Sell the product

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A tiny minority of people "get" speedway these days. And they don't mind what's served up on track. If speedway wants to broaden it's appeal then it has to serve up a lot better action on track.

I've never been in the speedway for speedway's sake camp and probably IMO we need to get away from

a race meeting is a race meeting any way you look at it

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paulco said:

Supermodels selling programmes in fishnets and mini-skirts .

Fishnets do nothing for me.

We wouldn't expect you to wear 'em now would we. ;D

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paulco said:

admin said:

Fishnets do nothing for me.

Depends who is wearing them . Lorraine Kelly in fishnets and suspenders and stillettos and nothing else , clutching a pint of John Smiths - sorry my imagination is running wild .

I'd have that bird who's doing Bionic Woman, what's her name, you know her that was in Eastenders. What a pair of legs & a pair of ......... you know what i mean

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booeyboy said:

paulco said:

Depends who is wearing them . Lorraine Kelly in fishnets and suspenders and stillettos and nothing else , clutching a pint of John Smiths - sorry my imagination is running wild .

I'd have that bird who's doing Bionic Woman, what's her name, you know her that was in Eastenders. What a pair of legs & a pair of ......... you know what i mean

Michelle Ryan... now she is GORGEOUS.

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paulco said:

Depends who is wearing them . Lorraine Kelly in fishnets and suspenders and stillettos and nothing else , clutching a pint of John Smiths - sorry my imagination is running wild .

And here's a little bit of evidence that suggests suspenders are a possible with Ms Kelly:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAwVUVmTNqs

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genghis said:

booeyboy said:

I'd have that bird who's doing Bionic Woman, what's her name, you know her that was in Eastenders. What a pair of legs & a pair of ......... you know what i mean

Michelle Ryan... now she is GORGEOUS.

That's her . WOW WILL I BE HAVING SWEET DREAMS THIS EVENING.

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booeyboy said:

genghis said:

Michelle Ryan... now she is GORGEOUS.

That's her . WOW WILL I BE HAVING SWEET DREAMS THIS EVENING.

Now if Paulco could get her selling the proggies at the Messiahdome, then I'd make the journey up every week.

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Well, the BBC are getting better by the week:

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/speedway/default.stm

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schumi said:

Well, the BBC are getting better by the week:

news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/motorbikes/speedway/default.stm

Hmmm, that's debatable, we haven't been Arena Essex since 2006.

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You're one of those whingers that Witch was on about, aren't you?

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schumi said:

You're one of those whingers that Witch was on about, aren't you?

Only Witch could answer that accurately.

But I am a stickler for accuracy.

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Being serious for a minute . A well prepared track with an even spread of dirt would go a long way to selling the sport .
And do we need to shroud the sport in secrecy as far as the rules go . When Ross Brady injured himself this week , none of us were really sure where Glasgow stood as far as , could they use r/r or not . Some thought they knew the rule till they discovered it had been changed .
It's a simple sport that has been turned into a red-tape nightmare by the sports rulers .
Anyway back to the inovative ideas . Fast food outlets on every bend , free beer nights for the more humdrum meetings , naked cheerleaders , Shane Parker never to retire , Glasgow and Edinburgh only to race each other twice a season .
Not rocket science . ;D

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I'm with you Subedei on the racing, get that right and I think the crowds will follow!

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trees said:

I'm with you Subedei on the racing, get that right and I think the crowds will follow!

There's nothing wrong with the racing, though - the racing is superb - it's the marketing and the amateur rules that are the big problem.

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genghis said:

There's nothing wrong with the racing, though - the racing is superb - it's the marketing and the amateur rules that are the big problem.

Goodness me no Genghis . I stood through some poor racing last year at Glasgow , Edinburgh , Berwick and Newcastle .
Edinburgh won an award for their track last year , but on some ocassions it was barer than a baby's arse . I've seen meetings at Berwick where i've filled my programme in after the second bend . I've saw meetings at Glasgow and Newcastle where if a rider drifted too wide, the bike would stop dead in the mounds of dirt . I passed smoother looking ploughed fields along the A69 one night , than the track at Newcastle .
Tracks have to be prepared properly , and i know sometimes the weather makes that difficult , for all riders - not just the home riders .
In years gone past i've went down to Workington and it's been like a motorway . Two years ago , Stoneyless Workington at the time , the track was beautifully smooth and with just the right amount of dirt . So tracks should be professionally prepared , not just on the sayso of the star home rider ( and before anybodys jumps up and down i'm well aware Shane Parker does that ) .
2002 and 2003 the Glasgow track was superb , the racing was excellent - it has been a gradual decline since then . Time to get the tracks done properly .