I think Aston Martin is in a worse state than speedway at the moment too. Although the guy behind it still has a few bob!

If the Tigers couldn't win anything with a Top 5 of Harris (9.55), Thompson (9.50), Howarth (8.84), Nagel (8.61) and Flint (8.17)* along with a couple of reserves who weren't out of their depth in the Championship then i doubt Harrison will be the answer. I think the problem lies elsewhere. *2025 average not GSA

I also wonder if the 1 eight point rider will be rubber stamped in January and a u-turn on that could happen as could mean more premiership team riders can double down like Pickering.

14 teams with 5 man teams needs 70 riders, this gives each rider 6 rides a meeting (ignoring any potential replacement rides).   This in theory would cut down on the amount of signing on fees per rider, less cost of machinery etc but riders could earn more with more riders and more points money.    As a more radical solution I’d be tempted to go down the route of one big league where each meeting is a four team tournament, you then have only 4 riders per team (maybe a fifth youngster) and the potential of three sets of away fans instead of just one. 

Rest of league says 'no you won't if you want to join the league then the best riders need to be shared out'. If ANY Championship club wanted to get dumped on like that, then they would have stepped up to the Premiership! You've just shown exactly why your Premiership league has failed. A couple of clubs hoard all the top riders causing other clubs to fail. PS Ashfield is Harris' favourite UK track, and the owners are at least as wealthy as Buster. So not 100% guaranteed to go to KL. They didn't share out the top riders, the big 4 hoarded them all last year and KL signed 6 third heat leaders and made a decent go of it. Everyone could see that Oxford and Birmingham were going to, and did, get hammered repeatedly. If Birmingham had been in any way competitive then at least someone would suggest running that team from another track. They got hammered repeatedly and hardly anyone paid to watch it, so the big 5 killed them off.  The 10th match between them last year was the best speedway match I've seen in the 40ish years I've been watching speedway. Admittedly helped by being a 2 leg knock out contest. At least there is a city rivalry there to promote the match. Glasgow v Ipswich 10 times would not have the same pull. (PS Masters v Harris at Ashfield is normally something to get excited about)

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