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Will it be shown on TNT Sports?

Will it be shown on TNT Sports?

I'm not defending the pricing, especially as we don't know what the prices are yet but you have to bear in mind that a lot of things have pretty much doubled in price over the last few years or certainly increased by more than the headline inflation figures that are produced. This year I'll be paying £100+ to watch Iron Maiden and GnR, £50+ to watch Ghost, Extreme & Volbeat, that's quite an expensive year and annoying that they're all touring in the same year. The difference is I didn't just watch a similar event consisting of many of the same participants last night for £26. The SoN ticketing worked out at £30.75 per meeting for me in the imaginatively named South Stand. £40-£50 per ticket seems a comparable price to me compared to those bands above that nobody will have ever heard of (maybe not Extreme) but everybody will have their limits... £200+ for Black Sabbath absolutely shattered mine and therefore I'll not be going... I'll get over it.

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It's called economies of scale, first of all they've got to turn a profit and will have costs to cover, content rights, staffing etc. and all that with barely anybody watching it, compared to Netflix or Opus sport, you're not comparing apples with apples. Personally I also find £15 outrageous for a stream which is why I've never bought one and prefer to "just" watch the stuff included in the pass or attend live (which I am able to do if something takes my fancy). I've never been into the PPV single events and have never paid for any Boxing or Sky Box Office events and I can't see myself ever doing it, I don't feel as though I've missed out on anything.

I assume that the price is a possible rumour 😂

Your source for this possible rumour?

It's started... and that was for his mate!

Listening to Lemo on the Podcast he said it was nearly a sell out, whether that mean 51% or not remains to be seen, but it generally attracts a large crowd, even on a Monday night, I'll be going

Can we clarify who is talking plain cr@p... I'm confused now 🤔😖

... and don't forget the parking restrictions on the supermarket car park

Yes, with a rather insensitive message... "we're doing some work on the site"! Yes! You're knocking a perfectly good stadium down!

And all for £30.99 pm... bargain!

But entirely expected

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I only saw Adams riding angry once and it was one of the most memorable rides I've seen in all of my years watching Speedway, it was at Coventry and I think the Start Marshal had upset him, Adams missed the start but rode about a foot away from the rider in the lead for the whole 4 laps, from memory he didn't get by, which probably says it all really. If he'd ridden more often with that intensity he may have achieved more.

Having looked at his record I tend to agree with you. When he was at his very best, there were few better, was he at that absolute top top level often enough? Probably not for me

As the rider of his era I'd like to see him learn English and do more meetings outside of Poland to promote the sport internationally or there'll only be Speedway left in Poland. World Champions in the past have generally had a responsibility to promote the sport through their position. You don't have to commit to a league, just show up once in a while in various open meetings across the world.

Is one of them "The Briggo Bone Dome"?

Nobody is doubting his ability on a Speedway bike... it's just as a 5 x World Champion he must be one of the worst ambassador's for Speedway ever, generally won't leave Poland, doesn't have the greatest command of the English (world) language etc. You have to wonder how many titles Adams could have won if he was in the same circumstances as Zmarzlik i.e. not having to do 100+ meetings a year to make it pay, no Tony Rickardsson, Jason Crump & Nicki Pedersen at the top of their games, a high proportion of GP's run in his home country. Edit: Having said that if you look at Adams GP record it's not exactly littered with medals, a single Silver (2007) and one Bronze (2005)... it took him 6 years and 42 GP's until he finally won a GP. During his peak years 2000-2008 (?) he was headed by Tony Rickardsson, Nicki Pedersen, Jason Crump, Greg Hancock, Andreas Jonsson, Tomasz Gollob, Hans Andersen, Marl Loram, Billy Hamill & Ryan Sullivan... a mere 19 World Championships between them!! Pick the bones out of that!

They streamed the British Final (won by an Aussie) during Covid.

Add in Emil and TK... it's a long standing debate. You could argue (and I am) that Leigh Adams was a better ambassador for Speedway than the current 5 x World Champion!

As I've said before, £30.99 pm over 6 months compares quite well to BSN per meeting and bear in mind the higher quality of Speedway and the extra sport you get. It's just we've had it too cheap while it's been on Eurosport & Discovery+

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