Swindon Stadium

[Dave Jones]

11 hours ago, R87 said:

Simple.  Nobody with any sound business acumen is going to invest money into building a new or reopening and old Speedway venue just to please a few hundred punters who can't let the past go.

Speedway needs to focus on what it has left now.  The likes of Coventry,  Swindon and Wolverhampton can argue all they like, but they are living in a fantasy world.  They will NEVER reopen.

Speedway.  Is.  Not.  Viable.

 The phrase "sounds like a broken record" comes to mind

[RoundTheBoards]

11 hours ago, R87 said:

Simple.  Nobody with any sound business acumen is going to invest money into building a new or reopening and old Speedway venue just to please a few hundred punters who can't let the past go.

Speedway needs to focus on what it has left now.  The likes of Coventry,  Swindon and Wolverhampton can argue all they like, but they are living in a fantasy world.  They will NEVER reopen.

Speedway.  Is.  Not.  Viable.

You are Clark Osbourne, and  I claim my 5 pounds.       (one for the youngsters there).

Remember the idiots who said Workington would never be back?  Remember the fools who thought Belle Vue's NSS could never be built?   Remember the dumb-dumbs who thought Oxford would never re-open.

Speedway tracks may come and go, but there will always be nobheads like the above.

 

[R87]

9 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said:

You are Clark Osbourne, and  I claim my 5 pounds.       (one for the youngsters there).

Remember the idiots who said Workington would never be back?  Remember the fools who thought Belle Vue's NSS could never be built?   Remember the dumb-dumbs who thought Oxford would never re-open.

Speedway tracks may come and go, but there will always be nobheads like the above.

 

Workington proves my point.  They closed in 2018 because it wasn't viable, they've tried to reopen and are finding again that it's not viable.  Simply not enough people are interested 

[RoundTheBoards]

8 minutes ago, R87 said:

Workington proves my point.  They closed in 2018 because it wasn't viable, they've tried to reopen and are finding again that it's not viable.  Simply not enough people are interested 

Please no one tell him about Workington - the second-best track in the country.   It's funnier with the added ignorance.

[1 valve]

14 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said:

Please no one tell him about Workington - the second-best track in the country.   It's funnier with the added ignorance.

It may well be a great race track. But is the business that owns it making a profit from running meetings on it? 
This is a genuine question that I don’t know the answer to. 
if it is making a profit then that shuts up R87. 
if not, then that brings into question if having “ the second best track in the UK” actually matters along with what is required to make such a venue  viable. 

[Bojangles]

2 hours ago, 1 valve said:

It may well be a great race track. But is the business that owns it making a profit from running meetings on it? 
This is a genuine question that I don’t know the answer to. 
if it is making a profit then that shuts up R87. 
if not, then that brings into question if having “ the second best track in the UK” actually matters along with what is required to make such a venue  viable. 

Oxford is making a profit, but that isn't shutting him up!

[R87]

23 hours ago, RoundTheBoards said:

Please no one tell him about Workington - the second-best track in the country.   It's funnier with the added ignorance.

Please no one tell them about Workington - who have crowds of about 200 and had to shut their doors a few weeks ago despite being this so-called brilliant track.

[buckie]

As a lifelong Birmingham supporter, I wish Swindon folk every possible success in their efforts to revive the Robins.

I have just been shown a copy of the leaflet beind distributed by the "opposition" and fully agree that it contains a great deal of inaccuracies especially the noise levels ("Can be heard from 10 miles away"  "As loud as an aeroplane" etc) which are patently untrue, and which will need to be challenged.

I'd suggest forming a group to formulate an alternative leaflet which could contain all the true facts - noise testing will disprove the "excessive noise" claim. Speedway bikes do not use petrol or diesel - they use methanol which is non- polutive, non- toxic and emits no smell. Speedway matches would be limited to once a week starting at 7.30pm and continuing until 10pm with 15 one-minute races of o ly four riders. etc. etc. etc.

It will be a mistake to try to belittle what the Nimby's are claiming. We have to remember that the vast majority of the people living within the vicinity of the site will know little or nothing about speedway and will find it difficult to distinguish fact from deliberate fiction. so the more information that they can be provided with. the better the prospect of getting a planning consent.

I was heavilly involved with the battle to obtain a planning consent at Birmingham in 2007, and know from experience that the hard core opponents will never see reason, but on the other hand, the majority will tend to be reasonable if they are civilly approached.

The very best of luck to you.

 

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