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Give it 2-3 years and the Polish aim to track only Poles in their top league will make everyone rethink their priorities!!

 

The question for British speedway then is will it be able to afford any of the top riders 'slinking back' or will it give the British clubs the nap hand in only paying what they can afford - take it or leave it.

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Give it 2-3 years and the Polish aim to track only Poles in their top league will make everyone rethink their priorities!!

 

The question for British speedway then is will it be able to afford any of the top riders 'slinking back' or will it give the British clubs the nap hand in only paying what they can afford - take it or leave it.

The latter

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Give it 2-3 years and the Polish aim to track only Poles in their top league will make everyone rethink their priorities!!

 

The question for British speedway then is will it be able to afford any of the top riders 'slinking back' or will it give the British clubs the nap hand in only paying what they can afford - take it or leave it.

Arn't we doing that now ?

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Flicking through a few posts on here, a few things need clearing up as some are looking at it wrong or based on old facts.

 

PAY Yes Poland has had many many problems in the past with wages not being paid, but that is something they have dealt with especially in the top level and clubs have to pay in a substantial amount at the start to ensure this never happens again. With the big TV deal now in place, big sponsors and vast media interest there these tracks can't afford to lose their licence and if so many riders were owned money in the past, how come they go back year after year.

 

With these big money investments now in Polish Speedway, they do have practice days where they are all expected to turn up but remember that these can also be attended by media and sponsors so they are quite important to these clubs

 

Britain and Sweden at present have far more clubs owing money than Poland where it is now lower level clubs and they are coming into line or risk being shut down.

 

 

 

RETHINK British Speedway wanted to rebuild this season and certainly needed to as it was known last year that Poland had plans to restrict riders being involved with other leagues and this is going to be even tighter next season by all accounts so they do their home nation or one other league alongside their Polish clubs so Swedes and Danes will have to decide on Britain or Poland. If this is the case, will Doyle and Holder opt to ditch Sweden rather than Britain next season, well that depends if they can relocate and get Poland to apply for their visas but do they want their kids educated in Poland rather than England ?

 

 

This season Britain really needed to seriously rebuild and develop new stars and by doing that you would have to say there is no places for any Grand Prix riders like Doyle, Holder and Lindgren. That is a bit harsh on Freddie who has always been loyal to Britain and Wolverhampton for over a decade but it needs riders available every Friday and Saturday and in doing so you have seen the last of the big money riders that Britain can't really afford.

 

 

Any Australian or Visa required riders should only be allowed if they are committing to Britain, something Doyle and Holder couldn't do as they have bigger contracts in Poland and Sweden and in 2018 those will be the only leagues they will be allowed to ride in any way going by Polands plan to reduce riders to just two leagues next season.

 

This season should have been a year to rebuild and ride in one big league as teams would have been Premier League 2016 strengths and therefor not have cost clubs like Redcar, Scunthorpe or Workington any more than they had been paying out and would have had the benefit of a more varied fixture list and got the chance to see the likes of Harris, Nicholls, Andersen etc in action just once at their local tracks which would have been a meeting you didn't want to miss.

 

 

Let's get 2017 done, learn by the plus sides of the changes made and how to build one league in 2018 which will likley be without a few more riders that have to drop England to stay active in Seeden or Denmark alongside Poland.

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I agree with the points relating to no GP riders for 2018, but I hate the idea of a single big league, this really knocks out any professional element that's left in UK Speedway..

 

We need a division 1 and 2, because this give the team's something to ride for..

 

Otherwise teams have nothing to aspire to or defend against, meetings would lose the competitive edge, as racing would have nothing riding on it, other than finishing top..

 

With 2 leagues, team's aspire to win the best league in the country, and team's fight to stay in the top division, other teams will battle against relegation, likewise division 2 teams want to compete in the top league, and will fight to do this..

 

One big league has been tried before, it didn't work then, and it won't work now..

 

Edited because my phone thinks it knows what I want to write, and it doesn't!!!!!!!

Edited by Shale Searcher

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I agree with the points relating to no GP riders for 2018, but I hate the idea of a single big league, this really knocks out any professional element that's left in UK Speedway..

We need a division 1 and 2, because this give the team's something to ride for..

Otherwise teams have nothing to aspire to or defend against, meetings would lose the competitive edge, as racing would have nothing riding on it, other than finishing top..

With 2 leagues, team's aspire to win the best league in the country, and team's fight to stay in the top division, other teams will battle against relegation, likewise division 2 teams want to compete in the top league, and will fight to do this..

One big league has been tried before, it didn't work then, and it won't work now..

Edited because my phone thinks it knows what I want to write, and it doesn't!!!!!!!

What have they got to aspire to here over the last twenty years or so ?

 

Teams have not wanted to move up or go down and clubs like Ipswich, Lakeside, Peterborough etc have switched when they wanted without having to aspire or win anything. No team has been relegated, they just choose to drop down and this season we are not seeing two clubs move up, we are seeing the other six come down to their standard.

 

Plus you would have two divisions in the National League and hopefully a league running alongside just for juniors to develop into NL teams by running after meeting team events like they did in the 80's over six heats using four riders per team.

 

 

Be they British, Australian or from Mexico, if they get to a standard where they opt to ride in just Sweden and Poland then fine, hold the door open and let them go but until then build a product that hopefully one day is again the place riders want to be based in even if it is their second choice.

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Drama drama drama...

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INCOGNITO the Swindon Robins were relegated at the end of the 1992 season.

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