mickthemuppet

You don't pay a pound a minute do you .Most meetings are around two hours. Unless using your stupid theory you would only see around 6 minutes horse racing in 3 hours around 14 minutes in 3 hours at greyhound racing. Then about 4 minutes action in around 4 hours around 18 holes of golf There is only about 12 minutes played in one hour of tennis. Even football in around 62 minutes per match.Even in darts only about a fifth of the match are darts being thrown. Nobody makes comparisms about time in other sports so why do some speedway pundits keep doing so

There was a John Louis which won a couple of races but asking JL he had never heard of it

No it was to with the colour of their leathers . I think he died in a track crash around 1951. HE wore white leathers and was known as the White Ghost

there was also Newcastle/New Cross rider Ken Le Breton who rode in all white leathers . I saw him in the 1949 world final but he never troubled the top riders

I was at this meeting and certainly do not remember Reg Luckhurst riding in the meeting. I can remember that there was a good crowd there around 5,000 and except Marshall Pugh who won the meeting in a canter most of the Spaniards were quite hopeless

There is a world of difference between a Speedway meeting and a Stock Car meeting and that is the cost. Do stock drivers get paid anything?

To me who has probably seen more Speedway riders than anybody else Ivan Mauger was the ultimate professional. He was simply great and all the other riders were playing catch up against him. That's why he was voted the Speedway rider of the millennium.

How about "Another one bites the dust"

There has to come sometime in the future that you can just pay for the programme you want to watch and not take programmes that you have no interest in .You already have Box Office for films which you can pay extra for . The same applies to WWE wrestling big events and pay to view fight nights. So why not for Speedway Grand Prix's I now have no interest in Football now due to the overkill Last night BT had the champions league on live. Not one match but three. After all you can only watch one of those matches.at a time When I cancel I will never renew again and will have no problem watching live streams on the internet or on Mobdro I found that many GP's are on YouTube almost as soon as they have finished Eventually Sky and BT will have to change their pricing policies otherwise they face very serious problems in the very near future Also BT offering a pittance of £3000 to televise a live Speedway match in UK is just a joke and should be chucked out without a second thought. That means for the cost of one live football match would be the same cost as showing live Speedway for the next ten years

I phoned Bt today to cancel my subscription for their sports programmes as I do not think there will de much Speedway on their channels next year. They asked me why I wanted to cancel (£28.00 per month) and I said I only watched it for the Speedway. They told me that will be covering League speedway , The world cup and the Grand Prixs. When Sky were presenting Speedway 2 years ago there were 12 GP's around 18 league matches and 4 wtc meetings Now we are talking one less GP and no WTC and perhaps 11 league meetings which is a decline of around 30%. As my year 12 month contract is not up until 23 April I could not cancel it until February But why should I have to cancel a contract that will end on April. If a take out car insurance for one year it automatically ends on the last day of the contract .I do not have to phone then to say I wish to cancel This seems to be a complete con throughout the communication industry What right have they to charge you once your contract is up

It was indeed and what was odd about it was they used to film Milton Keynes and Rye House neither of them were in the Anglia region

The Anglia programme was originally just Speedway with meetings from Ipswich, Kings Lynn, Mildenhall Rye house, Milton Keynes and Peterborough. The programme Wheels was split between Speedway, Stock Car, Truck Racing and Scrambles and I think there was more also The original series was indeed compared by Steve Rider and when he left Richard Keyes took over and went on to host Sky sports football. I still have all their recordings on video from 1977 with riders like John Louis. Billy Sanders, etc

Only snag to this is Bookmakers do not offer odds on Championship matches Another rather big snag is bookmakers do not price up matches before they know what the teams are especially after they got badly bitten from the Ipswich v Reading a few years back I think in 1998 a bookmakers from Peterborough called S and D advertised speedway handicaps for the next week in the Speedway Star . They only did it for one season . They could not work out how well people were so well informed. You did not even have to pay them as they gave you a credit account. They must have lost a hellava' lot of money

Sadly the deal in it's present form should be turned down. What an offer when they are paying £4million for a football match Not only holding a live meeting would lose the club more money than the £3000 it would be paid. As I would expect this would be a Monday night and three other matches would be taking place on that night it will affect their attendances as well. Getting the GP riders is impossible . When was the last time 7 GP riders rode in the league. Ever since Speedway has been regulary televised the attendances have gone down .and now they are getting less live TV each season Tell BT to come up with a better offer or they can get stuffed.

When the World Individual Championships first started at Wembley the profits of these meetings went back to the clubs promoting Speedway in his country, So how did they lose control of this, After all there was not a great competition to lose this yet they did. , Moving on how did BSI get control . Somebody must have sold out to them for a mess of potage. So we now have a company running Speedway and putting nothing back into the sport. So why do not the speedway clubs in Sweden, England ,Dennmark and Poland ban all their riders from taking part and starting their own world championship and the profits go back into Speedway before it falls completely

THE biggest mistake will be if the Premier league go to only two nights of Monday and Thursday. This will surely finish Speedway off. If BT carry on televising on a Monday night why will anybody bother going to a live match on that night. Monday is the worst day of the week to promote speedway

I know the Webb's very well and they are great supporters of Ipswich speedway and they have been home to many Polish speedway riders who they have boarded in their house including Kim Jansson, , Robert Miscowaik and Jaraslav Hampel

Many thanks everyone for your kind wishes but you did not know how close I went to selecting Chris Holder on more than 9. I only changed my mind when I saw Martin Smolenski had two inside gates. Thanks to all the riders for making this a good competition and especially to Racers and Royals for running the competition .I would like to give my prize to the Kim Jansson fund and if anybody can tell me where to send a contribution I will double the prize money to that fund

He was a great boxer. It was always said he had a lethal jab. Sometimes known as the old deer hunter

I think you should look at the history of Speedway ,it is littered with promoters who ran more than one club at the same time I think Mike Parker promoted at more than a dozen clubs and without him Speedway would not be alive today in the UK

result of last night's three team tournament was Ipswich 37 Sheffield 32 Leicester 22 Well done to Ipswich who will now be promoted

Monday night will be the kiss of death for racing on two set nights a week. Newcastle have just said that the fixtures on a Monday the gates are terrible compared to a Sunday. Belle Vue could not wait to get away from having home fixtures on a Monday

Zmarslik £100 more

The only problem with the Premier League going over to two nights a week is that Monday is a graveyard to promote Speedway. Any day of the week is better than Monday. Belle Vue could not wait to get away from it

What a good place to hold an English Grand Prix