Garry1603 Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago Looking forward to going to this and seeing Doyle's debut. Ticket sales didn't look promising on the website earlier though. With Kildermand and Blodorn back in the team I can only see a comfortable home win for the Aces, but it will actually be nice to see the team without guests. 52-38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago (edited) 12 minutes ago, Garry1603 said: Looking forward to going to this and seeing Doyle's debut. Ticket sales didn't look promising on the website earlier though. With Kildermand and Blodorn back in the team I can only see a comfortable home win for the Aces, but it will actually be nice to see the team without guests. 52-38 Ticket sales either side of last years GP's were not great... If roughly 6500 attended each night of the GP's and around (at least), 50% of them were Aces followers, (as it anecdotally appeared), then that is s lot of money paid out... Conversely, and very positively, it shows that plenty of people locally... a) Know what Speedway is... And b) Know about Belle Vue Speedway and where the NSS is... The challenge is, for not just Belle Vue, but all teams, to get all who follow the sport, and know where their local track is... To deliver up something they see as worth attending regularly.. Can they do that? ... That is truly the question... The following is definitely there, as the play offs regularly show... The infrastructure they use, to get people there regularly, maybe not so... Edited 5 hours ago by mikebv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry1603 Posted 4 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 26 minutes ago, mikebv said: Ticket sales either side of last years GP's were not great... If roughly 6500 attended each night of the GP's and around (at least), 50% of them were Aces followers, (as it anecdotally appeared), then that is s lot of money paid out... Conversely, and very positively, it shows that plenty of people locally... a) Know what Speedway is... And b) Know about Belle Vue Speedway and where the NSS is... The challenge is, for not just Belle Vue, but all teams, to get all who follow the sport, and know where their local track is... To deliver up something they see as worth attending regularly.. Can they do that? ... That is truly the question... The following is definitely there, as the play offs regularly show... The infrastructure they use, to get people there regularly, maybe not so... Hopefully the great racing last weekend might whet the appetite of 'lost fans' who used to go to the sport years ago and might be tempted back. I paid for my GP tickets when they came out a few months ago, so the financial 'pain' was a while ago. Would have thought that there might be a few more there tomorrow to see Doyle's debut though. Early days, I guess, but there shouldn't be any weather issues, so I'd have been hopeful of a good crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry1603 Posted 4 hours ago Author Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 26 minutes ago, mikebv said: Ticket sales either side of last years GP's were not great... If roughly 6500 attended each night of the GP's and around (at least), 50% of them were Aces followers, (as it anecdotally appeared), then that is s lot of money paid out... Conversely, and very positively, it shows that plenty of people locally... a) Know what Speedway is... And b) Know about Belle Vue Speedway and where the NSS is... The challenge is, for not just Belle Vue, but all teams, to get all who follow the sport, and know where their local track is... To deliver up something they see as worth attending regularly.. Can they do that? ... That is truly the question... The following is definitely there, as the play offs regularly show... The infrastructure they use, to get people there regularly, maybe not so... Hopefully the great racing last weekend might whet the appetite of 'lost fans' who used to go to the sport years ago and might be tempted back. I paid for my GP tickets when they came out a few months ago, so the financial 'pain' was a while ago. Would have thought that there might be a few more there tomorrow to see Doyle's debut though. Early days, I guess, but there shouldn't be any weather issues, so I'd have been hopeful of a good crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youhave2minutes Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 10 minutes ago, Garry1603 said: Hopefully the great racing last weekend might whet the appetite of 'lost fans' who used to go to the sport years ago and might be tempted back. I paid for my GP tickets when they came out a few months ago, so the financial 'pain' was a while ago. Would have thought that there might be a few more there tomorrow to see Doyle's debut though. Early days, I guess, but there shouldn't be any weather issues, so I'd have been hopeful of a good crowd. Dying sport in uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 45 minutes ago, Garry1603 said: Hopefully the great racing last weekend might whet the appetite of 'lost fans' who used to go to the sport years ago and might be tempted back. I paid for my GP tickets when they came out a few months ago, so the financial 'pain' was a while ago. Would have thought that there might be a few more there tomorrow to see Doyle's debut though. Early days, I guess, but there shouldn't be any weather issues, so I'd have been hopeful of a good crowd. With all the best will in the world... The competition itself isn't a "puller"... And Doyley has done probably thousands of laps in the UK... Maybe 1200 (at most) will bother turning up?... My lads four closest mates watched the GP's on TV and all said to him, "Eff me, how good is that?".. None of them had a clue about Speedway... Ironically their dads did!!!! And all said that they would like to go and watch... He told them to go with him to the British Final as there isn't any point attending "a league meeting"... He is 23... A perfect target audience... The British Final will have four brand new Speedway fans.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teromaafan Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 1 hour ago, Garry1603 said: Looking forward to going to this and seeing Doyle's debut. Ticket sales didn't look promising on the website earlier though. With Kildermand and Blodorn back in the team I can only see a comfortable home win for the Aces, but it will actually be nice to see the team without guests. 52-38 I think your score prediction is about right. As a Lions fan, I’d be surprised if we could get 40 points. I think our engine room of Morris & Kemp will struggle at the NSS. If I was the team manager (which I’m not and I respect Mr Dickson) I would probably have swapped Thompson & Rowe’s riding positions. That said, I’ve never really believed that riding order influences the overall score. Riders are either delivering the points or they’re not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob B Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago 2 hours ago, mikebv said: Ticket sales either side of last years GP's were not great... If roughly 6500 attended each night of the GP's and around (at least), 50% of them were Aces followers, (as it anecdotally appeared), then that is s lot of money paid out... Conversely, and very positively, it shows that plenty of people locally... a) Know what Speedway is... And b) Know about Belle Vue Speedway and where the NSS is... The challenge is, for not just Belle Vue, but all teams, to get all who follow the sport, and know where their local track is... To deliver up something they see as worth attending regularly.. Can they do that? ... That is truly the question... The following is definitely there, as the play offs regularly show... The infrastructure they use, to get people there regularly, maybe not so... Tomorrow is also on BSN, so lot of people who have the season pass will watch on there or watch it on there to save money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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