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Post by speedwayisking on Apr 21, 2016 16:30:09 GMT
I know this post is not about a London track but we are aa bit thin on the ground with those at present or possibly forever but the NSC is another example of how speedway continues to shoot itself in the foot. Three lost meetings at the start of what could have been the start of a rekindling of interest absolutely blown away. It will take a long while to get the credibility back. This debacle will have an impact upon London because it shows that we are a sport that cannot, despite all good intentions, get our house in order so it will not encourage anybody to consider starting again in the capital. We also have a twice crowned World Champion who could have been promoted far more widely to increase interest in the sport on the back of a successful NSS is also lost as his management team will in all likelihood now side-step that option!
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Post by johnrnb on Apr 21, 2016 17:58:54 GMT
You are so right. I was an unfortunate at Belle Vue opening meeting. Paying out for a hotel and fuel for a few hundred miles, then shoddy treatment on the night. I am not blaming the promotion but 6000 fans were well p____d off that night. This never used to happen until the last few years. Again I was in the wrong place a couple of years ago at Swindon for the Elite riders Camp. The track was wet and various riders went home before the end of the meeting. That is a rider's perogative but would have been that would have been unimaginable at Wimbledon, for example. Meetings were occasionally postponed but rarely abandoned. Riders rode carefully (except one called Briggo). The customers at least saw the match they had paid for. I know speedway changes but it needs the fans, so, please try and be professional and look after us.
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Post by speedwayisking on Apr 22, 2016 13:57:39 GMT
Thanks for the comment johnrnb. Like you point about riders and wet tracks. I used to go to the West Ham and Hackney during the days of McKinlay, Harrfledt, jansson etc and it had to be pouring down before a meeting was rained off. Glasgow were down at Custom House one night and Charlie Monk must have pulled off about 3 pairs of the old perspex gas goggles during one race the track was so wet!
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