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13 minutes ago, SteveLyric2 said:

Mr Tolley - in his final emotional speech after Birmingham's closure - made reference to 'his hope that Cradley would be back if not in 2026 then 2027!!

He also said he would still be involved in speedway next season!  Thoughts.....?

Northampton it is for Tolley then😹

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9 hours ago, singy13 said:

So the Polish teams, 8 of them says the post, only have 7 home fixtures from let's say April to September (24 weeks)????

My calculation has them with 17 blank weeks during Summer. How do they survive that ?

 

A few things:

- massive TV money. It's like 8 mln złoty (so around £1.75 mln) per club per season

- much higher attendances - average of Ekstraliga is almost 9500 per meeting. x60 PLN per ticket, that's around 570k PLN (£115k) on the gates. Times 7 in the season + play offs (at least 1 match, most often 2). That's before any merch, food sales, car park fees, etc.

- a lot of sponsors. And I mean a lot - sometimes even 2 big sponsors in team name (that's like 1 mil PLN per year, each).

That's numbers for Ekstraliga. Slightly less in 2. Ekstraliga:

- TV money @ 1.5 mil PLN (£300k) per club per season

- average attendances 5000 per meeting. x40 PLN per ticket = 200k PLN (£40k) on the gates.

- also lots of sponsors. Understandably, they pay less but still bring a good revenue to the club.

 

Probably also paying less for the stadium hire, as that's hired at cost from the town, not from the greedy greyhound franchises? idk.

 

They can afford it to a point that speedway clubs in Poland:

- have paid staff (up to a dozen different functions)

- can run closed and open trainings for their riders

- do a 2-3x weekly trainings for the youth academy (that's pretty much every club in Poland)

- and can run events for the youths at least once a week that are free for the spectators to attend and cheer on the kids.

 

Yes, there is a few failed clubs - Gorzów is struggling with debts since a few years (and went public with it last year), similarly Tarnów barely managed to get to the end of regular season, rumour has it that Częstochowa is not doing well at all either. But on the grand scale of things majority of the clubs can afford to keep driving the earnings of top riders (and not only, also "desired" riders which back in the day were low CMA ones, nowadays are the "Under 24" lads) higher and higher, so...