paulnolan Posted Thursday at 03:39 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 03:39 PM Not totally surprised there's no interest in this but Northampton are away at Sheffield. It should have been one where we stood a chance of a bonus but throwing away that 8 point lead in the home meeting was embarrassing. R/R for Jack Holder for Sheffield, and Freddy Hodder is in for Troy Batchelor, who has hurt his knee. Can't see anything other than a comfortable home win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RS50 Posted Thursday at 03:58 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 03:58 PM 18 minutes ago, paulnolan said: Not totally surprised there's no interest in this but Northampton are away at Sheffield. It should have been one where we stood a chance of a bonus but throwing away that 8 point lead in the home meeting was embarrassing. R/R for Jack Holder for Sheffield, and Freddy Hodder is in for Troy Batchelor, who has hurt his knee. Can't see anything other than a comfortable home win. If Batch would have rode like he did for Sheffield, Hodder makes them stronger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fortythirtyeight Posted Thursday at 04:19 PM Report Share Posted Thursday at 04:19 PM So a Championship reserve , and relatively inexperienced , replaces a Championship heat leader and former International …… good luck with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTheDeepStuff Posted yesterday at 08:32 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 08:32 AM Unfortunately for Northampton they have too many riders that if they don’t gate then that’s it, went to Owlerton last night for second time this season and Lidsey, Klindt, Zagar all nowhere if didn’t get out of the start, Klindt especially embarrassing won one race by a country mile, then other same distance back in last place. Whereas for Sheffield Pickering (no surprise there), Kileen and Flint all showed that the track was conducive to overtaking. Northampton need a rider (or two) to add to the squad who will attack a track if they want to have more chances of gaining wins during the season someone like Charles Wright for example. Scoreline could have been worse if Kileen hadn’t have been given ht15 but it was well deserved him getting the pick of been the higher scorers in Rowe, Pickering and Holder snr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted yesterday at 03:07 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 03:07 PM This is British League top division match and including this reply, only five have commented on it, shocking! Add to that I read in this weeks star that Sheffield sent out 10000 free tickets to kids and only 300 turned up, I think Sheffield is finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topaz325 Posted yesterday at 03:24 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 03:24 PM 16 minutes ago, marko said: This is British League top division match and including this reply, only five have commented on it, shocking! Add to that I read in this weeks star that Sheffield sent out 10000 free tickets to kids and only 300 turned up, I think Sheffield is finished. Not looking good for Workington next year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Posted yesterday at 03:30 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 03:30 PM Crowd was noticeably up on the Kings Lynn fixture ,plenty of kids in for free and a few 'old faces' around me that have been missing, were back. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YeOldPitGate Posted yesterday at 04:26 PM Report Share Posted yesterday at 04:26 PM 54 minutes ago, Andrew said: Crowd was noticeably up on the Kings Lynn fixture ,plenty of kids in for free and a few 'old faces' around me that have been missing, were back. Hopefully they will be back but its a tough sell with no Tai, no Jack but same/more money this year for lower quality product we can ill afford to lose Sheffield or Worky but agree its looking grim at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marko Posted 19 hours ago Report Share Posted 19 hours ago 4 hours ago, YeOldPitGate said: Hopefully they will be back but its a tough sell with no Tai, no Jack but same/more money this year for lower quality product we can ill afford to lose Sheffield or Worky but agree its looking grim at the moment. If people wont go and i dont blame them because the product is sh*t, then more tracks will close, but all we hear is "crap speedway is better than no speedway at all" it isnt though is it? its just prolonging the agony. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikebv Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago 8 hours ago, marko said: If people wont go and i dont blame them because the product is sh*t, then more tracks will close, but all we hear is "crap speedway is better than no speedway at all" it isnt though is it? its just prolonging the agony. It all goes back to the size of the prize... Crap racing or great racing? Both would get crowds if the competitions themselves held some enticement... Running a team sport with minimal jeopardy, consequence and rewards just gives an impression of going through the motions to put "some/any Speedway out", regardless of relevance, or credibility.... Promoters will then scratch their heads as to why fans (many of whom still closely follow the sport), are not engaged enough to bother visiting... "If the fans don't come then I will have to close" isn't a threat nowadays, given so many haven't got any emotional attachment to teams anymore, and what is served up isn't being missed one iota by these people... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeneralMelchett Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago (edited) 20 hours ago, Andrew said: Crowd was noticeably up on the Kings Lynn fixture ,plenty of kids in for free and a few 'old faces' around me that have been missing, were back. That’s good news! The club seem quite active on social media and the Sheffield star seem to put a few bit out as well so hopefully all this will help bring a few more in - of course massive home wins with processional racing won’t help that - need a 47-43 last heat decider against the aces with Kurtz being slung out for a controversial exclusion to get everyone talking ! Edited 5 hours ago by GeneralMelchett 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitelinehugger Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago 20 hours ago, topaz325 said: Not looking good for Workington next year. The hole sport is dying of a slow death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trackrat Posted 1 hour ago Report Share Posted 1 hour ago 3 hours ago, Whitelinehugger said: The hole sport is dying of a slow death Bit like your jokes 💦💦 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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