CHAMP Clubs are heavily reliant on the Best of British being the backbone of their 1-7's for a wage that suits all parties. They'll be taken away from them as the PREM Teams will need replacements for GP & Ekstraliga Riders. Riders will just sign for the PREM Teams for the bigger money contracts that they were already going to get at PREM level. No Team Building Rules or Grading System can stop the inevitable as their simply isn't enough Heat Leaders to go round in a 14 Team League whether you run 5 Man Teams or 7 Man Teams. Not even enough Riders on 6.00 - 6.99 GSA's for 1 Per a Team let alone No.1's on 8+ GSA's.

They are desperate so wouldn’t put anything past them 

100% agree - there is no way to force any club to move up even if it would potentially be in the best interests of the sport There is simply no way you can expect clubs like Poole and Glasgow to take on the financial risk of a switch even though both would be ideal top flight set ups The sad fact is that there is simply not the required financial incentive to be at the top level and unless/until that changes the current struggle will continue

Impossible to have promotion and relegation as NONE of the clubs would find it to their liking under anything close to the current set up How could you run a top league with a points limit for example and have relegation - its completely counter intuitive  No team would want to win the 2nd tier and be forced to change race night and double their rider costs The scenario you set out could only work if there was sufficient financial incentive to want to achieve top flight status - and if that was the case we wouldn't be in this position anyway as there would be a queue asking to join!!

1964 all over again?

Go on.....how (both of those statements above)??. I'm fascinated