundations.

“Chuffed to bits.”

The bonus point system is far better than the convoluted system of points given depending on how many points you won the meeting by, if you were home or away, which way the wind was blowing etc. The main reason for this being that it is simple. It also keeps some meetings alive until the end as there is still something to race for. Granted, the above system does the same but in a much more complicated manner. We should be looking to keep things simple. Easily explainable to newcomers. We could easily follow football’s lead and make it three points for a win and one for a draw. That would work too but may result in more tonkings and average manipulation once meetings are sewn up.