IainB

Who's Sasha?

Agree with everything you say... except for the track, the track, imo, is a disaster! Also, just because things are run well, it doesn't mean they can't be done better, there's not much self promotion being done at Leicester, especially around the Championship success. Although the crowds seem to have held up quite well, it's not what you'd call great... or anywhere near approaching capacity.

What are you talking about? Iainb won't accept it, of course I accept it I have no choice other than to accept it. I was just asking the question why there was no Championship winning merchandise, specifically t-shirts, produced so the club could cash in on their success... @JIROUT very kindly came on here to explain that such merch was produced... even though I haven't seen anything that mentions Leicester are Champions and that he pockets the profits, fair play to him, and pays a rent to the club. You say most clubs, as far as I'm aware JayBea only provides for 7 clubs... by maths, that's not most. Can't comment on the quality but a lot of it certainly looks fine, more than than in a lot of cases. Would I sub out the merch if I were in charge of the club, possibly with clauses, possibly not... we'll never know because there's no way I'd ever sink any of my money into a Speedway club with the current way the sport is run. It's just that all of you Leicester Lions can do no wrong and the sun shines out of the promotion's asses and the racing is brilliant every week on the country's best track merchants have got your knickers in a twist. Leicester can do what the hell they like as a club, if they want to win the League and never mention it again, fine, if they want to sub out their merch and not maximise their success, fine. if you don't want to enter into a discussion about it these forums are the wrong place for you. You were on these forums last Friday begging for the Edinburgh meeting to be called off on the Friday! Slagging off Glyn Taylor. How did you feel on the Saturday at 7pm?

That's the fella... just testing you. Loktaev

Not so sure about that... Michael Parkinson funeral planning and Thora Hird stair lifts

Berntzon shouldn't really be there though.. didn't he only get through by the virtue of Tarasenko falling off in his last race? I know that's the point you've got to stay on your bike and it was his own fault, but I think Tarasenko would have acquitted himself better in the GP's especially on the Polish tracks. KK is just KK

He could probably go round in a wheelchair and pick a few points up from KK & Berntzon

Once you walk out of the one stop shopping centre from the north entrance/exit you can see the stadium, so just follow your nose

How do you think it's possible for me to order a Tobias Musielak shirt in whatever size I like in Poland for around £20? With personalisation. There can't be that much call for them surely. How do you think they can still do that and still be making a profit? Genuine question.

That's not what I think at all, it's going to take a lot more than merchandise to get the sport back on an even keel. I'm just wondering why some clubs sub out their merch while other's keep it in house, surely those that do in-house are not making a loss or they wouldn't be doing it. At the end of the day it's money going out of the club/sport... to you, and don't get me wrong, good luck to you, but Speedway needs every penny it can get at the moment. It's akin to all the riders pay going to engine tuners, when they should be running standard un-tuned kit.

Agreed, why would you make any obituary/tribute about yourself! smh

There's fixture chaos every season though.

It should be easier than ever to keep up with developments these days with social media

Was interested to see an ad on Sky Sports yesterday promoting The 100, as usual, but they were specially promoting the app, a bit gimmicky, as with most things Sky, but this is the kind of thing that Speedway should be looking to produce with its "broadcast partner"

Probably looked at the weather forecast

I think they're a Polish company that produce apparel for a few clubs both here and abroad, including Leicester (JayBea). There's also another Polish company I've linked to, maybe on the other thread. https://sportgangshop.pl/sklep/ I noticed in the GP at the weekend that even the Polish reserve and his pit crew were wearing their own bespoke shirts

Yes, I did mention that earlier.

Pretty poor wasn't it. But then the whole site is tbh. Have you seen the "what the fans say" section? I was reading it yesterday, It's no wonder nobody goes anymore

We can be one step ahead of the Poles then, we need to keep British riders riding in the British leagues and not allowing them to drift away from the sport

If I were subbing my merchandise operation out and were a business man, I'd be putting it out to tender, there would be an SLA, targets to meet, a % of takings, a say on what was being produced to represent my company/franchise for starters

A sad loss... did more to "Promote" our sport than many track owners! Should be the next inductee into the Speedway Hall of Fame!

I was watching some old video yesterday and one of the meetings that popped up was the WU21 round from Poole in 2011 and after watching the GP from the night before it was unbelievable to see who was riding in this competition, some have obviously fallen by the wayside due to various reasons, but here are the competitors: Maciej Janowski GP Darcy Ward Retired Przemysław Pawlicki Ekstraliga Patryk Dudek Ex GP Dennis Andersson What happened to him? Michael Jepsen Jensen Ex GP Martin Vaculík GP Bartosz Zmarzlik World Champion Piotr Pawlicki, Jr. Ex GP Aleksandr Loktaev A fall away from the GP's Simon Gustafsson Retired Oskar Fajfer Is he still riding? Mikkel Michelsen European Champion, GP's next year Mikkel B. Jensen Retired Kacper Gomólski Polish League? Joe Haines Retired Vadim Tarasenko Polish League? Dino Kovačić Never heard of him Václav Milík, Jr. Polish League? Steven Worrall BV/Poole heat leader Paul Starke Kent/Ipswich 2nd string René Bach Retired Jerran Hart Retired Tobiasz Musielak Polish League Ashley Morris Birmingham 2nd string 2011 may have been a particularly good year, but even those riders that have now retired, for whatever reason, went on to have achieve great things and make a good career from Speedway. But look at where the British riders are compared to a lot of the others! Even looking beyond 2011 at the British riders: 2012: Kyle Newman, Tom Perry 2013: Joe Jacobs, Liam Carr, Kyle Howarth 2014: No rider 2015: Stefan Nielsen I think the best thing we can do to bring on our youth in this country is to protect the team places available much in the same way that the Poles do with their U21 & U24 protected team spots. It was always stated in the past that this couldn't be done because of European law, well that's proven to be a load of woo woo as not only are the Poles doing it they're also restricting rider's being able to trade in more than 2 leagues, how anti-european is that! If we don't protect team places all the great work being done by GB Speedway team will be to no avail as the riders will drift away from the sport or stagnate like they have done in the past.

I think the BSPL may be looking into withholding the riders' names that appear in the meeting. They are to enter stadiums in disguise before putting on a club race suit and will be instructed to not remove their helmet until the meeting is over and leaving the stadium in disguise. All riders will be given names like the old ITV show Gladiators... Riding at No 1 Jet, Riding at No 2 Wolf etc. etc. Doubling up sorted! If you look at videos of Speedway of days gone by, you'll see that back in the 70's a rider very rarely even acknowledged another rider after a race, maybe the odd wave... These days they're fawning over each other after a race, it's embarrassing, imagine that at a Football match after an opponent had scored a goal against you!!!

Like I said people will be patting themselves on the back, either way. Could the match have gone ahead if the track had been covered? Maybe not, but track covers saved the GP at the weekend and meanwhile it was perfect Speedway weather at Leicester. 3 different cases there and the track covered event went ahead. 1 point each and move on...

Good point, obscure but a good point none the less... I think you should be able to calculate it with an algorithm though, if you know the distance of the transponder to the front wheel and factor in the speed and length of the track, but I'm no mathematician lol How do they work anyway? Do you know?