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Like at Birmingham on the 2nd of June

Surely it'd make the best sense to choose matches that fans find the most difficult to get to, Glasgow vs Poole, Plymouth vs Edinburgh, Belle Vue vs Ippo etc. obviously there's only so many of these you can do and maybe clubs that do their own streams will want to prioritise these as their big sellers?

Can you tell me if Brady Kurtz is captaining Belle Vue at Leicester tonight please? 😁

Sport is nothing without emotion... even I was chanting "Bewleh! Bewleh!" at the weekend and this NEVER happens 😂

What of it! There's absolutely nothing wrong with owning one of these. It's quite normal! 😜😂

Boils my pish this does... although having said that, the rider interaction during the meetings on Fri/Sat was woeful, with barely any rider coming around for applause until their final outing... which equally boils my pish. I know it's a serious event and all that, but we need to see these riders and connect with them... as I've mentioned before about Zmarzlik.

Jenkins had his balls in a sling but carried on riding! 🔴🔴

Track always looks poorly prepared and dusty but always seems to produce decent Speedway... go figure 🤷‍♂️

Heeps unbeaten by an opponent after his first race!!!

No Heeps?!? Brave (or foolish)

Top stuff from Killeen, seems to have turned his form around

Mr Dickson said he didn't want to split the Howarth and Douglas partnership

Like Captaining the "World Famous" Belle Vue Aces tomorrow?

He came off in the GP on Saturday... went on to take his final 2 rides though to finish 2nd and said he'd definitely be at the next GP at Gorzow on Saturday.

Was it all the predatory priests?

LEICESTER: Max Fricke, Luke Becker r/r, Ryan Douglas, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Joe Thompson. BELLE VUE: Dan Bewley, Norick Blodorn, Jaimon Lidsey, Zach Cook, Brady Kurtz, Tate Zischke, Jake Mulford. "The Aces are hoping Kurtz will be fit to take his place"

But could get 20,000 the year before at a stale Cardiff. If it returns to Manchester next year on a single night, cheapest tickets could be nudging £100

My bad 😂 Yes, I was thinking Tom Brennan should have been there...

Just did a little research after hearing Phil Morris on the NBNF podcast last week talking about prize money and noticed it hasn't changed since 2022. It increased quite substantially when WBD took the series over but nothing since then, in 2021 it was paid in USD, now in EUR. Tom Brennan & Chris Harris picked up a cool €2k and Charles Wright €10,750, not a bad weekend's work! Talking of prize money, who remembers the Speedway Super Prix in 2008? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedway_Super_Prix 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Pos USD EUR EUR EUR EUR EUR 1 $12,000 € 10,200 € 16,500 € 16,500 € 16,500 € 16,500 2 $8,800 € 7,480 € 12,500 € 12,500 € 12,500 € 12,500 3 $7,200 € 6,120 € 10,000 € 10,000 € 10,000 € 10,000 4 $6,200 € 5,270 € 9,000 € 9,000 € 9,000 € 9,000 5 $5,200 € 4,420 € 7,750 € 7,750 € 7,750 € 7,750 6 $5,200 € 4,420 € 7,750 € 7,750 € 7,750 € 7,750 7 $4,600 € 3,910 € 7,250 € 7,250 € 7,250 € 7,250 8 $4,600 € 3,910 € 7,250 € 7,250 € 7,250 € 7,250 9 $3,850 € 3,273 € 6,500 € 6,500 € 6,500 € 6,500 10 $3,700 € 3,145 € 6,250 € 6,250 € 6,250 € 6,250 11 $3,650 € 3,103 € 6,000 € 6,000 € 6,000 € 6,000 12 $3,600 € 3,060 € 5,750 € 5,750 € 5,750 € 5,750 13 $3,550 € 3,018 € 5,500 € 5,500 € 5,500 € 5,500 14 $3,500 € 2,975 € 5,250 € 5,250 € 5,250 € 5,250 15 $3,450 € 2,933 € 5,000 € 5,000 € 5,000 € 5,000 16 $3,400 € 2,890 € 4,750 € 4,750 € 4,750 € 4,750 17 $1,000 € 850 € 1,000 € 1,000 € 1,000 € 1,000 18 $1,000 € 850 € 1,000 € 1,000 € 1,000 € 1,000

He'll do well to not get injured... and then you're back to square one He is a bit injury prone

