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Going back to Workington to replace Zischke 🤣🤣

There's money at Scunny if they can afford Picko.

I only found out on the Whitham/ Burnicle podcast the other night that Thruxton is the fastest track in Europe these days.

We did a couple of demonstration races at Rye House once during a Speedway meeting and the crowd appeared to really enjoy it. However the next day when we had the flat track meeting there was one man and his dog watching! It can be great to watch, at it's best just as exciting as a good Speedway meeting not sure why the crowds don't go but it does attract quite a lot of media coverage. When it was regularly on Men and Motors one season it drew a good number of new riders in. Then again I wouldn't go to my living room window to watch banger racing but that draws good crowds so what the public like is yet another thing I'm no judge of.

Surely the biggest hurdle is having X (3 I think?) domestic riders in their teams? Maybe Huckenbeck and Blodorn could make Landshut competitive, in 2. Ekstraliga, but Daugavpils would struggle.

Absolutely right, all new start-ups should be lower league unless they have a significant post of cash. Buster & King's Lynn needs and encourages as many bad teams as possible in the top league so they can be comfortable in neither challenging top 4 or bottom 2.

Much prefer Sandbanks beach and the occasional trip to Brownsea Island.

Yeah that’s correct he is 2.60 with 2.5% reduction. But don’t believe he’ll be riding speedway next season

I think the (strong) rumours of a reduced limit were linked to having a different number of teams in Championship! The 40 point limit was initially set and agreed for 3 seasons, based on 9 teams.

Not suggesting the track shouldn't re-open, merely that they should start in Championship on a race day of their choice.

Can't see wading the heavy mud of the Humber is currently high on his bucket list

Luckily there are proactive people trying reopen tracks, grow the sport and get it back on telly to counteract negative Nigels like yourself.

They'd be better off not opening in the Premiership at all!!9

Many seem to forget that it's British Speedway Promoters Limited (not Association anymore)! I'm not aware of any other Limited company that shares news about its next year operations with its customers before its AGM.

Joel Andersson will according to speedwayfans.se with Smederna.

The AGM used to be where many of the following seasons' rules and regs were actually put together.. "Like a bear pit" was one description from an old promoter.. With horse trading going on to get your wish list through, as you might have lined up a great team if the team average selected could only match it... And the AGM was several days to accommodate the agenda... Now much of the work is done throughout the season and the AGM mirrors what an AGM should be, ie a signing off of the previous year, and an inform session to shareholders as to the vision for the next twelve months and beyond... Not an operating model planning session... "Why don't they then put out info to the public as and when things like points limits are agreed through the season?".. I suppose it would be down to how Speedway in the UK is in somewhat of a "parlous state" where teams can, almost in an instant, pull out of the sport, or need to change leagues to keep operating, or even new teams coming in, hence averages would change too. The U21 ruling will no doubt have impacted an already agreed figure for example... Dan T's vlogs mentioned several times that there were "plans for next season" without going into detail, which shows that the planning process is pretty much ongoing and the AGM is nothing more than a communication of them... A much more professional looking set up than it used to be... Making several fundamental major changes for the following March, in November, certainly didn't used to give that professional impression...

Where’s the long term planning. A five year plan to develop/build/improve facilities, both current and defunct tracks coupled with a sustained rider development process at junior and senior level and an ongoing improvement to the race night experience. Imagine if all tracks had implemented that 15 years ago instead of just wasting TV money and sticking their heads in the sand.

1 Douglas 9.08 2 Howarth 4.63 3 Masters 5.96 4 D Thompson 5.99 5 Fricke 8.24 6 Rasmus Karlsson 4.00 assessed 7 Hodder RS Total - 37.90

Thanks I took his figure of 2.67 from the BSPL website which only ran to Sept 19.

I thought he had all but given up this season but worky tempted him back. And he has said again that he has fallen out of love with speedway. I don’t expect to see him return next season.

I think keeping Douglas is a must and hope fully get Fricke back. I’d then build the best possible team around that pair within whatever the points limit is.

Are you from Rye House? Wasn't it them that broke the British rider rule in the old '2nd Division' (can't remember actual name). NO, NO, NO.

They'd be better off not opening with a team like that.

2.52 with British reduction but did he not say lately that he’d lost interest in speedway?

At low tide he can walk over to Read's Island over the mud.😁