Agm. What can we expect?

[topaz325]

I fail to see what Harry Redknapp will do to improve /save Speedway apart from a few photos in the speedway star and the local paper on the South coast 

[SteveLyric2]

6 minutes ago, topaz325 said:

I fail to see what Harry Redknapp will do to improve /save Speedway apart from a few photos in the speedway star and the local paper on the South coast 

...not forgetting picture coverage in the National press, eg. The Sun; Star; and across social media platforms.

Edited 4 hours ago by SteveLyric2

[Glen]

It’s stated that upwards of 3 million people a week attended greyhound racing and speedway during the 1930’s .

How times have changed for both sports, speedway almost disappeared in the late 50’s but a resurgence came about through one or two who didn’t want it to die.

 

 

[RoundTheBoards]

16 hours ago, IainB said:

It's beginning to look like the only reason 'Arry's services were acquired was to put a press release out that he (allegedly) watched Speedway on TNT Sports, probably in the hope of extending the TV deal with them... other than that I really can't see what he can bring to the sport.

Think that is about right.

And of course we must remember that Redknapp was not brought in by the BSPL, he was brought in by "Speedway Futures Ltd", the alleged marketing company who were formed in the summer of 2024 and given the media rights to the sport in Britain, and who seem to have done **** all.

Knowing that the sport was going into its last year of the TV contract in 2025, they seem to have done nothing all year, and the Redknapp story does sound like a desperate last ditch attempt to get TNT to extend the deal after Speedway Futures Ltd failed to secure an alternative broadcaster.  (This ties in with their inability to attract a league sponsor, except for a joke company "Rowe Motor Oil" who no one has ever heard of, and who don't put a single penny of sponsorship into the sport).

I do wonder why Speedway Futures Ltd were appointed when they seem to have done absolutely nothing.  Surely the BSPL could have done nothing themselves?

[YeOldPitGate]

1 hour ago, BackInTheDHSS said:

You all realise where the 'radical change' comment came from initially don't you? Peter Schroeck. Need I say any more?

And from memory Jen's Rasmussen at the same time ?

[THE DEAN MACHINE]

I’m hearing the AGM is postponed till January, anyone confirm ?

Edited 3 hours ago by THE DEAN MACHINE