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Who will Ipswich unveil next, Kurtz?

My issue isn’t the competitiveness either. You’ll always get season’s where it’s uncompetitive and one team is a standout and dominates, I haven’t an issue with that. My issue is, and has always been, the integrity of a league where four teams compile their teams before Christmas, while two teams are not even confirmed as competing until February and then have to hastily assemble teams of misfits. You could actually add a third, even Sheffield didn’t confirm themselves as running until January! That is NOT a level playing field and the whole season was a mess as a result. In fairness, not all Belle Vue supporters are completely blinkered and biased. There were a couple on here who admitted the victory just didn’t feel right and they couldn’t get much satisfaction out of it (probably to the annoyance of their fellow posters) and that’s to their credit. Not once have I ever said anything was Belle Vue’s fault either, it obviously wasn’t. But let’s not pretend it was no different to any other season ffs.

Fairer for yous lot because you’ve got a couple of big hitters again, meaning you won’t throw the towel in after a third of the season

How is it "fairer"?... Northampton and KL won't have a big hitting No1, due to no one of that level wanting to ride over here. Ipswich will have two, like the Aces did last year . Is that "fair?".. And last season Ipswich, regardless of the takeover, basically only missed out on Jason Doyle as, same again, no other top level riders wanted to come over... Meaning they couldn't have signed anyone anyway... And they still ended up with two of the top eight riders in the averages, so, didn't do too bad... The only "fair system" is to distribute the top level riders to one per team, as currently, the teams with two have a big advantage in heats 13 and 15, (as the Aces showed often last season)... Kurtz, Doyle, Bewley, J Holder, Fricke and Douglas should all be the No1's if you want "fairness"... And it would mean a much more competitive sport..

You’re right about last year . Because you lot gave up after a couple of months. Of course the year before was fairer when you came out on top. Obvious winners in June? What a sad state of affairs when so called professional teams give in so soon because of what is likely to happen. Short changing supporters in the process. Better off in keeping trying till the end . Who knows what can happen in play offs . Injuries, bad decisions etc

Nobody is talking about weaker or stronger We are talking about competitive You could have a league with no top riders but if it was competitive then it’s competitive You won last season fairly but it wasn’t a good season When we won it in 1998 it was boring at times

Belle Vue fans aren’t the most intelligent lol Last season was not competitive from June onwards that’s a fact The season before was more competitive as all 4 play off teams were capable of winning the league If this season Ipswich or Leicester are obvious winners by June then 2027 won’t be competitive either Belle Vue were deserved champions last season nothing to do with the league strength like they keep saying …. I’m talking about a close exciting season Last season wasn’t its not rocket science unless you are from Manchester

So where’s the money coming from to fund 2 Home 2 Away ? Some people just don’t get it: speedway is on its knees, but you still want more – ffs, get real.

It’ll have the strongest reserves in the league which is a plus, Castange isn’t an exciting signing but probably a logical one. It’ll be really interesting to see how they get on vs an Oxford type side, if Cairns can make the leap to a number 5 then it could be very strong, could be a big ask for him to as we’ve seen plenty of riders struggle to take the number 5, like Harrison, Rowe and even Zach at first! Plus more I’m sure.

Nice idea and makes sense. So no chance it’ll happen I’m afraid

Again, selective guff. Nobody has said next year will be any stronger or weaker, literally nobody. But it will be FAIRER. You seem to like dancing around the whole point but carry on.

It’ll be the strongest year ever if the witches prevail. Just like it was the other time in memory that they came top.

Depends on who Belle Vue and Sheffield's No.6's are imo. Cairns, Rushen, Harrison and McDiarmid is a good quartet of young No.6's so far imo and we have to bring the youngsters on but every Club will need a decent No.6 to make it work. I'm not a fan of the 2027 Rising Star list though and it shouldn't be happening at PREM level imo.

What's the point in a Rising Star scheme in the Premiership but not the Championship. RS in the Premiership should be any under 21 Brits, so Cairns, Rushen, Harrison, Scott etc RS in the Championship should be any under 21 Brits with a Championship average below 3.50, so Southwick, Fletcher, Vale, Norman etc And perhaps a second Rising Star in the championship who is an Under 21 Brits but with no average limit. So Rushen, Cairns, Harrison, Hodder etc. just to have more young Brits riding.

With weaker rising stars, and also looking like weaker No 6's, and also no sign of any new top level riders coming over, this year has to be weaker than last surely?..

Not true... In fact quite the opposite .. The Aces are one of those teams who seem to not increase their crowds massively when winning, nor lose large amounts of their fanbase when losing.... They have had some truly crap teams down the recent years yet 1200/1300 still attend most weeks...

And my fave memory BB when we got King,Knight, Bo Peterson & John Davis and looked unbeatable pre-season, 3k plus turned up for first home meeting and even then due to injuries and Bo Peterson going from unbeatable to bang average around Saddlebow Rd we ended mid table.

You can afford to go and watch speedway every night of the week. Loadsamoney!

2 home 2 away fixtures would be financial suicide for most clubs, far better having very little gaps in the fixtures, have 1 home one week 1 away the next week . So 2 home fixtures a month may help in the financial circumstances for many people, so they could still attend, get all fixtures done by the of August and play offs cup finals for the August bank holiday weekend or 1st few weeks in September

Geoff most teams would struggle to make 2H 2A viable, would be financial suicide IMO . Would be better to have no big gaps in the fixtures, can't see why they can't do home one week away the other week, 2 home fixtures a month will probably help most fans in these hard financial times at the moment

Obviously Poole's will or you wouldn't ask.

I know most don't think it's possible, but don't rule out Robert Lambert in this Season's Stars septet, might be miles off it, but i really wouldn't rule it out, they have spoken, yes it's a no today, but really could change tomorrow. Yes we all cling to our Sources, and In The Know's on here, but i'm not convinced it's a 100% No. I'm sure Kvech remains, Lawson could be another definite, and nobody has said Chris Harris is elsewhere. Might not be as bad as we all think, Although not a Lynn supporter, i do agree if Dale Allit has anything to do with it, that would worry me.

As far as fixture planning goes, at least promoters don't have World Cup clashes to avoid. With little else changing I wonder if admission prices will also stay the same?

Over the decades, we've gone strength in depth, out n out No.1, Strong reserves, riders who ride Lynn well, world number 1 and 2 a in the same team (ok was 1980) but we just go round in circles, for whatever reason nothing seems to work.. I know they have to spin it in a positive way, and are on a budget. But the only real success has been when we dropped to tier 2.

This is embarrassing