You make a lot of sensible points, I'm not sure about the 20,000 thing though, there's probably at least double that who still take an interest in Speedway and will be attracted by a major Speedway event in a major city, Cardiff has proven this, add to that foreign visitors and "the curious" being attracted with proper promotion and I think you could easily be looking at 30,000+. One thing I did notice attending Cardiff down the years was that the demographic was quite different of that at all "normal" Speedway meeting. They also need to get ticket pricing right, I can't ever remember paying more than £29 to attend Cardiff and only £23 in the final year, which quite frankly was ridiculous, for the cheapest ticket to then be more than double that at a league track in the suburbs of Manchester is equally ridiculous imo.With respect, although Manchester is a city, I can't imagine it's on many people's bucket list of cities to visit, shown by them just about managing to sell out the Saturday night and being quite short of doing so on the Friday. Parken, Copenhagen attracted around 30,000... Vojens 10-15,000, that's the big city effect. The London Stadium is the obvious choice, 30,000 at £50 a pop minimum (which is still quite cheap for a major event in the UK and cheaper than the cheapest ticket available in Manchester) brings in £1.5m in gate receipts (minimum) alone, if you can't turn a profit on that, something is seriously wrong with your business (and tbf, at the moment we know there is) Having said all of that, things will not change for the better while WBD run the series. What Laura Manciet (FIM Speedway World Championships director) and Jean-Baptiste Ley (Motorsport Series Leader at WBD Sports Europe) know about Speedway you could probably write on the back of a fag packet.

Bruce Cribb? His ice bike would have come in handy last night 😁

R/R is okay... until one or maybe 2 of your riders has an off night as many are prone to do, then you're in trouble and take a bit of a hiding.

Steve Worrall at Leicester No. Points Total Thu Apr 25th 2024 Leicester v Birmingham (PRa) 2 1, 1, 3, 2, 1' 8 +1 Thu May 4th 2023 Leicester v Wolverhampton (PRa) 2 0, 2', 3, 0 5 +1 Thu Aug 17th 2023 Leicester v Wolverhampton (PRb) 2 3, 1, 2, 2' 8 +1 Sat Apr 16th 2022 Leicester v Poole (CP) 1 3, 2, 2, 0 7 Sat Sep 17th 2022 Leicester v Poole (CPKO) 3 3, 0, 2, 3, 1' 9 +1 Sat Jul 24th 2021 Leicester v Poole (CP) 3 3, 3, 2, 3, 3 14 Sat Sep 4th 2021 Leicester v Glasgow (CP) 3 3, 3, 3, 3 12 (Guest) Sat Sep 18th 2021 Leicester v Poole (CPKO) 3 3, 2, 2, 3, 0 10 Sat Oct 16th 2021 Leicester v Poole (CPPO) 1 3, 3, 1', 3, 2 12 +1 Sun Apr 28th 2019 Leicester v Newcastle (CP) 1 1, 1, 2, 3, 3 10 Sat Aug 24th 2019 Leicester v Somerset (CP) 5 3, 1, 2, 0 6 (Guest) Sat Oct 12th 2019 Leicester v Redcar (CPPO) 3 1, 2, 3, 2 8 (Guest) Mon Aug 13th 2018 Leicester v Belle Vue (PRb) 2 0, 2, 1 3 Sat Aug 19th 2017 Leicester v Belle Vue (PRb) 3 1', 2', 3, 2, 1 9 +2 Sat Apr 9th 2016 Leicester v Belle Vue (ELa) 7 3, 1, 1, 1 6 Mon May 9th 2016 Leicester v Poole (ELa) 7 0, R, 3, 0 3 (Guest) Sat Jun 18th 2016 Leicester v Belle Vue (ELb) 3 2', 0, 0, 0 2 +1 Sat Apr 11th 2015 Leicester v Belle Vue (ELa) 6 2, 3, 3, 0, 0, 3, 0 11 Sat May 9th 2015 Leicester v Coventry (ELb) 6 2, 2, 1, 0, 2 7 (Guest) Sat May 30th 2015 Leicester v Wolverhampton (ELa) 7 2, 0, 2, 1 5 (Guest) Sat Jun 20th 2015 Leicester v Belle Vue (ELb) 6 3, 1', 0, 1' 5 +2 Sat Aug 22nd 2015 Leicester v Wolverhampton (ELb) 6 2, 1, 3, 1', 3 10 +1 (Guest) Sat Apr 26th 2014 Leicester v Eastbourne (ELa) 6 3, 3, 3, 1', 0 10 +1 (Guest) Sat Jun 21st 2014 Leicester v Swindon (ELa) 7 1', 2', 3, 2, 3 11 +2 Sun Jul 27th 2014 Leicester v Mildenhall (NT) 1 3, 2, 3, 0, 3 11 (Guest) Sat Jul 13th 2013 Leicester v Newcastle (PL) 6 X, 0, 0, X, 0, 0 0 (Guest) Sat Jun 9th 2012 Leicester v Newcastle (PL) 6 3, 3, 1, 1 8 Sun Apr 10th 2011 Leicester v Scunthorpe (PL1) 6 1', 2, 1', 1' 5 +3 Sat Aug 13th 2011 Leicester v Scunthorpe (PL2) 7 X, F, 1' 1 +1