Youhave2minutes Posted 18 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 18 hours ago 1 minute ago, The White Knight said: I'm sorry. I can't agree with you. Betting would ruin Speedway - that's my view. Loads of fixing and corruption 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted 17 hours ago Report Share Posted 17 hours ago 1 hour ago, Ben91 said: Bookmakers already offer speedway markets. Bet Victor (or any bookmaker) has nothing to gain by sponsoring a sport with such a small profile and potentially no TV coverage. It would have to be a huge favour to Harry Redknapp to get something like that to happen. Things are pretty dire if that’s our great white hope. Greyhounds do not get tv coverage. The potential way forward is for sponsorship of speedway to include both tv advertising and numerous betting markets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DEAN MACHINE Posted 17 hours ago Report Share Posted 17 hours ago 21 minutes ago, 1 valve said: Greyhounds do not get tv coverage. The potential way forward is for sponsorship of speedway to include both tv advertising and numerous betting markets. Greyhounds have their own channel 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted 17 hours ago Report Share Posted 17 hours ago 5 hours ago, Ben91 said: Professional sports are generally moving away from gambling sponsorship. It’s not a good look. There are outliers such as darts but that is a sport with a profile to put the bookmaker in front of millions of people on television. Speedway can’t do that. Nobody knows the odds like a bookmaker and Speedway would be a losing bet for them. But professional sports ARE NOT moving away from gambling sponsorship. Also betting markets for speedway are numerous, well beyond place results. In other words speedway & the betting industry could work well as a partnership. Don’t knock it based on a biased opinion but embrace it as a positive way forward. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enotian Posted 16 hours ago Report Share Posted 16 hours ago Whether you agree with it or not, on what ever grounds, betting is a huge opportunity, Just need to push the ethical betting button. Lobby to get greyhound racing banned on the basis of animal rights, plenty of evidence to support that. Low and behold huge gap in the betting market and lot's a new/returning venues 😉 I'm not a gambler myself but it's a huge part of culture within affluent males. I suspect you'd have to go all in with the bookmakers (i,e, let them dictate what they want) and that might not necessarily be league racing but hey if it brings sufficient funds into the sport.... The sport is made for betting... ...even to the point of having lengthy gaps between the action to allow for more betting. It's not like the sport has many more throws of the dice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 14 hours ago Report Share Posted 14 hours ago You could bet on how many guests turn up in a play off semi final.,. My money is on three.... Japan's version of the sport is set up just for betting.... #justsaying..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lefty Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago You could introduce betting on other aspects of Speedway. Typically the start time of the first heat as against the start time advertised in the programme. King's Lynn would get good odds as a 19:30 Proggy start drifts towards 8pm and past it. Also' at what heat does the 'sun break' occur. These odds could be paired up with the first appearance of Phil's hosepipe! Enjoy 🤑 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben91 Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago 8 hours ago, 1 valve said: But professional sports ARE NOT moving away from gambling sponsorship. Also betting markets for speedway are numerous, well beyond place results. In other words speedway & the betting industry could work well as a partnership. Don’t knock it based on a biased opinion but embrace it as a positive way forward. They are. Football (one of the biggest of them all) is phasing gambling sponsorship out because it can cause serious addiction. The number of bookmakers who offer speedway markets has also decreased. They aren’t interested. The only people who want to bet on speedway are the existing diminishing fan base or those with serious gambling addiction who would happily bet on Romanian under-12s netball. Companies sponsor things that will help them improve or promote their business generally. Speedway won’t. Greyhounds is a dying sport too and one that has always been synonymous with gambling. It isn’t a partnership that has just sprung up. Don’t get me wrong I wouldn’t look a gift horse in the mouth but let’s not assume bookmakers are the saviour. It’s straw clutching. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago 2 hours ago, Lefty said: You could introduce betting on other aspects of Speedway. Typically the start time of the first heat as against the start time advertised in the programme. King's Lynn would get good odds as a 19:30 Proggy start drifts towards 8pm and past it. Also' at what heat does the 'sun break' occur. These odds could be paired up with the first appearance of Phil's hosepipe! Enjoy 🤑 An Acca..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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