Sheffield -V- Belle Vue POF Leg 1 Thursday 8th October

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1 hour ago, mikebv said:

A no brainer ..

If you top the league then choose home for the semi first leg, and away for the final, (if you get there)...

If you don't reach the final at least you had a decent semi final crowd..

Losing, or winning, an away leg first, by a large margin, just hits the second leg crowd numbers...

Great to see two decent crowds for both the final legs...

(Again)...

I wonder if the promoters ever wonder why nowhere near the same number of their own followers turn up regularly through the season..

Belle Vue’s crowd for the 2nd leg semi was very good and any additional numbers had we rode the 1st leg wouldn’t have been massive. 

Giving Ipswich the 1st leg helped them achieve a far better crowd than if they had taken a dead rubber 2nd leg. It’s been seen through the history of the club the fickle nature of their fan base with even keen beans on here saying they are picking and choosing this season. 

The bigger picture here is that more money came into British Speedway with us having the 2nd leg. Richard seems like a strong ally to the cause so to assist him for the good of his business seems a no brainier. I know there is an everyone for themselves attitude but that simply won’t work due to the precarious nature of our sport in this country. 

[Gavan]

2 hours ago, ouch said:

Belle Vue’s crowd for the 2nd leg semi was very good and any additional numbers had we rode the 1st leg wouldn’t have been massive. 

Giving Ipswich the 1st leg helped them achieve a far better crowd than if they had taken a dead rubber 2nd leg. It’s been seen through the history of the club the fickle nature of their fan base with even keen beans on here saying they are picking and choosing this season. 

The bigger picture here is that more money came into British Speedway with us having the 2nd leg. Richard seems like a strong ally to the cause so to assist him for the good of his business seems a no brainier. I know there is an everyone for themselves attitude but that simply won’t work due to the precarious nature of our sport in this country. 

Haha what a ridiculous comment 

Even when we was in the second division we had bigger crowds than most teams in the top flight every week 

Do some research buddy before posting 

[Neila]

So it's looking very near a sell out, good news, BUT capacity only around 3000 , so imo not a massive crowd, as last year Ipswich was around 5-6000 and Tai got 5000 . Thoughts 🤔

[mikebv]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

So it's looking very near a sell out, good news, BUT capacity only around 3000 , so imo not a massive crowd, as last year Ipswich was around 5-6000 and Tai got 5000 . Thoughts 🤔

Last year at Ipswich it was a perfect storm, with the result from the away leg, and they not winning the title for decades..

If they had got hammered in the first leg then the crowd would have been nowhere near the same I would suggest, and they certainly haven't got anywhere near that figure this season off the back of their title win..

And Tai was a three time World Champion and is the only British rider to do it, hence many were there to pay their respects to someone who has delivered something unique in GB Speedway...

For UK Speedway 3,000 is a very decent crowd and possibly double what a run of the mill domestic meeting would have...

All of the above shows though, that there is still a very healthy amount of followers of the sport in the UK, they just need some engagement to watch the qualifiers throughout the season, as well as the play off finals...

Over to the UK Promoters to sort out the reasons why they don't...

Edited 2 hours ago by mikebv

[Neila]

1 minute ago, mikebv said:

Last year at Ipswich it was a perfect storm, with the result from the away leg, and they not winning the title for decades..

If they had got hammered in the first leg then the crowd would have been nowhere near the same I would suggest, and they certainly haven't got anywhere near that figure this season off the back of their title win..

And Tai was a three time World Champion and is the only British rider to do it, hence many were there to pay their respects to someone who has delivered something unique in GB Speedway...

For UK Speedway 3,000 is a very decent crowd and possibly double what a run of the mill domestic meeting would have...

Speedway Merchandise

 

All ofl the above shows that there is still a very healthy amount of followers of the sport in the UK, they just need some engagement to watch the qualifiers as well as the play off finals...

Over to the UK Promoters to sort out the reasons why they don't...

Also the streams seem to be selling well, saves me a drive from worky 😄

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4 hours ago, Gavan said:

Haha what a ridiculous comment 

Even when we was in the second division we had bigger crowds than most teams in the top flight every week 

Do some research buddy before posting 

Maybe do some research yourself, paying particular attention to the year you closed down mid season. 

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2 hours ago, Neila said:

So it's looking very near a sell out, good news, BUT capacity only around 3000 , so imo not a massive crowd, as last year Ipswich was around 5-6000 and Tai got 5000 . Thoughts 🤔

It’s a shame the south stand never got finished which keeps the capacity low. It’s even more of a shame that when the owns took issue with the situation, the cartel seized the opportunity to oust them rather than back them. 

[Racin Jason 72]

45 minutes ago, ouch said:

Maybe do some research yourself, paying particular attention to the year you closed down mid season. 

When was that.  I’ve been going for 41 years and can’t recall that. 

[Rob B]

7 minutes ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

When was that.  I’ve been going for 41 years and can’t recall that. 

• Year: 1962
• Reason: Financial issues, compounded by the loss of new signing Olle Nygren to ill-health and the fatal crash of rider Jack Unstead early in the season