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Don't forget all the World Championship stuff

I don't think the explosion of TV channels has helped. Everything seems to have its own niche channel these days, BSN being speedway's example. Back in the day you just had 3 or 4 TV channels and if you were fortunate enough to be on one of them you were quids in. Then satellite TV came along and the whole entertainment industry was carved up into its different categories, and everybody now watches stuff in their own bubble. In the era of 3/4 channel TV if you were a "celebrity" you were a national celebrity, these days you could walk past most of the modern day "celebrities" in the street unaware as they're generally not known outside of their bubble. Add in the demise of the print media for anybody over 40 and it's really hard to get your message across without some kind of "on brand" message. Speedway with its very white, very male audience and participants will just get overlooked, having said that it does have the youth of the participants on its side that really could be exploited more. The old codgers in the crowd will not like crowds of hooded yoofs roaming the stadiums in gangs playing their awful music though 😂

It maybe worth seeing where else the Speedway is covered and subscribing to that country's provider using a no fee credit card and a VPN. https://www.fimspeedway.com/where-to-watch Looking at the US it says MavTV... which possibly looks to be free, whether it actually covers all the Speedway live though is another matter.

I couldn't face talking to them, so did webchat instead and it was like talking to an Indian AI web bot. I tried web chat with Discovery+ asking if I could access their app with my VM login... it was even worse!

Get this... So, I contacted Virgin Media yesterday, to ask where Eurosport had gone (playing dumb). I was initially offered TNT for £18pm with the first 3 months free, after a bit of moaning I got 5 months free and told to call back at the end of July to renegotiate. So, half a result. I then went to see if I could access the Discovery+ app and to my astonishment as a VM customer I can't! So this means I should be okay for British Speedway and the SGP until July. What I probably won't be able to watch is the SGP2, SON2, SGP3 and the must see Sprint Races (😂)... unless I pay another £30.99 pm, assuming they're not going to be shown on TNT, as they weren't shown previously on Eurosport. So if you're a VM customer it maybe better just to go for the Discovery+ app option rather than adding TNT to your VM package. What a buggers muddle!

Fricke scored 4 on his last visit to the NSS, Mulford 2 😁 But I take your point... already got my ticket and looking forward to it 🙌

Max Fricke announced, hope he does better than his last appearance there!

When was the picture taken? I used to love my trips to Odsal

Where's the roof?

Individual I think

I'm going to give Virgin Media a call later this week to see if we can agree on something, I've got a year to go on my contact though, having said that I am getting TV, 400mb Broadband, Telephone & Sky Sports all for £60p/m... and I got £167 cash back, kerching 🤑 Still looking for an IPTV recommendation though just in case... anybody? DM me 🤞🙏

You've done well to post this without Internet! 😂

There's a circumcision joke in there somewhere... but I'm going to leave it alone!

It took you 7 years to come up with that joke? 😂

I think the best idea with the streamers (Disney, Apple, Paramount, Discovery etc) is to hop from one to the other and just binge what you want to watch then move to the next, you then free up some money for the channels that carry live sports, Sky, TNT and to a lesser extent Amazon. It's a bit of admin, but no point continuously paying out for stuff that's always going to be available.

It was a report from a Polish news source was it not?

In the UK a coin toss is done before the match by the 2 team captains and whoever wins chooses the preprogrammed gate choices by selecting 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 in heat one... or they elect to choose the gate positions in the final race. The announcer will then say to use column A or B in the printed match programme. Does that help?

He's only staying until the end of April isn't he? Will it be R/R for the rest of the season?

Can you use "zestaw startowy" in context for us... give us an example sentence you would use it in, in Polish.

Any idea on who's replacing MJJ yet? 😁

I've not used Grok but have asked similar questions to ChatGPT about how to boost the sport, that was a while back though. Gemini can seemingly offer opinions when asked about Speedway, I've only asked basic questions about team make ups etc. It can get its knickers in a twist every now and again though

I think we have our first barney of the year! Get in 👍🏿😂 Looking forward to getting involved in one myself soon 😍

To take a positive, at least the British Speedway & SGP rights are on the same channel, even if it has gone up to £30.99 p/m. Imagine if British Speedway was on Sky and SGP on TNT, that'd be nearly a £50 subscription fee! It's hard to see the SGP (SoN etc) being shown anywhere else as WBD own the staging and TV rights.

The stores aren't bothered by it either or they'd employ proper security. They'll have a certain amount of "leakage" budgeted into their numbers and will make up any shortfall by raising prices for the plebs (us) queuing at the tills.