The Third Man

its about as realistic as anyone winning the PL after 38 matches have been played this season

The problem with it only being for a month or two at most would be if it was worth while preparing tracks and spending money on preparation etc hopefully if we do manage to get a couple of months in, the supporters will go out and support the meetings in great numbers Would imagine Australia and New Zealand might have a few more riders next winter so riders can get the practice

The tracks that teams rent would be available, if they survive the tracks that are owned would still be there but the owners may have gone bust so I suppose most of the tracks would be available, depending on people with money

Could you please contact all the leaders from all the countries in the world and share your research with them so we can all get beck to normal, I am sure they would appreciate it I am now sure that you just on a wind up, no one could come out with statements as stupid as yours if it not a wind up. as I keep falling for your wind up I will now stop answering your posts

Really, where do you live? Because I have never known anything like this, and maybe you are the only one that has

Of course they are, no one alive has had experience of anything like this, the last time it happened was 1918 when the flu killed more people that the war did. they are doing their best, as are the governments in all countries, without the knowledge of what is going to happen next. Therefore they are going to make mistakes, they will make the wrong decisions, they also need all people to buy into what they are telling us in the hope that are correct, and if they are not then so be it

And that means what? to have an opinion on any subject, you have to search out any topic on that subject and join in

I am afraid we will all have to pay eventually and if that's the price to pay to get through it, then so be it

The medical cover here is for the riders if a supporter gets ill the racing has to stop while the paramedics deal with it

What happens depend on whether the landlords can survive, if they do, speedway could be back for a few months this season and hopefully for a full season in 2021

Not a chance, even the end of May is very doubtful The government is planning now for three months, so add another month onto that and we might start in August, never know first meeting we can attend might be Cardiff if we are lucky When it does start it will be a very truncated season probably with just league meetings with no play offs

Thought BT Sport has still got it this season

Yes the 73 team was the best Sheffield team I have seen, but won nothing Should have had a cup and league double in 74 but ended up just being the cup, unbeaten home and away in the cup to win it was a great achievement

the best rider I have seen ride for Sheffield, was a major disappointment when he didn't return, and Bob was the best captain I have ever seen at Sheffield as well

As they are going to get over 70's to self isolate for 4 months would suggest end July at the earliest

Must do as will be groups of people over 500 in one place, so all people involved and at the track, cuts down the number of the paying public even more

No way will the government open themselves to this, they wont even compensate people who need to self isolate except to give them an extra £20 in the first week. They expect people on minimum wage who live from one wage packet to the next to take a massive drop in wages for one or two weeks minimum, so sport or any other industry wont get compensation

No it wont

I don't think that's the point, it shows that the government still expects it to be here until the end of July

What it means is that the government does not expect the virus to go away for four months, that is the end of July This, along with banning crowds of over 500 people, would mean that speedway cant start until August at the earliest, so someone is going to have to come up with a plan to run a meaningful competition that lasts for 4 months. I think it is potentially looking bad for speedway for this season as a whole except maybe for a few tracks that can afford to run with fewer than 500 supporters, if the government allows them to because they may not allow medical cover for sporting events as has already been seen, some foreign riders are already going home before a full travel ban is in place so it will be mostly home based riders who could compete, and would riders come back to Britain for a very short season I think we may well be looking at a lost year, and the effect of that could be a disaster for the sport Hopefully this a very worse case scenario and the sport can restart in a couple of months at the worst

and today an expert said it could cause sneezing

Its not a case of not looking at the bigger picture, and its not being negative but realistic, its common sense thought process Riders wont ride if they cant make it pay, tracks will run if they could, but that's only going to be in third tier with 500 supporters, and its common Knowledge that individual meetings are no where near as well supported as they used to be, that's why there aren't many around anymore Sheffield still have rent to pay, and with 500 supporters, they would lose money hand over fist, that's why I cant see it happening Also I cant actually see Jason Crump coming if his son cant ride in Europe And as someone has said they wouldn't be allowed medical cover because it may be needed elsewhere, so our opinions wont matter anyway

What ever it looks like it has got to be a meaningful competition to get people to watch

From next week speedway will be banned unless it is limited to 500 spectators, so that's a major loss making venture for most tracks with the riders that will be available. and how do the IOW afford Jason Crump, this is speedway, no way will a promoter who could be making money subsidise the IOW The other problem is that individual meetings are not very attended, so maybe the 500 gate limit would work in this case

And travel restrictions in some countries are relaxed