IainB

Since the post pandemic return of the Swedish League both last season and this the crowds that I've seen on the Premier Sports TV matches have been absolutely woeful, from what I can see from the camera angles, with seemingly more people in the pits than on the terraces. They're still tracking a number of the big names from around the world... How on earth are they managing to fund this? I assume government restrictions are still in place? Are they being funded by the government or have they got a platinum plated TV deal?

As for anybody losing interest, I suggest you get out there and watch some of the young talent that is out there this season. It's been a breath of fresh air watching the likes of Rowe, Palin, Brennan, Flint, Thompson Twins and the others scoring well, being on the pace and getting stuck in and scoring quite well. I know the leagues have been weakened so they may be flattering to deceive a bit but the for long term future of the sport in this country this is a massive positive... all it needs is for the tracks to still be around for them to make a career on, and for those losing interest to go along and have a look at them

Don't know if I'm the only one but I actually thought the back wheel change for Sam Masters before heat 15's last heat decider on Monday night's TV match was quite exciting. It was like watching an action movie with the timer going down on the ticking time bomb only for the hero to cut the red wire with 1 second to spare! Maybe that's the way to go for every heat

Together? Kinky!

Any more duplicates I wonder?

That's what I was thinking, the numbers are protected in the SGP & SEC then?

What's the score with rider numbers? I assume riders can just choose their own regardless of whether anybody else already has that number? I've noticed Craig Cook, Grigori Laguta and Anders Rowe all running 111

Don't mention league titles... I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it

Probably has cataracts

Pretty sure there's not enough riders for 1BL, unless you went to 5 man teams. Maybe a more sensible solution would be 2 regional leagues, riders could maybe still double up and fans maybe encouraged to travel to away matches more

I'm not entirely sure what all the fuss was about? Visibility seems a bit of a red herring to me, it was barely raining, a light drizzle/heavy mist, the track certainly wasn't what I'd call "wet", just a bit heavy... In fact I'd say it was perfect, easily providing the best racing so far this year at the EoEA(S)

Saw this round the back of turn 4... are the promotion trying to send a message to Chris?

I'm not sure you're comparing apples with apples there There's a reason the British F1 GP is not being run on a Monday night... I've been staggered by the lack of self promotion by Leicester after winning their Championship, I've mentioned it a few times on some of the recent Leicester threads and have mostly been shutdown by people close to the club. What is the point of paying to go along to watch a "team" try and win a Championship and when they do it almost gets ignored! Leicester regularly run matches around 1 hour 50 minutes, for me that's 20 minutes too long... the other week they even managed to cram 15 races into 2 and a half hours, admittedly due to inadequate medical cover. I'm pretty sure that back in the day at Leicester (Blackbird Road) they used to allow free entry to the stadium after the main match was done, not sure if they did that at all tracks? And I'm pretty sure that's how I and probably many others started going down regularly, I went to a few "freebies" liked what I saw and then started paying to watch the main match. I wouldn't want a meeting to be over in 45 mins, equally I don't expect to be stood on the terraces for 2 and a half hours, 90 mins seems to be a happy medium with some kind of "2nd half". Perhaps 90 mins should be the target and like in Cricket with slow over rates, some kind of penalty introduced for those that can't. I don't go to the Speedway to watch you having banter with your mates, I'm there to watch the Speedway racing on the track. I suggest you meet with your mates before or after the meeting

It is the re-staging from the 24th of May... found out at the turnstiles

Is this match the restaging of the rained off fixture from 24/05/21? I've got tickets to the A & B matches... not sure which one to use... I'll take them both just in case!

He's not going to get his confidence back when he's on his @rse all the time, I don't think a spell at reserve is going to cure that chink in his armour

It was but they also mentioned concern about the ticket sales for the Redcar match in the same press release

I've thought the same for all of the matches I've been to this season, so I was quite surprised when the promotion came out voicing their concerns at ticket numbers. As they don't publish attendance numbers I suppose we'll never know

Shhhhh!

Do they even still exist? Or have they gone the same way as The Golden Hammer?

Who is Ben Duffill?

Yeah, I get what you're saying about them being lower down the pecking order due to inexperience, I just wondered whether they were involved in the boot camp things that GB Speedway run. So far I think they've been the shining light of Leicester's season... long may it continue!

Are the twins involved in the young Lions (national level) at all does anybody know? All I ever hear about are the Kemp, Palin, Rowe, Flint etc. I've never seen the twins wearing national garb

Thanks for your comments, it's good to have a fair a reasonable debate and I totally take on board what you're saying about covid retrictions etc. Not knowing exactly what's going on behind the scenes I'm not fully aware of what the extra issues are with putting a match on. And I thank you for your invitation to club social events but I like many punters just want to pay my £17 have a good evenings entertainment watching my team win, lose or draw. I make my comments on here and often seem to be stonewalled by seeming club "insiders" telling me that if I did want to see the league trophy paraded I should have gone to watch a cubs match, attended the end of season do or gone to a darts match and that because I didn't I've missed my chance and that the team that won that championship has been disbanded now so tough. I'm told that the riders didn't do a lap of victory after the Scunny match because they wanted to go home because they were at Newcastle the next day and it looked like it was going to rain... Come on! I've been following Leicester since the late 70's so I'm pretty hardened to being taking for granted by Speedway promotions by now, it's just that these things are easy wins at little or no cost and imo go a long way to building up a relationship and rapport with fans. If I'm honest, like I said I was at Glasgow on the night and have seen the trophy but I know the vast majority of fans probably haven't and it's not like we're habitual winners lol I just want to see Leicester Speedway thrive and for the place to be packed with fans and for it to be around for many years to come

Sorry, if I came across as a bit rude. I feel quite strongly about it that's all. The promotion have been vocal about the crowd numbers and yet seem to do little to promote the success the club have achieved. Why would you not, a lot of people are attracted by success, the likes of me and you and probably most on here will turn up week after week, win lose or draw. Look at the website... you really have to dig to see that we achieved anything. We should be cashing in on that success