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I think the 2 clubs that would consider this are pretty obvious but where would that leave the gang of 3?

He got zero guesting for us at Glasgow

It would appear so

You are 50% correct on that...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Phil Morris brought in as CEO of the Premiership!? With no TV deal apparantly and only 5 (possibly 4) Prem teams, isn't there a potential cost saving there for the BSPL?

...and riding as a 2nd string at number 2

Exactly. So a pointless exercise in preaching to the converted! Not a single non-speedway fan in the hall, but some misguided souls think promoters should have been there, "marketing the sport" to people who weren't there.

Exactly. Peterborough have an important message they need to spread throughout existing speedway fans in the East Midlands/East Anglia area. It makes total sense for them to be present at a Speedway collectors fair in the East Midlands, which is full of existing speedway fans from the East Midlands. That's a totally different scenario from expecting the Glasgow promoters to make a 600-mile round trip to Coventry, to a hall full of existing speedway fans, hoping to market the sport to some Glaswegians who have never seen speedway before, and who aren't there!

But is it a bad thing having a "spare" rider waiting in the wings? How often is a teams season over before its started because their number 1 bins it early or even before the season even starts.

Nowhere does it say they wernt speedway fans !

Exactly that. All this 'your league' stuff is the reason there will never be any progress. You can't have the two competing against each other, if they can't work together then they're all doomed.

Several people from Workington, who have never seen speedway before, travelled all the way to a speedway collectors fair, and now say they will become regular fans? Pull the other one.

Bang on, but regarding a price decrease. Will never happen sadly, look at the admission for champ teams last season, it’s not far off prem really.

It’s hard to gauge any truth right now. It’s very much a closed shop and nothing much is leaking out. And about time to I’d say

Keep up Lisa we all knew the team last month

are all the top lads going to be in it ?

Those 2 miles to get from the east of Leicester to the west can take the best part of half an hour at the time folk would be travelling... not that it's going to happen in a million years!

sounds like a no brainer right?

Too old? Then what is Harris! 🙃 Also for Poole at Glasgow he got 3+1, 6 and 8+1. Not too bad imo for an away rider there.

39 miles between the two, and 41 miles from the showground to Beaumont leys.perhaps share ho e meetings between the 2, much like Cradley did with Wolverhampton/ Birmingham, at least that way fans to the east have potentially a shorter distance for some home meetings, and the same for fans to the west

Redcar still announcing their team in December and not waiting for AGM. So will work some things out from that, like points limit etc.

Your normally on the money with your sources Phil but hopefully this time its heresey

They could all race at Oxford ...

You only have to look at Oxford running two teams for their own fans to see how it would likely end, thankfully Oxford have survived and retrenched to a hopefully affordable level moving forward.

Bradford were Champions and closed... Workington too.... The top tier simply isn't fit for purpose in its current guise... (Nor has it been for well over a decade)... An Aces team, riding in one league,on a Friday with the likes of Charles Wright at No1, would, for me, deliver (at least) the same level of crowd that they get on a Monday with the 2nd and 3rd best riders in the world in attendance... And would be significantly cheaper to run, thus hopefully, significantly cheaper to attend... I actually think the crowd would increase due to "no school or work" for many the next day...