Sheffield V Northampton 11/06/26

[Bald Bloke]

Another one off.. New date Sept 10th.

Edited 23 hours ago by Bald Bloke

[Youhave2minutes]

Roll on next season

[Youhave2minutes]

16 minutes ago, Bald Bloke said:

Another one off.. New date Sept 10th.

Soon be xmas

[psycho3a]

Speedway is definitely dead...

No effort to run meetings,  no tv coverage,  ive actually stopped looking at results regularly now.. only today checked if sheffield rode monday to find this meeting already off.. Sheffield only ridden 2 home league matches and next planned in 2 weeks , they last rode 25th May

No wonder there is no interest 

Edited 20 hours ago by psycho3a

[mikebv]

13 hours ago, Youhave2minutes said:

Roll on next season

Roll on THIS season...

[IainB]

52 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Roll on THIS season...

Up to 25th of June 4 home matches!

[The Third Man]

Loads of rain yesterday and some heavy showers on Tuesday

Raining for the last couple of hours and more forecast for most of the day, this looks like being the correct decision

 

[GeneralMelchett]

19 minutes ago, The Third Man said:

Loads of rain yesterday and some heavy showers on Tuesday

Raining for the last couple of hours and more forecast for most of the day, this looks like being the correct decision

 

Despite all the chuntering the pre-emptive rain offs usually are the right call!

[paulnolan]

1 hour ago, GeneralMelchett said:

Despite all the chuntering the pre-emptive rain offs usually are the right call!

They are but there are usually racenights when there are no matches scheduled and the weather is fine. This is why clubs should endeavour to run at home at least three weeks out of every four. I know a league of six makes that difficult but that's just another reason to amalgamate the leagues.

[1 valve]

4 hours ago, paulnolan said:

This is why clubs should endeavour to run at home at least three weeks out of every four. I know a league of six makes that difficult but that's just another reason to amalgamate the leagues.

And have a league of eight teams who would still only have Monday & Thursdays as race nights. 

[paulnolan]

35 minutes ago, 1 valve said:

And have a league of eight teams who would still only have Monday & Thursdays as race nights. 

But if you're going to have Mondays and Thursdays as race nights, have Mondays and Thursdays as racenights, not just the odd one here and there.

Let's take Sheffield as an example, who race on Thursdays. They opened their season on April 2nd, and were back the next week. Away on the 16th, but nothing on the 23rd or 30th of April. Home again on May 7th and May 14th, but nothing on May 21st or May 28th, although they did run on Bank Holiday Monday (25th) to cover one of those.  That's potentially four lost meetings. June, July, and August look much better, perhaps because of the imbalance between Monday and Thursday tracks, but even then July 2nd is empty. A total of 5 missing Thursdays.

For a Monday track like Belle Vue, it's a bit more stark. They opened on March 16th and skipped a week before league racing began, running 2 weeks before taking a week off. They raced on April 20th, then took another week off, had a home meeting and an away meeting on the next 2 Mondays, then another week off, another week on, another 2 weeks off. June picks up well after that but that first date in July is missing again, followed by a home and an away and another blank week. August has 2 home meetings and then 2 weeks off, before coming back for the Bank Holiday. So that's 9 Mondays off! 

[1 valve]

16 minutes ago, paulnolan said:

But if you're going to have Mondays and Thursdays as race nights, have Mondays and Thursdays as racenights, not just the odd one here and there.

Let's take Sheffield as an example, who race on Thursdays. They opened their season on April 2nd, and were back the next week. Away on the 16th, but nothing on the 23rd or 30th of April. Home again on May 7th and May 14th, but nothing on May 21st or May 28th, although they did run on Bank Holiday Monday (25th) to cover one of those.  That's potentially four lost meetings. June, July, and August look much better, perhaps because of the imbalance between Monday and Thursday tracks, but even then July 2nd is empty. A total of 5 missing Thursdays.

For a Monday track like Belle Vue, it's a bit more stark. They opened on March 16th and skipped a week before league racing began, running 2 weeks before taking a week off. They raced on April 20th, then took another week off, had a home meeting and an away meeting on the next 2 Mondays, then another week off, another week on, another 2 weeks off. June picks up well after that but that first date in July is missing again, followed by a home and an away and another blank week. August has 2 home meetings and then 2 weeks off, before coming back for the Bank Holiday. So that's 9 Mondays off! 

You’re absolutely right about the number of missing weeks. But also consider that other teams also had fixtures on the race nights you have quoted (although not all) which impacts the ability to run fixtures. 
Clearly, an increase of teams would help (even if only two) to provide more regular fixtures in both league and cup competitions as well as the possibility of each club running one individual event per season. 
Unfortunately at present, there continues to be an impasse between the (minority) professional promotions who would go with one full time league and the (majority) hobbyist promoters whos intransigence continues to hold back any chance of UK speedway moving forward. 

[Youhave2minutes]

19 hours ago, psycho3a said:

Speedway is definitely dead...

No effort to run meetings,  no tv coverage,  ive actually stopped looking at results regularly now.. only today checked if sheffield rode monday to find this meeting already off.. Sheffield only ridden 2 home league matches and next planned in 2 weeks , they last rode 25th May

No wonder there is no interest 

I walked away years ago. It’s nothing but a joke.

Edited 25 minutes ago by Youhave2minutes