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A five team top tier definitely won't generate extra interest, and, I would suggest, actually reduce attendance's at those five tracks... Whereby, given nothing else but just using the novelty value alone, a fourteen team "British League" just may get some extra punters through the doors .. With a perfect world being many of them being competitive enough to make a play off challenge, rather than it being pretty much set in stone by the end of May.. Even with five riders per team, there will probably still need to be guestsfests every week, just like now, and the race format, depending on the breadth of capability levels, may need to be rewritten.. A five team top tier just says that the sport is solely being ran for riders to Double Up, rather than being ran as something to be taken seriously under a team sport concept...

Yes, apologies. It was the friday after season event and Saturday against berwick he missed.

I will not dispute any of your estimates relating to alleged rider income or expenses, but all relates to the rider being full time I assume? Reality sucks and for any rider to assume a full time income from speedway in Britain in todays present climate has not done their sums on viability. Whether or not their is a Premiership and a Championship, only a potential few will make ends meet, unless they have a generous sponsorship deal. With little interest, the dwindling fan base is a reality and they actually pay the riders. Personally I now only watch NDL and NDT matches and could not care less about over paid, alleged top riders making up the numbers at various Premier teams.

No you have at some length provided your opinion which is fine (it’s a forum after all) but very little of that is how I how my plan would work and as for the “better than them “from the premier league well they weren’t my words I was quoting someone else

True the table toppers would end up owing the other 2

After expenses ? Would you trust a speedway promoter to calculate that honestly...😉

A two year contract rises should be built into that, so there is really no reason to re negotiate.

You are correct re the BT/Eurosport bit - but not because they were dissatisfied with UK speedway but because they were clearing their portfolio of none priority sports. Re the future. You are proposing almost, aka how the original deal with Sky was done...i.e. "if you give us a load of money this is what we will do". Well that boat has truly sailed I'm afraid. Speedway will need to demonstrate it has a useful current product worth promoting and - This is the biggy - a clear answer to the question, "besides just giving the money to riders what are you plans for using some of the funds to developing the sports infrastructure?" Believe it or not, TV companies and significant sponsors do not like to be seen supporting unworthy projects and getting blamed when their tenure ends.

Would need to split the semi receipts 3 ways?

Maybe another club has offered him more money to go there and wants it matched 😉

Meaning the top team miss out on a bumper play off meeting. It's a sensible solution, but financially flawed...

Its absolutely applicable to your post where you said. "I just don’t understand why they insist 2 leagues when we are in the situation were in" So I have, at some length provided the answer.

Yes, it was the final home meeting and end of season event.

no problem , easy enough done . As someon else said he spat his dummy out for not having trans port to a meeting that the comets had no involvment in .

No, BT binned us off at the end of 2019, then Eurosport picked us up for 2020 (didn't start until 2021 thanks to covid) before being absorbed into BT Sport that then became TNT. If and when broadcaster does come knocking at the door, then that is the time to formulate a plan to put a proper proposal together to get money from the broadcaster to attract the top stars back, until such a time the sport in the UK just cannot afford those riders.

Perhaps the one poster likely to have the most insight as to how close I am in my calculated 'estimates' is The Dean Machine....

Sky did - BT didn't. BT transferred the broadcasting rights as part of the new joint venture TNT rebranding . BT are currently finalising a deal to sell their remaining 50% of TNT to their current partner Warner Bros. Discovery and as WBD have yet to finalise a strategy of how to align their over the air (OTA) and streaming strategy their preferred action is not to renew contracts with none priority sports bodies. As you say...at the moment. However, when they or others do come to the table we should not expect them to be jumping up and down with excitement if anything other than that which provides some if not all GP riders AKA a top flight Premier League.

Bowes rode at Berwick

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And very little of that applys to my post, you have just assumed that my view is degrade the sport on all fronts and hope it works well it isn’t so all that is just your opinion which is fine if that’s your view but it’s not mine, I have a plan which covers how 1 league would work with the top riders but it’s too long to detail on here, I might talk about it on the 360 podcast when I’m next on but I don’t get to choose the subjects

These days I don't think contracts are worth the paper / computer they are written on, someone always want better / worse dispite signing something that should be binding

But still no input beyond pedantry...

Maybe it's just a negotiating tactic. He said that he would not support a 5 team Premier League and, possibly, this is the way it looks like going. He might force a change of plan, he might not.

yes i did, maybe you can change it to 'educated estimates' like you did in one of the replies?