Stars v Foxes 6th July

[Neila]

9 hours ago, IanBrannan said:

The last time Belle Vue were on BSN was the first meeting after the GP weekend. 

IMO that's not a reason, I attended the 2 days of the GP paid 2 nites in a city centre hotel and still attended Workington meetings either side. Just saying 😃

[mikebv]

13 minutes ago, Aries said:

Foxhall crowds are down too. Combination of having a poor team this year and losing the two popular heatleaders, and the new streaming service will tempt some to save a tenna and watch at home instead. 

And the nonsense of the pre season will not have helped..

I truly have never seen any business or entity commit so much Harikiri on itself as Speedway in the UK has done, particularly over the past 20 years as the digital age has boomed..

Year after year they have made poor decisions which have just compounded the poor decisions from the previous years...

Normally a business would fix its issues, even more so when they are so glaring and obvious, and their customers either tell them publicly, or tell them by no longer attending, but still closely following the sport..

I truly would love to know what the promoters vision for the sport is, and where they aspire to take it...

As all it currently looks like is this...

"Make it to the end of this season, do exactly the same thing next, then rinse and repeat ad infinitum"...

[marko]

And what happened to Speedway Futures? 

[The Cheese]

I'm sure Northampton would love to find a top heat leader somewhere but even someone who can consistently chip in with 5 or 6 instead of Batchelor would turn some of these near misses into wins.

[mikebv]

3 minutes ago, marko said:

And what happened to Speedway Futures? 

Any day now.....

That "Wow" announcement that Rob Godfrey mentioned will be made public...

Probably waiting for Wimbledon, the World Cup, and the Tour De France to finish so it doesn't impact the amount of publicity it will attract...

 

[Pinny]

Social media is where its at now for advertising online. 
 

I can't remember the last time I bothered to go to a clubs website. I watch every ManU game on TV and haven't been on the website since before I left the UK. Same as with speedway, you see all results on social media.

Club websites have been rubbish on the whole since the internet has been around but having a quick glance now, its a wonder they even bother with them. Not just info wise but the design and lay out is just horrendous. Just don't bother. 

[Pinny]

As a positive, its great to see the likes of Zagar, Harris and Iversen still scoring points. 
 

I remember seeing them riding for Trelawny and Newport at Trelawny in 2003 , crazy to think 23 years on they would still be putting in respectable scores in the British top division. 

[Spoofer]

Digital media in UK speedway is stuck in the year 2000

[ouch]

2 hours ago, Neila said:

IMO that's not a reason, I attended the 2 days of the GP paid 2 nites in a city centre hotel and still attended Workington meetings either side. Just saying 😃

So did 1200 Belle Vue fans. Crowds are never as big for televised league meetings. Workington needed 1500 fans like you when they closed in 2018 but unfortunately not all fans are diehards like us and will find cheaper ways to enjoy the sport. 

[RS50]

Has the super heat now been dropped? Don't remember reading about it.

[Bagpuss]

2 minutes ago, RS50 said:

Has the super heat now been dropped? Don't remember reading about it.

Only exists for bonus points I believe.

[Trees2026]

7 hours ago, chun said:

Turned into a really enjoyable fixture.  Hats off to the foxes for their fight back and well done to kings Lynn on track prep

Not a bit of dust, just how we like it.

[Neila]

1 hour ago, ouch said:

So did 1200 Belle Vue fans. Crowds are never as big for televised league meetings. Workington needed 1500 fans like you when they closed in 2018 but unfortunately not all fans are diehards like us and will find cheaper ways to enjoy the sport. 

FYI Workington didn't require a crowd of 1500 in 2018. But unfortunately until the last few trophy winning meetings crowds weren't anywhere near break even .  Hopefully now we are at the GT tyres Northside arena all money spent ( food,drink, car park etc ) goes to keeping the speedway alive 

[castrolargh]

8 hours ago, chun said:

Turned into a really enjoyable fixture.  Hats off to the foxes for their fight back and well done to kings Lynn on track prep

I must have watched a different meeting .I found it dull, predominantly gate and go and drawn out. From completing 4 heats before 8 o clock to only get to heat 7 by 8.45 was dreadful

[Haza]

11 minutes ago, castrolargh said:

I must have watched a different meeting .I found it dull, predominantly gate and go and drawn out. From completing 4 heats before 8 o clock to only get to heat 7 by 8.45 was dreadful

That was one of the reasons we stopped attending absolutely no urgency to get the meeting completed 15 heats is 15 heats if it’s over hour and a half or 3 hours but on a Monday or Thursday evening keeping the meeting flowing should be top priority but sadly it isn’t - speedway in this country needs a total reset 15 heats for £25 is way to expensive for what’s on offer basically 15 minutes racing - we’ve not been to Kings Lynn since August 2021 v Peterborough have I missed it definitely not and this comes from someone who arranged his whole life around speedway especially Kings Lynn .

[castrolargh]

25 minutes ago, Haza said:

That was one of the reasons we stopped attending absolutely no urgency to get the meeting completed 15 heats is 15 heats if it’s over hour and a half or 3 hours but on a Monday or Thursday evening keeping the meeting flowing should be top priority but sadly it isn’t - speedway in this country needs a total reset 15 heats for £25 is way to expensive for what’s on offer basically 15 minutes racing - we’ve not been to Kings Lynn since August 2021 v Peterborough have I missed it definitely not and this comes from someone who arranged his whole life around speedway especially Kings Lynn .

 Its such a shame.last weeks meeting was a cracker, it looked like the whole team wanted it,so i was kind of hoping for the same again last night.Sadly not.Mixed feelings about seeing PuK romp home in heat 15.Right result, wrong  race suit

[kelvinht]

I would imagine England's world cup match at stupid o'clock Monday would have meant some very tired people come Monday night affecting Stars attendance.

Vintage stuff from Niels and good to see Nicolai score well, both badly missed in Stars colours this season.

5 heat winners in a fairly processional drawn out meeting was never going to be enough. That felt like a point won, not a point dropped in the end