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One big league has been tried before, watering down the product to cut costs has been in action since the late 80s neither have worked. Unfortunately money should have been spent in raising the profile & making it a better show & rider development when the Sky money was flowing in. If it goes one big league what will happen, the championship clubs will raise their admission prices because as sure as eggs are eggs the premiership teams won’t reduce theirs. You’ll end up the the championship supporters paying out more for a lesser product while the premiership supports pay out the same for less. That doesn’t sound like a great marketing strategy. Real change needs to start with the equipment to make it not only more reliable & cheaper to run but also to provide a better spectacle. The sport is on its ass everywhere expect Poland. The FIM need to lead from the front to make equipment changes mandatory to reduce rider costs. The bottom line is that in its current guise Speedway isn’t something that appeals to the masses & one big league severing up a lesser product UK wide isn’t going to address that. The really annoying thing & it was proven at Ipswich on Thursday with a group of first timers in the sponsor lounge is that if you can get new comers in they do find it a great spectacle & want to attend again. The issue comes later when the operating model of doubling up rampant guest fest & the many other things that eat credibility start to become apparent.

Bangers is Busters bread and butter. If he calls that off, then things can't be good.

When are they going to share the CCTV images?

Jeppesen.

lots of assumptions here and none are right

Well done to the promotion for getting him in if we don't make the playoffs can't say they never tried, have we got a guest for Sam on Saturday night?

Not hasty at all,this will be the 3rd day of rain with plenty of torrential downpours too.Looks like another excellent call by Buster🫣🤪

It's been raining 4 miles from track since 6am, and still is at the moment at 10.50. Not really heavy, but steady.

Dont worry about holes? if he can ride Perry Barr this season, he can ride anywhere! 😄

Jonas has been a good signing at B'ham...a no nonsense rider that puts it on the line in every race!

Yesterday, I went to the Youth Championships round at Iwade on 20th July. What a brilliant meeting it was. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and only £5 to watch 31 heats of speedway (which, by the way took under 2.5 hours). Despite the weather, the meeting still went ahead. A big thank you to all those involved in the running of the event, but more importantly the young competitors and their families for providing a brilliant spectacle. I would encourage everyone who enjoys speedway to go and watch the youth championships and I hope it comes to Iwade (my nearest track) again next year.

I'm not entirely sure how accurate that is, I'm not a million miles from Lynn and we've had torrential rain all morning with some localised flooding.

Weather forecast on met office for Kings Lynn today is showers this morning and sunny this afternoon/ evening so maybe a bit hasty will the postponement.

Just hope the lad avoids all those ‘holes’ in the 3rd bend. Hopefully he's had a read through your posts about them and takes a wider line 🤞.

Norfolk can claim Boston if they want as most of us in Lincolnshire don't want them.

Just as I thought, you know nothing about Manchester City's history. Maine Road was sold out when we were in the 2nd division in 1999, the Etihad has been virtually full since we moved there, the stadium is being expanded and will house 60k, it will still be sold out. Of course we attract tourists, it's inevitable with success, but to say our crowds are held up by bandwagon jumpers is ludicrous. Ipswich Town struggled to pull in 20k when they were in the 2nd division recently, they have only sold out their stadium 3 times in the last 5years. Stick what you know about, speedway in the last 3 or 4 years and keep learning from your girlfriend.

Entertaining rider, had some good and not so good scores in the premiership. Should do okay in championship. You’ll get 100% from him that’s for sure.

I think the goal is to improve isn't it, but you need to do this from a strong foundation, 1 step back to take 2 steps forward... or you just keep jumping forward into the abyss with a model that has continued to prove time and again just doesn't work.

Good signing.That should strengthen the side. well done too the Promotion.

There we go, well done to the promotion. I’m happy to hold my hands up and give credit, as I was one of the first to criticise. A good signing on paper, hopefully he can adapt to the tracks.

That was just an example. If Flint is one of the top 3 Brits then obviously use him, it's not like I'm suggesting GB not put their best team out. Not that this was their best 3 anyway.

Redcar are sleep walking into mid table mediocrity, no plan to replace Riss? Mulford misses a lot of matches?Berwick just signed a new rider, but we just keep getting what guests are ‘available”very frustrating! Was going to say,can’t be bothered,but as we’ve only had one home match in eight weeks, that task has been already taken care of.last one out,turn off the lights.

Drew Kemp had a match but it was postponed.

Not if you use weighted averages [1993 being the precedent]

Any interesting rumours you have heard recently Phil to give us something to chat about on a quite Monday morning ?